It’s 99 degrees here in the beautiful Midwest today, and we’re doing anything we can to keep cool. Our poor little Energy Star window unit is pumping away to keep our dining room below 80 degrees. We’re trying (somewhat successfully) to force the cats to stay indoors, and we’re keeping plenty of cold brewed ice tea on hand. Outside activities are limited, and even indoor activities just don’t seem appealing in this heat. The question of what to cook for dinner is not worth asking, considering that heating anything on the stove or in the oven is unthinkable.
Fortunately, we have plenty of fruits and veggies on hand, which is perfect for snacking on a day like this. Chilled blueberries, our little tomatoes quartered and salted, even diced raw potatoes and cabbage is refreshing and filling when the air is even hotter than your insides.
I wanted to get a pic of all our beautiful produce before it gets noshed away this evening.
The best part is that this is about $20 worth of produce you’re seeing, maybe even less considering that we’ve eaten about half of the fruit and potatoes already. And it’s worth almost that much just to make our kitchen look pretty.
And no, I have no idea what to do with that eggplant. It was an act of compulsive shopping that I have not yet come to regret. If anyone knows of some good and really easy eggplant ideas, send them my way!
Stay cool. And, eat your veggies.
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