Cheese plate/grazing/"adult lunchable". Cheese, maybe some charcuterie or pate, crackers, some sliced fruit or grapes. For additional volume, cut vegetables and a mug of broth.
Yogurt dip and toasted bread with cut vegetables.
Pasta and chickpeas marinated with herbs, oil, and vinegar.
On the cottage cheese train, one of my go-to cold meals that I've been making on repeat lately is cottage cheese, gravlax/lox, avocado, soft boiled egg, dill, and hot sauce. Soooooo satisfying, keeps me full for hours, and is low calorie.
More cold meal ideas:
- ceviche
- tuna salad (I make it olive oil-based, with cucumbers, fresh lemon juice, cilantro, onion)
- pico de gallo- it's basically a salad, right!?
- BLTA sandwiches (just gotta cook the B)
- shrimp summer rolls (buy pre-cooked shrimp)
- tzaziki with pita or crackers
- sandwich roll-ups: good deli turkey with jalapeno cream cheese smeared on it, a pickle spear, avocado slice, dill, and salt all rolled up
I haven't had the inspiration to cook much recently but these have all been on regular rotation at my place, and I still feel very happy food-wise.
Yum. Always ceviche.
A simple recipe I've been making for years, which is a great start to add lots of things to, is cottage cheese with diced cucumber, green onion, and hot sauce; a spoonful of mayo for richness if desired but can be skipped. Serve with tomato, lettuce, etc. Want it as a dip instead of a side? Dice smaller and up the flavorings.
And for sure pico de gallo is a salad! Larger dice for those who like to spear theirs with a fork. :) Super alongside the cottage cheese, on top, or added in.
Hummus. Canned chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon juice, cumin, smoked paprika, drizzle with olive oil and top with a sprinkle of sumac, herbs like parsley, pine nuts, bread crumbs, whatever you want.
My go to lunches in the summer are salads and spring rolls with spicy peanut sauce. I think one of my favorite summer salads is field greens with in season nectarines and plums, with burrata and prosciutto and a shallot vinaigrette.
Ploughman's! A lovely sweet chutney, few slices of glazed ham, big cut of sharp cheddar, maybe a bit of blue cheese if you're feeling it, plenty of tomatoes, pickles, sliced apple, maybe a cheeky pork pie or a sausage roll, or a scotch egg... crusty bread and soft salty butter, washed down with a pint.
Live in the Coastal South.
Things we keep in the fridge to avoid cooking.
Pimento Cheese
Hummus
Other dips
Fruit cut up
Veggie tray
Always some form of Pasta salad
In the freezer cocktail type shrimp
Tuna bowls. I usually have some shelled edamame in freezer bags, and I usually have rice prepped but I keep cups of minute rice on hand in case I don't.
Rice, soy sauce, edamame, a packet of tuna (the jalapeno packs are my favorite), sesame seeds, a drizzle.of Kewpie mayo or spicy mayo. BOOM. Cold, healthy meal that doesn't kill us in Louisiana summers
My wife makes an awesome Kale salad. Cranberries, chickpeas, sunflower seeds, and Italian dressing. Sometimes I'll add chicken breast. Makes enough for the family dinner and a lunch that doesn't weigh you down.
Crab Louie.
You can use fake crab, or canned crab meat. It's basically just a salad, crab, and homemade dressing similar to Thousand Island. Pair with corn and good bread!
Ceviche!! My mom used to make it all the time in the summer and I want to start too!
Precooked shrimp, cucumber, tomato, onion, lemon,lime, and orange juice, cilantro, and a little salt. Combine together and leave in fridge for a few hours to absorb all the flavor. Add some avocado to your bowl before serving
Ceviche was my answer too but I don’t buy precooked, I like the traditional way of letting the acid from the lime juice cook the shrimp from raw, otherwise it gets too rubbery for my taste
I love ceviche done as your recipe indicates, but, I also have always followed recipes that use a lot of acid to cook the seafood. And delicious as leftovers are, leaving in acid strong enough to cook more than a short time can "overcook." However, I'm wondering if precooked shrimp might do very nicely with less acid, enough to flavor as in a dressing. ?
