how am I supposed to cook anything in this temperatures?

[ratcreature]

I still haven't had any dinner, because it's clear that the Spanish custom to have dinner really late around ten or so in the evening, is the only sensible one in this this kind of heat. Any earlier is simply too hot to have any substantial appetite.

And this awful weather sucks for my food budget. In reaction to the intolerable temperatures I'm mostly subsisting on chilled yogurt and fruit and the like, which I'm sure is healthy and everything, but even in season fruits are expensive. Also, ultimately while tasty not all that satisfying.

I'm hungry, I have plenty of food at home, but I'm too sticky and lethargic to cook myself anything.

Comments

[omens]

This is the story of my week! It finally cooled down here enough today for me to make a big pan of chicken chunks to dole out on caesar salads.. those are quick and easy and filling... I could live on popsicles, though.

[ratcreature]

I mentioned this in a comment on the LJ version of this post, that I think my dissatisfaction comes from eating less protein than usual. I'm vegetarian and aside from dairy I get that obviously from plain legumes and grains, which make up the bulk of protein of my food (I'm not a tofu product person). And I sometimes put canned beans in cold salads, but I don't find that very tasty, and for other more tasty cold bean things (dips, hummus and such) you need to do some cooking first. And and aside from bread I didn't have much grain stuff on these hot days either.

[omens]

Oh, yeah - that is tricky! Crockpot bean dishes might be good? At least the crockpot doesn't heat the entire house.

[ratcreature]

Heh. I don't own any such fancy kitchen implements. I don't even have a microwave. For tonight I've pulled myself together enough to fry a cut up zucchini with some onions and a scrambled egg, and cooked some pasta to go with it. So a mix of not really a proper omelet, nor a proper pasta dish, but it didn't take more time than the pasta needed to cook.