Well, I live in Tuscany (which is basically like a pizza oven 2 miles from the sun in the summer), so gelato a day is the only way to survive until September (if not more! Or anything frozen - granita, frozen yogurt, ice cream. I just bought some new popsicle moulds so I can freeze things at home too because honestly a gelato a day x 2 kids x every day all summer long adds up!). Too hot now for coffee (my survival tool) too so I'm drinking caffe shakerato, which is espresso shaken with ice until frothy - so refreshing - and any form of it in granita/gelato form is most welcome. Aside from that, raw tomato sauce for pasta is one of my summer musts - you don't need to cook the tomato so that's one less pot to clean. Just chop up some tomatoes in a bowl, add salt, some basil, olive oil and grate a garlic clove in there, toss it all around and then add the hot, freshly boiled pasta to it and eat it warm. Abundant Parmesan or fresh mozzarella on top if you like.
Omg this comment made me so hungry, yum to everything here! Also, just want to second the raw tomato sauce concept. "Pasta With Stuff" is one of our family's favorite dishes, and it basically means adding a bunch of fresh stuff (literally whatever is in your kitchen) to pasta and tossing with olive oil and spices. So delicious, so easy, and so few dishes.
Shall we also make subthread for those of us in the southern hemisphere? I am looking forward to an oat milk flat white drunk on a chilly weekend morning at the playground. Almond croissant too please.
I love all weather related comments from the Southern hemisphere! There is something deeply grounding about remembering that half the world is living the opposite season. No matter what happens in our lives, this old globe will keep orbiting! Thanks for the chilly update!
We’re having such a strange cool spring and start of summer here in New England I’m feeling more inclined to cook for your season! (Zero complaints—I’d be happy if it never heats up 😂)
Oh man. I used to live in Vermont and I miss the seasons. The summer was definitely hot though and I remember nights being pretty rough. Enjoy your chilly spring 😁😁
Just last weekend, I made Julia Turshen’s cherry cobbler recipe for a family dinner and y’all. It is SO GOOD. I took her tip of buying a cherry pitter tool seriously and that was super helpful. We ate it warm with huge scoops of vanilla ice cream! I’m going to try it with fresh peaches or blueberries next.
We live in Nebraska, so also: ALL the corn. Smothered in butter.
tbh a metal one would probably be the best, but oxo makes a version that gets the job done! It’s not perfect, but it’s significantly better than trying to pit by hand.
I really love the ones that do more than one cherry at a time. The one we have now does 6 with one “press” and I’ve been really happy with it. It is plastic though (with metal prongs I think)
Oh this is a perfect idea! I have a bunch of cherries I was just trying to figure out what to do with. Also, love the idea of all the berry and stone fruit cobblers all summer long.
The food desert information is something that Black fat liberationists have been talking about for a while. For example, Mikey Mercedes has an article about it on her website from November 2020. She explains food apartheid among other concepts and breaks down the anti-fatness inherent in food deserts. I am disturbed by the way it appears that one white person is writing about the writing of two other white people in prominent academic positions who are studying Black people without any acknowledgment of the Black scholars and activists who have made their work possible. It doesn’t even go far enough because they aren’t engaging with the work of Black scholars to truly deconstruct the anti-fatness, anti-Blackness (specifically misogynoir) and anti-poor attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate harm.
Yes, thanks for mentioning this. I read the Mercedes piece you mentioned and it's very good on spelling out the link between the passion for the "food desert" concept and anti-fatness generally, as you said.
Love the new formatting for the links !!! It's MUCH easier to read on a phone or scroll down. Fewer images makes reading nice (+smaller image at the end of the email for Fat Talk promo). Thank you !
I live in the south of France so basically melon + cured ham + tomatoes + mozzarella + crispy baguette are a staple meal from June to September. Ice cream and popsicles too !
Yay! Thanks for the helpful notes. I’d been wanting to clean up the formatting for awhile! And since most folks voted to keep links, hopefully this makes the whole thing feel like less to slog through. (We’ll also lose the book update section soon or at least most weeks since the tour just wrapped.)
Would it be possible to also include the source (e.g., like you did with the NYT gift link)? I'm always hesitant to click when I don't know where it's going to take me.
We've finally arrived at "beach" season here in the Midwest. My kids and I decided that watermelon, Doritos and Oreos taste even better when sitting by the lake, so we make sure to have those staples on hand for all of our summer beach day picnics.
