Anyone want to talk food/recipes?

anna.oskar · June 2012

I'm in a bit of a food rut.

It's so frickin hot and humid here that I really, really do not want to be standing over a stove or having an oven heating up the house. I've instituted "sandwich night" to get a reprieve from cooking one night a week but I'd love new ideas. Any meals that are great cold? Salads won't fly at all as a meal for my H (I eat them for lunches) and I need it to be gluten free. I'm at the point where corn chips and salsa sound like dinner to me and my H can just fend for himself.

Ideas?

Fun unrelated recipes that you newly discovered/pinned?

Girlie1030 · June 2012

Do you grill much?

anna.oskar · June 2012

Quinta might work. I don't know if it would be husband friendly but it's worth a shot.. Holy hell those kabobs look fantastic Duds! I love kabobs

[Deleted User] · June 2012

I know you said GF, but I don't know much about that. Can you have any kind of pasta? I have a pasta recipe that uses rotini, hard-boiled eggs, snap peas (or snow peas, can't remember), radishes, and something else I can't recall that you eat cold.

I don't know it off-hand (all my recipes are from magazines and on paper, it's annoying) but can get it to you tonight if you want.

KateJ10 · June 2012

I really want to make these:

http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/02/cauliflower-fritters-25.html

I am already hungry, and looking through my pinterest food board isn't helping

anna.oskar · June 2012

In Response to Re:Anyone want to talk food/recipes?:[QUOTE]Do you grill much?nbsp; Posted by Girlie1030[/QUOTE]

All the damn time. But that requires me to go outside and that I'm not a fan of lately. ;

pirategal03 · June 2012

I've been known to eat celery w/salsa and call it a meal so I know where you're coming from. Last night all I had was cauliflower and refrigerator pickles. The phrase "too hot to eat" gets used down here a lot.

I'll often only cook a protein and the rest of our sides will be cold. Or I'll cook extra sides when I do cook and use them all week. We eat a lot of squash.

I know you said no salads, but some of these barely qualify as "salad" http://www.southernliving.com/food/entertaining/cool-summer-salads-00400000046866/page38.html

anna.oskar · June 2012

In Response to Re:Anyone want to talk food/recipes?:[QUOTE]I know you said GF, but I don't know much about that. Can you have any kind of pasta? I have a pasta recipe that uses rotini, hardboiled eggs, snap peas or snow peas, can't remember, radishes, and something else I can't recallnbsp;that you eat cold. I don't know it offhand all my recipes are from magazines and on paper, it's annoying but can get it to you tonight if you want. Posted by Seshat411[/QUOTE]

That sounds awesome. I can get rice macaroni noodles

[Deleted User] · June 2012

I'll type up the recipe tonight, anna. It's really simple, but I feel like I'm missing an ingredient or two.

DodgersBride · June 2012

What about chicken salad? We eat them on tostada(store bought to avoid frying).

pirategal03 · June 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_anyone-want-to-talk-foodrecipes?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:b897cc2b-8ab0-4eec-995f-e5487c7d0222Post:8a684f6b-3226-431f-825b-e9356faeac60">Re: Anyone want to talk food/recipes?</a>:
[QUOTE]We've been doing a lot of tostadas lately. It's kind of a mixture of hot and cold though since I do usually fry up the corn tortillas. I guess if you wanted meat on them that would most likely be hot too. I usually put on tomato, avacado, black beans, cucumber, red onion, bell pepper, queso fresco, creme fraiche, and some salsa. Sometimes I also add corn.
Posted by kodakitty[/QUOTE]

<div>You can grill some chicken ahead of time and use that as the meat on them. I've done this lately and used pita bread instead of tortillas (your H is weird about those, right Anna?) and heated them up in the toaster oven to melt the cheese. I'm a fan of the toaster oven in the summer since it doesn't heat the house up. </div>

KateJ10 · June 2012

I have a couple things that are at least additions to meals: (these aren't online recipes, just family recipes I love)

Marinated salad:

One cauliflower head

One broccoli bunch

Noodles

Bottle Italian dressing

1 Tbsp Salad Seasoning (this is key)

Optional to include:

pepperoni's

crab pieces

cut up cauli and broccoli, mix everything together. tastes better after it marinates for a day or so.

