Meals when it's so hot

[MeltingWitch]

I'm just melting, I'm sure most of us are.
I really don't want to cook any more this week, I cannot stand it.

Thinking of not ordering our usual Gousto and finding an alternative.

We don't want sandwiches as that's our lunch most days.
I've just cooked dinner and am hot and bothered and fed up.
Desperate enough to just order a tonne of party platters and live off that all week.

Any other suggestions? How do you all cope with it?

we had doritos and veg sticks with dips today. no way was I going to cook!

We are having avocado, mozarella, tomato and basil salad tonight with a little bit of flat garlic bread and some olives.

I cook early in the morning (6) when it's cooler outside. Pasta, rice etc. Cool and fridge. Then we shut the flat up when I'm the sun comes. For lunch we have the stuff I cooked early plus veg + meat/fish that doesn't need cooking or stuff that can be cooked in a couple of minutes. Scrambled eggs, thin slices of meat, courgette etc. Or jacket potatoes in microwave.

I’ve just had cold potatoes from yesterday onion chopped up and mayonnaise loved it no way was I even turning cooker on today.

Made a chicken Caesar tonight from JO 15 minute meals. Ate in the garden with some leftover potato salad and some cold corn on the cob from yesterday.

I’ve got stuff in to make fish pie tomorrow - what was I thinking??

I do fancy some gazpacho soup with ciabatta though.

I need some tips as well-it’s far too hot to cook!

Jacket potatoes tonight with cheese and salsa-that was ok.

Vegetables with flat garlic bread and dips sounds perfect though.

Its salads, cold meats, quiche, kebabs etc here.
Made a cold cous cous salad with puy lentils and some dried fruit today. Added a garden salad and ate it in the garden.

Salad, with feta, olives, cucumber, tomatoes, red pepper with vinegar and olive oil!

I roasted a chicken early this morning then stuck it in the fridge, so cold chicken with flatbreads and coleslaw tonight.
Pesto, tomato and mozzarella salad is nice in the heat. If I didn’t have to cook for the kids, I would have a bowl of cereal!!

I've just had a fish finger sandwich for tea. Lovely and cooked in 10 mins so not too hot.

Nothing wrong with having picnic type meals!

I've just done a Spanish omelette using odds and ends in the fridge and had it with a nice salad. Oven didn't go on so it was a bit more bearable

Ham and quiche
Cous cous salad with lemon, cu, Mint and feta
Mixed salad

Barbecued burgers and buns (yep bins go on for a few mins)
Slice of cheese
Ketchup, mayo, pickled cu
Tossed, mixed salad
Lightly fried potatoes (pre-cooked)

Salmon steaks on barbecue
Cold pasta and pesto
Mixed salad, well dressed

Mixed salad, steamed and refreshed asparagus lemon vinaigrette
Seared tuna (on barbecue)
Hard boiled eggs
Black olives
Cpl anchovies
Sliced new potatoes with snipped spring onions and mayo (cut with a dollop of creme fraishe)

Lamb chops on the barbecue
Greek salad
Tsatziki, hummus, pitta
Olives

Fresh barbecued sardines
Baked camembert
Crusty bread
Anti pasti

Minted lamb kebab sticks
Fried halloumi with lime and capers
Mozzarella and tomato salad
Green salad

Cold roast silverside
Pork pie
Pitta bread, hummus and tsatziki
Bag of Caesar salad with peppers, cu, toms
Pickles and olives

Drink water and eat yogurt and fruit smoothies. Oh and ice cream too.

We will survive.

I roasted a chicken and some lamb yesterday.

Having a cold Asian noodle salad with the chicken one night, and some greek style pitas with the lamb another.

Cold chicken and new potatoes and salad tonight.

Ham and salad and coleslaw another night.

BBQ salmon with some flavoured microwave grains and salad on Friday.

Yum
Nachos with cheese, salsa, guacamole, sour cream & chillis.

We did the eat out to help out today- £6 for grilled chicken breast and avocado in brioche bun, and rustic fries, and lemon lime drink. Ate at about 5 and its filled me up perfectly for the evening! And a glass of rose

This all sounds so lovely.

@AnneBullen, any chance you could freeze it for another day?

We had tacos. Took 10 minutes with a pan

@AnneBullen

I do fancy some gazpacho soup with ciabatta though.

Gazpacho sounds gorgeous

No way am I cooking in this heat. We went to the local pub, sat on the roof terrace and had pizzas. Eat out to help out meant 3 pizzas and drinks came to £15!
Tomorrow I think it will be Wagamama

In the north, so it's not too hot at all anymore, but over the weekend we did a salad picky tea, so nice ham, some coleslaw, cucumber, tomato, peppers, a m&s pre-made quiche and pork pie chopped up, some fresh beetroot, a french baguette sliced with butter, some cheese, etc. and had it in the garden at about 7pm when a bit of a breeze had arrived.
On Sunday we had leftover ham, coleslaw and new potatoes that had cooled.
Today we had cold smoked flaked salmon and cold new potato salad

If you want something ‘hot’ to eat but can’t bear to put the oven on try the microwave. It doesn’t make the kitchen hot like an oven does.

@hippohector

If you want something ‘hot’ to eat but can’t bear to put the oven on try the microwave. It doesn’t make the kitchen hot like an oven does.

The microwave makes a crap job of ds2's obligatory oven chips.

I made a mixed leaf and avocado salad, microwaved some spuds then chopped up and mixed with mayo for a warm potato salad, grilled bacon in my George Foreman grill and made some croutons in it as well. Crumbled the bacon and croutons all over the salad.

Butterfly chicken breasts and grill , cooked some pasta. Mixed chicken with seasoned double cream. Added a bag of spinach to pasta just as almost cooked so it was lightly cooked. Threw some olives in and blobbed some guacamole on the chicken. Had some baby sweet corn, just threw in microwave in a bowl with water. So only one saucepan on for 15 mins.