Heat wave foods
 

When the weather is so hot, it’s hard to get enthused on cooking. Egg & tuna salad sandwiches, cut up watermelon, fruit. We had one meal of roast in the crockpot this week. Might make a stroganoff with the remaining cold roast.

You are so right ..hard to be interested in cooking when temps are 117 degrees.

salads are great. And of course any cold dessert. 😊

We usually have salads and sandwiches when its too hot to cook.

I tend to grill a lot when it's hot, but to go with whatever's on the grill, I make salads (macaroni, potato, etc.) early in the day. They taste better with time for the flavors to blend anyway.

My DH wouldn't eat salads or vegetables. To him a meal was meat, potatoes and gravy - but then he'd tell me it was "too hot to eat!" My hot weather meal - which I could only pull off once - was cold cuts or hot dogs with canned backed beans and jello. I could maybe add carrot and celery sticks.
Now that I'm alone I can have fruit and yogurt one meal, a salad another and a sandwich with pickles for supper.
Still not losing any weight....

I prepared all the fixings for burritos yesterday morning - spicy black beans, a little chicken, brown rice, etc. They were yummy for dinner with some fruit on the side. I will use the leftovers for bowls later this week. Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions!

Its been 105 -110 degrees here for while. The house is cool so the heat doesn't make any difference to us in terms of too hot to cook or eat. I am happy with a bowl of soup or chili any time summer or winter.

I was just coming to say the same thing. The house is cool. I cook the evening meal because I want to and cook what I feel like eating. Mr. Stitchnripper is always happy for the meal, no matter what it is.

Chicken salad, egg salad, ham salad, pimento cheese, Chinese coleslaw, cowboy caviar, jello salad with fruit all of these rotate out and get me thru summer. I do enjoy our air fryer for not heating up the kitchen. Nothing fancy. It's just too hot to cook.

The heat and humidity is awful but it's cool inside. I bought an AirFryer and it's a lifesaver, keeps the house from heating up and the A/C doesn't have to work as hard.

I love salads and sandwiches as much as anyone, but I have to have at least some hot meals even in hot weather. I often crank up the electric pressure cooker (aka Instant Pot) in the morning, cook a one-pot meal like chili or taco soup or whatever, refrigerate it, and reheat in individual bowls in the microwave for supper. I also use the slow cooker for a meaty spaghetti sauce. I cook the pasta in the a.m. and refrigerate until serving time at dinner. Both the pressure cooker and the slow cooker help me avoid heating up the kitchen (and me) in the hottest part of day, which can be brutal here in the southern US.

Ok, I think my AC may not even have come on yesterday as our high was 73 yesterday, but to join in with the rest of the country, I had a quick no cook supper. Just a dinner roll with a bit of miracle whip, canned chicken breast, and a tomato slice. It was actually quite good. For dessert I had a pineapple fruit cup. easy peasy, not even much clean up. Today, the high is supposed to be 70 so I may actually cook something for dinner, but maybe not. I am a no cook mood! Have to water the garden (tiny in pots garden) so I may just graze on yellow and red raspberries as that is what is getting ripe out there tomorrow. There may be some hope for tomatoes and green beans soon. Some of my friends have said that gardening in northern minnesota is a true act of faith!

I make grilled ham and cheese sandwiches in the skillet a lot. I put mayo on the inside of each piece of bread, then a slice of Colby Jack cheese on each bread piece and thin sliced honey ham for the center.. Butter the outside of the bread sandwich and after the bread is lightly toasted, I check to see if the ham in the middle is warm. If not, I put the sandwich in the microwave for 7 to 10 seconds. Slice diagonally & enjoy with chips or fruit or ???
Edited to add: You can do this with any sliced meat and cheese. Some cheeses don't melt very well. Too stringy isn't good.

I love taco salads and blt's, fruit. Grilling is great, but in the hot weather I don't like going out to grill, so I wait for the cooler weather, if we get any.

2 of our favorites !

Pretend Sandwiches--one of my favorite hot weather sandwiches.

2 slicwe of your preferred bread
1 bottle catsup
1 bottle mustard
1 slice yellow onion

put catsup on one slice
mustard on second slice
press them together and mix them around slightly to mix the mustard & catsup
add the onion to one slice
top with other slice
decide what you are eating in your thoughts--What kind of meat, does it have cheese & what type, do you need to add pickles--it's all in your mind. Sometimes I'm out of onion so I have to pretend that as well.

Eaten all in good fun. And yes, I eat them often.

I have been using a lot of Jamie Oliver recipes. Quick one pan dishes. They are wonderful.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/...e-pan-recipes/

I love the green rice recipe.

I'd be perfectly happy with cold cereal, but DH is one of those who needs 3 hots a day, with meat in every single meal. Sigh. And we do not have whole-house AC, just a single window unit in the family room.
So I'm going with salads with grilled chicken, one night with buffalo sauce and blue cheese, one night with Caesar dressing and croutons. Leftover taco meat that I can heat in the microwave, everyone can make their own tacos. And pizza delivery. Hopefully after that it will either cool off, or he'll want to go sit someplace that serves a good burger, a cold beer, and has AC. 😆

I made something today that was fast, cheap, easy and healthy.

1 can of cannellini beans
1/2 jar of pasta sauce

Heat in a sauce pan...eat. It was surprisingly creamy and tasty!

Toast. My favorite and practically no work. Added bonus, I have been loosing wt.

Egg salad & fresh buns are my trademark, I guess. It’s what I bring when making a bereavement call.

My mom used to make something like that. She called them "onion sandwiches." She said it was a recipe from the depression.