I live in Australia. Its fairly hot, I want to be able too cook something nice?
I want to be able to cook something that wont involve to much oven use, as we are having 43 degree heat days. But I do want to cook something nice. The reason that I ask is for my in laws.
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Well, if you have the ability, you might want to consider grilling something. That gives you a lot of possibilities and the heat from the cooking will be outside. If you are stuck with having to use the oven, then you know it will heat the house up. To help with that, take a box or window fan, put it in the kitchen window blowing OUT to help suck some of the excess heat out of the kitchen. Good luck.
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Try something like coronation chicken - cold chicken in a sauce. Or use cold cuts and salad. I bought a slow cooker, which I use in summer. I make my food in the morning and leave it to cook all day long.
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ive just come back from oz. we got a thing called a webber. its like barbque but you can put a big joint on and leave and the meat comes out cooked and tasting amazing. you can put anything on aswell, marinated prawns, chops, kebabs. you dont have to stand over it and get hot. just whack it on on leave it. i hope thats helped a bit.
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What about a barbeque? or griller(george forman etc)? Prep a few bowls of different salads eg: pasta, potatoe, veg etc... then all thats left is the steaks or whichever meat you prefer... and you really don't need to stand over either of them. Here's a yummy chicken recipe you can cook on either a griller or bbq... 1T prep mustard 1T mayonnaise 1t cider vinegar 1t black pepper 1/2t salt 1 clove garlic minced 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves cooking spray Mix mustard, mayonnaise vinegar, pepper, salt and garlic together, coat chicken with mixture and spray grill/prep bbq and cook.
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It's not quite 43 degrees here in Canberra but it's still pretty warm (for us anyway) here's some of the things that my wife and I have been eating for dinner that don't involve a lot of cooking: A Cajun Chicken Caesar Salad, Get a couple of chicken breasts and toss them in a couple of teaspoons of Cajun seasoning (Masterfoods do a nice one) grill them on the BBQ and unless you want crispy bacon that's all the cooking you need to do. Works just as well with prawns as it does with chicken. Sang Choy Bao: You can buy a great meal kit for this at Woolies or Coles (Made by a company called Asia at Home), the only cooking you have to do is cooking the mince that goes in the lettuce cups. A big grazing platter, nice cheeses, meats like salami and good ham and some cut up veggies like carrot, celery and capsicum a couple of nice dips and people just help themselves. Finally some Vietnamese Rice paper rolls. You can buy the wrappers at any decent Asian grocer. we put rice noodles, chopped up lettuce, bean sprouts, peanuts and chopped up Chinese BBQ pork (available at any good Chinese Restaurant or BBQ place) in them and serve with a dipping sauce of hoi sin sauce with a touch of chili of you like a bit of a spicy kick. BRING ON WINTER !!!!!!! .
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Sounds awfully like the weather here in Perth. A few ideas for a good feed that doesn't involve the oven. 1) Thai curries and rice. A genuinely authentic thai curry is made by Valcom in Thailand and is easy to get in Australia, add some meat and it's all but done for you. Serve with a side salad and Jasmine rice. 2) Grilled or pan fried fish. Again with a salad. Dead quick and simple and tastes great. 3) Cold meats, salad and potato salad. The benefit here is you can cook a joint of beef or pork when it's cooler (morning) and serve it cold with a green salad and potato salad. Add eggs and a bit of curry powder with chopped onion to a potoato salad and you have a Kartoffelin. 4)Stir Fry (westernised chinese). Lots of receipes you can do based on this, none involve the oven and all are quck to cook. Google up "stir fry" recepie and you'll see what I mean. Hope this helps.
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I live in australia too. (what happenein with the weather! :[ ) on a hot day the best thing would be a nice BIG induging salad. with a side of rice with some vegeta and a bit of butter in the micro. mmmm... yumm . And maybee some chicken from coles. pull it apart into peices and put on the rice. and who will no its a roast chicken from coles . lol . try it
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