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I love keeping things simple on warm summer evenings.
Our salad consisted of spinach, grilled chicken, fresh basil, blueberries, blue cheese crumbles, and lemon tahini dressing.
Curried carrot soup served chilled with cinnamon.
Simply perfect.
Dessert was involved, but it’s worthy of its own post.
What’s your favorite summertime meal?
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Will you accept fro yo? It can occasionally be a meal!
Lisa,
Yes, fro-yo accepted.
Salad, Salad, Salad!!! I probably eat my body weigh in salads over the course of a summer. I have a reputation of throwing ANYTHING on top of fresh greens and calling it a salad.
My current favorite:
Baby Spinach, Souper Jenny’s House Dressing, roasted onions, bell peppers, and asparagus, pulled BBQ pork, bleu cheese, lots of salt + pepper. Oh, and if I’m feeling really snazzy, I’ll throw a little bit of pickled relish on there, too!
It’s rockin’ my socks off! . =)
Salads the size of my head! I am loving the fresh produce right now. I think my seasonal challenge has helped me appreciate the foods and their seasons so much more! Simple is the way to go for summer time!
Mmmm bleu cheese…
Looks delicious!
I love anything on the grill during summer. Shrimp kabobs with grilled corn and veggie skewers… fresh berries for dessert… all wonderfully summery!
I love just throwing a bunch of stuff on the grill in the summer. You can grill pretty much anything with minimal cleanup!
Add some guac and you’ve pretty much got yourself the perfect meal in my book!
Tuna mixed with hummus and chopped tomatoes on spinach, drizzled with sriracha. Mmm…I may have to have that for dinner tonight, actually. Yum
Um, frozen fruit soft-serve ice cream followed by homemade fudgsicle? I think that’s considered a meal… for me anyway.
My favorite summer time meal involves salad. Why? Because spinach is light – in weight. When you have to carry all of the groceries home this becomes a priority. So you know I must have a serious obsession with grapefruit if those keep being carried… block… after block… after block…
Heather, this meal looks delightful! Each one of your posts convinces me that we have the same tastes.
My favorite summer meal…that’s a difficult one to answer, since fresh fruits and vegetables are all so irresistable! Insalata Caprese, corn salad with avocado and grilled salmon, grilled pizzas, grilled steak with a mixed greens, tomato, cucumber, pickled red onion, and gorgonzola salad and garlic bread on the side…
And, of course, overnight oats (always).
Love the addition of blueberries on your salad! That’s so summery.
My favorites are the same throughout the year: Burgers, especially salmon or turkey and great big salads.
wow! gorgeous photos Heather and the food looks delicious too. that soup-yum. my favorite summer food I think is sushi and I love cool salads too of course.
I love big salads with loads of fruit in them in the summertime — and nothing beats a meal that includes grilled corn on the cob. I love it!
I a bit obsessed with my grill, and by bit I mean that I use it every single night. I even grilled romaine the other day. Not bad. Cold soup has been calling to me too, but I’m even too lazy for that. It’s summer, I encourage laziness.
I think my favorite summertime meal is what we had last night: grilled portobello mushroom burgers with a side of grilled vegetables and a green salad. Yum.
Yum! Simple fresh summer meals are the best. I love anything grilled in the summertime. There’s this one dish with grilled veggies and couscous and a yummy orange vinegarette that I had a few times last summer that was so good. This post reminded me how much I need to make it again.
By the way, I love the pictures in this post.
I want that curried carrot soup. NOW! It looks amazing. Then again, it’s 82F here and humid (for San Diego) with rising temps and what am I doing..packing, premoving, moving, finally blogged about it, and yeah iced coffee with a shot is more like what I need. haha!
I love your simple meals. Simple = the way I like to eat, always. No fuss!
grilled hamburger, sliced avocado, and blue chips.
No bun needed, just a very large bag of chips. 
Lurve you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cold soup is definitely up there on my “list of foods to try”. At the cafe I worked at a few weeks ago she made an apple and almond gazpacho that smelled like heaven!
i’ve had carrot soup many ways, but not curried – certainly one to try.
Fresh berries and yogurt have been much loved this summer. It’s just so refreshing in the morning.
I love anything on the grill!! Burgers, pork chops, steak, chicken, potatoes, pizza, and pineapple! Served with fresh fruit and iced tea.
