What are some good meal ideas for days like this when it's simply too hot to cook?

Cold buckwheat noodles. Cook buck wheat noodles and keep refrigerated. You can get those soba soy sauce and mix with the cold noodles. You can also mix the cold noodles with sesame oil, soy sauce, sugar rice wine solution

POPSICLES & SWEET THINGS

• 1 Boozy Campari Citrus Pops

• 2 Melon with Lime-Chile Syrup

• 3 No-Bake Strawberry Icebox Cake

• 4 Coconut and Mango Rice Pudding Pops

COOL BREAKFASTS

• 5 Avocado Breakfast Pudding

• 6 No-Cook Overnight Steel-Cut Oats

• 7 Fruit-on-the-Bottom Yogurt Cups

COLD DRINKS!

• 8 A Green Tea Shake for Hot Days

• 9 Iced Coffee

• 10 Aguas Frescas

SANDWICHES & SALADS

• 11 Oregon Summer Panino

• 12 Farmer's Lunch Sandwich

• 13 Mexican Sprout Slaw

• 14 Crunchy Peanut Slaw

LUNCH & DINNER

• 15 Chilled Buttermilk Soup for Hot Summer Days

• 16 Cold Peanut Sesame Noodles

• 17 Soba Noodles with Wilted Bok Choy

• 18 Broccoli and Feta Pasta Salad

• 19 Dill and Yogurt Chicken Salad

• 20 Slow-Cooker Lemon Garlic Chicken

• 21 Slow Cookers to the Rescue! Heatwave Carnitas

• 22 Vegetable and Mint Summer Rolls with Peanut Sauce

Shrimp & Crab Quiche Roasted Asparagus w/ Parmesan heat Crossants (the infants) w/ Raspberry or Peach Butter clean Fruit tossed w/ a dressing of lime juice, honey & chopped mint Coconut Layer Cake ~OR~ Teriyaki Grilled hen Skewers Rice Pilaf or a Fried Rice total green Beans w/ Toasted Almonds, butter and salt cheesy Bread (baguette slices crowned w/ a great-melting cheese like Muenster or Provolone and run decrease than the broiler for a ocupel minutes) clean Strawberry Pie

That's a great web-site jajabink listed - I clicked on to it, and just made the soba noodle and wilted bok choy recipe for lunch! These can be made in the cool of the day and refrigerated until dinner time if you like - that's a distinct advantage in this hot weather - they are good hot or cold! Give it a go!

gaspacho - cold soup

tuna salad

chicken salad

pasta salad

mixed beans in a spicy salsa with tortilla chips

nachos with guacamole and salsa

fruit salad

chopped vegetable platter with prawns/shrimp and dips

cold sesame and soy noodles

Caesar salad

cold salads. add chicken, fish, or beans for protein.

Banana Split!

What...? There is fruit in it. :)