Summer Meal Ideas

kaylarosen55
kaylarosen55 Posts: 12 Member
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I have been in such a rut with cooking for the past few months. I don't want to cook. It's been too hot to cook. Any yummy, easy ideas are welcome!

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  • wunderkindking
    wunderkindking Posts: 1,615 Member
    Chunk of meat of your choice + salsa poured over in a crockpot on low for 8 hours.

    ...I'm lazy. Its tasty and you can add whatever to make it a meal.

    I'm basically living on cottage cheese and fruit or tuna with tomatoes relish and mayo or tomatoes and guac right now though.
  • kaylarosen55
    kaylarosen55 Posts: 12 Member
    Tasty and easy is what I am always looking for! Thanks for the idea. I love anything Mexican so...this sounds like a good idea.
  • kaylarosen55
    kaylarosen55 Posts: 12 Member
    wunderkindking wrote: »
    Chunk of meat of your choice + salsa poured over in a crockpot on low for 8 hours.

    ...I'm lazy. Its tasty and you can add whatever to make it a meal.

    I'm basically living on cottage cheese and fruit or tuna with tomatoes relish and mayo or tomatoes and guac right now though.

    Tasty and easy is what I am always looking for! Thanks for the idea. I love anything Mexican so...this sounds like a good idea.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,962 Member
    Cambodian beef lok lak is a favourite easy summer meal. Can also be done with chicken breast, thinly sliced against the grain. Please excuse the state of my well used recipe card from a cooking class while on vacation. I deviate a little from the recipe because I don't bother to marinate, and I thinly slice the meat, and then shake it in a plastic bag or lidded food container to coat in cornstarch. I stir fry the meat with minced garlic (you need to do this in a good non stick pan or a seasoned cast iron pan or seasoned carbon steel wok--otherwise the cornstarch wants to stick) and then toss in the sauce, warm through and dump on plates of salad. I make a lot of extra stir fry sauce to keep in a squeeze bottle in the fridge. That makes it an easy dinner to throw together if you don't need to mix the sauce from scratch each time.
    https://www.food.com/recipe/beef-lok-lak-cambodian-recipe-496461
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  • kaylarosen55
    kaylarosen55 Posts: 12 Member
    @acpgee that looks wonderful <3
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,962 Member
    Planning to do a dead easy summer meal tonight. Warming up some smoked mackerel fillets in the microwave. Serve with a squeeze of lemon. Will have some air fryer oven chips and warmed up frozen peas with that.
  • NVintage
    NVintage Posts: 1,463 Member
    Turkey Salsa Thyme Bowl
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    Reduced fat ranch dressing (1 tbsp)
    Hot sauce, to taste
    turkey (3 ounces)
    shredded cheese
    salsa
    shredded lettuce or kale salad mix
    All over wild rice
    with olive oil and thyme
    maybe some avocado

    I've been buying microwavable wild rice from Target, and so this takes about 2 minutes for lunch!
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,962 Member
    Kitchen hack dinner was pretty good. Ready made frozen oven fries went for 15 minutes in the air fryer. Dipped in ranch dressing we keep in the fridge. My mom's recipe of sauteeing frozen peas with a little butter, garlic powder, and a generous pinch of salt takes 5 minutes. Smoked mackerel was warmed up on medium for 2.5 minutes in the microwave.
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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I'm on the grill pretty much every night. Some kind of meat, poultry, or fish and some veg side.
  • Sixteen_Tons
    Sixteen_Tons Posts: 64 Member
    Grilling, Texas white oak smoked brisket, roasted carrots, Brussels sprouts, & mushrooms. A little bit of heaven here in the boondocks
  • karjoy58
    karjoy58 Posts: 4 Member
    Yum!!
  • ridiculous59
    ridiculous59 Posts: 2,908 Member
    My favourite summer dinners often start with a beer can chicken cooked on the bbq. From that I can have roast chicken and salad, chicken Ceasar wraps, or chicken quesadillas. I also just re-discovered Scotch eggs. They were a standard summer dinner at my mother-in-law's house but I had forgotten all about them after she died. They are surprisingly easy to make (lots of recipes on the internet). I like sausage rolls from our small local the bakery. Last night I just had a big bowl of Greek salad.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,962 Member
    For indoor cooking in hot weather my favourite gadgets are the sous vide wand, the air fryer, and the blow torch.

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