This could come off diet-y but it's not - ALL THE FRUIT!!! After a lifetime of being scared of fruit (thanks a lot, Atkins), I find myself reveling in eating as much fruit as I want of all kinds in the summer. And of course ice cream. SO much ice cream. 😁
ALLLLL THE CHERRIES here in Seattle. And berries! (Can't wait for the rest of summer fruit to start happening. It feels like we're so close ...) And hell yes, ice cream. Obviously.
Lately I’ve been really into a dinner I’ve titled “bread + spread.” I put out lots of good bread, a couple “spreads” (hummus, guacamole, etc.), sliced cheese, and loads of sliced veggies and fruit. We do it a few times a week right now. I love that my picky eater gets to choose what he wants, my husband and I get to enjoy all the summer produce, and the workload of it can vary depending on my evening. It can be as simple as throwing stuff from the fridge on the table if we’re rushing in from a summer play date, or I can make homemade spreads and add a side dish if I have time. Loads of ice cream after!
Also, thanks for the vegan article! As a vegetarian, I was put off anti diet spaces at first by all the assumptions about vegans/vegetarians. Sometimes the comments made in anti diet spaces can feel a lot like the teasing I grew up with in 1980s Missouri. AND, at the same time, I frequently get excited to look at a vegan account on IG for ideas only to say “this is just an eating disorder!” This tension has existed for a long time. I remember my mom complaining about “vegetarians for health reasons” and I learned quickly to scan vegetarian cookbooks to see if they were “healthy” or “good” 😅
As an anti-diet vegan I strongly second this! It's really important to me--and something that I am proud of--to have been able to hang on to my decades-long veganism, which is based in my political and environmental values, while also learning about and trying to work toward my own and others' liberation from diet culture oppression/anti-fat oppression. So I'm glad you mentioned this and I'm with you.
I do the cooking in my household, and I'm a proudly "lazy" cook – I generally prefer one big dish (soup, stew, etc) to a main and sides, and I have little patience for formal or complex recipes. But it's just been too darn hot for most hot meals, and the standard dinner salads were getting boring. One recent hit I introduced was DIY black bean tacos, where the only heat involved cooking canned black beans with onions, garlic, red pepper, tomato paste, and spices. Everything else – corn tortillas, avocado, scallions, radishes, cheese, sour cream, cilantro, hot sauce – was on the table for self-assembly.
Another new hit: I grilled shrimp and (slightly underripe) peach slices and threw those on arugula with goat cheese and pecans. The grill didn't need to be on too long so we didn't get too much heat from it. Both these meals helped us beat the heat.
My #1 summertime tip: keep bite-size watermelon chunks in the freezer. When you get home sweaty and miserable, puree them into an insanely refreshing slushie (mint and lemon juice optional). This is fantastic with watermelon that has good flavor but sad, mushy texture.
Summer in DC is nasty and humid, so we want to use the stove as little as possible. One of our go-tos is watermelon feta salad, with cucumbers and red onions and basil, dressed with a little balsamic and olive oil.
I also make batches and batches of homemade hummus over the summer. Usually I am packing it for the pool, where I can’t get my kid to stop and eat a whole meal, but during the enforced 15-minute “adult swim” breaks every hour I can get him to eat some crackers or veggies with hummus and feel like he’s getting something to fuel his body for the next 45 minutes. And then at dinner we’ll use the grills for some burgers or sausages or something when he finally has to admit that he’s hungrier than carrots and hummus.
But sometimes I make a double batch and spread it on a platter with a simple chopped veggie salad on top, and a set the whole thing on the table with a bag of pita chips, and we all just scoop it up from there for dinner.
All the stone fruits, all the ice cream (though I firmly believe ice cream is not a seasonal food). June is also a double birthday month (triple if I see my dad), so chocolate cake is a must. I could live on stone fruits, though, and never look back. We’re moving from Georgia to PA, and I’m very anxious about possibly losing truly good peaches, though I do know they’re grown other places (but my grandparents had an orchard, so I have … standards).
I also love stone fruits and ice cream and I grew up in PA, so don't worry, both of those things are great there! You'll probably have to work a little harder to find them (i.e. farmers markets and not the grocery store), but it's doable. PA also has tart cherries (which make AMAZING pie/cobbler/jam) and an incredible variety of apples once fall hits.
Great to know! I adore cherries. And farmer’s markets are fine - I could never with grocery store peaches (but no judgment to anyone else!). I’m excited about getting a do-over of seasonal produce for things that are gone already in GA but just starting in PA.