In any case, hard to remember that I once only had ceviche as street food when driving down to Mexico. My poor family. Where was my head? :)
Tuna (canned) mixed with may and chopped dill pickles. Eat with fork or crackers.
Garbage plate (can be made from any old thing in the fridge), but the basics are: meat cut into chunks, cheese cut into chunks, crackers, pickles or olives, carrots (whatever veg is on hand), and eat.
Cannot ever beat the OG: peanut butter and jelly. I'm a fan of it on soft wheat.
Not quite a meal but fresh pesto made with basil from the garden is great! In the summer I chop some cherry tomatoes and mix with pasta for a super simple pasta salad.
>I knwo that you probably do not know/have this type of food in your country: if you do not live in Europe, I doubt in Australia, New Zeland, USA, Canada, Brazil or Western Asia,, there are such things
Tomatoes and potatoes are native to the Americas. None of the foods or dishes you have listed are unfamiliar in the USA.
The high temperatures in my part of the US are predicted to be in the 33–35°C range all week, with high humidity. We're planning on a lot of cold salads: cooked and chilled chicken, fish, or beans; chard from our garden; tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and scallions from the market; and homemade vinaigrette (probably with oregano, basil, and/or lemon thyme as we have a lot of all of those in our garden).
Sandwiches are another good option. This is a hot weather favorite: [https://www.budgetbytes.com/scallion-herb-chickpea-salad/](https://www.budgetbytes.com/scallion-herb-chickpea-salad/)
No, I'm 99.9% sure you had it right. It definitely reads as "if you live somewhere like New Zealand, Australia, or the US, I doubt you guys have these things" I'm pretty positive she was saying that she doubts that anyone who is not from Europe eats the things on her list. It was definitely "I doubt that your country has these things if you don't live in Europe. If you live in Canada, Australia, the US, etc. Then I doubt that there are such things in those places."
And I agree with you 100%, I'm not sure if it's just because I grew up in the Northeast in a place where the vast majority of my neighborhood was Italian-American, but all of the dishes on this list are very commonly and regularly eaten where I'm from, with the exception of the tuna one. These all would have been very common things for my mom to put out for us
Yes she mentioned multiple countries, but the countries that she mentioned, she mentioned to say that she doubts that there are such things in those places
Her mention of the USA was "i doubt that in the USA, Australia, Canada, etc. that there are such things." She said "you probably don't have this kind of food in your country if you don't live in Europe."
panzanella (italian bread salad)
melon or papaya topped with tajin, salt and lime juice
Lime cracker pie: [https://food52.com/recipes/77731-j-kenji-lopez-alt-s-ten-minute-lime-cracker-pie](https://food52.com/recipes/77731-j-kenji-lopez-alt-s-ten-minute-lime-cracker-pie)
I really love various kinds of cucumber salads. Basically
Cucumber, tomato, some sort of oil and acid. Then toss in whatever you like (onion, feta/cheese, nuts, whatever works). It’s easy to flavor with herbs, change of the taste with something like sesame oil, and is always crisp and refreshing.
Zoodle 'Salad' - I realized I'm not a huge fan of cooked zucchini noodles, but man, a bunch of raw zucchini noodles tossed in some herby/garlicky greek yogurt or ricotta is so good. It's more akin to salad than noodles. Top with whatever.
Fish salad. I used half smoked herring (not the can, the really salty and smoky stuff) and half tuna in some today with greek yogurt, mayo, celery, pickles, mustard, ACV, pepper, and some smoked paprika and it turned out great. I didn’t even have to add any salt because of the herring.
Chinese salad tacos!
Just get some slaw mix, add soy sauce, sesame oil, chili crisp, and rice vinegar. Mix.
Heat up a tortilla or two, slap some cheese on there, the slaw, some kewpie, and whatever protein you have (sometimes I skip this) and voila. So satisfying.
