Whats Your Favorite Summer Meal

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Whats Your Favorite Summer Meal
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Wed, 05-13-2009 - 9:19am

In the summer menus change around here from hot meals to bbqs and salads. Whats your favorite meal and snack in hot weather? And your favorite drink?


      I like a nice anti pasta with a small fruit salad (must have watermelon in it Lol). I drink to much ice coffee but just love it.  I'm trying to switch that to water.


Now I like bean salads but don't know how to make them. Anyone have a quick and simple recipe?


                                                                    Hugs Cindy

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Thu, 05-14-2009 - 10:24am

Oh yes love those baked potatos. I use them for munchies Lol.


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Thu, 05-14-2009 - 10:28am

All good Kathie. I just love that summer watermelon. As you know hard to get in the winter in the NE. Store bought just isn't the same.


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Thu, 05-14-2009 - 3:05pm

Please call me Sue. I noticed your coleslaw post and thought I'd share my dressing...I don't know the exact proportions as I just kind of do it by **taste**. I put lite mayo, apple cider vinegar, buttermilk, and a pinch each of salt, garlic powder and paprika in a jar with a screw-on lid and shake it all up. I actually have a funny story about coleslaw and my DS. When he was four and his sister was six, we went to the University of California at Berkeley one day because DD was taking recorder lessons and her teacher was teaching a Master Class and DD was the demonstration student. Afterwards, we went to a very famous, very old seafod restaurant for lunch. All entrees came with coleslaw and fries. While we were waiting for the food, a group of four women came in and sat at the table next to us, and, I kid you not, I realized that one of them was Oprah Winfrey. When our food came, DS took a spoon of the coleslaw into his mouth, swallowed, and said, quite audibly, "Yuck...it's sweet...Mommy, you should go in the kitchen and show them how to make coleslaw," at which point Oprah looked over at us, chuckled, and said to DS, "I don't like sweet coleslaw either." For a long time after, every time I made coleslaw at home, DS would reminisce about the "bad" coleslaw that Oprah didn't like any more than he did.


Sue

 

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Thu, 05-14-2009 - 8:35pm

Reading the replies has

     

 

          

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 6:00am

I found the secret to great cole slaw!:


1. one package shredded cabbage


2. jar of "Marie's Cole slaw dressing"


LOL


(found in produce section)


gets raves!

Dutch



Dutch

 

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 9:15am

That is funny Sue. Did you get her autograph?


Thank you for the recipe I'll give it a try. Unfortunately cooking isn't one of my strong points. I was always a tomboy growing up and didn't pay much attention to what was happening in the kitchen unless the beaters from the mixer had to be licked off Lol.


Raising 4 children alone I made quick cheap meals and tried to keep them healthy but didn't have much time for big dinners. Of course Christmas and Thanksgiving I would and I can make a good turkey and dressing but the rest of the year was your basic pastas and peanut butter and jelly Lol.


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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 9:19am

Thanks Dutch at this point anythings worth a try. My aunt used to make an excellent cole slaw and she's passed on and like a dummy I never got her recipe. I'll keep searching though.


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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 4:21pm

Hi, Cindy.





 




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Sat, 05-16-2009 - 8:52am

Thank you for that recipe it sounds really good. I'll be sure to try it. With the weather finally starting to warm up here (I live upstate NY) we'll be having summer bbqs and a recipe that makes that much will be very handy. We all take a dish to pass at each of my childrens places. We alternate bbqs between each one, I have four children (all grown) and nine grandchildren so a large crowd to feed and they all love

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Sat, 05-16-2009 - 3:38pm
Yes, I can't wait to see if my plants grow well.... I am in Washington state, NW.

       


 


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