food during the hot weather you really wanna know Patti?

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Ice cold watermelon covered with Celtic sea salt, or a 1/2 of a cantaloupe with

a scoop of vanilla soy ice cream in the center, caramelized onions on peanut

butter bread, sandwich wraps, my comfort food is a potato and balsamic sandwich,

cold spaghetti, hummus and spreads from the files.

Donna

 

 

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Lots of salads and fruit. Once a week I do a batch of pinto beans, black beans

and whatever bean I want to use that week, cooking them in the crock pots. (I

have three crock pots) They keep in the fridge for a week and we use them up,

reheating and seasoning per recipe. In the winter the breads I make are more the

Artisan, whole meal or French bread. In the summer I make mostly pita, flour or

corn tortillas.

 

Very fast quesidilla (spell check please!) is one flour tortilla in a no stick

skillet, grated cheese, a couple spoons of beans, some chopped onions and

peppers. Cook till browned on bottom, then fold the thing in half. Doesn't heat

up the kitchen much and I don't have to heat the beans ahead of time. Can add

leftover brown rice, leftover veg spanish rice, etc.

 

I always make at least twice what we'll eat at a meal and freeze the leftovers

to be used in another meal. Any beans leftover at the end of the week are thrown

into the crockpot with some tomatoes, corn, spices, herbs, etc (and any other

leftover veg) and turned into soup. I love soup 12 months a year.

 

Here is an absolutely gorgeous cold soup for summer that makes a lovely

presentation. You can google the recipes, so I won't include them. Make split

pea soup and cream of corn soup. Put both (seperately) through blender to make

very smooth. Chill both soups. Put one ladle of pea soup into bowl then

carefully put a ladleful of the corn soup on top. Using a spoon or knife, drag

the corn soup into the shape of yin yang, or any other shape you like.

 

A favorite here is Texas Caviar,made with black eye peas, corn, sweet and hot

peppers, diced onion and diced tomatoes. Can add viniagrette or not, your

choice. Eat with corn chips, corn tortillas or flour tortillas. Best if you make

a day ahead of time.

 

Tonight we had corn fritters (basically pancakes with corn in them), pinto

beans, sliced fresh tomatoes and cucumbers. Desert was watermelon fresh from

the farm. I had cooked the beans Sunday afternoon and had the peppers and onions

already cut up and in the freezer. It was a quick as a wink thing to saute the

peppers and onions, add the beans and mash them with a fork slightly, while

cooking.

 

An old Southern farmwife trick is to do the cooking in the early morning and

reheat for supper. A new/old Southern farmwife trick is the microwave. *grins*

Hope this helps! Jeanne in Georgia

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