Graceless Hippo

Looking for recipe ideas for no or low cook, hot weather meal ideas.

I've one to follow but I'd love your contributions. As with the hot weather thread I don't mind at all if there are duplications.

Think minimal or no cooking required.

To follow is the one I went with for yesterday & today and now I'm looking to tomorrow.

#HeatWave #HotWeather #Food #Recipe

Jun 24 at 4:43pmWeb
Show threadGraceless Hippo19h ago

500g bag of wholemeal fusili pasta cooked before it gets hot at breakfast. Threw in 200g each of frozen sweetcorn and peas at the end of cooking time.

Then at lunchtime I served half of it for a family of 4 with some pick your own sides;

Bacon bits (also pan fried at breakfast)
Diced onion
Grated cheese
Homemade garlic mayo (1 clove crushed into a few tbsp your regular mayo or low fat works well)
Honey soy dip (1 tsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp honey, few drops of fish sauce)
Cheese board
Olives

Show threadGraceless Hippo19h ago

Today was a veggie day, so I took the 2nd half of the pasta from yesterday and added a homemade pesto made with

60g cashew nuts
60g cheese
100g olive oil
100g water
Frozen Peas about 200g
White wine vinegar
Salt & pepper

Blitz it all up

I just mixed it through the pasta

Show threadGraceless Hippo19h ago

Some ideas here

https://www.marksandspencer.com/food/content/no-cook-meal-ideas

No-cook meal ideas

When the temperature outside rises, nobody wants to spend ages in the kitchen. Cue these easy ‘assembly-job' dinner ideas, made with moreish combinations of shortcut ingredients from our Foodhall – zero cooking required.

Marks & Spencer
Show threadGraceless Hippo4h ago

Went with this idea in the end. With grateful thanks to @pawpower and to everyone else who contributed mouth watering ideas.

I've cooked some rice noodles, boiled eggs, and toasted some nuts. The noodles now have soy and sesame oil tossed through them. And I'll be adding thin slivers of smoked salmon, grated carrot, diced red onion, spinach, and salad veg. I've also a large watermelon which I'll cube up for dessert. Lovely stuff. Thank you. 🍜 🍣 🍉

https://beige.party/@pawpower/116806115461059165

The Witchy Bitches (@[email protected])

@[email protected] I'd like to make different kinds of pasta salad. You can use whatever kind of pasta you like, I like to use glass noodles, or rice noodles, which don't require very much cooking at all, and mix it with greens, such as cilantro, or basil, and bean sprouts and onion. You can add whatever kind of protein you want and you can get a store-bought sesame dressing to pour over it. it's really good. Another one I like to make uses tortellini, with cherry tomatoes, Greek olives, artichoke hearts, and pepperoni. I used a zesty Italian oil and vinegar dressing on that one.

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Show threadThe Witchy Bitches19h ago
@GracelessHippo I'd like to make different kinds of pasta salad. You can use whatever kind of pasta you like, I like to use glass noodles, or rice noodles, which don't require very much cooking at all, and mix it with greens, such as cilantro, or basil, and bean sprouts and onion. You can add whatever kind of protein you want and you can get a store-bought sesame dressing to pour over it. it's really good. Another one I like to make uses tortellini, with cherry tomatoes, Greek olives, artichoke hearts, and pepperoni. I used a zesty Italian oil and vinegar dressing on that one.
Show threadGraceless Hippo19h ago

@pawpower

Oooooo I love that idea. Thank you 🌞👍

Show threadThe Witchy Bitches19h ago
@GracelessHippo I also sit down at the table with my cutting board and I chop up a bunch of vegetables like celery, and carrots into little snack size pieces and put them in cold water and then I hard cook a bunch of eggs and put that all in the fridge. It's nice because you can grab something cold and it's already cut up or cooked or whatever and you don't have to fuss with it too much. I do the same with fruit like watermelon or cantaloupe. It is really hot here for about eight months out of the year, so I have a lot of practice at planning, hot weather meals. If you have Chia seeds, you can also make Chia pudding using either dairy milk or non-dairy milk and different kinds of frozen fruit and that is a really nice cold breakfast.
Show threadMonday Moon!19h ago

@GracelessHippo For folks who can eat fish, I love spicy canned salmon! (Canned tuna also works!) We make rice and freeze it in servings for rice on demand, and the salmon gets mixed with kewpie mayo + sriracha to taste, and I add whatever frozen veggies feel right that day for a full meal!

