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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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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My last summer in college I worked in the Black Hills and I’m sure I had bison then.
I love cold borscht and gazpacho but alas, too early for tomatoes.
I expect I’ll be indulging in potato salad and ice cream, maybe some cold peanut noodles.
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For any meat eater, bison is a good choice. Expensive but lean. I buy directly from the owners of a herd.
It’s not feed lot management.
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Tangential. For many years, there has been a cheese shop (I believe it was originally owned by Eichtens) on Highway 8 between here and Fawn-Doe-Rosa. They had a huge mouse statue out front as well as a bison statue. YA and I always stopped on the way home. Then a couple of years ago, it appeared to be under new management and this year when we went to Fawn-Doe-Ross, the shop is definitely closed and the bison statue and the big mouse statue are gone. Sad.
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No hot foods for me when it gets hot. I have a hard time with this kind of weather. It ends any kind of ambition I imagined I might have, and I melt.
I crave ice cream most of the time, but that craving gets more powerful at this time of year. Fortunately, I’m broke right now, so no trips to the store for indulgences like ice cream!
I make fruit and veggie smoothies year round, and that is my planned brunch today. I also love salads made with fresh spinach and leafy greens, cherry tomatoes, sliced cukes, grated carrots, a boiled egg, and sunflower seeds. I’ve been including fresh basil and nasturtium blossoms lately. Sometimes I add dried cranberries or raisins and almonds.
I make herbal teas and refrigerate them. I have one made of hibiscus and honey right now, and I always have Moroccan Mint iced tea – no sweetener, just the mint. It’s so refreshing!
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Like VS, one of my favorite days of the year is when I pickup a 6-qt flat of fresh strawberries from Lorence’s Berry Farm in Northfield. Yum! Made strawberry shortcake last night. Yum again. And just plain strawberries drizzled with balsamic vinegar glaze is heavenly too.
Hot weather means lots of salads and grilling protein outside. Whatever generates the least amount of heat in the house. No crockpot meals or oven-baked whatever.
I’ve had bison a few times. Pretty good and much healthier than beef. Related to that would be elk. Equally good, but both different from the beef we’re used to eating.
Chris in O-town
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I love main dish salads, like a Southwestern Couscous one we haven’t done for a while – may try it this week. I like pasta salads but hate to cook it in hot weather – heat up the kitchen only to turn on the A/C…
Will do tuna salad sandwiches for lunch today, and maybe a packaged chicken/noodle thing from the freezer tonight. We have two days predicted here in the nineties – will stock up on some prepared salads from the co-op.
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Ooh, quinoa salad, too.
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Oh, and I do have my summer kitchen space outside the back door, so if I do any soups, could be in the crock pot out there…
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