june discussion post: FOOD!

[naushika]

In this month's food post, let's discuss...

Seasonal Eats!

I dunno about you all, but it's now reaching temperatures of over 100F/38C every day and for me, the types of foods I like to eat this time of the year are light, easy to make, and often not hot. I'm curious what you all like to eat this time of the year too!

What's in your summer foods repertoire? Snacks, meals, frozen treats? (Or if you're in the southern hemisphere, what's in your winter foods repertoire?)

Comments

[naushika]

One of my go-to meals in the summer is SALAD. So many salads. I usually have some combination of the following ingredients: romaine lettuce, fresh spinach, cucumber, shredded carrot, avocado, raw onion, sweet peppers. To make it extra filling, some cooked crumbled bacon or slices of roast chicken. (Sometimes I just buy a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store when I'm lazy just for this purpose, lol.)

And cause it's so hottttt, I am forever making my own popsicles, out of kool-aid/drink mix! (I discovered though you have to mix the kool-aid at about 2 times the strength versus drinking in order to get a good flavor on the popsicles.) Oh and these things are my favorite ice cream impulse buy in the checkout lane of the grocery store:



So creamy. I want one right now. D:

[sparklesdani]

Yes! I'm a salad person too. My mom buys this thing that has 4 heads of different kinds of lettuce and that's enough to last us all week. I put sweet peppers and cucumbers and cheese and croutons. Sometimes I put in some of that Tyson grilled chicken and omnomnom.

[naushika]

Yesssss I FORGOT ABOUT CHEESE. I love cheese in my salad. My favorite is pepperjack. :D

[sparklesdani]

I'm slowly getting into more fruits and vegetables, which are awesome for a good snack during summer. Stuff like pineapple and honeydew melon and grapes are omnomnomy. So is just cucumber slices dipped down in ranch dip.

I'M MAKING MYSELF HUNGRY EVEN THOUGH I JUST ATE.

[naushika]

Mmmmm pineapple! I just went to the store and got cherries and strawberries and oranges, I'm so excited, haha. YAY FRUIT. Oh god and cucumber + ranch = win every time.

I'M HUNGRY NOW TOO

[colls]

bread
bread
bread
bread salad
bread


Kidding.
not really


I like salads in the summer, I don't like too many salad dressings anymore though. My friend bought me some gourmet froo-froo basalmic stuff and I mix it up with some olive oil. I also like cheese and a side of bread.

SMOOTHIES. I make a lot of fruit smoothies, too. And clementines are yummy.

ETA: I forgot to mention vodka/jell-o shooters.

[naushika]

YOU REALLY LIKE YOUR BREAD! :D

Yeah we've started making all our own salad dressings. We make ~fancy ones like blueberry vinaigrette and orange-cilantro-ginger. Sooo tasty. XD

Mmmm smoothies are so good.

[colls]

BLUEBERRY! blueberries are good on pancakes
orange-cilantro-ginger sounds amazing.

[lightbird]

Seconding smoothies. My favorite is made of peaches, passionfruit juice and vanilla frozen yogurt. Sweet and tart at the same time and so refreshing.

I'm pretty picky about my salad dressings, too. I love sesame ginger, and it's the one I almost always go for. There's a deli near where I work that mixes up salads with whatever ingredients you choose (and they'll chop it if you want too) and their sesame ginger dressing is amazing.

[colls]

I love chopped up salads, it'd be awesome to find a place to do that for me.

[lightbird]

There is a chain called Chop't, which is all chopped salads. There's a bunch in NYC and the New York area, not sure about outside of that. Maybe there are a few near you (or something similar). The deli I go to just started chopping salads recently - I think it was because one of the Chop't chains opened around the corner from them and they didn't want to lose business.

[fromtheashess]

LMAO. Bread. Bread is quite good.

[colls]

BREAD!!
It's cousin to pancakes only with bread you can have pie for dessert.
or something

[fromtheashess]

LOL. ALL THE CARBY BREAD RELATED THINGS. ALL OF THEM.

[colls]

ETA: why doesn't DW embed???

http://youtu.be/ikpj24WMOLw

[fromtheashess]

YESSSSS. EXACTLYYYY.

Ugh embedding is such a bitch nothing ever workssss.

[realrose]

YUM smoothies. I add kale to mine. Can't taste it at all and it makes them super nutritious.

[kawohni]

Much like the picture, watermelon is my summer go-to. This is pretty much the only time I'll eat any.

[naushika]

I could just gorge myself on watermelon all day. It's so good! I'm thankful grocery stores sell chopped up watermelons or I'd buy a whole thing and then eat until I was sick, lol.

[kawohni]

My husband and I have that problem with watermelon. Here it's more worth your money to buy the whole melon rather than pay for it to be sliced and packaged, so we often end up with more than we can handle.

[lightbird]

ICE CREAM!!!!!

And limeade. I love limeade. It's perfect in the summertime and it's better than lemonade. :D

And as others have said, light stuff. Salad. Fruit. Smoothies. Seafood, cold or hot. Hot food includes things that aren't too heavy, like hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, barbecue.

[naushika]

You can never go wrong with ice cream on a hot day. :D

Oh man I forgot all about limeade!! Sooo delicious.

Mmm, barbecue. The nice thing about bbq is all the cooking is done outside so your house doesn't heat up. :D

I want some bbq chicken and a limeade now..

[skieswideopen]

Salads. Fresh fruit. Salads that include fresh fruit. Grilled chicken and steak. Ice cream. Anything with a high water content that doesn't involve turning on the oven, basically. :)

I need to find some more salad recipes, actually.

[brisus]

Smores and Hot Dogs over a bonfire. Oh yes!

[realrose]

I've been digging fresh veggies and dip so far this season. I just got a food dehydrator for my birthday so kale chips and dried fruit and fruit leather are totally going to be on my list. And smoothies! Lots of smoothies.

[turnerwolf]

Frozen lemonade!