Ha, I was raised to believe that Georgia peaches are inferior to southern Illinois/Missouri ones. I don't even like peaches but that is an article of faith handed down to me from my mother (who grew up outside St. Louis). I once said this to a friend from Georgia and she looked at me quizzically and said "so do you have strong feelings on vidalia onions, too?"
I'm patiently waiting for homegrown tomato season to start -- I don't grow them, but one of my besties does, as does my sister -- so I can have my daily tomato sandwich: either toasted white bread or a hearty bakery white bread (Publican Quality Bread in Chicago is my fave), thick slabs of juicy tomatoes, Hellman's mayonnaise, and salt and pepper. I can and do eat more than one on some days, because I just love them so much. To me, nothing says summer like a perfect tomato sandwich.
Yum, I’m going to try this combo! I just had tomatoes we got at the farmers market on some toasted sourdough with butter and that was oddly very good. Your sandwich is giving me Harriet the Spy vibes! Which we just rewatched with our kids and that movie…has not aged well.
it's very hard to find kosher cheese that is both good quality and not a million dollars, so it was a big week for me this week when Trader Joes started selling kosher mozzarella pearls at a reasonable price. I bought those and the super spiral-y pasta they have, and then purchased pesto and farmers market cherry tomatoes and made a super easy, really delicious pasta salad we'll definitely eat all summer.
Otherwise, I love love love stone fruit and will be eating all of the white peaches when they come into season, by themselves but also baked into cakes and crumbles, ideally with vanilla ice cream and/ or whipped cream. I hate being sweaty all the time, but summer really is the best season for food...
Oh, I forgot to add my absolute favorite, which is raw corn, tomatoes, and cucumbers from the farmer's market mixed with avocado and topped with lemon juice, salt and pepper. SO GOOD. I eat it multiple times a week for as long as the vegetables are in season.
Cold tortellini salad! My mom made it growing up with tri-color cheese tortellini, raw peppers, and olives with balsamic vinaigrette and I’ve been doing a more ~sophisticated~ version for myself and I can’t get enough. Trader Joe’s spinach and cheese tortellini, chopped up olives, raw peppers, chopped jarred artichokes, a little bit of zataar seasoning, herbs if I have them (basil is v good), cherry tomatoes, feta, and then a riffable easy dressing with good EVOO, red-wine vinegar, S/P, and whatever other spices I’m feeling. Sometimes I’ll have it as a side, sometimes a main, sometimes I add greens (arugula is v good), perfect for work lunch, I will be eating this all summer long.
I finally learned how to operate the grill (yay feminism!) so we've been doing a lot of burgers and skirt steak marinated in chimichurri (which I could eat with a spoon by the bowlful). But my favorite summer activity is going to the farmer's market and picking up some fresh bread and a cheese or dip of some kind (like pimiento cheese or goat cheese) and just eating that all day.
We had our first strawberry shortcakes of the summer a few weeks ago and goodness I just want to have it every night! I’ve also made strawberry crumble a few times.
I eat ice cream year around, but obviously it’s extra special in the summer. Cold brew coffee because we don’t have central air. I’m trying overnight oats again which feels sort of weird because I don’t really like them but also a very filling and very cold breakfast is great.
And YTF’s pasta salad!! I am not usually that much of a pasta salad person but whoa that dressing. Was genuinely so tasty. I also splurged on the oven for an hour or so to add smitten’s dried tomatoes.
Thank you! I was racking my brain for a person with the initials YTF, lol. I know Amy, of course. My brain just wouldn’t make the connection this morning.
Well, I live in Tuscany (which is basically like a pizza oven 2 miles from the sun in the summer), so gelato a day is the only way to survive until September (if not more! Or anything frozen - granita, frozen yogurt, ice cream. I just bought some new popsicle moulds so I can freeze things at home too because honestly a gelato a day x 2 kids x every day all summer long adds up!). Too hot now for coffee (my survival tool) too so I'm drinking caffe shakerato, which is espresso shaken with ice until frothy - so refreshing - and any form of it in granita/gelato form is most welcome. Aside from that, raw tomato sauce for pasta is one of my summer musts - you don't need to cook the tomato so that's one less pot to clean. Just chop up some tomatoes in a bowl, add salt, some basil, olive oil and grate a garlic clove in there, toss it all around and then add the hot, freshly boiled pasta to it and eat it warm. Abundant Parmesan or fresh mozzarella on top if you like.
Definitely stealing this raw tomato sauce idea
yes, we do this pasta at our house a ton in the summer, and it's so so good!
