Green Education: Green 101

Favorite Hot Weather Recipes

Here we go with three of our favorite no-cook, cool-off, in-a-hurry crowd-pleasers. Please share with your friends and let us know your favorites!

1) Martha Rose Shulman deep-dives into one amazing theme every week on her “Recipes for Health.” Last week: frozen fruity treats like melon sorbet. This week: “Cool-as-a-Cucumber Salads.”

Melon, Cucumber, and Tomato Salad

(PG note: organic versions of these three main ingredients aren’t musts, according to the Dirty Dozen list; but if you do use organic veggies & fruit regularly, add 50 points to your score!)

2) Jamie Oliver’s recipe for Lemon, Lime & Peppermint Sorbet from our friends at Foodily. Especially appreciate these breezy instructions in torrid conditions:

Place the sugar and water in a pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a while. Zest and squeeze your limes and lemons and chop your peppermint. Mix everything together in a plastic or earthenware container and place in the freezer.

Generally a sorbet takes 2 hours to set. Try to stir it around every 30 minutes if you remember.

(PG note: mint is not on the EWG list, but we think it possibly should be. Our mantra: if it’s a leaf, eat organic.)

3) When we cannot begin to think of what to make for dinner, we check EatingWell. Their daily Dinner Tonight feature is always a life-saver. Today: Summer Vegetable Crepes. (PG hint: we bet these would also work splendidly as wraps — and we can’t wait to experiment with all sets of veggies we got at the farmer’s market last weekend!)

Let us know how you like these ideas, and please hit us with yours!

Source: PracticallyGreen