For vegetarians we make inari/inarizushi with tons of frozen veggies mixed in the rice! It freezes well, but really it's been so fast to grab some fried tofu pouches and reheat some veggies ^^

Show threadfraca719h ago
@GracelessHippo Very simple yet satisfying and refreshing, just needs the pasta cooked; eventually in advance since you can eat this either cold or lukewarm: penne alla crudaiola. Take a bunch of cherry tomatoes, cut them in half. Mince some (or a shitload of, depending on your taste) garlic. Mince a respectable number of basil leaves. Put all of this in the pasta, add black olive tapenade and some olive oil, mix and serve with grated Parmesan.
Show threadGraceless Hippo16h ago

@fraca7

This sounds lush

Show threadSatsuma16h ago

@GracelessHippo we had hummus & goat cheese w/chopped veggies (carrots, cucumber, radishes, etc) for dinner last night

technically not no cooking since i used dried chickpeas, but if you used canned you just need a blender/food processor and don’t have to use the stove at all (or you can do what i did and just do it in the evening when its less hot, since you’re serving it cold)

Show threadKim Possible 16h ago
@GracelessHippo One of my favorites is a variation on Waldorf salad: diced apples, halved grapes, minced celery, and optional: chopped walnuts, and even mini marshmallows. For the dressing: whisk well: the juice of one orange, 2 TBSP sour cream, and sugar to taste. To make it more of a meal, make it into chicken salad with cooked chicken cubes and maybe swap out the walnuts for pecans.
Show threadDJ Toebeans16h ago
@GracelessHippo There's always charcuterie!
Show threadepicdemiologist16h ago
@GracelessHippo Cold sesame noodles? The noodles (soba) do need to cook, but only for about 4 minutes.
Show threadDonald Ham 🏳️‍🌈 🐱🏋️‍♂️15h ago

@GracelessHippo
Gazpacho: no cooking at all. Ina Garten's is my favorite

https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/gazpacho

Gazpacho | Recipes

Gazpacho from Barefoot Contessa. Roughly chop the cucumbers, bell peppers, tomatoes, and red onions into 1-inch cubes. Put each vegetable separately into…

Barefoot Contessa
Show threadCookiefiend15h ago
@GracelessHippo I make a raw tomato pesto that's delicious. It's in US measurements, and I'll probably have to put it in 2 posts, because I have a 500-character limit.
2 pints ripe cherry tomatoes
2 cloves garlic, peeled
20 basil leaves
salt & pepper and red chile flakes to taste
1/2 cup toasted almonds (smoked almonds are especially good)
Throw all this stuff in the blender and puree until smooth. Then add one cup olive oil, blend again.
Show threadCookiefiend15h ago
@GracelessHippo 2/
recipe continued:
Stir in a half cup of grated parmesan if desired and toss with warm spaghetti or other pasta.
This makes a ton of sauce. I usually make a half recipe and feed four people (with leftovers). Add more garlic if your fancy takes you in that direction.
This recipe came from a friend whose parents came from Sicily.
Show threadGraceless Hippo7h ago

@LPerry2

Sounds lovely. I'll give that one a try

Show threadSita Capak14h ago
@GracelessHippo Fish and Chips from the shop!
Show threadGraceless Hippo7h ago

@Sita

Normally I'd never turn me nose up at fish and chips, but I think even I'd have trouble on the hottest day of the year