The other one is to cut up a container of strawberries, and combine it with:

Large container cottage cheese

container of cool wHip

and one packet of strawberry jello

anna.oskar · June 2012

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[QUOTE]I really want to make these: <a href="http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/02/cauliflower-fritters-25.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.skinnytaste.com/2009/02/cauliflower-fritters-25.html</a> I am already hungry, and looking through my pinterest food board isn't helping :)
Posted by KateJ10[/QUOTE]

<div>Cauliflower Latkes! i totally pinned those. Thanks!</div>

kd.joseph · June 2012

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/cilantro-lime-chicken-with-avocado-salsa-10000001886432/

daniellelmilczak · June 2012

How about a turkey pastrami reuben? Pastrami turkey, saurkraut, thousand island dressing on some [gluten free] bread (if there is such a thing)?

Pulled pork in the crock pot?

pulled chicken tacos or chalupas?
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/pork-chalupas/detail.aspx

Or fish tacos, making the fish in an aluminum foil pack on the grill:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/fiery-fish-tacos-with-crunchy-corn-salsa/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=fiery%20fish%20tacos&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe

Or Kabobs on the grill? I like this recipe:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/yummy-honey-chicken-kabobs/detail.aspx

Or grilled shrimp
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/basil-shrimp/detail.aspx?event8=1&prop24=SR_Title&e11=basil%20shrimp&e8=Quick%20Search&event10=1&e7=%2fmy%2frecipebox%2fdefault.aspx

anna.oskar · June 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_anyone-want-to-talk-foodrecipes?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:b897cc2b-8ab0-4eec-995f-e5487c7d0222Post:e28021da-364f-49ce-a72d-9373519c5d95">Re: Anyone want to talk food/recipes?</a>:
[QUOTE]Can you eat cheese? Sometimes we'll just do a cheese board for dinner. 2 or 3 cheeses, grapes, raspberries, cut up apples, french bread and some crackers. I assume them make GF crackers?
Posted by ILoveMilkDuds[/QUOTE]

<div>My H doesn't conisder that a "proper dinner". He's a heathen. But yeah, I've totally done that before. In my family we called it "French lunch" because it reminds us of the picnic baskets we'd pack when travelling in France when I was a child.</div>

anna.oskar · June 2012

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Anyone want to talk food/recipes? : You can grill some chicken ahead of time and use that as the meat on them. I've done this lately and used pita bread instead of tortillas (your H is weird about those, right Anna?) and heated them up in the toaster oven to melt the cheese. I'm a fan of the toaster oven in the summer since it doesn't heat the house up.
Posted by pirategal03[/QUOTE]

<div>Way weird about that stuff. I think he'd eat it if I put it in front of him but he gets 0 enjoyment out of tortillas unless they're crispy and I can't eat the flour ones. (I eat corn tortillas, the GF flour ones are nasty)</div>

arwo · June 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_anyone-want-to-talk-foodrecipes?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:b897cc2b-8ab0-4eec-995f-e5487c7d0222Post:e28021da-364f-49ce-a72d-9373519c5d95">Re: Anyone want to talk food/recipes?</a>:
[QUOTE]Can you eat cheese? Sometimes we'll just do a cheese board for dinner. 2 or 3 cheeses, grapes, raspberries, cut up apples, french bread and some crackers. I assume them make GF crackers?
Posted by ILoveMilkDuds[/QUOTE]

