Lazy Day Cooking?

The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

Tarragon omelet, fold in some white cheese. Edrena

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Quoted message said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

Hmmm... 86°F. sounds pleasantly cool to me, as it's
currently 108° F. at
5:50pm here in Phoenix. We're having Chicken Paprikash
with Spaetzle for dinner, but it's a cool 74° F. here in
the house.

--
Wayne in Phoenix

If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.

The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

A chilled rare-grilled beef salad with a quasi-Vietnamese
vinaigrette (lime juice, fish sauce, chiles or sambal,
brown sugar, cilantro, pepper) and sliced, chilled
vegetables like cucumber and tomato.

94 here today, but that's nothin' compared to what's to
come.

modom

The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

i've taken to putting my toaster oven out on the back porch.
it works great for one person and doesn't heat up the house.
the grill is another good suggestion.

The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

Salad in a big bowl?

Eg. pear, walnut, and gorgonzola salad. Toss romaine or
spinach with a vinagrette, salt, pepper. Layer with sliced
ripe pear, crumbled/chopped gorgonzola, and walnuts (crispy
candied walnuts are best if you have them). Yum!

Or a chicken tossed salad with greens of your choice,
tomatoes, croutons, sliced chicken, and your choice of
dressing.

Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

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It's hot (86=B0F). I'm melting. It's one of those lazy days
where nothing sounds good and I'd rather not heat anything
in the kitchen....

Frequent day-after-days for months of 103 degrees here go
very well with my latest addiction for Caesar salad drizzled
with GiRard's. Along with the newly found love of Caesar
dressing I am also enjoying the different, other than
iceberg salad greens rarely tried before.

Picky ~JA~

The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

Put a can of good tuna in the fridge for a while. When ready
to eat, drain the tuna and upend the contents on some crisp
lettuce (to keep that horribly trendy cylinder shape).
Garnish with good tomatoes in small wedges and drizzle with
olive oil. Lots of herbs and cracked pepper strewn about.
Eat with great crusty bread to sop up the juices.

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Quoted message said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

Some tarator (A soup of yogurt, finely chopped cucumber,
dill and a little EVOO thinned with water and, optionally,
ice cubes) and a plate of sliced cukes, radishes, tomatoes
and scallions with some Bulgarian feta and loukanka (a
Bulgarian dried salami-like sausage that's flavored with
cumin and bent into an n shape and pressed flat). Lacking
Bulgarian feta and loukanka, Greek feta and any good dry
salami will do.

-bwg

-bwg

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Quoted message said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

Any leftover meat and then some cheese on top of a chefs
salad. Tuna or crab stuffed tomato. Avocado halves with
shrimp in Thousand Island dressing spooned on top. Giant
shrimp appetizers. Tuna on Toast. Salad Nicoise Cold-cut
deli buffet Pasta Salad (of course with lots and lots of
Salami and pepperoni) Fruit and cheese platters. Miss
Lilly's Iced Tea Or Mint Juleps I like using cold Kraft Mac
& Cheese as a salad base - Kind of a Kraft American Pasta
Salad. Add Ham, Bell Pepper & anything you like.

Dimitri

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The Ranger' cuhulain_- said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good and
I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

A chilled rare-grilled beef salad with a quasi-Vietnamese
vinaigrette (lime juice, fish sauce, chiles or sambal,
brown sugar, cilantro, pepper) and sliced, chilled
vegetables like cucumber and tomato.

94 here today, but that's nothin' compared to what's
to come.

That's exactly what we had for dinner, and it only hit 65°
here today (eat your hearts out). SO had grilled an extra
steak last night, so I sliced it up and tossed it with nuoc
cham and a mango. Served it over lettuce with edamame as an
appetizer. Life is good.

Cindy

--
C.J. Fuller

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It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good
and I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

Hmmm... 86°F. sounds pleasantly cool to me, as it's
currently 108° F. at 5:50pm here in Phoenix.

Phoenix and He££'s Inner Circle have a lot in common
during summer.
<G> I almost melted last summer during my 'Venture there.
(Loved it but truly melted.)

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We're having Chicken Paprikash with Spaetzle for dinner,
but it's a cool 74° F. here in the house.

No cheating! AC is definitely CHEATING! <G>

The Ranger

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The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good
and I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

i've taken to putting my toaster oven out on the back
porch. it works great for one person and doesn't heat up
the house. the grill is another good suggestion.

A toaster oven is one of those few "tools" I just never
understood the need for. (And I'm gadget happy.)

The Ranger

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The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good
and I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any tried-and-
true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't even sound
good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

Tarragon omelet, fold in some white cheese.

