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I cook very differently in the summer, as I'm sure most of you do, too. I'd love to hear what you do at your home.
The Food Section of the Washington Post had some great ideas for summer cooking:
Lemon Chicken, ready in 30 minutes. From the Washington Post
Pasta salads Some of these recipes cover Elizabeth's question of meatless meals (under Costco cooking). I use Tinkyada brown rice pasta as a substitute for wheat and we find little or no difference.
I grill all the time...and I use Rachel Ray's quick marinade for my chicken breasts or thighs. It only takes 15 minutes to marinade (when I don't have time) and it's quite tasty. Dh loves this. Marinated No-Mystery Meats. This can also be used for pork chops and steaks. During the winter I'll cook this on the stove, but summer it goes on the grill! It's better than using Italian salad dressing as a marinade.
I've been making lots of different salads. Twelve Months of Monastery Salads has tons of ideas, and very healthy.
I also do a lot of fresh fruit, but I'm starting another thread about that!!! 
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I missed the Lemon Chicken when I skimmed the Post this morning, glad I didn't recycle it yet.
I get so bogged down in the summer with swim meets, soccer and dh traveling it is hard to motivate myself to cook!
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Oh, just got this great link from Williams Sonoma with some summer ideas.
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My favorite summer recipes seem to come from Cooking Light magazine, or online if you want. They have so many great grilling recipes and easy/simple/few ingredient type meals that it makes my life much easier and they are healthy to boot. I'm pretty sure their website is www.cookinglight.com Happy cooking
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Okay all you foodies... you've made me have to hook up this printer and get to printing out all these good recipes!
DH and kids picked about a gallon and a half of blueberries at my sister's house today so I'm going to make a blueberry crisp tomorrow from that Williams-Sonoma link. Yum!
Do any of you use stevia to sweeten? I badly need to lose lots of weight so I've got to really cut back on sugar. I've done awful since moving ... I'm a bad stress-eater. 
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JoAnna, very rollie-pollie these days...
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Growing up, when it was *too hot to eat, but you had to anyway*, we all LOVED American Antipasto (my mom Americanized this for us  ).
She'd cut up some lettuce (or tear for those of you who don't cut lettuce). You can mix greens any way you like.
On the lettuce, she'd put:
*a can of tuna, drained (or two for a big family)
*several types of cheese (American, swiss, mozzerella,
any are fine), cut in strips
*several types of lunchmeat (salami, ham, turkey), cut
in strips (any meats are fine)
*garbanzo/chi chi beans
*assorted strips of veggies (carrots, red peppers, green
peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, any are fine)
*cut up hard boiled eggs
You'd make up your own antipasto, and use whatever dressing you wanted (ranch, italian, whatever)
She'd serve with:
*dinner rolls and butter (could serve with any breads,
including garlic bread)
*cottage cheese
You could certainly serve this with any cut up fruits as well, or fruit salad, or a fruit bar with cut up melons and fruits with a yogurt dipping sauce. ;o)
Just some ideas, you can add your own, and delete what you don't like. This was GREAT, especially when it was too hot to cook, and it was pretty easy to make. It'd even be fun to have the family all make it together. 
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You ladies are all so wonderful! I plan to seve my hubby a sandwich tonight and retire to the family room to watch Law and Order SVU reruns. Maybe next week I will cook him a fabulous summer meal!!
Love the antipasto recipe! That looks very easy and delicious.
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