July 15, 2024
Ugghh, the Heat Goes on!
by Linda Dansbury

It is difficult to get in the mood to cook when it is this hot - I have been eating large salads for lunch and making different types of salads to enjoy with dinner. Please share how you have been enjoying your harvest by emailing me at lindadansbury@comcast.net. I will share with fellow members.

Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, scallion, celery - enjoyed my simple version of a Greek Salad by chopping everything and placing in a large bowl. Sprinkled sea salt, pepper and oregano over the top. Drizzled with red wine vinegar and good olive oil and crumbled some good feta over the top - delicious!

Zucchini, cherry tomatoes - made a simple but yummy dish. Spiralized a zucchini and put the "zoodles" in a colander. Roasted some cherry tomatoes that had been tossed in olive oil, salt, pepper and oregano just until they started to brown. Cooked a bit of spaghetti and when cooked, poured the pasta with the water over the zucchini noodles, to barely cook them. Place all noodles back into the pot, added pesto (I happened to have made a batch the day before) to our liking, a drained can of white beans, and some grated parm cheese. Mixed everything up well, plated it, topped with the roasted cherry tomatoes, a little more cheese and a few small basil leaves. A nice summer dinner.

Fennel, celery, carrots, parsley, tomato - since it was supposed to rain all day/night on Friday, and we had a large piece of cod in the freezer, we decided to make a very traditional fish soup - I guess that's what made the rain go away completely, at least in our locale.

Cucumber, scallions, parsley - my grandmother always made cucumber salad by very thinly slicing cucumbers and scallions or onions, and making a vinaigrette of salt, pepper, celery salt, a light vinegar and light oil. To this day, when I make it, I am taken back to being at my grandparents house.