So, it's summertime, the season of beaches, parades, and oh-my-God humidity, here in Boston anyway. And accordingly, we often don't eat certain foods during the summer. The ones that make us hot or are too difficult to prepare during the hot days or meals that will have the oven on all day. Sort of like winter, when our ice cream consumption goes down.Here are the eight foods I stop eating during the summer months. They usually make a comeback in late September.
1. Soup. How can I eat a bowl of hot soup when it's 90 degrees out? It seems really perverse to swallow a really hot liquid in that weather (even if soup if "lighter" fare that could be better for the summer, like salad).
2. Tea. Oh, I drink iced tea by the gallon, daily, during the summer, but I can't bring myself to drink hot tea for the same reason as #1.
3. Spaghetti and meat balls. I might have pasta in a cold pasta salad during the summerr, but as for a large spaghetti meal, heavy with sauce and garlic bread, that has to wait til fall.
4. Beans. I eat a lot of beans during the winter (quick, hot, you can add a lot to them, portable), but it's just not a summer food.
5. Stir-fry. Too hot, too sizzling.
6. Apple pie. Here's the weird thing. I hate hot apple pie. Not sure why, but it probably goes back to my childhood, when I would love cold apple pie, either out of the fridge or a Table Talk individual pie from the store. So it's not the heat that turns me off from these in the summer, it's that I just look at apple pie as a fall thing. Though I eat apples themselves in the summer. Hmmm...
7. Hot chocolate. Duh, this is an easy one. It's a hot liquid, and it just screams fall/winter/Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas too me, not something you sip on a hot night or at the pool.
8. Popcorn. Yeah, popcorn. Light enough for summer, but it's more of a "let's get on the sofa and see what's new on TV this fall" sort of food to me.
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