Omg this comment made me so hungry, yum to everything here! Also, just want to second the raw tomato sauce concept. "Pasta With Stuff" is one of our family's favorite dishes, and it basically means adding a bunch of fresh stuff (literally whatever is in your kitchen) to pasta and tossing with olive oil and spices. So delicious, so easy, and so few dishes.
oh my absolute God that pasta sauce sounds perfect.
Shall we also make subthread for those of us in the southern hemisphere? I am looking forward to an oat milk flat white drunk on a chilly weekend morning at the playground. Almond croissant too please.
I love all weather related comments from the Southern hemisphere! There is something deeply grounding about remembering that half the world is living the opposite season. No matter what happens in our lives, this old globe will keep orbiting! Thanks for the chilly update!
We’re having such a strange cool spring and start of summer here in New England I’m feeling more inclined to cook for your season! (Zero complaints—I’d be happy if it never heats up 😂)
Oh man. I used to live in Vermont and I miss the seasons. The summer was definitely hot though and I remember nights being pretty rough. Enjoy your chilly spring 😁😁
Just last weekend, I made Julia Turshen’s cherry cobbler recipe for a family dinner and y’all. It is SO GOOD. I took her tip of buying a cherry pitter tool seriously and that was super helpful. We ate it warm with huge scoops of vanilla ice cream! I’m going to try it with fresh peaches or blueberries next.
We live in Nebraska, so also: ALL the corn. Smothered in butter.
Yay!
I am not usually crazy about single use kitchen tools but oh my god!! A cherry litter has been an incredible thing to have
I am on a quest to find a cherry pitter that works as well as the metal one my grandmother had - is there one that you love?
tbh a metal one would probably be the best, but oxo makes a version that gets the job done! It’s not perfect, but it’s significantly better than trying to pit by hand.
Mine is metal- ordered from Amazon 🫣 It was only ten bucks but it worked beautifully.
XO makes a great pitter that does something like 8 cherries at once!
I really love the ones that do more than one cherry at a time. The one we have now does 6 with one “press” and I’ve been really happy with it. It is plastic though (with metal prongs I think)
Prepworks by Progressive Cherry... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KO2KNTW?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Completely agree! I plan to use it on olives, too!
Oh this is a perfect idea! I have a bunch of cherries I was just trying to figure out what to do with. Also, love the idea of all the berry and stone fruit cobblers all summer long.
If you google it: it’s out there under the title “Berry and Buttermilk Cobbler” :)
The food desert information is something that Black fat liberationists have been talking about for a while. For example, Mikey Mercedes has an article about it on her website from November 2020. She explains food apartheid among other concepts and breaks down the anti-fatness inherent in food deserts. I am disturbed by the way it appears that one white person is writing about the writing of two other white people in prominent academic positions who are studying Black people without any acknowledgment of the Black scholars and activists who have made their work possible. It doesn’t even go far enough because they aren’t engaging with the work of Black scholars to truly deconstruct the anti-fatness, anti-Blackness (specifically misogynoir) and anti-poor attitudes and behaviors that perpetuate harm.
Yes, thanks for mentioning this. I read the Mercedes piece you mentioned and it's very good on spelling out the link between the passion for the "food desert" concept and anti-fatness generally, as you said.
Good point. I’ve been learning in this area from the Antiracist Dietitian’s newsletter
You are exactly right.
Love the new formatting for the links !!! It's MUCH easier to read on a phone or scroll down. Fewer images makes reading nice (+smaller image at the end of the email for Fat Talk promo). Thank you !
I live in the south of France so basically melon + cured ham + tomatoes + mozzarella + crispy baguette are a staple meal from June to September. Ice cream and popsicles too !
Yay! Thanks for the helpful notes. I’d been wanting to clean up the formatting for awhile! And since most folks voted to keep links, hopefully this makes the whole thing feel like less to slog through. (We’ll also lose the book update section soon or at least most weeks since the tour just wrapped.)
I agree! It's much easier to read. Thank you!
Would it be possible to also include the source (e.g., like you did with the NYT gift link)? I'm always hesitant to click when I don't know where it's going to take me.
We've finally arrived at "beach" season here in the Midwest. My kids and I decided that watermelon, Doritos and Oreos taste even better when sitting by the lake, so we make sure to have those staples on hand for all of our summer beach day picnics.
This could come off diet-y but it's not - ALL THE FRUIT!!! After a lifetime of being scared of fruit (thanks a lot, Atkins), I find myself reveling in eating as much fruit as I want of all kinds in the summer. And of course ice cream. SO much ice cream. 😁
Blueberries and peaches (which here in the NW,it’s not quite the season for yet) and right now, cherries! My god, I can’t get enough of them.
