Best "It's too hot" recipies
 

what sort of recipies do you make when it's too damn hot for any 'real' cooking. and let's skip the BBQ ones, some of us apartement dwellers can't do that!

this is what i'm making for a staff party/ canada day on tuesday:


-line a freezer-proof bowl with plastic wrap.
-take a gallon of good quality vanilla ice-cream and let soften.
-sqoosh the vanilla ice-cream around the sides of the bowl, and freeze for an hour.
- mix a can cherry pie filling with an undetermined amount of cherry brandy. (or raspberry sorbet with rasperry liquor, or strawberry ice-cream with baja rosa.... you get the idea.)
-pour fruit filling into the vanilla ice-cream's hollow. return to freezer until it sets.
-splurge on a really good choclolate or dark chocolate ice-cream or gelato, soften, then fill the remaining space left from the fruit with the chocolate.
-freeze overnight.

flip it over on to a platter cake-style, and you have a lovely cool bombe.

Stuffed Habaneros:

Get some nice orange habaneros, cut the stem off and remove most of the seeds, then stuff them with some shredded jack cheese and chopped cilantro. Bread and bake until golden.

oops, I misread that last night, I thought you wanted a recipie that was too hot for 'real' cooking. Sorry.

Let me offer this instead:

Colorful Rice Salad

* 1 package frozen peas, 10 ounces
* 2 cups cooked rice
* 1 cup cooked ham, diced
* 6 green onions, chopped
* 4 eggs, hard-boiled
* 3/4 cup pimiento-stuffed olives, sliced
* 1/2 cup chopped parsley
* 1/3 cup sweet pickle relish
* 2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese, (8oz)
* 1/4 cup salad dressing or mayonnaise
* lettuce leaves, optional

Cook the rice then add the other ingredients and chill, garnish with the lettuce and serve.

This was one of my favorite meals when I was growing up, and it's super easy, and great for eating on a hot day.

Enjoy!

I got an idea for my habaneros from it. I have eight plants. The lady who sold 'em to me looked at me like I was crazy. Last year they almost killed me.

Here is one we've been making here since it's 100 degrees every day

Tabouli
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Ingredients:
1 cup fine bulgur wheat
3 bunches italian parsley
3 medium tomatoes
1 large bunch scallions
1 and a half lemons juiced
1/2 cup olive oil or to taste
salt and pepper to taste
garden mint (quarter bunch)

Directions:

Rinse bulgur with cold water and discard water. Add half of the lemon juice to bulgur. Finely chop parsley leaves and mint. Chop scallions and tomatoes into small pieces.

Mix all ingredients and let sit for an hour in fridge.

Serve with lettuce leaves , pita or naan bread

Serves: 6.

Prep time: 1 hour

How about gazspacho? (sp?) I've never made it, but I think it's basically tomato juice with tomatoes, celery, carrots, cucumber, hot peppers (vital!!) and probably parsley and/or cilantro. Anyone have a specific recipe?

My uncle makes some killer ceviche and lemon-seered shrimp, but I don't have the recipe handy (he doesn't share it with anyone...I'll have to choke it out of him on his deathbed) but the ceviche is a great dip, and the lemon-seered shrimp use the acidity of the lemons to "cook" the shrimp. Not sure on the physics of it all, but it's incredible.