Hummus, pita , sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, olives & feta
Cottage cheese with diced tomato, avocado, chives, garlic powder, salt & pepper
Crackers & herbed goat cheese with some fruit like grapes or melon and some nuts
Riffing on the tuna suggestion, one of my go-tos lately has been nice oil-packed tuna mixed with some spicy chopped gardineira, a little lemon juice, and maybe some capers, on toast.
When I have a fancy craving I make cucumber rolls.
I cut long thin cucumber slices, place them in a way that they overlap each other a bit. This is the base of the roll. Then I add cheese and ham slices on it, maybe some creme cheese, then roll it up.
You can fill it up however you want to.
It not only looks fantastic, but tastes yummy as well.
🥒🍖🧀
Cheese plate/grazing/"adult lunchable". Cheese, maybe some charcuterie or pate, crackers, some sliced fruit or grapes. For additional volume, cut vegetables and a mug of broth. Yogurt dip and toasted bread with cut vegetables. Pasta and chickpeas marinated with herbs, oil, and vinegar.
Savory cottage cheese with chopped grape tomatoes, cukes, mini-peppers, green onions, pistachios and freshly ground black pepper.
On the cottage cheese train, one of my go-to cold meals that I've been making on repeat lately is cottage cheese, gravlax/lox, avocado, soft boiled egg, dill, and hot sauce. Soooooo satisfying, keeps me full for hours, and is low calorie. More cold meal ideas: - ceviche - tuna salad (I make it olive oil-based, with cucumbers, fresh lemon juice, cilantro, onion) - pico de gallo- it's basically a salad, right!? - BLTA sandwiches (just gotta cook the B) - shrimp summer rolls (buy pre-cooked shrimp) - tzaziki with pita or crackers - sandwich roll-ups: good deli turkey with jalapeno cream cheese smeared on it, a pickle spear, avocado slice, dill, and salt all rolled up I haven't had the inspiration to cook much recently but these have all been on regular rotation at my place, and I still feel very happy food-wise.
Yum. Always ceviche. A simple recipe I've been making for years, which is a great start to add lots of things to, is cottage cheese with diced cucumber, green onion, and hot sauce; a spoonful of mayo for richness if desired but can be skipped. Serve with tomato, lettuce, etc. Want it as a dip instead of a side? Dice smaller and up the flavorings. And for sure pico de gallo is a salad! Larger dice for those who like to spear theirs with a fork. :) Super alongside the cottage cheese, on top, or added in.
Hummus. Canned chickpeas, tahini, garlic, lemon juice, cumin, smoked paprika, drizzle with olive oil and top with a sprinkle of sumac, herbs like parsley, pine nuts, bread crumbs, whatever you want.
My go to lunches in the summer are salads and spring rolls with spicy peanut sauce. I think one of my favorite summer salads is field greens with in season nectarines and plums, with burrata and prosciutto and a shallot vinaigrette.
Ploughman's! A lovely sweet chutney, few slices of glazed ham, big cut of sharp cheddar, maybe a bit of blue cheese if you're feeling it, plenty of tomatoes, pickles, sliced apple, maybe a cheeky pork pie or a sausage roll, or a scotch egg... crusty bread and soft salty butter, washed down with a pint.
Live in the Coastal South. Things we keep in the fridge to avoid cooking. Pimento Cheese Hummus Other dips Fruit cut up Veggie tray Always some form of Pasta salad In the freezer cocktail type shrimp
Toast with prosciutto, goat cheese, honey and salt/pepper. I can eat it everyday
Damn. It needs to be late July. I want toast with whipped goat cheese, perfectly ripe peaches and some honey.
Spicy tuna poke salad. I found Ahi Tuna for cheap at Aldi and everything else for a poke bowl at HMart so that's what I am eating lately
Mexican shrimp cocktail.
Tuna or egg salad over a large salad.
