Summer recipes for my northern hemisphere readers
Posted by kathryn in Summer
I realise that all this talk of soup in the last few weeks rather excludes my northern hemisphere readers. For those of you in the middle of summer I’m sure the last thing you want to think about is a hearty bowl of soup.
So I thought I’d put together a list of the warmer weather recipes I’ve noticed recently:
- Healthy Scrambled Eggs: first up is this lovely zucchini speckled scrambled eggs from Sophie of Mostly Eating. As she says scrambled eggs are “quick, delicious, comforting, frugal, familiar.” A lovely idea.
- Vegetable filled tacos: via Sophie on Twitter I came across Smitten Kitchen’s gorgeous looking recipe for charred corn tacos with a zucchini radish slaw. Utterly lovely summer food.
- Falafels: from Green Kitchen Stories comes these beautiful herb and pistachio falafels. I love the way they’re served in lettuce cups with mint yoghurt and a chilli spiked tomato salsa. They’re also baked instead of fried.
- Paneer Kebabs: for your next barbecue why not try these tandoori kebabs from KO Rasoi. The tandoori paste has a few ingredients and steps, but you could make it in advance and then you have an interesting meat-free barbecue meal.
- Stonefruit and berry dessert: love these nectarine and berry meringues on The Guardian website. You can hold back on the sugar and also mix up the fruit you use, to make a lovely, summer dessert.
- Slush: and speaking of dessert, there’s also this wonderful looking lemon anise slush from Heidi of 101 Cookbooks. As long as you have a blender, it’s easy to make.
- Steaming eggplants: a delicious looking salad from Mr Jamie Oliver, where he steams eggplant and then mixes it together with fresh herbs, chilli, sesame oil and green shallots. Given that eggplant is so often fried, this is a great alternative and a tangy, zesty dish.
What have you been cooking recently?
28 July, 2011
Comments
That’s very thoughtful of you to remember us northern hemisphere folk Kathryn. You’ve prompted me to compare weather temperatures – it’s forecast about 19 degrees for us in sunny Oxford tomorrow and 18 degrees for you in Sydney. I bet our local perceptions of whether or not that counts as warm might differ significantly :-) Anyway, it feels jolly pleasant to me so very happy to have more summery recipe ideas to check out, especially those nectarine and berry meringues which sound divine! (Thank you also for including my zucchini)
I echo Sophie — very thoughtful & helpful. At the moment I’m enjoying a sunny afternoon and temperature of 22 degrees Celsius — perfectly lovely & most welcome.
I want to try all these recipes & am most excited about Jamie Oliver’s eggplant salad. Dare I confess even though it’s salad weather, I’ll be turning on the oven tonight to roast beets? Yes, I thought that would please you.
You are such an awesome curator of recipes :-).
Your comment did make me smile Sophie – I agree our perceptions of temperature are very different. 18 degrees is chilly for us. I certainly wouldn’t leave the house without several layers, a jacket and a scarf, absolute minimum.
Doesn’t the eggplant salad look delicious Elaine, such a lovely change from all the fried, heavy duty fat recipes around. I do like his use of fresh herbs and zesty flavours.
(they are giving me hope that the sun, and the summer, will return!!)
So funny! 18 degrees is one light layer only for us. Maaaaybe a cardigan, but only if it’s breezy
Lucy, it will. It really will.
Sophie, was thinking of you today when it was 24 degrees and I was excited about going out in just a short sleeve t-shirt, light hoodie and scarf . . . we really are quite wimpy.
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