Favorite Summer Foods?

[KO896]

What are some of your favorite summer foods or meals?

When it's hot outside, I don't like to cook, but we do like to grill because it's faster...and let's face it, food tastes better grilled.

I love having watermelon in the summer, and corn on the cob and grilling our meats like burgers, pork chops, chicken and peppers.

 

[passenger]

What are some of your favorite summer foods or meals?

Sandwiches & most any fresh fruit.


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[Dead2009]

I love me some watermelon. Burgers and hot dogs are also on the menu.

 

[passenger]

+ Taco Salad

 

[KO896]

+ Taco Salad

How do you make yours? I love taco salads and I have a couple different recipes I use.

 

[passenger]

How do you make yours? I love taco salads and I have a couple different recipes I use.

There are two of us, so I like to make this in individual bowls rather that a big 'family-size' bowl.
Start with a bed of lettuce, then just whatever you put on a taco + ... seasoned/cooked ground beef, sliced or chopped tomato, black olives, shredded cheese (cheddar or whatever you like or have on hand), black or pinto beans, sour cream, salsa - whatever suits you. I like to put tortilla chips on the side.

OOh, we had that last nite; now I want to do it again!

 

[Michael Myers]

When it's hot outside, I don't like to cook

Haystacks. Easy to fix and they don't heat your house up.

Adventist Haystacks Recipe

I'm going to show you how to make easy Adventist haystacks! What are Adventist haystacks? It's a traditional Seventh-Day Adventist meal that's essentially a taco salad and every area of the world has its own version and has endless combinations of tasty toppings.

www.theedgyveg.com

 

[KO896]

Haystacks. Easy to fix and they don't heat your house up.

Adventist Haystacks Recipe

I'm going to show you how to make easy Adventist haystacks! What are Adventist haystacks? It's a traditional Seventh-Day Adventist meal that's essentially a taco salad and every area of the world has its own version and has endless combinations of tasty toppings.

www.theedgyveg.com

Looks like taco salad?

 

[KO896]

There are two of us, so I like to make this in individual bowls rather that a big 'family-size' bowl.
Start with a bed of lettuce, then just whatever you put on a taco + ... seasoned/cooked ground beef, sliced or chopped tomato, black olives, shredded cheese (cheddar or whatever you like or have on hand), black or pinto beans, sour cream, salsa - whatever suits you. I like to put tortilla chips on the side.

OOh, we had that last nite; now I want to do it again!

Have you ever had the kind where you use Catalina dressing, seasoned ground beef and Doritoes broken up? Well, lettuce and other stuff too. It's the Catalina dressing that makes it so good.

 

[Hanging Chad's iconHanging Chad]

Watermelon has to be the #1 answer for this. But hey, anything cold. Does a snow cone count as food?

 

[KO896]

Watermelon has to be the #1 answer for this. But hey, anything cold. Does a snow cone count as food?

Yes, especially if it's fruit flavored

 

[passenger]

Have you ever had the kind where you use Catalina dressing, seasoned ground beef and Doritoes broken up? Well, lettuce and other stuff too. It's the Catalina dressing that makes it so good.

Never have. I do like Catalina on 'regular' salads, though; possibly worth a try?

 

[KO896]

Never have. I do like Catalina on 'regular' salads, though; possibly worth a try?

Yes, please try it! All I do is brown some ground beef and drain the fat, then add a packet of taco seasoning and the water specified on the package and put it in the fridge overnight. This is a COLD taco salad! The next day, right before serving, I put it in a very big bowl, add shredded lettuce, shredded cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes, broken/crushed Nacho Cheese Doritos and then add the Catalina dressing (not too much or it gets too mushy). It's so easy and is big enough for a crowd. For single servings, I just add what I need for my plate and add the Catalina there.

 

[MrDawn]

I always have a craving for Taco Bell in the summers.

 

[passenger]

Looks like taco salad?

It's a veggie or vegan tacoless cold salad!
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Also, there's yummy shrimp salad!

I think that most any kind of shrimp available is tasty (& cold!) even the little farmed flea-sized pre-cooked shrimp. My preference, when I can is a medium-sized wild-caught shrimp. The giant-sized "Bubba" Gulf Grey shrimp are almost un-available and un-affordable here.
Right now we can get wild-caught Argentinean red shrimp for a somewhat reasonable price. When they occasionally go on sale I like to get two or three (two-pound) packages to put away some in the freezer.

 

[tea4me]

Charcuterie board!