Well, if the NWS is correct, we will be having some scorching hot days this week. I am thankful for the inch of rain we received 4:00 am yesterday, so we can stay indoors and not worry about watering the garden beds. I am also thankful we have air conditioning.
Our fridge is stocked with quite a few salads, including homemade coleslaw, an Iranian tomato and cucumber salad, tzatziki chickpea salad, and potato salad. I have never been a huge fan of salads, but I like these. I also made bison borscht over the weekend that can be eaten hot or cold. I will eat mine hot. I can’t abide cold soup. I prefer my food steaming.
Boommate is extremely sensitive to food temperature, and refuses to eat anything warmer than lukewarm much of the time. She even drinks her coffee cool. She won’t touch hot food on hot days. We lived quite amicably, though, with the microwave and the refrigerator helping us dine together. We both love ice-cream, of course! We will dine together happily on salads and soup this week, and will continue to welcome any rain we may get.
What are your favorite hot weather foods? How do you stay cool during heatwaves? Ever eaten bison?
Trail Baboon 
No bison. I became a vegetarian when I was 16 and I had never encountered bison as a food item prior to then. However, considering how early on I stopped eating things because it was too easy to associate them with the live animal, I’m pretty sure bison would have been off the list even before I was 16.
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I’ve never thought about having hot weather foods although I’ve certainly thought about cold weather foods (tomato soup and grilled cheese). Right now of course everything here is about strawberries. I’ve frozen strawberries. I’ve made strawberry jam. I made strawberry icebox cake and yesterday afternoon, when the power finally went back on, I made a strawberry bundt cake with lemon glaze. Then there’s the assorted strawberries on ice cream and the strawberries on waffles.
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For the past 10 days here, everything has been about tart cherries, like your strawberries. The crop was lush and abundant. 2 gallons in the freezer now. 😋
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JacAnon
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When I was in college, my roommate was related through his mother and by marriage to Harold Schaefer (sp?), the North Dakota inventor of Glass Wax and owner of a buffalo herd. Once when his parents visited their ND relatives, they brought us several pounds of ground buffalo. So for the next week or so we had buffalo at several meals.
During hot weather and during summer in general I use the grill a lot, several times a week. Meals tend to be simple—a grilled protein, rice or potatoes or bread, a green vegetable and a simple salad. To mix it up we sometimes have a more elaborate salad but usually that just means romaine with a variety of toppings as you might find at a salad bar and topped, perhaps, with a poached egg.
For some reason our tarragon plants are especially robust this year and so I’ve made tarragon chicken pasta salad twice so far. I like a good pasta salad and often end up eating the leftovers for breakfast in the days following.
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