Steak salad with watermelon. So fresh. I always put a ton of veggies on my steak salad…so it kind of ends up being a big ol” salad with a side of steak…hehe…
I love to have anything on the grill and a huge salad. That is the go to meal in our house, oh with a side of watermelon
Favorite summer meal? Watermelon. I count it as a whole meal since I usually eat the entire thing in one sitting!
Doesn’t dessert always deserve its own post?
MMMMM…..Salad. That’s what we had last night too! Although mine consisted of organic mixed baby greens, fresh goat cheese from a local farm, roasted grape tomatoes, roasted new potatoes and local flat iron steak…all tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette…mmmm. I’m thinking that might be dinner tonight too!
lol…Find the Soul Seasoning yet????
Hi Heather. Your salad looks delicous. Our favorite summer meal is very similar to that. BBQ chicken on salad. Now I’m hungry!
Have a great day.
Your photos look so pretty
I like salad with lots of fresh fruit when it is hot outside!
I LOVE all the summertime fruit!
I also love pretty much anything grilled. I probably eat my old, nasty, dirty flip-flops if they’d been grilled. (Fillet of sole, anyone?)
simple is good!
I can’t wait to see the dessert worth its own post!
i love massaged kale salad with tomato, vinegar & basil with a grilled meat topper! tonight i had grilled turkey breast & portobella caps with southwest seasoning over red kale and it was amazing!
TDP,
Yep, that sounds pretty amazing. Love anything involving portobellas.
Favorite meal in the summer has to be HUGE salads full of fresh fruits and veggies! In addition to that: I could not survive the summer without copious amounts of watermelon and froyo!
I love salads for summer. I had the best mediterranean salad for lunch today!
That soup is gorgeous!!
Cold soups have always freaked me out.. but not gonna lie– I might try it after looking at this soup…
In the summer I love baked sweet potatoes that have been chillin in the fridge, topped with pb or tahini as a simple snack. As for meals… bacon and veggie stir fry, can’t get much simpler!
Katie,
Please move to Nashville so that I can come have dinner at your house…or perhaps I could stop by for an afternoon snack? I’ll bring the tahini.
ohh that soup looks divine!
I am usually one for raw crunchy salads and sweet corn on the cob during summer. However, my husband made an amazing pasta marinara with grass fed meat balls tonight and it was earth shattering!
Greek yogurt and fruit
This looks divine, Heather! Simplicity is always somehow the most satisfying!
Mmm looks tasty! Despite the wonderful produce available in summer, this heat is just about destroying any desire I have to cook. But cold chicken salads are so enticing this time of year, and that carrot soup looks fabulous. Carrots + curry creates almost instant deliciousness. Thank you for sharing your lovely photographs with us!
Yvonne,
You’re welcome, and if you were here, I’d share the soup as well.
sliced vine ripe tomato, sliced fresh Buffalo mozzeralla, balsamic reduction drizzle dressing salad…i think sprinkles of chopped fresh basil too…
and…a side of sliced med rare tenderloin…eaten outside…and not fixing it myself….
ok now i want one….and it’s 6:03am
Oh, summer! How I long for summer!
Also, no joke, I was sitting in an all day meeting today daydreaming about food (as you do) and I suddenly decided that I must roast pumpkin and make some sort of lemon tahini dressing with the two almost-past-usefulness lemons in my pantry. HEAB TO THE RESCUE!
Thank goodness for fresh produce in the summer. It’s the best way to keep things simple. Salads, piles of sauteed, or crunching on raw.
Waiting for dessert…:)
Looks perfect – just how summer should be. Hmm…my salad would be similar – but with an abundance of colorful vegetables…and marinara sauce with cheese. Most definitely cheese. And more than “crumbles”
And hummus.
Is that wrong? I don’t need to know!
I don’t know about meal, but for me, fruit is something I can’t get enough of in the summer!
xo.
I think I like the fresher or lighter stuff in the summer because I feel so sluggish already haha! AKA, salads, soups, and so forth.
Hmm, I would have never thought to pair chicken, blueberries, and bleu cheese together! Sounds interesting!
Favorite summertime meal: anything cooked on the grilled followed by a cool refreshing dessert…fro-yo, banana soft-serve, watermelon…mmmm!