Summer time hot weather dishes

[irisblue]

Last edited Wed Jun 18, 2025, 03:12 PM - Edit history (1)

It is only 18 June & I have a heat headache & little desire to make anything warm.
I make gazpacho soup, pasta salads, never the same mix twice, greens based salads and different types of tuna salads.

I need some more cold meals advice. I am willing to cook noodles & rice at 3 am for meals later



Oh yeah I can grill outside.

[2naSalit]

1. First of all...

Embrace the melon family, cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber, other wet melons. They help reduce body temps and relieve heat exhaustion.

Make salads that include or feature them.

[SheltieLover]

2. I love half a cantalope for a meal!

Or cantalope or watermelon with a grilled chicken breast.

[NCDem47]

3. I'm making Lemon Icebox Pie here in a minute.

Just five ingedients. No bake.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/280878/lemon-icebox-pie-with-frozen-lemonade/

[pandr32]

4. Humus is easy to make.

I keep some in the fridge and grab some raw vegetable spears to eat with it.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Although this photo is of takeout

I make this at home too. It is a favorite summer meal.

Chicken salad with fruit

[usonian]

6. 95 in the Sierra foothills today. 101 in the central valley.

These are the days you load up a tagine and leave it on the back porch.

Good luck. I'll be checking the replies.

[mahina]

7. cold soba salad. yum.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/cold-soba-noodle-salad-4142109

[Retrograde]

8. Paradoxically, hot (spicy) foods are good in hot weather

they make you sweat, leading to evaporative cooling.

I like cold soups in hot weather, especially Eastern European cold soups. They're easy to make: take a bunch of plums, chop them roughly, stew with a cinnamon stick, some water, sugar if needed, lemon juice. Then puree with a food mill (fish the stones out first!) add milk or cream or yogurt or buttermilk to taste, chill, and eat.