Your Summer Cooking Tool Kit

[elleng]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/15/dining/your-summer-cooking-tool-kit.html?

[Warpy]

1. Mine is the frozen food case at the supermarket

The last two weeks have been absolutely brutal here in the desert southwest.

[NJCher]

2. good ideas

It's hot here in Jersey, too. I'm going to experiment with raw cooking, a strategy not mentioned at the link. This is where you put entire dishes together, but nothing is cooked. I posted about my first project in the daily what's for dinner thread for 12/15.


Cher

[elleng]

3. May do similar,

for grandson's 2d birthday 'party,' Sunday, not the official party but the actual Honor the Event.

Thinking VERY simple, guac, hummus, fresh vegs (which they love and actually GROW, but I can't serve what they've grown without asking daughter to forage in their garden!) and whatever else I think of. MAYBE some of my neighbor's little tomatoes are ready!

Last year for his FIRST we did a big blow out here at my home, and his mother/my daughter wants to avoid such this year.

AND a cake from the grocery store!