What time is dinner? I'd be there if I could, wherever you are - it sounds good!

Elmer, now. It just finished.

Enjoy! Bon appetit!

I often think that if we're craving a food, it's because we need it on some level. I like hot soups even when it's warm. I especially like them as leftovers as it means I don't have to cook that day! I also like soups in that they are one-dish meals. So a quick zap and I'm good to go.

Not weird to me. I was eyeing a corn soup recently that looked good. We have high 80’s here but no humidity. Dinner tonight is grilled flank steak. I just saw a version with a corn salad served on top I might try.

I made salmon soup a couple of days ago. The temp was cool, and I was in the mood for it. I eat a lot of this soup all Fall and Winter. Comfort food. Potatoes, a can of red salmon (I splurged - normally it would be the pink but the red gives the soup a nice golden color and tastes richer too), celery, milk, butter, lots of pepper.

Right now I'm cooking Johnny Macaroni! Another cool weather comfort food altho like your place, it's warm here today. Brown hamburger, drain, add green peppers, onions, a couple cans of undiluted tomato soup, and uncooked macaroni. Then add water as you see fit, let it come to a boil, turn down low, cover, and let it simmer. At the end, I put slices of American cheese around on top. Smells great in here.

Aspen…💕

" if we're craving a food, it's because we need it on some level. "

I can't imagine how something like that would work. Thirst, hunger, rest, physical stability after instability - needs the body is known to communicate. Nutritional ingredients, I doubt. More wishing than knowing, eh?

I had to throw something together before I went to work. Chili dogs and tater tots for SO. I made myself a salad with lettuce, cucumber, bell pepper and tomatoes from my garden, and grabbed a pack of tuna to eat with it. It is SOOOOOO hot and humid here. I am miserable.

@amylou321, so jealous you have bell peppers. My plants are tiny, even though I started them inside. I got my first cherry tomato yesterday, a Sungold.

My daughter was in Costa Rica for a week at a yoga retreat and they served soup with every meal even though it was almost 100 and 100% humidity. I thought that was weird.

We had a few bites of buffet food at a nephews house this afternoon - high school graduation lunch for his son. I noticed DH still watching fats (skipped the cold cuts, sausages, pulled pork after gall bladder surgery two months ago) but we both ate about 2 meatballs, a bit of dip with corn chips, some sliced cherry tomatoes with vinaigrette, a roll. DH got a serving of trifle that had a layer of nice strawberries in it and brought home a plate of cookies.

It was cold! Or at least the wind made it feel cold - & it was windy. A thunder shower or two that had us all running for pop-up tailgating style tents. It was not a good day for a back yard party and I don't think the house could have accommodated the number of invitees. We stayed a little over an hour, made all the appropriate congratulations and came home.

We like soup just about all year around. Last week we stopped at Panera on our way into town from being away (sunny but not humid) and I had a bowl of their chicken wild rice soup that I very much like.

We had a quart of their 'loaded baked potato soup' here at the house and had that another night.

I took a container of chicken vegetable soup out of the freezer for later this evening before we left for the lunch, had a feeling might be a soup night. My hands have warmed up, I'm not sure yet about my feet.

morz.. as a person who goes to Panera every Friday for supper, I have tried most of their soups and that one is a favorite but broccoli cheddar is my absolute fav.

My father loved hot soup in hot weather--and he wanted the soup hot, hot, hot. Not spicy--just really hot.

I also attended a high school graduation yesterday. It was outdoors, chilly and spitting rain off and on. Even though we had blankets (initially to sit on with the metal bleachers) and they gave away disposable rain ponchos, it was a pretty miserable afternoon, with only the joy of the graduating seniors to brighten the day. I was thoroughly chilled and felt damp inside and out and soup would have been my first choice for dinner. But we had a family lunch before the ceremony at a great Mexican restaurant and I had leftovers....spicy works well to heat you up and thaw you out as well!!

I often make soup, even in summer. Minestrone is high on my list, especially with fresh summer produce. But my local grocer makes their own soups and their tomato basil bisque is superb and I often have a quart on hand in case of any soup emergencies :-))

Soup is always welcome here. Even now, as we begin a week of heat with temps predicted to be in the low nineties every day. It has been a very *windy* spring and early summer. Then there are the cicadas,,,what a racket until nightfall. The noise compares to a power mower -- a constant roar.

I put in a call to our HVAC people, hoping to get on their schedule. It's been taking too long to satisfy the thermostat, and I fear for us in the coming week.

@Chisue, hope you get your thermostat fixed quickly. It's so hot here today too, did very little work in the yard and won't go back out until the sun goes down to check to see if the garden needs watering.

sounds good, kath.

My ”system” is telling me I need chocalate cake w choc frosting. I might die If I don’t get it.

