Summer Foods

Easy bacon and tomato sandwich with optional avocado slices.  Chop the tomatoes!  Spread on a nice coat of mayo on your bread.  Much easier to eat than using thin slices of tomato. I just did this and it worked beautifully.  Recommended bacon:  already cooked, wrapped in a paper towel and nuked at 20 seconds.

I am a big fan of this quick prepare bacon as am too impatient to stand there flipping it back and forth.

Summer Dinner Salad for Very Hot Days.
Bunch of large macaroni, cooked - you might consider doing a whole package and saving half of the cooked macaroni in plastic bags or containers for the refrigerator. Purpose - only heat up the kitchen once.

1 or 2 cans of all-white tuna, some juice drained off.  Flake and add:
cooked macaroni
mayonnaise to suit
1/2 red onion chopped
chopped pimento-stuffed chopped olives - 8 or 10 olives
chopped sliced water chestnuts.
mx it all up and refrigerate until needed.

When you serve it, set out the jar of pickle relish and a spoon on the table for those that like it. (Not this cook)

True Deviled Eggs - use mayo and Colman's English mustard for the stuffing.

Do-It-Yourself Personal Guacamole.
Cut an avocado in half, remove the stone and cut a slim slice on the bottom side to hold the avocado steady on each person's plate while you pass the salsa and everyone mixes their own..  Most Mexican restaurants will happily sell you a pint of theirs.

Hoffy makes bacon-wrapped hot dogs which are quite tasty.  If you aren't working with a grill, put a tray of them on a cookie sheet or similar and bake at 400 until the bacon is done.

You don't have to depend on Hoffy - roll your own bacon on a naked hot dog and proceed from there.  If you use wooden toothpicks to hold the bacon on each end, be sure to soak them in water before using them.  Flaming toothpick is an interesting but scary sight.