<div>We do something like this too, though we usually add some kind of protein, like smoked salmon or cold sausage or cold cuts, and a TON of cut veggies. We call it "snacky platter." Because we're lame, I guess.</div><div>
</div><div>We do a lettuce-free taco salad, almost like cold nachos. Generally it's just corn chips with spiced ground meat, avocado, tomatos, cheese, beans, salsa, sour cream (for my husband), jalepenos, and cilantro. I know your husband can't do tomatoes (so I assume most salsas are out) but you could easily take a kitchen-sink approach. Just put whatever you'd like on top and call it good.</div><div>
</div><div>We eat rather a lot of tex-mex style food: homemade black bean burritos, fish tacos with cabbage-cilantro slaw, chili verde. Except for the chili, they require minimal cooking, and you can put whatever you want in them.</div>

kaos16 · June 2012

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[QUOTE]What about something with a roti chicken? You could use that to make tostadas, tacos, nachos...none of which would require any actual cooking by you. Also, wtf pinterest? I searched quinoa and it came back with zilch. Me thinks the search feature is broken. ETA: I'm dumb. <a href="http://www.biggirlssmallkitchen.com/2012/04/quinoa-with-roasted-tomatoes-avocado-and-pesto.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.biggirlssmallkitchen.com/2012/04/quinoa-with-roasted-tomatoes-avocado-and-pesto.html</a> ^^^ you could add chicken to that
Posted by jcbsjr[/QUOTE]

I love dinners invented out of rotisserie chicken! We make them into burritos often or chopped salads.

anna.oskar · June 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_anyone-want-to-talk-foodrecipes?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:b897cc2b-8ab0-4eec-995f-e5487c7d0222Post:5e8bf785-7376-405f-acba-363f77cca1d1">Re: Anyone want to talk food/recipes?</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Anyone want to talk food/recipes? : We do something like this too, though we usually add some kind of protein, like smoked salmon or cold sausage or cold cuts, and a TON of cut veggies. We call it "snacky platter." Because we're lame, I guess. <strong>We do a lettuce-free taco salad, almost like cold nachos. Generally it's just corn chips with spiced ground meat, avocado, tomatos, cheese, beans, salsa, sour cream (for my husband), jalepenos, and cilantro. I know your husband can't do tomatoes (so I assume most salsas are out) but you could easily take a kitchen-sink approach. </strong>Just put whatever you'd like on top and call it good. We eat rather a lot of tex-mex style food: homemade black bean burritos, fish tacos with cabbage-cilantro slaw, chili verde. Except for the chili, they require minimal cooking, and you can put whatever you want in them.
Posted by arwo[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>That's not a bad idea at all. I could put lettuce, tomato, and veggies in mine and the heathen could do just meat, cheese, corn, and tortilla chips.</div><div>
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arwo · June 2012

Oooo, I do rice bowls too. Something like THIS but I like to add a green vegetable of some sort (broccoli, kale, asparagus, whatever) and a poached egg on top instead of tofu, because I don't like to eat much soy.

Edited to include link, duh.

kaos16 · June 2012

For the record . . . . . . now i'm starving, and my boring lunch looks totally unappealing.

LesPaul · June 2012

I am going to grill a 5 lb boneless leg of lamb tomorrow. That is all.

celticmyss · June 2012

I made a modified version of this asparagus, quinoa, and feta salad the other day and have eaten it for lunches. It's excellent. I think it would be meal worthy with some chicken added.

I am planning on making a whole bunch of chicken breast in the crock pot and shredding it soon. This way I'll have meat to use for chicken salad and in things like this.

pirategal03 · June 2012

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[QUOTE]I am going to grill a 5 lb boneless leg of lamb tomorrow. That is all.
Posted by LesPaul[/QUOTE]

<div>What time should I be there?</div>

brandichamberlain · June 2012

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[QUOTE]I am going to grill a 5 lb boneless leg of lamb tomorrow. That is all.
Posted by LesPaul[/QUOTE]

I want another gyro!

mbuckley85 · June 2012

These Feta Stuffed Chicken burgers are AMAZING, WW friendly, and very filling!! They also happen to be super easy. I didn't think I would like them because of the feta, but it tastes really good melted. Seriously, we've eaten them 3 times in the last 2-3 weeks, and I have two frozen and ready to go in the freezer.

The pepper, olives and lettuce on top are also optional if you don't care for any of those. Personally, I ususally leave the lettuce out because I never have it in the house.

As far as gluten free, I'd assume you have a GF hamburger roll you use? They would also be just fine without a roll.

http://www.weightwatchers.com/food/rcp/RecipePage.aspx?recipeId=84051&tab=2&sort=1

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