Summer Menu Idea...

[coolconfidentme]

I'm shifting away from using the over & looking for summer menu ideas. We like to eat outside as often as we can too. Does anyone have any they want to share??? Please & thanks!!!

[craftymissbeth]

I want to follow this, too. I just made up a 3 week rotational menu for spring/summer and I included one crockpot meal, two sandwiches, a wrap, and one oven meal each week.

[NeedaVaca]

I'll follow this too, I love to get new ideas! I thought of one and then realized you still need the stove to boil the pasta but I'll share anyway. It's one of my favorite meals because I always have more cherry tomatoes and basil than I know what to do with!!

4 pints of cherry tomatoes (halved)
1/2 cup good olive oil
6 cloves of minced garlic
18-20 large basil leaves julienned
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Combine all ingredients, cover with plastic wrap. Leave this sitting out on a counter (NOT refrigerator), stir every hour or so. I usually leave it out at minimum 4 hours and up to 6-8. By the end it will smell so delicious! Serve with angel hair pasta, sooo easy!

[jenboo]

I do:
Pasta mondays (still need stove, no oven)
Mexican Tuesdays (ill make pinto beans in the crockpot, rice in the rice cooker)
Crockpot Wednesdays (today is shepherds Pie)
Sandwich Thursdays (turkey, turkey panini and meatball sub)
Pizza Fridays (I make stuffed pita pizzas and biscuit pizzas. I make them in the toaster oven. It doesnt heat up the room like the oven would)

[coolconfidentme]

I do:
Pasta mondays (still need stove, no oven)
Mexican Tuesdays (ill make pinto beans in the crockpot, rice in the rice cooker)
Crockpot Wednesdays (today is shepherds Pie)
Sandwich Thursdays (turkey, turkey panini and meatball sub)
Pizza Fridays (I make stuffed pita pizzas and biscuit pizzas. I make them in the toaster oven. It doesnt heat up the room like the oven would)

I use the toaster over too!

[daycarediva]

I am working on the same thing and will be following this thread! I have ONE week done for June.

I use my grill a LOT in the summer, it has two burners also.

Cheeseburger sliders on wheat, corn on the cob, watermelon
Grilled chicken wheat wraps, grilled zucchini, strawberries
Diced grilled chicken, wheat crackers, broccoli and grape tomatoes
Turkey and cheese sub on wheat, grilled yellow squash, blueberries
Egg salad in whole wheat mini pita, fresh steamed green beans, diced grapes

[jenboo]

I am working on the same thing and will be following this thread! I have ONE week done for June.

I use my grill a LOT in the summer, it has two burners also.

Cheeseburger sliders on wheat, corn on the cob, watermelon
Grilled chicken wheat wraps, grilled zucchini, strawberries
Diced grilled chicken, wheat crackers, broccoli and grape tomatoes
Turkey and cheese sub on wheat, grilled yellow squash, blueberries
Egg salad in whole wheat mini pita, fresh steamed green beans, diced grapes

Thats nice! We cant have them out here during daycare hours

[MissAnn]

I do:
Pasta mondays (still need stove, no oven)
Mexican Tuesdays (ill make pinto beans in the crockpot, rice in the rice cooker)
Crockpot Wednesdays (today is shepherds Pie)
Sandwich Thursdays (turkey, turkey panini and meatball sub)
Pizza Fridays (I make stuffed pita pizzas and biscuit pizzas. I make them in the toaster oven. It doesnt heat up the room like the oven would)

Can you tell me what you do with the pinto beans?

[SignMeUp]

salads

Spring salad:
Poach chicken breasts in broth until cooked through. Slice.
Lay slices on top of a salad made with:

Romaine lettuce
Green onions or sweet onion, sliced
Cucumber, sliced
Raspberries
Raspberry vinaigrette

I've also done a similar salad, but with asparagus, and a regular vinaigrette dressing, no raspberries.