On Friday, it was 113° but has cooled down to 103° for highs since then. We air-condition the house to 74-76° (depending on time of day), but lately it has been too hot to go in the pool. I think I will today, however.

I like soup whenever, but I generally make hot soup for breakfast and not for dinner. I like having something hot for breakfast, and I make Japanese style soups more than any other, partly because they are quick and easy. If I put shrimp in it, then that is usually for dinner, however.

I'm growing basil (in two pots) plus jalapeño and Habanero chilies in the patio, and I have to water them twice a day in this heat. I use a watering can instead of a hose, but I fill the watering can with a hose. Last night I dreamed that I had a lot of peppers on my jalapeño plant, which I thought was a rather odd dream.

Kathsgrdn -- I called off the HVAC people this morning. The dispatcher sounded very relieved. I'm sure they are swamped.

I solved the problem by checking -- and replacing -- the batteries in the east thermostat. It appears that the west system was trying to cool the whole house or a couple of days. I hope nothing was damaged. We're back to almost instant response cooling now.

Our HVAC is 23 years old. We have one estimate for replacement. Maybe not yet... The service tech is always surprised we've lasted so long. I think it may have to do with the fact that the furnace is 'two-stage'. As I understand it, the heat goes on full force, then gears down for a second push before stopping. Very even heat. IDK how much that affects the cooling.

I have hot coffee everyday, regardless of the temperature outside. Today I made chilled asparagus soup, with surimi (fake crab. It's just as tasty, but less expensive and already processed). I had to cook the asparagus, but after that no more heating anything. I am so sick of the upper 90° temperatures already. And there's 3 months to go 🙄

”I have hot coffee everyday, regardless of the temperature outside.”

I was thinking about that. My mom used to drink hot coffee on very hot days. I can still see her sitting on the patio with the coffee. She was in the shade but the heat and hot coffee would puzzle me.

There's a comfort to some rituals. Doesn't matter that the coffee is hot, because I always consume it while I'm in air conditioning in summer.

Drinking it inside in a cool house makes much more sense.

" She was in the shade but the heat and hot coffee would puzzle me. "

There is actual science behind this concept. Hot drinks do cool you down on a hot day. As long as you are able to sweat freely. In high humidity or in the water (who drinks coffee in a swimming pool??) the effect is lost as you are not able to sweat freely.

Lars, can't imagine it being too hot to swim! I guess it would be like swimming a a hot tub at those temps. It's 93 currently with 44% humidity. I picked some strawberries and raspberries around noon and will wait to go check whether I need to water the garden in a couple hours. My one squash plant is a little droopy right now from the heat.

I have my thermostat set at 78 but have turned the ceiling fan on.

Chisue, glad you figured it out on your own!

Rob333, I also drink hot coffee and after my coffee today I had hot tea. I'm either getting a cold or allergies are getting to me because last night and today I've had a scratchy throat and been sneezing. However, I usually have iced decaf coffee in the afternoon.

Gardengal, would your grocery store be Met Market? Man, i wish we had one of those near us!

sjerin, no Town and Country Markets....only 5 of them with the original flagship store here on Bainbridge. Better than Met Market!! Expensive, tho.

“Hot drinks do cool you down on a hot day.”

I’m sure the science is right, but it just doesn’t sound appealing.

Terribly hot and muggy here today, after 2.5 very nice days over the weekend.

I suddenly realized on Thursday that it had been over a week since it rained on my gardens, and went out to do so - only to find that my nice 100 ft expandable hose was GONE! I was able to water the close in pots and flowers with a shorter hose, then ordered a new 100' on Saturday with next day delivery from the big A. Just in time... my swamp milkweed was wilting. Pop up storms all around the past few days, but still not a drop here.

My only edibles right now are some mini peppers, arugula, the last of the tart bush cherries, and now blueberries are ripening. I will go out to pick the blueberries, and give everything another drink, early tomorrow before it gets intolerable again. I am still having to space out my efforts walking and standing in between my PT exercises, while healing from the bad ankle sprain from 3 weeks ago. Did too much on Thursday and paid for it on Friday.

Dinner Friday was this delicious lentil soup from Amazon Marketplace -DD saw it marked down to $1.50 for 22 oz, and got a container for each of us last week. I ate it cold. I got a smoked turkey thigh out of the freezer too, and had that cold yesterday with a mixed veggie salad.

Dinner today is peach ice cream with fresh peaches, and a little more turkey.

Kathsgrdn, It is too hot to swim (IMO) when the pool water is 93°. I'm not sure what it was on Friday, but I know it was above 90°.

I have gone in the pool when it was hotter than that, but it is somewhat like being in bath water.

Today was a high of 50 degrees F. and there is a frost advisory for tonight. Pizza for dinner. 🍕