So, last month was the hottest June ever recorded in the UK. Lots of salads you might think. And then, two days ago, it was announced that in northwest England, it was already the wettest July on record ( and with several days to go). Time for warming comfort food you might think.
I give up. Meteorological rant ends.
We’ve had what seems like constant rain in New England, except for a few brief stretches of sunny days. For the next couple of days, upwards of 90-95°F / 32-35°C with VERY high humidity and then down to 75°F/24°C for next week. So I’ve been all over the map with food as well - and yes, with the constant rain, comfort foods have been prevalent.
Sure isn’t like the summers of yore.
It’s been like autumn * here for a week now and no sign of it coming to an end for at least another whole week, with daily 95% precipitation.
It’s been raining non stop today and dinner was pancakes with Speck, one of our childhood favourites.
(strong winds, low temps, non stop or intermitent rain throughout the day and night)
Up to 90 here in WI, but I’m making a bundt cake, anyway. I’ve been firing up the Smokey Joe or using my little Blackstone flat top to cook outside. Might make a rocket stove just to boil water out there.
I 'd eat that, whatever the weather.
96 here, and I had pea soup for lunch, because this weather is not the boss of me.
I’m always puzzled when I hear about people routinely eating hot soup in hot climates. Apparently if the soup is spicy you sweat and it cools you off? That’s never been my experience with spicy food though, and I find that hot spicy food is both hotter and spicier for it, compared to cold or cool spicy food. That said, we’ve had very weird weather too. A very rainy spring, a very cold winter, a pretty hot May through July, and now it already seems like the summer is winding down when we haven’t hit August yet. Where I live is typically very temperate, with yearlies being between 40 and 70 typically. This hasn’t been a typical year!
100+ degree weather for the second straight week here in Texas. Same thing every year and we deal with it. I like this article. If anything can bring people together long distance and across the seas, it’s talking about the weather.
Visited my mom in Phoenix in early June. She’s from WI but has the thinned blood of living there for 20+ years. She keeps her temp set at 80. Okay, we come in from WI, and 77 is when we turn on the AC. Took some negotiations, but we got her to go 77. This is why I bought her a large toaster oven for her back porch. Big enough to bake brownies. Sht, this year she could bake in open air.
I heard a commentator on the radio describe her house in Phoenix as a very large air fryer.
Apparently the extended heat and lack of rain are even taking out saguaro cactus. Now that is hot. Austin is not exactly cool, three weeks over a hundred and rarely going below eighty at night. I can deal fine with the heat, but the evaporating lakes and aquifers are frightening.
I kind of ignore the weather in planning meals. Yesterday was walnut ravioli.
Me too. Thank goodness for A/C.
Ditto. Mr. Carrier was a genius.
Yes!!
I eat what I want, when I want it. Hermetically sealed in my condo-which works the best for my life.
Yes… but wait until people (in Phoenix Metro area) start receiving their electric bills from this heatwave. (1500 square feet = $410.00) [2:10 into this video]
I’m glad we have our whole house Evaporative Cooler. It isn’t great, but our electric bill will be around $135 no where near $410 (in this news story).
People think it’s crazy now? Just wait 'til that major Atlantic current goes heat-prostrate.
Our summer weather in the NW corner of the PNW is officially drought, but it hasn’t been brutally hot.
My basil plants have been talking smack to the tomatoes, so I showed them who’s boss–a big batch of pesto for a room temp spiral pasta chicken dish.
The video won’t play. A friend of mine lived in New Mexico years ago and called it a swamp cooler. Same thing? I had a hard time understanding how it works.
Yes… a swamp cooler and evaporative cooler are the same thing.
I really like ours; it does require a little bit of user maintenance and cleaning, but so worth the effort.
