Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Officially summer and the food's cold

Now that Memorial Day has come and gone, not only can we wear white, but it's officially time for hot-weather meals. Cold soups, cold dinners, cold stone fruits, Italian ices. Honestly if we could get through half a week without turning on the oven it would be awesome.

I have been insanely busy and since I didn't have time to go food shopping or tell anyone else to, nobody has. On Saturday morning I ran past a farmer's market and called Josh, asking him to get there before they close to buy food so we'd at least have some stuff. When I came home, he'd left two bags on the kitchen counter with a note saying he couldn't remember which foods I'd said not to wash until they're being consumed.

Josh had bought two loaves of bread, a challah (with a note asking me to use it to make french toast with it), four pints of strawberries, about 25 tomatoes and plums, eight ears of corn, two pints of blueberries, and three pounds of green beans and cherries.

I made strawberry-banana popsicles and tonight for dinner we ate tomatoes, green beans, slices of cheese on crackers, and dessert was plums and cherries. It is really just too hot out to come home and cook food using heat. So maybe it wasn't exactly a proper dinner, but at least it all tasted good.

6 comments:

Nina said...

sounds like an awesome dinner to me!

Abby said...

We had an entire watermelon for dinner tonight. It got cracked on the way here so we had to! They did also drink milk...

Glad everything seems to be OK, if sweaty.

Alisha said...

Sounds like a great, nutritionally balanced, yummy dinner to me. Who said a meal has to be cooked to be ''proper''?

Mizasiwa said...

maybe you should make some dips youghurt and hummus (i think hummus is a good source of protein - too lazy to check though) your so lucky we are experiencing a cold front on our side and im really jelouse - enjoy ;-)

Anonymous said...

Nothing wrong with a cold dinner. My sister who lives in Chicago was famous for having cereal and milk for dinner. My mom used to get mortified since it wasn't a "proper" dinner, but has since given up. Big salads are great for dinner. Do they sell cooked rotisserie chicken in the markets there? Here sometimes they're even cheaper than a whole raw chicken. I get one and then use the meat for all kinds of different stuff like salads, tacos or burritos or just plain. Maybe you can suffer through using your stove once a week to prep some stuff and then throw it together for a cold meal later. I usually do that kind of stuff sunday afternoons. Your popsicles sound yummy. Wish I had one.

Yankee, Transferred said...

Fresh fruit and vegetables, with cheese and crackers! Totally something they would eat in, like, Italy!

Sounds like a great dinner.