Hot weather dinners

[hellswelshy]

What's everyone having for dinners at the moment? It's been hot here & due to be much hotter the next few days & I seem to have a frazzled brain re meal ideas. I'd love some inspiration for easy dinners - hit me with them 😁

Chicken Caesar salad, plenty of anchovies!
prawn cocktail
baked potatoes, Greek salad

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I'm waiting for someone to say burrata....which is horrible and messy and the new mozzarella

We’re eating later so it starts to cool down a bit first which helps. Had a baked potato (the McCain microwave ones) tonight and the kids had a microwave pasta thing they like. We didn’t eat until around 9.30pm (my kids are 21 and 17 so it’s not bedtime then for them at least LOL).

Salad nicoise with plenty of tuna
Panzanella
Gazpacho
Platter of cheese, crackers, charcuterie and fruit if I really can’t be bothered

And I make this a lot:

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta/simple-summer-spaghetti/

Anything that doesn't need the oven!
DH and I are fine with curries, pasta (GF sadly) or whatever.

The boys (young men, both ASD) have something like cold cooked chicken or salmon or pan fried burger or sausages with fries cooked in the air fryer. It heats the house up much less than the oven.

80s salad is iceberg lettuce, cucumber (peeled, quite often) big tomatoes quartered, beetroot and pickled onions from jars, potato salad made with salad cream, scallions and taramasalata If you're posh.

I'm surprised at so many people suggesting jacket potatoes. That's not the sort of thing I want to eat in hot weather.

We had paella last night, tonight’s is chicken shawarma and tomorrow chicken tikka kebabs on bbq. Saturday we are out but there will be a bbq. Sunday, I may do a bbq brisket on the smoker but I need to get my head into gear for looking after it all night.

Yes 😄I would also add to echo my mums offering in the 80s - slice of ham, slice of cheese, a boiled egg and a slice of bread and butter. With salad cream obviously. These days I also mix it up with rice and sweetcorn - yum, or some new potatoes. It's a retro delight!

Great meal ideas here everyone. Salmon is a great shout. Ohhhh fish and New potatoes is a big favourite...

And no seasoning or dressing! Other than the salad cream

Stir fry with noodles today. Sausage mash and cabbage tomorrow. Different stir fry with rice on Saturday. (Using up the vegetables while they're fresh).

We don't change our main meals much between summer and winter, but we have more soups and fewer salads for lunch in winter.

Tonight we’re having bbq spatchcock chicken, salad and garlic bread. Last night was chicken burgers and the night before quesadillas and salad.

loving the hot weather. Going to go for a run and then chill in the pool after work!

Meals we’ve recently had:

Fajitas
Tacos
Sweet chill grilled halloumi salad with warm pittas
Chicken salad with posh cous cous
Salmon, new potatoes and corn cobs
bbq chicken drumsticks with spicy rice, chips and salad.

Oh I love it. Mozzarella without the sensation of chewing rubber. The one I can't stand is halloumi - salty rubber that squeaks against your teeth when you bite into it. But burrata is gorgeous and fresh.

Now I want garlic bread.

I would like to come to dinner to your house. When can I invite myself?

Romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, spring onion, cream-cheese stuffed cherry peppers, hard boiled eggs (or a tin of tuna, or cubed feta, or cold salmon or chicken), with home made balsamic vinaigrette.

This has been my main meal most days since Easter.

Bread and cheese. Bread and egg mayo. Bread and butter. Bag of crisps. Seriously - who wants to prep for anything much. Just eat it.

What did the cheese say when it looked in the mirror?

Halloumi

Gosh this sounds lovely - might have it tonight!

It's lovely and cool in my kitchen in the mornings as it doesn't get the sun till late afternoon. If I can bestir myself my plan is to do some cooking this morning and that will be that for the next few days. Tonight is omelettes or something else involving eggs as we have some to use up. I am going to make a black bean and sweet potato chilli, which will keep well in the fridge (flavour improves with keeping), some for Saturday and some for the freezer. Tomorrow marinated chicken cooked in a ridge pan on the hob, or grilled, and we can have it with roast vegetables I will cook today so I don't have to touch the oven tomorrow. Last night was salmon fillets, new potatoes, green beans and lemony herb and mustard sauce, all cooked on the hob.

Last night the kids had chicken wraps and veg sticks in front of the football. I had a nice big bowl of spicy brothy noodles.

We tend to eat more fish, and more bread based meals. Especially at the weekend when everything is bbqed.

I love summer food, quick, easy and light.

Last night was paella.
Tonight is fish cakes and salad.
Tomorrow is steak sandwiches.
Saturday and Sunday are yet to be decided, and the topic of much robust debate.