Meal Ideas With No Oven

Summer is hot and humid here, especially since we don't have air conditioning. We avoid using the oven, pretty much at all costs during these months. Sometimes even the stove top can be too warm so some of the following ideas are even sans stove, but some aren't. All are fast and easy so even if you do use the stove, it'll be over soon.

• Wraps, sandwiches, and pitas. Think egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, grilled cheese, scrambled eggs with beans and veggies, deli meat sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly, etc. The ideas are really endless. Anything with eggs or beans would be great. If you're trying to be healthier, you can even use lettuce wraps or sushi wraps instead of bread.
• Gazpacho and other cold soups like blueberry soup, cucumber soup, tomato summer vegetable soup or just make up your own! 
• Salads. Greek, Caesar, Waldorf. Again, endless possibilities. Use whatever vegetables you have on hand, even if that doesn't include lettuce and you'll be able to make something tasty. Even something like cowboy caviar would be good.
• Cold pasta salads. I think this is different enough from regular salads for its own category. I recommend making these ahead of time so they can chill in the fridge. 
• Grill out. Your grill is outside and not bringing heat into your house. Of course, then the food is hot which might not be what you're looking for. But here you can really grill anything.
• Appetizers or filling snacks like crackers with meat and cheese, apples and peanut butter, chips and dips (black bean, guac, salsa, spinach and artichoke), deviled eggs, cream cheese stuffed peppers, parfaits, etc.

I hope this list can help generate some ideas of your own for when  your house is too hot to bake anything.

P.S. This is my 100th post! Isn't that exciting?