what to eat when it's hot

[anita_margarita]

There have been numerous posts asking, "What can I cook when it's hot?"

The New York Times has some suggestions.

Granted, a few of them are hardly practical ("Boil a lobster. Serve with lemon or melted butter.") but most of them are really very good ideas, for hot weather or anytime you can't be bothered to make a more elaborate meal.

Comments

[esmerel]

I dunno - one of my family's staple summer meals when I was a kid was Dungeness crab (steamed), an artichoke, and a salad. Not too much prep, not super heavy, but very very tasty!

[brooklynmili]

I just did a post on this on my blog, occasioned by last week's heat wave here in NYC: http://betterpoliticsthroughfood.blogspot.com/

the thing about most of those recipes is they involve boiling water. if i bring my stockpot of water to the boil to make pasta, i've increased the temperature of my kitchen and living room by 10 degrees. it's a little inconvenient. like, even if i wanted broiled mackerel, no way am i preheating my oven to 425 during the months of july and august, ya know?

[queencallipygos]

I actually just left you a note over there...

[ketherian]

It's quite odd that the article includes using the stove at a high temperature, and serving hot pasta. Neither come to mind when I'm cooking in the summer.

The food ideas are really neat though, well worth remembering for cooler temperatures.

[queencallipygos]

A lot of the real action seems to be in a related space for comments, where they've asked readers to offer their own recipes. I added a couple. And I was cheered to read someone else observe that our 10-minute ideas were beating the hell out of any of Rachel Ray's "30-minute meals".

Someone's also asked if the TIMES would print the whole article up as a poster. I'd be down with that myself.

[olamina]

the poster is a great idea!

[queencallipygos]

Especially since -- if you check out the link -- it looks like the article itself has some beautiful photography to go along with it. So it'd be decorative as well!

[olamina]

THIS IS PERFECT!!