What's your favorite "it's too hot to cook" summer recipe?

Mater sandwiches: Two slices of bread/ whole wheat or

plain.

Enough mayo to wet the bread.

thin or med.sliced tomato slices to cover

bread.

Sprinkle on a little sugar and pepper.

top with second slice.

YOU can grill this as well. And add a

slice of cheddar or American cheese.

Either is delicious!!!!

Lettuce sandwich: Same as mater sandwich except you take a

few lettuce leave and wash them under

cold running tap water and drain or shake

off extra water.

Place lettuce leaves on first slice of

bread.

Add a bit of salt and plenty of black

pepper.

Add more lettuce leaves and top with

second slice of bread.

liverpudding sand:Two lightly mayo'd slices of bread your

choice of type.

Slice liver pudding in thin or med.slices.

Top with second slice.

Can add slice of sharpe cheese or American

This can be grilled as well..mmm delicious

Salmon salad: 1.can of pink salmon, cleaned of the black

and silver looking skin parts of the

fish. On opening can drain a small

amount 1-2 tablespoons of the fish oil

into a med. mixing bowl.

Add cleaned fish, I leave in the crunchy

bones.

Add mayo, enough to hold fish together.

(OPT) Add pickle relish to color fish.

Make sandwich out of the salad or serve

on lettuce, or crackers of your choice.

Ritz Crackers with: thin slice cheddar, piemento cheese,

cheese whizz etc. let you mind come up

with other toppings like: liverpudding.

or creamcheese: plain, or flavored.

Ice cream: Make milk shakes and add strawberries,

or bananas or toss in a little of both

an enjoy.

Ice cream floats: Add beverages like 7-up or rootbeer to a

scoop or two of your favorite ice cream

to your favorite cola or other soda pop.

Other Coolers: Watermelon, honey dew melon, cantalope,

kiwi fruit and strawberries. Cut up

chilling in fridge. Watermelon slices

are great with a little salt on them,

some put sugar on them and other fruits.

Now invent combos of these to suit your tastes and stay cool!

Linguine! You can make alot and it keeps really well. My mom's recipe is the best I have yet to taste. She uses cooked spring pasta or linguine broke in half. She adds grape tomatoes, cucumbers peeled and sliced in quarters and olives. To all this she adds italian dressing to coat and then the special ingredient. Salad Supreme...it's in the spice aisle and adds all sorts of depths of flavor. Note: You might have to add more italian dressing the next day because of the pasta soaking up liquid.

If it's too hot out to cook then I'm usually not hungry anyway. A salad would be ok, I like spring mix and mandarin oranges are good in salad also.

1/4 cup mayonnaise

1/4 cup vanilla yogurt

1/4 cup sour cream

1/4 cup milk

2 Tbsp. curry powder

1/2 cup mango chutney

2 cups red grapes

1 cup chopped celery hearts

3 cups fully cooked medium shrimp, thawed if frozen

PREPARATION:

In large bowl combine mayonnaise, yogurt, low-fat mayonnaise and milk; stir well. Add curry powder and chutney. Gently stir in grapes, celery and shrimp. Chill well before serving to blend flavors. Garnish with toasted coconut, cashews, and chopped mango

Gazpacho

We like BLT's. You can always cook the bacon in the microwave. But, usually, when it's hot, we don't eat much. Like today, it is 92 degrees, here in Ohio.

Kentucky Fried. ( Original. Keep the crispy. Ick. )

Caesar Salad. Yum. My mom's is the best.

Two words: Liquid meal...

...the best kind is ready-to-serve and cold...make mine anything with chocolate, meal and desert together, mmm, good!

TUNA SALAD, CRAB SALAD, STUFFED ARTICHOKES WITH TUNA OR CRAB MEAT WITH SALAD DRESSING ON TOP.