Next up in June’s issue for paid subscribers: Cold Sesame Noodle Bowls with Rotisserie Chicken, coming on Monday!
I feel like my summers happen like an iPhone slow-mo video, in reverse. Things start out sooooo slow, and it feels like summer will never end.
The WWE smackdown happening in our bonus room around the clock (HI WHAT DO YOU THINK MY SOUNDTRACK IS RIGHT NOW?? SPOILER ALERT: IT’S SCREAMING) while I release all hopes of being the calm, gentle parents and scream right back.
The 2-hour daily drop-off-pick-up camp commute, usually punctuated with some sort of hour-long performance at the end of the week (The theater mom life is dramatic).
Their incessant mantras—I’m bored.—followed by rejections (with great disgust) of every activity suggestion I ever make.
But then I start to wonder why the neighborhoods are all decorated in patriotic bunting, why everyone is asking me what I’m doing for the 4th, why I’m seeing so many fireworks billboards during that 2-hour daily drop-off-pick-up camp commute.
Oh my… wait, it’s almost July?!
From here on out, summer refuses to do anything but fly, as we try and pack in all the warm-weather activities and travel we keep on our summer bucket list.
You know what we don’t have on our summer bucket list? Heating up my kitchen. Yeah, that’s not allowed.
Do we have to eat? Yeah, sure. That’s ideal. But if it requires a hot oven or a lot of time spent over the stove? I’m out. It’s just too damn hot to cook.
Which reminds me…
6 dinners, 1 meal prep lunch, 1 meal prep breakfast, all made with minimal heat, max flavor. Not too heavy but still satisfying and full of flavor. One recipe uses the oven, but it’s all made in there on a sheet pan.
