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28 June 2007

What's for dinner? →[More:] It's been sweltering here the past few days, and I'm running out of ideas for hot-weather dinners. Two nights ago, it was cold peanut noodle salad; last night, I made egg salad with spicy yogurt dressing (on a fantastic multigrain bread, the recipe for which I will post someday), and a vegetable-packed chilled pasta salad with lemon and parmesan.

Tonight, um, I don't know. Whatever it is, I'd better make it now so it can be cold by this evening.

What are you having, did you have, or do you hope to have for dinner?

post by: Elsa at: 14:46 | 24 comments

We're going out. Crabcakes and mojitos.

posted by jonmc 28 June | 14:46

Turkey breast, sliced, sauteed with garlic and mushrooms, then added to the skillet is sliced courgettes (zucchini), carrots, peppers and some asparagus. Salt, pepper and basil for seasoning. When it's almost done I'll add some spinach and wilt it in.

posted by essexjan 28 June | 14:52

Dinner at Feinstein's, before the show (Mary Wilson of the Supremes). So, probably some soup or salad, skirt steak, and fruit desert thing.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 June | 14:54

A Balti curry with chicken and peas.

posted by arse_hat 28 June | 14:57

the recipe for which I will post someday
Yes, please!

We're having BLTs. Mine shall be primarily LT and avocado. Canteloupe and wheatberry salad on the side.

posted by jrossi4r 28 June | 15:00

Cubano black bean soup with brown rice thrown in, salad. Wine and olives in chili oil and goat cheese for an appetizer. Tamarinds for dessert.

posted by Specklet 28 June | 15:02

Burgers at Lovely Hula Hands.

Warning: world's ugliest website...

posted by dersins 28 June | 15:02

Dinner out is starting to sound pretty sweet. Somewhere cheesy with air conditioning and frozen drinks.

I'm not so retro as I must sound, spending the day at home making dinner for My Man. But these days I'm home during the day, and I'm newly recovered from being bedridden. I missed cooking!

posted by Elsa 28 June | 15:02

Not sure. We don't have any food, so I'm inclined to eat out. However, the past couple of nights have been way too hot to want to eat anything, so we've just had a couple of beers and cheese and crackers. Mmm healthy.

posted by gaspode 28 June | 15:03

I had an avocado and tomato sammich on pita last night, and it was really satisfying. It was just too freaking hot to care about food, and of course way too hot to cook. No way I was heating up my kitchen.

I made a good spread for it by pureeing canned artichoke hearts with some vegan mayo. Yummy. We had mojitos with the sammiches. Tonight we might have cold crab cakes and cole slaw.

posted by iconomy 28 June | 15:06

Grilled pork chops, mashed potatoes, field peas, cornbread I do on the top rack of the grill. I love air-conditioning, and move the major cooking outside 2/3 of our Florida year.

Haven't made a pie in a while, so I might get ambitious after the sun goes down.

posted by paulsc 28 June | 15:11

If I recall correctly it's liver & onions tonight in the dining room at work, which means I'll be having the frozen Asian noodle & vegetable thing I have stored in the freezer there for just such an emergency.

posted by bmarkey 28 June | 15:18

The heat has me eating kicking lemon salads all the time. Good thing I like them, but I may want to have something different tonight.

posted by safetyfork 28 June | 15:22

And post the recipe for the cold peanut noodle salad too?

Please?

Pretty please?

And, a favorite of mine for hot weather is chilled Gazpacho soup. And, no, don't have recipe here - I'm at work... boo.

on preview - bmarkey, cannot fathom liver and onions at a work cafeteria! oh no

posted by mightshould 28 June | 15:23

Well, I work at a retirement home. The residents there go nuts for liver & onions. That and lamb.

posted by bmarkey 28 June | 15:26

I would also really like the recipe for cold peanut noodle salad.

I don't have any clue what to do for dinner tonight. I'm having a crappy day and I know I'm not going to want to cook. But I'm also tired and I don't want to go out.

Someone bring me something, please?

posted by tastybrains 28 June | 15:29

And post the recipe for the cold peanut noodle salad too?

Yay! I already did!

At that point, it was just a rough toss-together recipe. I've refined it a good deal, but my notes with measurements and comments aren't handy. (One note I remember: I've decided it's much better without the sweet potato. Too starchy.)

I'm kinda sorta toying with putting together a cookbook. So many people, on learning we keep vegetarian at home, ask earnestly "But what do you eat?" I'm thinking there might actually be a market for this book. In any case, it'll be good to have all my recent recipes and food chemistry trivia recorded together somewhere.

When I get ready for the first round of testing, I'll need people who will be frank about the shortcomings of the instructions and the finished dishes. Would some of you be interested in testing recipes?

posted by Elsa 28 June | 15:39

here, tastybrains..
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Oh, on preview, it doesn't go through the net that well...

So sorry to hear about the crappy day ((tastybrains))... does that help?

posted by mightshould 28 June | 15:43

Thanks mightshould. :-)

gaspode actually gave me an inspiration to ask the husband to pick up some cheese and crackers (and veggies & dip) for dinner. Mmm, lazy.

posted by tastybrains 28 June | 15:48

Oh, hell, I thought that link contained the peanut sauce, too. Here it is.

A bit more detail: basically, it's a great glomp of pb (I like natural) with minced garlic, ginger*, scallions, tamari, a sploosh of hoisin, a squirt of the hot chile sauce whose name escapes me - y'know, Rooster sauce, a splash of roasted sesame oil, and a good splash of rice wine vinegar. Dump all that stuff in a jar, add some water, and shake it like blazes until it's creamy and well mixed.

*For this, I like to freeze whole hands of ginger, slice some off, thaw it, then squeeeeeeeeeze it in the garlic press to produce ginger juice. You should have thought of this yesterday.

Um, this is soooo not the style in which I'm writing the cookbook.

posted by Elsa 28 June | 15:51

I was trying not to eat, because it's really down to scrounging for foods in the back of the fridge now, since it's been too hot to shop... but now you've made me hungry. Thanks a lot, unimaginary internet people.

posted by taz 28 June | 15:51

Wife has this hankering to make Chicken Pot Pie, which she has never done.

So I get a night off from cooking, and she'll make something new. . .

win win, from my perspective. . .

posted by danf 28 June | 16:25

Ooo, I love chicken pot pie. I'm stuffed at the moment, though. Just got back from Fatty's with Jon. Had grilled shrimp, calamari, tostones, crab cakes, chocolate rum flan, tres leches cake, and lots of mojitos. Can't. Move.

posted by Pips 28 June | 17:31

Grilled sage and garlic rubbed steak with mushrooms flavored with truffle salt with a side of cold potato salad tossed with an olive artichoke tapenade.

posted by plinth 28 June | 19:46

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