Summer Eats

[Guest guest]

I have been thinking about making my grocery list and despite the dozens of

cookbooks and printed recipes I am just not in the mood or don't know what I

have a taste for so I thought I would ask the group. What is everyone eating

these hot days when you are either cooped up inside or out at a summer concert?

We have been having vegetable pizzas almost every week which is fun I cut up all

the veggies and let everyone design their own pizza. I add thin slices of tomato

to mine and skip the cheese. So fresh and yummy So far we have topped them with

zucchini, tomato, garlic, spinach, orange peppers, onions....

Steph

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I usually get home just a wee bit before dark, so I go to the garden

and look at what needs to be picked. Yesterday I was lucky, had a

few green peppers, 3 types of summer squash, beautiful italian slim

eggplants and lots and lots of tomatoes. I had to stop by the store

and buy an onion, but other than that I had the ingredients for

ratatouille, so this is what I made. Of course I also had a couple

of nice little hot red peppers and I trew them in, even though it is

not traditional to make it spicy, but hey, who is eating it right? I

like spicy food.

 

Tonight I will pick some of our kale (the type that has a purple

vein and green leaves and does OK in the summer) and make something

with Kale and oat groats. It will be somewhat experimental, a

friend made it this way for us a couple of weeks ago and I liked

it. I think I will also make a nice gazpacho to go with it (cold

spanish tomato soup), and this will use some of out incredibly

abundant tomato crop.

 

Any of you in the LA area would like some tomatoes?

 

Cabrita

 

 

, Steph <mrswalp29 wrote:

>

> I have been thinking about making my grocery list and despite the

dozens of cookbooks and printed recipes I am just not in the mood or

don't know what I have a taste for so I thought I would ask the

group. What is everyone eating these hot days when you are either

cooped up inside or out at a summer concert? We have been having

vegetable pizzas almost every week which is fun I cut up all the

veggies and let everyone design their own pizza. I add thin slices

of tomato to mine and skip the cheese. So fresh and yummy So far we

have topped them with zucchini, tomato, garlic, spinach, orange

peppers, onions....

> Steph

>

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> Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your

story.

> Play Sims Stories at Games.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I love pasta salad with lots of veggies it it. I eat it hot or cold, depending

on how I feel at the moment. Sometimes Hubby has his cold and I warm mine. I

make a big dish of it so that there are lots of left overs for the next and next

day.

Katie

 

Steph <mrswalp29 wrote:

I have been thinking about making my grocery list and despite the

dozens of cookbooks and printed recipes I am just not in the mood or don't know

what I have a taste for so I thought I would ask the group. What is everyone

eating these hot days when you are either cooped up inside or out at a summer

concert? We have been having vegetable pizzas almost every week which is fun I

cut up all the veggies and let everyone design their own pizza. I add thin

slices of tomato to mine and skip the cheese. So fresh and yummy So far we have

topped them with zucchini, tomato, garlic, spinach, orange peppers, onions....

Steph

 

 

Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story.

Play Sims Stories at Games.

 

 

[Guest guest]

Salads, steamed veggies and fruit! I love to cook (and eat!), so I

keep expecting to get bored with the more simple stuff, but so far I'm

still craving salads, berries and melons (and, umm, the vegan chocolate

cherry ice cream I mentioned the other day--Yum!) Spicing up steamed

veggies and ginormous pots of beans for salads one or twice a week

seems to be all the cooking alchemy I need. Who knew?

 

Peace,

Maureen

 

Steph wrote:

> I have been thinking about making my grocery list and despite the dozens of

cookbooks and printed recipes I am just not in the mood or don't know what I

have a taste for so I thought I would ask the group. What is everyone eating

these hot days when you are either cooped up inside or out at a summer concert?

We have been having vegetable pizzas almost every week which is fun I cut up all

the veggies and let everyone design their own pizza. I add thin slices of tomato

to mine and skip the cheese. So fresh and yummy So far we have topped them with

zucchini, tomato, garlic, spinach, orange peppers, onions....

>

>

[Guest guest]

I can't say that we eat any differently during the summer than the winter.

Except I'm more likely to want ice cream in the summer time. We eat a lot

of salads with all kinds of veggies in it and use vinegar. Sometimes we'll

cook a couple of the Boca or Morningstar Chik'n patties and then slice it up

and put on top - then we'll use a ranch type dressing. I think we might be

eating more fruit now than in the winter, but I've been cutting sugar out of

my diet too so fruit is a good way of getting a natural sugar that's better

for me.

 

 

 

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On Behalf Of Maureen

Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:13 AM

 

Re: Summer Eats

 

 

 

Salads, steamed veggies and fruit! I love to cook (and eat!), so I

keep expecting to get bored with the more simple stuff, but so far I'm

still craving salads, berries and melons (and, umm, the vegan chocolate

cherry ice cream I mentioned the other day--Yum!) Spicing up steamed

veggies and ginormous pots of beans for salads one or twice a week

seems to be all the cooking alchemy I need. Who knew?

 

Peace,

Maureen

 

Steph wrote:

> I have been thinking about making my grocery list and despite the dozens

of cookbooks and printed recipes I am just not in the mood or don't know

what I have a taste for so I thought I would ask the group. What is everyone

eating these hot days when you are either cooped up inside or out at a

summer concert? We have been having vegetable pizzas almost every week which

is fun I cut up all the veggies and let everyone design their own pizza. I

add thin slices of tomato to mine and skip the cheese. So fresh and yummy So

far we have topped them with zucchini, tomato, garlic, spinach, orange

peppers, onions....

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Since summer is the busy time of year at work, I haven't been much

wanting to cook from scratch when I get off. I've been eating lots of

veggie burgers. I could be a poster child for morningstar farms --

even my old-school-steak-and-potatoes father has been eating their

burgers, according to mom. I top them with sauteed mushrooms and

onions, or i mash avacado with a little garlic, lemon juice, and salt

and top with a slice or two of fresh tomato.