ALLLLL THE CHERRIES here in Seattle. And berries! (Can't wait for the rest of summer fruit to start happening. It feels like we're so close ...) And hell yes, ice cream. Obviously.
Lately I’ve been really into a dinner I’ve titled “bread + spread.” I put out lots of good bread, a couple “spreads” (hummus, guacamole, etc.), sliced cheese, and loads of sliced veggies and fruit. We do it a few times a week right now. I love that my picky eater gets to choose what he wants, my husband and I get to enjoy all the summer produce, and the workload of it can vary depending on my evening. It can be as simple as throwing stuff from the fridge on the table if we’re rushing in from a summer play date, or I can make homemade spreads and add a side dish if I have time. Loads of ice cream after!
Also, thanks for the vegan article! As a vegetarian, I was put off anti diet spaces at first by all the assumptions about vegans/vegetarians. Sometimes the comments made in anti diet spaces can feel a lot like the teasing I grew up with in 1980s Missouri. AND, at the same time, I frequently get excited to look at a vegan account on IG for ideas only to say “this is just an eating disorder!” This tension has existed for a long time. I remember my mom complaining about “vegetarians for health reasons” and I learned quickly to scan vegetarian cookbooks to see if they were “healthy” or “good” 😅
As a celiac I know the feeling. I'm not gluten free as cover for a diet, I promise!
SNACKS FOR DINNER my all time favorite
As an anti-diet vegan I strongly second this! It's really important to me--and something that I am proud of--to have been able to hang on to my decades-long veganism, which is based in my political and environmental values, while also learning about and trying to work toward my own and others' liberation from diet culture oppression/anti-fat oppression. So I'm glad you mentioned this and I'm with you.
I do the cooking in my household, and I'm a proudly "lazy" cook – I generally prefer one big dish (soup, stew, etc) to a main and sides, and I have little patience for formal or complex recipes. But it's just been too darn hot for most hot meals, and the standard dinner salads were getting boring. One recent hit I introduced was DIY black bean tacos, where the only heat involved cooking canned black beans with onions, garlic, red pepper, tomato paste, and spices. Everything else – corn tortillas, avocado, scallions, radishes, cheese, sour cream, cilantro, hot sauce – was on the table for self-assembly.
Another new hit: I grilled shrimp and (slightly underripe) peach slices and threw those on arugula with goat cheese and pecans. The grill didn't need to be on too long so we didn't get too much heat from it. Both these meals helped us beat the heat.
My #1 summertime tip: keep bite-size watermelon chunks in the freezer. When you get home sweaty and miserable, puree them into an insanely refreshing slushie (mint and lemon juice optional). This is fantastic with watermelon that has good flavor but sad, mushy texture.
That watermelon slushie idea is genius! I always hate tossing the last of the melon that's reached that undesirable texture.
Summer in DC is nasty and humid, so we want to use the stove as little as possible. One of our go-tos is watermelon feta salad, with cucumbers and red onions and basil, dressed with a little balsamic and olive oil.
I also make batches and batches of homemade hummus over the summer. Usually I am packing it for the pool, where I can’t get my kid to stop and eat a whole meal, but during the enforced 15-minute “adult swim” breaks every hour I can get him to eat some crackers or veggies with hummus and feel like he’s getting something to fuel his body for the next 45 minutes. And then at dinner we’ll use the grills for some burgers or sausages or something when he finally has to admit that he’s hungrier than carrots and hummus.
But sometimes I make a double batch and spread it on a platter with a simple chopped veggie salad on top, and a set the whole thing on the table with a bag of pita chips, and we all just scoop it up from there for dinner.
All the stone fruits, all the ice cream (though I firmly believe ice cream is not a seasonal food). June is also a double birthday month (triple if I see my dad), so chocolate cake is a must. I could live on stone fruits, though, and never look back. We’re moving from Georgia to PA, and I’m very anxious about possibly losing truly good peaches, though I do know they’re grown other places (but my grandparents had an orchard, so I have … standards).
I also love stone fruits and ice cream and I grew up in PA, so don't worry, both of those things are great there! You'll probably have to work a little harder to find them (i.e. farmers markets and not the grocery store), but it's doable. PA also has tart cherries (which make AMAZING pie/cobbler/jam) and an incredible variety of apples once fall hits.
