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The thing I hate most about summer is trying to find good recipes that don't need to be cooked. Sandwiches and salads only get me so far. Does anyone have favorite no-cook summer recipes?

Ambrosia salad.

Now a lot of recipes say you can use cool whip, but you can't. You have to use real mayonnaise, and don't forget to use the lemon flavored kind; although Philadelphia spread can be substituted in a pinch.

Sorry, but mayonnaise and fruit together is barfworthy.

seconded.

Not exactly no cook but in the summer I live on cold pasta and veggies dishes. I make up a giant batch of fettuccine and store it in the fridge, just dishing out portions as needed and serving cold. It’s soooo good! I also tend to make like 1/4 of garbanzo beans and toss handfuls of them into whatever I’m eating. Canned works too and means I don’t have to cook once or twice a week but a can is just 2-3 servings for more than the cost of 1lb of dried.

you just reminded me how much I like pasta salad.

in the vein of pasta salad, where the cooking is brief and doesn't heat up the kitchen much, I'm a fiend for zarusoba. Cold soba noodles, takes about 6min to boil, then you cool it in ice water and eat cold with a little dipping sauce and wasabi. blanching and cold-shocking vegetables is also the smallest amount of cooking I'll do when it's shitty; you'll find recipes labeled salads like this, but it's not a salad-salad like a bowl of lettuce and spinach. I like elote-style corn salad with peppers and cojita cheese, radish-and-asparagus with a light dressing, pickled daikon and carrot salad, that sort of thing.

I like to toss a few cans of lentils, sliced cucumber, and halved grape tomatoes with a vinaigrette and keep that in a container in the fridge. Really filling.

Also, these take a little cooking, but can live in the fridge, pasta salads, salads with orzo or Israeli couscous (toast it a bit in the pan before cooking) or farro (farro is my FAVE.)

Edit: sorry, add red onion to the lentil one!

Edit again, sorry: cans of CHICKPEAS. I was distracted because my oven timer was dinging to put in my casserole lol. Though you can make a lentil salad that's good, takes some cooking though: https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/warm-french-lentils

Thank you for having the sense to not boycott Israeli products.

Wtf

It's a specific type, you numbnut, not an Israeli product. That's like saying having Belgian waffles supports Belgium.

NAYRT but I just had "freedom fries" flashbacks and ugh I know people can be complete idiots but I never needed proof, universe!

Just stop. Stop smearing your political feces all over nonpolitical topics.

I just like to drizzle lemon juice on anything and everything during summer. If there's any one flavor I associated with the season, it's lemon.

When there are good tomatoes, I love gazpacho! Cold cucumber/yogurt/mint soup is another nice refreshing one.

It's harder if you're really serious about not cooking at all, but maybe consider keeping a bunch of snack type foods on hand? Think "adult Lunchables", i.e. cold cuts and cheeses, pretzels, crackers, cheese spreads, hummus, dips that go well with carrots and celery, etc.

But mostly what I do is try to cut down on oven usage when it's hot. That sometimes means cooking stuff in bulk, like marinating several pounds of chicken thighs/drumsticks in bbq sauce, then baking it and having 1-2 drumsticks for dinner, along with a vegetable. Likewise, I cook a bunch of rotini pasta, mix it with chopped colored bell peppers, onion, celery, diced ham, diced pepperoni or salami, grated parmesan and then half a bottle (or more) of Italian dressing so I can have cold pasta salad for lunches.

Not exactly not cooking, but try cold soups. A lot of them are smoothies and salads in disguise

Found a recipe I used to make all the time in college (and will probably make this dish again soon). If you don't have issues or allergies with cilantro, fish sauce, mango, cucumber, sriracha, sesame seed or ginger, you can check it out.

https://www.imnotthenanny.com/2018/08/black-bean-mango-salad.html

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