How can you do an omelet without cranking up the stove?

The Ranger

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Quoted message said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting. It's one of those lazy
days where nothing sounds good and I'd rather not heat
anything in the kitchen....

Frequent day-after-days for months of 103 degrees here go
very well with my latest addiction for Caesar salad
drizzled with GiRard's. Along with the newly found love of
Caesar dressing I am also enjoying the different, other
than iceberg salad greens rarely tried before.

I'd forgotten about Girards'! Time to start planning this
week's menu. Salad. Salad. Salad. Salad. Pasta salad...

The Ranger

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"Suggestions"?

Salad in a big bowl?

Eg. pear, walnut, and gorgonzola salad. Toss romaine or
spinach with a vinagrette, salt, pepper. Layer with sliced
ripe pear, crumbled/chopped gorgonzola, and walnuts
(crispy candied walnuts are best if you have them). Yum!

I was /right/ there with you until you suggested walnuts.
EW! YUCK! EW! (And no amount of honey or sugar will be able
to mask that taste!)

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Or a chicken tossed salad with greens of your choice,
tomatoes, croutons, sliced chicken, and your choice of
dressing.

That's pretty close to what we had. I fired up the Weber
Kettle, slapped down some chicken breasts, shredded some
iceburg, washed some pear toms, threw in a package of Hidden
Valley Ranch(r/sm/c) Croutons(tm), sliced up an over-ripe
asian pear, and drizzled some EVOO with a dash of basalmic.
The daughter-units demolished it. A giant bowl of salad
(something that would normally last two days) gone in 50
minutes; one meal.

<sigh> When're they going to stop these growing spurts??

The Ranger
--
"Grits are akin to Elmer's Paste with less flavor and more sand."

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"Suggestions"?

Salad in a big bowl?

Eg. pear, walnut, and gorgonzola salad. Toss romaine or
spinach with a vinagrette, salt, pepper. Layer with
sliced ripe pear, crumbled/chopped gorgonzola, and
walnuts (crispy candied walnuts are best if you have
them). Yum!

I was /right/ there with you until you suggested walnuts.
EW! YUCK! EW! (And no amount of honey or sugar will be
able to mask that taste!)

So use pecans or toasted, blanched almonds.

We had skewers of teriyaki chicken cooked on the grille
along with chunks of peppers, Vidalia onions, slices of
zucchini, mushrooms and sugar snap peas drizzled with olive
oil and cooked in the grille basket next to the chicken
skewers. Leftover fauxtatoes heated for the dieters, rice
pilaf for the young and skinny members of the clan. It was
delicious and well received.

gloria p

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The Ranger said:

It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good
and I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any
tried-and-true altneratives (normal "light" soups
don't even sound good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures)
sounds pretty good, though. 🙂

The Ranger

Tarragon omelet, fold in some white cheese.

How can you do an omelet without cranking up the stove?

The Ranger

In the microwave of course. It's actually a frittata
according the Alton Brown. Don't overdue the cooking, stir
often, like every 15 seconds. Edrena

The Ranger said:

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"Suggestions"?

Salad in a big bowl?

Eg. pear, walnut, and gorgonzola salad. Toss romaine or
spinach with a vinagrette, salt, pepper. Layer with
sliced ripe pear, crumbled/chopped gorgonzola, and
walnuts (crispy candied walnuts are best if you have
them). Yum!

I was /right/ there with you until you suggested walnuts.
EW! YUCK! EW! (And no amount of honey or sugar will be able
to mask that taste!)

Really? I adore walnuts. I didn't realize it was
possible not to like them ;> Oh well, there are other
salads out there!

Sue(tm) Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

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It's hot (86°F). I'm melting.

It's one of those lazy days where nothing sounds good
and I'd rather not heat anything in the kitchen. Any
tried-and-true altneratives (normal "light" soups don't
even sound good at the moment...)

A mild savignon blanc (pear and apple overtures) sounds
pretty good, though. 🙂

Hmmm... 86°F. sounds pleasantly cool to me, as it's
currently 108° F. at 5:50pm here in Phoenix.

Phoenix and He££'s Inner Circle have a lot in common
during summer.
<G> I almost melted last summer during my 'Venture there.
(Loved it but truly melted.)

Were you by any chance here during late July/August? That is
Monsoon when the humidity is sky high and everyone and
everything drips!

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We're having Chicken Paprikash with Spaetzle for dinner,
but it's a cool 74° F. here in the house.

No cheating! AC is definitely CHEATING! <G>

If I didn't cheat, I'd be dead! :-)

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The Ranger

--
Wayne in Phoenix

If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it.