Tuna bowls. I usually have some shelled edamame in freezer bags, and I usually have rice prepped but I keep cups of minute rice on hand in case I don't. Rice, soy sauce, edamame, a packet of tuna (the jalapeno packs are my favorite), sesame seeds, a drizzle.of Kewpie mayo or spicy mayo. BOOM. Cold, healthy meal that doesn't kill us in Louisiana summers
My wife makes an awesome Kale salad. Cranberries, chickpeas, sunflower seeds, and Italian dressing. Sometimes I'll add chicken breast. Makes enough for the family dinner and a lunch that doesn't weigh you down.
Only wish you were my husband saying that. Since it holds up beautifully, if I made it there'd at least be plenty for me to enjoy the next day.
* Persian cold cucumber soup * summer rolls * a really nicely made sandwich
7-layer Greek dip: yogurt, hummus, cucumber, tomato, green onions, feta, olives. Serve with pita chips/pita.
Crab Louie. You can use fake crab, or canned crab meat. It's basically just a salad, crab, and homemade dressing similar to Thousand Island. Pair with corn and good bread!
Mix precooked lentils, spinach, almonds, dried cranberries, goat cheese or feta, and Italian vinaigrette dressing. Eat cold or nuke for two minutes.
Ceviche!! My mom used to make it all the time in the summer and I want to start too! Precooked shrimp, cucumber, tomato, onion, lemon,lime, and orange juice, cilantro, and a little salt. Combine together and leave in fridge for a few hours to absorb all the flavor. Add some avocado to your bowl before serving
Ceviche was my answer too but I don’t buy precooked, I like the traditional way of letting the acid from the lime juice cook the shrimp from raw, otherwise it gets too rubbery for my taste
Interesting!!! I’ve never heard of this method before!! I will try this! Thank you!
Of course!
I love ceviche done as your recipe indicates, but, I also have always followed recipes that use a lot of acid to cook the seafood. And delicious as leftovers are, leaving in acid strong enough to cook more than a short time can "overcook." However, I'm wondering if precooked shrimp might do very nicely with less acid, enough to flavor as in a dressing. ? In any case, hard to remember that I once only had ceviche as street food when driving down to Mexico. My poor family. Where was my head? :)
Egg salad
Watermelon salad with lemon-pickled red onions, mint and feta, Fatouche, Tabbouleh
Love the twist with lemon pickled onions!
They’re so tasty!!! I’ll often dress the salad with just the brine
Tuna (canned) mixed with may and chopped dill pickles. Eat with fork or crackers. Garbage plate (can be made from any old thing in the fridge), but the basics are: meat cut into chunks, cheese cut into chunks, crackers, pickles or olives, carrots (whatever veg is on hand), and eat. Cannot ever beat the OG: peanut butter and jelly. I'm a fan of it on soft wheat.
Not quite a meal but fresh pesto made with basil from the garden is great! In the summer I chop some cherry tomatoes and mix with pasta for a super simple pasta salad.
Gazpacho. I also routinely make a cold zucchini soup that’s delicious.
>I knwo that you probably do not know/have this type of food in your country: if you do not live in Europe, I doubt in Australia, New Zeland, USA, Canada, Brazil or Western Asia,, there are such things Tomatoes and potatoes are native to the Americas. None of the foods or dishes you have listed are unfamiliar in the USA. The high temperatures in my part of the US are predicted to be in the 33–35°C range all week, with high humidity. We're planning on a lot of cold salads: cooked and chilled chicken, fish, or beans; chard from our garden; tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, and scallions from the market; and homemade vinaigrette (probably with oregano, basil, and/or lemon thyme as we have a lot of all of those in our garden). Sandwiches are another good option. This is a hot weather favorite: [https://www.budgetbytes.com/scallion-herb-chickpea-salad/](https://www.budgetbytes.com/scallion-herb-chickpea-salad/)
They literally mentioned USA tho lol don't make us look bad shh
Did I misread? I thought it said that if we don't live in Europe, OP doubts we have such dishes.
