Curry chicken salad lettuce wrap with some lemonade.

Gazpacho and paella by the seaside...

My summer standard, but it makes me happy to eat it, tomatoes still warm from the garden with basil and fresh mozzarella drizzled with olive oil...mmmmmmmmmm.

Lentil salad, mmmmm.

Ooh, and, shockingly, Chili is just brilliant on a hot day. Maybe it's because your insides are warmer than the outside, so it actually cools you off. Who knows?

I love fall foods, the kind that have been stewing all day, so light summery stuff isn't really my thing. BUT I always love a glass of cold, cold iced tea, as sweet as possible.

caprese sandwiches. and iced chai. but not together.

watermelon with feta cheese, so good it's criminal.

Anything vaguely Mediteranian or involving feta cheese basically.

My faves though are feta and watermelon, and Greek pasta salad (rainbow fusili, red, yello & orange bell peppers, red onion, kalamata olives, Greek seasoning, oil & balsamic dressing, and FETA!!)

Fresh strawberries, eaten whole.

I eat cold soba noodles, aka, Zaru Soba (http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/pasta/soba_zaru-wc.html).
It's classic summer dish in Japan.

Okay, smooph's grilled corn with jalepeno cilantro butter just made me so hungry! I love any salads on super hot days, but my favorite is a grilled corn, black bean salsa salad. Very nice with an ice cold beer!

Lots of sushi and sashimi; salads, especially insalata caprese or a greek salad

not that it ever gets HOT here in San Francisco, but I love gazpacho when it's too hot to cook.

As I have told you endless times, I have a PhD from a well-known on-line "university," which clearly makes my opinions superior to yours ... but I digress ... again.

Last week my granddaughter ("Little Miss Petit Jean Ham 2006") was over on one of her monthly supervised visits and we made grilled cheese sandwiches which always remind me of summer. But then again, I am a doctor and you are not.

Gosh - thought I'd be unique with gazpacho! Feta, watermelon and red onion salad is also good.

Meaty heirloom tomatoes sliced and then sprinkled with sea salt, balsamic vinegar and parmesan cheese curls.

Also, somen salad, which is a Japanese noodle made into a cold salad with sesame oil, soy sauce, a touch of rice vinegar and julienne strips of cucumber and carrots and maybe meat like roasted pork.

A salad I make based loosely on a Nicoise with Orzo, artichoke hearts, Valbresso Feta, olives, haricot vert, roasted red peppers, cherry tomatoes from the garden, and Ortiz tuna in oil found in a jar at Whole Foods.
My other standby is Butter beans, red onion, tuna belly (ortiz), olive oil, avocado, lemon juice and some fresh herbs sprinkled in Valbresso feta.

BLT with homegrown tomatoes. just wonderful.

Chicken lettuce and tomatoes or salsa, chips, limeade and a bowl full of ice cold cherries

it's already been mentioned, but this week it's about the tomatoes for me, especially heirloom, and especially simply prepared!

being korean i also love naengmyun--just had some at my aunt's the other day! cold soba noodle salads are also so, so delicious.

i also find myself making all kinds of salads. last night i made one with avocado, farm-fresh sweet corn, crabmeat, olive oil, and a squeeze of lime. tossed with some chopped scallion and salt and pepper, it was delicious for a warm evening.

I have really cold noodles with poached salmon, veggies, fish sauce, soy sauce, fresh herbs etc. Not that we're in any danger of getting too hot over in the UK (just coming out of the wettest June since records began!)

Oh and a really hot cup of tea of course, as is the English way in hot weather!

Boy, Edie sure likes the BLTs! But then, so do I. And Caprese salads with crusty French bread and roasted garlic to sop up the good olive oil and tomato juice.

I'm even going to venture into making my own mozzarella this year as the cost of the stuff from the deli was getting prohibitive last year. But only because I wanted to eat it every day.

My family eats A LOT of anything with tomatoes in summer. We have 12 tomato plants and only three family members, so, we HAVE to eat a lot of them!

fresh sparkling limeade and thai takeout. the past few days in new york have been so brutal it feels a bit like bangkok.
now that it's a bit nicer and cooler out i'd have to go for cucumber salad (cukes, red wine vinegar, onion, dill) and cold chicken! maybe a nice glass of sancerre

1. Grillen chicken with boston lettuce in a fresh pita with curry/mango chutney/mayo dressing.

2. Turkey sandwich with tomatoes fresh from the garden with a tiny itty bitty bit (dip a knife and spread) of italian dressing and basil if you have some.

3. Something messy like grilled fish burritos with grilled peppers and onion and guacamole and sour cream and salsa all dripping out.

I like the hot/cold combos in the summer.

Hiyashi chuka: egg noodles topped with julienne cucumber, stripes of egg omelette, and kani, served with a cold dressing of soy sauce and sesame seed oil.

In Japan, this dish is only sold during summer, which kinda made me eat it almost everyday cause I knew I was going to miss it of a whole year.