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Inspire me - meals for hot days
What's on your list for dinner this week?
Willa 4.6.06 and Henry 10.18.08
Camp Sinki
Re: Inspire me - meals for hot days
Grill, Grill, and Grill. LOL
Steak and Chicken Kabob's tonight with Salads
Grilled Chicken fajitas
Caribbean Grilled Steak
Some sort of fish
and the usually standby's of Veggie burger's and dogs
Taco salads
Pizza (it's supposed to be cooler tomorrow!)
Grilled chicken and ____
My Clean Eating Blog
Green Living Reading List
Leftovers of this Pinterest find:
http://3kidsandus.com/2011/broccoli-chedder-chicken-croissant-braid-recipe/
Probably not for hot weather but it turned out good so I"m sharing.
Hey, but there's meat in there! Is that OK?
If yes, I like the idea of sub sandwiches and chicken patti sandwiches (Meijer makes a bag of chicken patties). Also, we used those chicken patties on a mixed garden green salad and paired it with some sliced almonds, grape tomatoes, chow mein noodles, and a sweet dressing to try to make that AppleBees chicken oriental salad.
These are great ideas. A lot of the meat ones won't work for me, but maybe someone else here will like them.
Okay, so... here's our assignment for June: if you make and love a recipe that doesn't include a lot of indoor cooking, you must post it here.
I think tonight we're having veggie/salad pita pockets.
Tonight we are doing burgers on the grill. Depending if I am eating meat that day or not, I will have H throw a black bean burger on for me.
My current favorite summer meal is black bean tacos topped with cabbage and feta. Yum! I think we are going to have to have them tomorrow.
Another meat free idea for you, if H is in the grilling mood and I don't want meat, I just buy lots of veggies and have him grill them up next to whatever he is making himself. (Eggplant, zucchini, red pepper, onion, and portabella shrooms are my favorites) Then I usually make a balsamic dressing that I drizzle them with. I tend to like the veggies kinda of charred, might be a pregnancy thing though.
If it is real hot out and H doesn't want to grill and I don't want to turn on the oven we commonly have "finger food night". Usually consists of cheeses and cracker, hummus and pita.
This summer we are going to experiment with more grilled pizzas.
Great now I am starving.
I struggle with this too. However, my problem is that I have a hard time breaking away from my meal planning when it's hot out. So, if it's lasagne day, than I have to make a lasagne, even it it's hot out. And then my house is about a million degrees from the oven being on for an hour. And then I'm super crabby. It's a terrible situation, really.
The ideas in this thread are good for me to read. I must add more flexiblity to my meal planning.
And to answer your original question, so far this week we're eating whatever I've been able to scrounge up because we were gone for the weekend and I haven't been grocery shopping yet. Monday night it was mac and cheese with veggies. Last night it was General Tsao's chicken with rice and a salad. Tonight, it's goulash. Also tonight, I'm meal planning and grocery shopping.
We're on salad dinners this week to make up for extra indulgence over the past weekend. Here are a couple of vegetarian ideas though:
Recommended before - Mock Tuna Salad
Haven't yet made this, but it's on my list to make soon - Greek Garbanzo Bean Salad
Corn Salad
Chilled Beans and Rice - Could use as filling for a tortilla if you wanted it warm
Some green salads - Mandarin Almond and Spinach Strawberry
For the grill perhaps some veggie kabobs or black bean burgers. Oh, and this recipe is fantastic - Grilled Veggie Sandwich. I'm looking for some kind of chilled quinoa salad to make this week too.
Not quinoa, but sort of along the same lines, this is a really good chilled couscous salad, if you're looking for ideas. It goes great with grilled meals.
Mmm, that looks delish. I think I actually could sub quinoa for the couscous and that it would still be super tasty. Thanks for the rec! :-)
Here's a quinoa salad that I really like. (Very similar to the couscous salad, which I've also made before and is delish!)