It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 10:49:55 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
> seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.

Still 71 F in the house, but we had Caesar-ish salad with grilled chicken.
I mopped up the Caesar-ish dressing left in the salad bowl with my bread,
which tells my husband his salad dressing was good.

Cindy Hamilton

Dave Smith wrote:
>
> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
> seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.

I eat according to whim not weather. Was it stinking hot inside
your house? Not in mine.

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:26:20 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> > It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
> > seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.
>
> I eat according to whim not weather. Was it stinking hot inside
> your house? Not in mine.

You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.

Additionally, people who spend a portion of the day out in the
heat (even for recreation) might not wish for a great deal of
food (or any hot food) at suppertime.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
> equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
> couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.

Noted.

> Additionally, people who spend a portion of the day out in the
> heat (even for recreation) might not wish for a great deal of
> food (or any hot food) at suppertime.

I often spend all damn day out in the heat and humidity and come
home with soaking wet clothes from sweat. Once home, the AC goes
on, I take a nice HOT shower then I'm ready to eat any food that
sounds good, hot or cold.

Mostly hot meals. It's rare for me to eat a cold anything except
for salad. About the only hot cooking that I don't do much in
summer is long oven cooking, like a roast turkey.

It is 98f right now 12.30. I started a big pot of chili with beans at 9 or so. 68 inside, I expect I can do 65.
AC gas powered, only kidding JK.

On 2019-07-20 11:11 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 10:49:55 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot.
>> Pan seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.
>
> Still 71 F in the house, but we had Caesar-ish salad with grilled
> chicken. I mopped up the Caesar-ish dressing left in the salad bowl
> with my bread, which tells my husband his salad dressing was good.
>

It is 86 F and 80% humidity at the moment. I was out working in the
yard. It was nothing to strenuous. I was just pulling weeds out of the
driveway and then ran the lawn tractor around the front yard. My Tshirt
is totally soaked with sweat. It is 77F inside, so I am enjoying a cool
break. I am going to take a ride on the motorcycle and get some of that
2/60 AC.

On 2019-07-20 11:26 a.m., Gary wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
>> seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.
>
> I eat according to whim not weather. Was it stinking hot inside
> your house? Not in mine.
>

Yes and no. I had the AC on early in the morning. It had been cool over
night and windows were open. I closed the windows and blinds and turned
on the AC. Around 2:30 there was a thunderstorm. The outside temp
drooped from 31C to 21. That was cooler than inside, so I shut off the
AC and opened windows. I went out for a while and the sun came out and
temperatures soared and the interior heated up.

I don't eat much when it gets hot. My wife had talked about getting some
shrimp to BBQ, but she ended up with scallops instead. Fine by me.

On 2019-07-20 11:33 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:26:20 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
>>> seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.
>>
>> I eat according to whim not weather. Was it stinking hot inside
>> your house? Not in mine.
>
> You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
> equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
> couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.

Air conditioning is quite common around here. I am in the very southern
part of Canada and July temperatures are often in the 80s and 90s. We
have central air but rarely use it. We have lots of trees and the house
is shaded much of the time. We are more likely to use passive AC,
opening up windows at night and then shutting them and shades during the
day. My brother was here one hot day and remarked that if his house was
as cool as ours he would have installed AC.


>
> Additionally, people who spend a portion of the day out in the
> heat (even for recreation) might not wish for a great deal of
> food (or any hot food) at suppertime.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

On 2019-07-20 10:45 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-07-20 11:33 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:26:20 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>>> Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot.Â* Pan
>>>> seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.
>>>
>>> I eat according to whim not weather. Was it stinking hot inside
>>> your house? Not in mine.Â*
>>
>> You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
>> equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
>> couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.
>
> Air conditioning is quite common around here. I am in the very southern
> part of Canada and July temperatures are often in the 80s and 90s.Â* We
> have central air but rarely use it.Â* We have lots of trees and the house
> is shaded much of the time.Â* We are more likelyÂ* to use passive AC,
> opening up windows at night and then shutting them and shades during the
> day. My brother was here one hot day and remarked that if his house was
> as cool as ours he would have installed AC.
>
I use the same technique. Lots of houses in my 'hood have central air
for the few days in summer when it gets a bit warm, i.e., high 20s.
That weather is predicted for next week but tonight it will be red wine
rather than cold beer with my dinner.

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:35:02 AM UTC-5, Thomas wrote:
>
> It is 98f right now 12.30. I started a big pot of chili with beans at 9 or so. 68 inside, I expect I can do 65.
> AC gas powered, only kidding JK.
>
The clock just struck the noon hour here and it's 91° with 65% humidity. I
don't plan on going outdoors until the mailman arrives and if he has any mail
for me. I did step outside about 2 hours ago to tap the handle of my lambs
wool duster to release any dust I had collected and then swooped back inside.