Great to know! I adore cherries. And farmer’s markets are fine - I could never with grocery store peaches (but no judgment to anyone else!). I’m excited about getting a do-over of seasonal produce for things that are gone already in GA but just starting in PA.
Ha, I was raised to believe that Georgia peaches are inferior to southern Illinois/Missouri ones. I don't even like peaches but that is an article of faith handed down to me from my mother (who grew up outside St. Louis). I once said this to a friend from Georgia and she looked at me quizzically and said "so do you have strong feelings on vidalia onions, too?"
Haha, my grandparents’ orchard was in TX, and I 100% agree that GA peaches are inferior!
I'm patiently waiting for homegrown tomato season to start -- I don't grow them, but one of my besties does, as does my sister -- so I can have my daily tomato sandwich: either toasted white bread or a hearty bakery white bread (Publican Quality Bread in Chicago is my fave), thick slabs of juicy tomatoes, Hellman's mayonnaise, and salt and pepper. I can and do eat more than one on some days, because I just love them so much. To me, nothing says summer like a perfect tomato sandwich.
Yum, I’m going to try this combo! I just had tomatoes we got at the farmers market on some toasted sourdough with butter and that was oddly very good. Your sandwich is giving me Harriet the Spy vibes! Which we just rewatched with our kids and that movie…has not aged well.
it's very hard to find kosher cheese that is both good quality and not a million dollars, so it was a big week for me this week when Trader Joes started selling kosher mozzarella pearls at a reasonable price. I bought those and the super spiral-y pasta they have, and then purchased pesto and farmers market cherry tomatoes and made a super easy, really delicious pasta salad we'll definitely eat all summer.
Otherwise, I love love love stone fruit and will be eating all of the white peaches when they come into season, by themselves but also baked into cakes and crumbles, ideally with vanilla ice cream and/ or whipped cream. I hate being sweaty all the time, but summer really is the best season for food...
Oh, I forgot to add my absolute favorite, which is raw corn, tomatoes, and cucumbers from the farmer's market mixed with avocado and topped with lemon juice, salt and pepper. SO GOOD. I eat it multiple times a week for as long as the vegetables are in season.
I love raw corn salad as well! This is my go-to recipe: https://www.thekitchn.com/corn-salad-268340.
Cold tortellini salad! My mom made it growing up with tri-color cheese tortellini, raw peppers, and olives with balsamic vinaigrette and I’ve been doing a more ~sophisticated~ version for myself and I can’t get enough. Trader Joe’s spinach and cheese tortellini, chopped up olives, raw peppers, chopped jarred artichokes, a little bit of zataar seasoning, herbs if I have them (basil is v good), cherry tomatoes, feta, and then a riffable easy dressing with good EVOO, red-wine vinegar, S/P, and whatever other spices I’m feeling. Sometimes I’ll have it as a side, sometimes a main, sometimes I add greens (arugula is v good), perfect for work lunch, I will be eating this all summer long.
I finally learned how to operate the grill (yay feminism!) so we've been doing a lot of burgers and skirt steak marinated in chimichurri (which I could eat with a spoon by the bowlful). But my favorite summer activity is going to the farmer's market and picking up some fresh bread and a cheese or dip of some kind (like pimiento cheese or goat cheese) and just eating that all day.
I wish I could get my hands on my husband's grill, but he treats it like his Precious.
All of these summer eats sound soooo good!
We had our first strawberry shortcakes of the summer a few weeks ago and goodness I just want to have it every night! I’ve also made strawberry crumble a few times.
I eat ice cream year around, but obviously it’s extra special in the summer. Cold brew coffee because we don’t have central air. I’m trying overnight oats again which feels sort of weird because I don’t really like them but also a very filling and very cold breakfast is great.
And YTF’s pasta salad!! I am not usually that much of a pasta salad person but whoa that dressing. Was genuinely so tasty. I also splurged on the oven for an hour or so to add smitten’s dried tomatoes.
OMG that pasta salad. I’ve been eating it all week. I added a smidge of goat cheese this time and 🤩
Where can I find this pasta salad recipe??
Here’s the link! https://www.yummytoddlerfood.com/easy-pasta-salad-recipe/ and here are the tomatoes I made: https://smittenkitchen.com/2008/08/slow-roasted-tomatoes/ (yes my partner complained about us running the oven so long in summer)
Thank you! I was racking my brain for a person with the initials YTF, lol. I know Amy, of course. My brain just wouldn’t make the connection this morning.
My brain did the same.
Also the Italian dressing IS WORTH IT.