one more thing!

[phineasjones]

i forgot i have a question for you, oh wise flist.

do you have suggestions of things to eat for dinner that require little to no cooking? by cooking i mean use of the stove or oven. the microwave is fine. chopping and mixing is fine. i just cannot even contemplate the idea of generating more heat than is already in my environment. and yet i need to eat meals. you don't have to suggest salad. i came up with that one on my own. though if you have special favorite salad combos and ideas, i'd like to hear them. the other thing we've come up with is tacos. just microwave some refried beans, mix up a little guacamole and voila! a meal. no excess heat.

so, please. i would love some ideas. and no worries if they're not vegan. i feel confident that i can come up with a vegan version of just about anything. :)

Comments

[throughadoor.livejournal.com]

i have something i eat 4-5 nights a week when it's hot out, it's kind of a raw quesadilla. it's not terribly original, but: take a tortilla, spread it with hummus and then layer some sandwich-type fillings (i layer deli meat and spinach, but you could veganize that pretty easy) and then fold it in half and you're done. it's really no different than a deli sandwich, but for some reason it tastes better to me.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

oh, i like this idea. for some reason, sandwiches hadn't really occurred to me. i guess i was stuck thinking of them as lunch food. thanks for the suggestion! <3

[anabelwumpkins.livejournal.com]

We just made an awesome cold black bean soup that was in the latest Veg Times. There's also a white gazpacho that looks pretty great.

Black bean salad with corn and cilantro and lime is super yummy, also good rolled up in lettuce leaves, veggies and dip, pico di gallo. frozen burgers cooked on good old george f, veggie subs (salad in bread with lots of sauces!) and lots of the recipes here (http://rawfoods.com/recipes/) were successful when we were trying to have a few raw meals a week.

so sorry. hot sucks. be cool!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

mmm. cold soups sound like a good idea.

i knew you'd have good suggestions. :) thanks for the link!

[scottxwl.livejournal.com]

I would drink milkshakes until I just couldn't take 'em anymore.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

omg. i don't know if that works with my new, nutritious eating plan. unless i add spinach.

[madmadharri.livejournal.com]

hmm, salad is my first answer. my second would be, rice in the rice cooker isn't so bad, especially if you make a big batch and eat it with meals during the hot week. then some kind of protien - chickpeas are good on a hot day. then microwave some frozen spinach, and throw it on top of those with some fresh red peppers, or tomatoes, and some kind of peanut sauce. when i'm lazy, i just put a glob of peanutbutter on and reheat the whole thing so the peanut butter gets gooier. also, throw some roasted cashews on there too. and anything else (mung beans? um, cucumber?) that happens to be in your fridge.

wow, i make that sounds so appealing, huh? but seriously, i could eat this thing practically every day, as long as it had the rice-peanutbutter-spinach combo as a base.

i also HIGHLY recommend putting fresh basil all the fuck over everything. having a sandwich? BASIL! salad? ton of BASIL on top! toast? BASIL! it makes everything tastier and is one of the reasons why suffering through the heat is worth it - so we can have good basil. and tomatoes that don't taste like cardboard. woohoo!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

wow. you have clearly thought this through. i think we'll have to be getting ourselves a rice cooker. cause that sounds good to me (except for the peppers, hee).

mmmbasil. yes. i'm with you. basil and tomatoes help make summer bearable. to the extent that that is possible.

[lysimache.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'd say something like spinach dip, but that's not vegan... or things that originally required cooking (pasta salad? pesto doesn't need to be cooked if you have pasta already...) -- otherwise, I'd probably give up and just eat things that could be microwaved and already prepared foods. Or do you have any small, not-much heat-generating appliances? Crock-pot? That's good when it's too hot for the stove...

(Sorry, probably wan't very helpful.)

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

we can make vegan spinach dip. and that's a good idea - a nice dip with some raw veggies. maybe some bread or crackers. yum!

and yeah, i'm feeling the lack of crock pot/rice cooker type stuff. may have to fix that.

thanks!

[hominidj.livejournal.com]

that cold pasta salad idea with pesto sounds damn good. yum!

[ursula]

Also, different kinds of pesto: walnut + arugula and walnut + mint are both good. Pesto is good on roasted vegetables & sandwiches, too.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

mmmpesto. i had totally forgotten about a cilantro-peanut pesto i used to make. that was tasty. and mint! that would be so cool-ifying. thanks for the pesto suggestions!

[ursula]

Hey, cilantro + peanuts -> Vietnamese salad rolls. Mmmm!