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:52:12 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
> > equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
> > couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.
>
> Noted.
>
> > Additionally, people who spend a portion of the day out in the
> > heat (even for recreation) might not wish for a great deal of
> > food (or any hot food) at suppertime.
>
> I often spend all damn day out in the heat and humidity and come
> home with soaking wet clothes from sweat. Once home, the AC goes
> on, I take a nice HOT shower then I'm ready to eat any food that
> sounds good, hot or cold.
>
> Mostly hot meals. It's rare for me to eat a cold anything except
> for salad. About the only hot cooking that I don't do much in
> summer is long oven cooking, like a roast turkey.

Everybody's different. When I was young and didn't have air-conditioning
I pretty much ate only cold food in July and August.

This was always a fave:

<https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/chia58286c09s001r007>

Cindy Hamilton

"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
...

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:52:12 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> > You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
> > equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
> > couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.
>
> Noted.
>
> > Additionally, people who spend a portion of the day out in the
> > heat (even for recreation) might not wish for a great deal of
> > food (or any hot food) at suppertime.
>
> I often spend all damn day out in the heat and humidity and come
> home with soaking wet clothes from sweat. Once home, the AC goes
> on, I take a nice HOT shower then I'm ready to eat any food that
> sounds good, hot or cold.
>
> Mostly hot meals. It's rare for me to eat a cold anything except
> for salad. About the only hot cooking that I don't do much in
> summer is long oven cooking, like a roast turkey.

Everybody's different. When I was young and didn't have air-conditioning
I pretty much ate only cold food in July and August.

This was always a fave:

<https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/chia58286c09s001r007>

Cindy Hamilton


=====

I would like to see that recipe but it is keeping it covered with
adverts

On 20 Jul 2019 Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>On July 20, 2019 Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
>> seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.
>
>Still 71 F in the house, but we had Caesar-ish salad with grilled chicken.
>I mopped up the Caesar-ish dressing left in the salad bowl with my bread,
>which tells my husband his salad dressing was good.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

We keep our house at 72º 24/7, Yesterday it reached 92º outdoors and
humidity sat at 87%, Now it's 88º outdoors with humidity at 81%.
Yesterdy I mowed most of the day and then we worked in the garden, We
are already harvesting cukes and green and yellow zukes. Dinner
tonight will be those boneless pork medallians with a mess of sliced
zukes simmered with garlic. potatoes, carrots, some cherry tomatoes,
chicken stock and a little butter. The only reason I was able to mow
is that my tractor has diesel powered A/C.

On 7/20/2019 12:34 PM, Thomas wrote:
> It is 98f right now 12.30. I started a big pot of chili with beans at 9 or so. 68 inside, I expect I can do 65.
> AC gas powered, only kidding JK.
>

Used to be a lot of natural gas powered AC units. Gas refrigerators too.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 7/20/2019 12:34 PM, Thomas wrote:
>> It is 98f right now 12.30. I started a big pot of chili with beans
>> at 9 or so.* 68 inside, I expect I can do 65.
>> AC gas powered, only kidding JK.
>>
>
> Used to be a lot of natural gas powered AC units.* Gas refrigerators
> too.

Yoose don't need no schtinkin fancy schmancy gas lines! I just hook
the tailpipe of my 100% fossil fueled, farting dodge ram up to the
appliance, start 'er up, and it works great.

"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> It was nice light eating last night because it was stinking hot. Pan
> seared scallops, fresh green beans, salad and a roll.

I'm having fruit and cheese tonight.

On 2019-07-20 1:22 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:52:12 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:

>> Mostly hot meals. It's rare for me to eat a cold anything except
>> for salad. About the only hot cooking that I don't do much in
>> summer is long oven cooking, like a roast turkey.
>
> Everybody's different. When I was young and didn't have air-conditioning
> I pretty much ate only cold food in July and August.


When I was a kid we had lots of cottage cheese fruit salads. There would
be a big spoonful of cottage cheese on a leaf of lettuce and some
canned peaches or pears on top, some cold cuts and tomato, hard boiled
egg, lettuce and celery sticks...

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 2:22:14 PM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:52:12 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >
> > > You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
> > > equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
> > > couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.
> >
> > Noted.
> >
> > > Additionally, people who spend a portion of the day out in the
> > > heat (even for recreation) might not wish for a great deal of
> > > food (or any hot food) at suppertime.
> >
> > I often spend all damn day out in the heat and humidity and come
> > home with soaking wet clothes from sweat. Once home, the AC goes
> > on, I take a nice HOT shower then I'm ready to eat any food that
> > sounds good, hot or cold.
> >
> > Mostly hot meals. It's rare for me to eat a cold anything except
> > for salad. About the only hot cooking that I don't do much in
> > summer is long oven cooking, like a roast turkey.
>
> Everybody's different. When I was young and didn't have air-conditioning
> I pretty much ate only cold food in July and August.
>
> This was always a fave:
>
> <https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/chia58286c09s001r007>
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
>
> =====
>
> I would like to see that recipe but it is keeping it covered with
> adverts

Sorry. That was the only link I found to the exact recipe that I use.
Here's a very similar one:

<https://lightorangebean.com/carrot-cucumber-and-glass-noodle-salad-2/>

Although I use rice wine vinegar where she uses cider vinegar.

