Gazpacho!!! And may do some chicken tacos in the slow cooker. Too hot to turn on the stove/oven.

I just sprung for my first ever sour cherries from the farmer's market, so I'm going to either make sorbet or a clafouti with those... Other than that project, it's going to be hot here in NYC, so I'm thinking I'll try using the oven as little as possible. Cold shrimp with rice noodles, leftover frittata... hodgepodge meals made out of snacks... whatever we can do to get through this heat wave!

Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream

Pizza, soup, salads, stuff on crackers, berries and ricotta, and other random items.

Inspired by the guacamole post, I picked up avocados today. Gonna make a gazpacho and enjoy with some tortilla chips, guac and mango salso. Just writing this is making me want a margarita! :)

@sinnela, enjoy the sour cherries!

tonight was homemade felafel and flatbread--all on the stovetop. Tomorrow I'm grilling shrimp and clams, then Sunday is hamburgers--which we've been craving for some time. So glad the weather has finally turned in Portland!

Another 100 degree weekend! Made our usual Friday night pizza using a new-to-me dough recipe from King Arthur Flour - a wet dough that had hung out in my frig for a week which I then froze and defrosted. It was excellent. For tonight, sesame soba noodle salad and the Rojak salad posted here awhile ago - the ingredients finally arrived from Amazon.com. We have watermelon for coolness ... maybe tomorrow we grill chicken to go with leftover salads. These are days of garden chores done at 7 a.m. and then indoor activities until the heat breaks and shade falls at 8 p.m. Enjoy y'all!

I bought some avocados and a lime last week, then forgot about them... I need to use them soon! The heat's supposed to break, but not until Monday.

Man it's hot. No one wants to eat. I made my daughter a strawberry-peach smoothie, and the leftovers are in popsicle molds in the freezer. She would happily subsist on that all weekend, which isn't the worst idea. I do plan to make a sweet corn risotto tonight. The plan is to cook the ears in the microwave, then toss the cobs and some parmesan rinds in the slow cooker for broth. The only stove time will be the 20 minutes or so that I'm actually making risotto. As long as there's very cold rose, I think I can handle it. It's kind of the perfect day for socca, but not the perfect day to MAKE socca. So that's in the maybe/maybe not column.

I made a sformata this morning with dandelion greens. This is a wonderful dish to use up the bounty of greens at the moment. Last week I used chard. It throws together in no time and looks really beautiful too.

The chard is going into a meatloaf this time.

Plain boiled buttered carrots--so yummy when they are young and tender.

This morning, to celebrate the boy's birthday, I whipped up a Cinnamon Swirl coffee cake that I spotted on Pinterest. An easy yeast dough + cinnamon, sugar and butter filling = lots of tasty breakfast goodness. In this 100 degree heat, however, I'm swearing off any baking after 9 a.m. Too hot for anything but a low-key birthday cookout. Methinks I smell chicken sausage on the grill ...

A good friend made hamburgers last night and brought them over to grill with all the fixings (even found good gluten free buns for me!). It's been forever since I had a burger and they hit that summer craving perfectly. Tonight is a BBQ on the beach with friends... I made a carrot cake with cream cheese icing (gluten free), and we'll bring chicken skewers and a kale salad (with the lemon tahini dressing from oh she glows - I'm obsessed with it!).

Last night, baked Halibut with lemon and BY THE SEA Salt. Sautéed local summer squash.

Tonight, local pastured chicken with BBQ sauce. Various veggies from farmer's market.

Thawing some local lamb sausage for tomorrow. Not sure yet how we'll prepare it.

I bought a case of donut peaches, major splurge, but they're so perfect I couldn't resist. So it's peach everything this weekend. Yogurt, smoothies, ice cream, sorbet, and a galette made with peaches and cherries.

A friend joined me for Friday night dinner. Knowing it would be a hot night, I put out a make-your-own salad bar: romaine, spinach, grape tomatoes, julienned carrots, cucumbers, kalamata olives, feta, chicken salad, cashews, crumbled bacon, avocado, balsamic vinaigrette, miso-sesame dressing, and a platter of garlic bread. Except for the garlic bread, everything was made ahead and chilled. I'll be happily using up the leftovers all weekend!

That sounds like a great idea for a summer party, Elsa! I'll have to remember that one.

Tonight I made chicken shawarma and grilled cauliflower. Some granola bars just came out of the oven; my honey will take them on his long bike ride tomorrow. For dinner tomorrow, I think I'll make bacon and avocado sandwiches (I'm too lazy to put the link in here, but it's from Epicurious) and a strange-sounding fake potato salad made with cauliflower (from the Food Network website). We got the world's biggest cauliflower from the CSA on Thursday, so I'm trying different things with that. My boyfriend's diabetic and he LOVES potato salad, so I'm hoping the cauliflower salad recipe will work out as a substitute. Oh, and I need to bake some whole wheat bread tomorrow for those sandwiches . . . .

This weekend is baked camembert and baguette (is that even cooking?) and garlic chicken summer rolls for dinner. I've been waiting to use this recipe until it was hot, but I don't think the weather will ever pick up!

I made my first grilled pizza Friday night. WAY too hot to turn on the oven this weekend. The pizza came out great--I may do it again!

I hadn't meant to turn on the stove at all this weekend, but on Saturday I scored about 20 kg of sour cherries (I got the last very last box, I was so excited), so I spent yesterday making sour cherry jam, black pepper-cherry preserves, and Marisa McClelland's no-cook cherry syrup. And then I made pickled sweet cherries for good measure, too. Still have a big basket of peaches and another few kilos of sour cherries to make into something!

Otherwise, though, it was salads all weekend - a "gazpacho" panzanella with loads of tomatoes and cucumbers, and this amazing BLT, corn and avocado salad.