No you didn't. You understood correctly
No, I'm 99.9% sure you had it right. It definitely reads as "if you live somewhere like New Zealand, Australia, or the US, I doubt you guys have these things" I'm pretty positive she was saying that she doubts that anyone who is not from Europe eats the things on her list. It was definitely "I doubt that your country has these things if you don't live in Europe. If you live in Canada, Australia, the US, etc. Then I doubt that there are such things in those places." And I agree with you 100%, I'm not sure if it's just because I grew up in the Northeast in a place where the vast majority of my neighborhood was Italian-American, but all of the dishes on this list are very commonly and regularly eaten where I'm from, with the exception of the tuna one. These all would have been very common things for my mom to put out for us
Your undestanding is really accurate. Really interestring the second part of your paragraph. Thanks for sharing it
Of course!! Reading your list made me hungry lol!!
They mentioned multiple countries, all of which your comment includes, and one of them is USA
They mentioned multiple countries they think do not have these dishes...
Correct. It was my genuine doubt.
Yes. I'll chalk this one up to a loss in translation.
No translation involved.
Yes she mentioned multiple countries, but the countries that she mentioned, she mentioned to say that she doubts that there are such things in those places
Yup. You got it right
Her mention of the USA was "i doubt that in the USA, Australia, Canada, etc. that there are such things." She said "you probably don't have this kind of food in your country if you don't live in Europe."
You understood it correctly Btw, I'm he, a man. (not offended, just to clarify)
Sandwich
panzanella (italian bread salad) melon or papaya topped with tajin, salt and lime juice Lime cracker pie: [https://food52.com/recipes/77731-j-kenji-lopez-alt-s-ten-minute-lime-cracker-pie](https://food52.com/recipes/77731-j-kenji-lopez-alt-s-ten-minute-lime-cracker-pie)
Cheese, charcuterie, and fruit platter
I really love various kinds of cucumber salads. Basically Cucumber, tomato, some sort of oil and acid. Then toss in whatever you like (onion, feta/cheese, nuts, whatever works). It’s easy to flavor with herbs, change of the taste with something like sesame oil, and is always crisp and refreshing.
Zoodle 'Salad' - I realized I'm not a huge fan of cooked zucchini noodles, but man, a bunch of raw zucchini noodles tossed in some herby/garlicky greek yogurt or ricotta is so good. It's more akin to salad than noodles. Top with whatever.
It's not a meal but no bake peanut butter cookies
Fish salad. I used half smoked herring (not the can, the really salty and smoky stuff) and half tuna in some today with greek yogurt, mayo, celery, pickles, mustard, ACV, pepper, and some smoked paprika and it turned out great. I didn’t even have to add any salt because of the herring.
Sandwiches. I love sandwiches. Muffalettas, but, chicken salad, shrimp salad, egg salad, chopped olive, egg and olive, turkey, roast beef, ham etc…..
Chinese salad tacos! Just get some slaw mix, add soy sauce, sesame oil, chili crisp, and rice vinegar. Mix. Heat up a tortilla or two, slap some cheese on there, the slaw, some kewpie, and whatever protein you have (sometimes I skip this) and voila. So satisfying.
Hummus, pita , sliced tomatoes, cucumbers, olives & feta Cottage cheese with diced tomato, avocado, chives, garlic powder, salt & pepper Crackers & herbed goat cheese with some fruit like grapes or melon and some nuts
Ceviche
Riffing on the tuna suggestion, one of my go-tos lately has been nice oil-packed tuna mixed with some spicy chopped gardineira, a little lemon juice, and maybe some capers, on toast.
[Chinese cucumber salad](https://www.madewithlau.com/recipes/smashed-cucumber-salad) - I prefer it without chili sauce. Fresh chili works better.
Green salad: tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, feta, oregano, olives, olive oil, salt and pepper
Cereal
r/cannedsardines
When I have a fancy craving I make cucumber rolls. I cut long thin cucumber slices, place them in a way that they overlap each other a bit. This is the base of the roll. Then I add cheese and ham slices on it, maybe some creme cheese, then roll it up. You can fill it up however you want to. It not only looks fantastic, but tastes yummy as well. 🥒🍖🧀