What do you do for dinner on these ridiculously hot Aussie days?

[ghosty]

I think it is near 40 degrees today. We are melting. Can't go anywhere, can't do anything.
The kids at school have 'indoor' play when it gets this hot
I don't feel like eating but obviously I need to feed my children.
What do you do for dinner folks?

hummus and carrot & cucumber batons, plus jugs of iced water.

poor you, it's ghastly when the weather is like that

LOL 9dragons, that's what DD had for lunch

snort!

hmm. In that case I'm stuck. How about sushi?

Or our summer staple is a salad of English spinach leaves, cherry tomatoes, chopped yellow peppers/capsicums (multilingual, I am!), buffalo mozzarella and torn-up bits of parma ham. If you can be arsed to cook you can add chunks of cooked chicken breast fillet, but it's fine without it.

We are incredibly lazy and alternate this with sushi pretty much every night throughout summer.

We are having Dominos pizza!

I am NOT cooking or preparing!

Doesn't one of our friends have a pool?? [ahem hi wilbs]

thermometer in my car says 38 degrees [melting puddle emoticon]
LOL superloopy ... i am thinking of 'just passing' wilbs' place tomorrow ... she'll never suss it out she only lives 40 minutes away

I am in the same boat....top of 40 here too.

Gawd knows what we are having today, a big english style Ploughmans, maybe!

steak or fish or some sort of meat on barbie and salads.

home made pizza - served out on the deck.

dh - cold beer, me cold sars or mineral water.

dds - cold cordy ( squash for expats)

No barbies allowed eids - Total Fire Ban all over the city and pretty much the whole state I think ...
Very hot and windy day ...
Going to the shops to get sushi ... thanks 9dragons ...
xxx

superloopy - we might be joining you - I normally make pizzas - bases and all but tonight - can't be bothered!

tonight is dinner at the footy club... a first but doesnt involve cooking.. otherwise it would be dominos.. those yummy chicken kickers....ummmmmmmm

I'm just off out to get dh an Indian mild tonight...not hot!

Hmmm. Only 32' here. DD has had traffic-light pasta (cold with chopped tomatoes, cucumber, ham and cheese).

I fancy a long soup (with noodles).

40' is tricky. That's even too hot for wine [horrors]. And no BBQ. That rules out most summer staples. I think ninedragons is on the right track with salad.

Ghosty, That's why Australians never have wood burning BBQs. You've got to get a gas one.

ghosty - we got a fab bbq - gas from bunnings.

The other alternative is the george foreman grill - we had one in the UK and used it to death - put meat in - leave for required amount of time, chop salad - dinner done! We grilled a lot of fish and meat with that.

We've got a gas barbecue, have had for 6 years.
We were told by our landlord that we couldn't even use that on a Total Fire ban day.
Is that not the case then?
[slaps head]

ha, today was a Parade through a local suburb. DS was in the school Marching Band (playing his recorder - bless) ... and it was friggin 39 friggin degrees ...
The parade ended in the park where there were all sorts of stalls and what not ... and some nutter trying to sell Baked Potatoes ...
Anyway, we nearly died of heat exhaustion.
Don't be SmallRabbit ... the novelty wears off when you don't have air con or a pool [whimper]