Cindy Hamilton

"Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
...

On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 2:22:14 PM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
> "Cindy Hamilton" wrote in message
> ...
>
> On Saturday, July 20, 2019 at 11:52:12 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> > Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > >
> > > You should be aware by now that many homeowners in the North do not
> > > equip their houses with air-conditioning, useful only during the
> > > couple of weeks in the summer when it is extremely hot.
> >
> > Noted.
> >
> > > Additionally, people who spend a portion of the day out in the
> > > heat (even for recreation) might not wish for a great deal of
> > > food (or any hot food) at suppertime.
> >
> > I often spend all damn day out in the heat and humidity and come
> > home with soaking wet clothes from sweat. Once home, the AC goes
> > on, I take a nice HOT shower then I'm ready to eat any food that
> > sounds good, hot or cold.
> >
> > Mostly hot meals. It's rare for me to eat a cold anything except
> > for salad. About the only hot cooking that I don't do much in
> > summer is long oven cooking, like a roast turkey.
>
> Everybody's different. When I was young and didn't have air-conditioning
> I pretty much ate only cold food in July and August.
>
> This was always a fave:
>
> <https://app.ckbk.com/recipe/chia58286c09s001r007>
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
>
> =====
>
> I would like to see that recipe but it is keeping it covered with
> adverts

Sorry. That was the only link I found to the exact recipe that I use.
Here's a very similar one:

<https://lightorangebean.com/carrot-cucumber-and-glass-noodle-salad-2/>

Although I use rice wine vinegar where she uses cider vinegar.

Cindy Hamilton

====

Thanks very much!

In article >,
"> wrote:

> The clock just struck the noon hour here and it's 91° with 65% humidity. I
> don't plan on going outdoors until the mailman arrives and if he has any mail
> for me. I did step outside about 2 hours ago to tap the handle of my lambs
> wool duster to release any dust I had collected and then swooped back inside.

And a day later, we in Reno/Sparks, are supposed to hit a 100F for the
first time this year. I don't think we're going to make it. Clouds are
building up. As summers here go, this one is mild.
Nevertheless, my swamp cooler is on high, and it's 79F indoors.
Humidity is 21% which helps a whole bunch.

leo

On Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 6:31:43 PM UTC-5, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>
> In article >,
> "> wrote:
>
> > The clock just struck the noon hour here and it's 91° with 65% humidity. I
> > don't plan on going outdoors until the mailman arrives and if he has any mail
> > for me. I did step outside about 2 hours ago to tap the handle of my lambs
> > wool duster to release any dust I had collected and then swooped back inside.
>
> And a day later, we in Reno/Sparks, are supposed to hit a 100F for the
> first time this year. I don't think we're going to make it. Clouds are
> building up. As summers here go, this one is mild.
> Nevertheless, my swamp cooler is on high, and it's 79F indoors.
> Humidity is 21% which helps a whole bunch.
>
> leo
>
It was cloudy most of the day here so that kept temperatures low and rain for
Monday here is what they are predicting. Temperatures are supposed to reach
about 80°. Woo-hoo!!

On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 16:31:38 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
> wrote:

>In article >,
"> wrote:
>
>> The clock just struck the noon hour here and it's 91° with 65% humidity. I
>> don't plan on going outdoors until the mailman arrives and if he has any mail
>> for me. I did step outside about 2 hours ago to tap the handle of my lambs
>> wool duster to release any dust I had collected and then swooped back inside.
>
>And a day later, we in Reno/Sparks, are supposed to hit a 100F for the
>first time this year. I don't think we're going to make it. Clouds are
>building up. As summers here go, this one is mild.
>Nevertheless, my swamp cooler is on high, and it's 79F indoors.
>Humidity is 21% which helps a whole bunch.
>
>leo
We're just north of you and are getting our first promised hot day --
mid 90s. The windows were open over night (down to 64) and turned on
the fan in the back bedroom until about 10 a.m. and got temp to 65
indoors. Temp in the house never got above 83F. Of course the worst
part of the summer is already over as the sun is no longer straight up
in the sky so the heating time is shorter.
Janet US

On Sunday, July 21, 2019 at 7:31:43 PM UTC-4, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article >,
> "> wrote:
>
> > The clock just struck the noon hour here and it's 91° with 65% humidity. I
> > don't plan on going outdoors until the mailman arrives and if he has any mail
> > for me. I did step outside about 2 hours ago to tap the handle of my lambs
> > wool duster to release any dust I had collected and then swooped back inside.
>
> And a day later, we in Reno/Sparks, are supposed to hit a 100F for the
> first time this year. I don't think we're going to make it. Clouds are
> building up. As summers here go, this one is mild.
> Nevertheless, my swamp cooler is on high, and it's 79F indoors.
> Humidity is 21% which helps a whole bunch.
>
> leo

That it does. A fine, dry day here in southeast Michigan is one where
the humidity is below 50%. We don't see too many of those this time
of year.

Cindy Hamilton