1. Buffalo Tofu Steaks with Grilled Carrot Salad
While you’re relaxing on vacation, you want to remain outdoors as much as possible. That’s a good thing because tofu is excellent on the barbecue. This recipe calls for cooking it in a cast iron pan put directly on the grill, with fresh carrots. Serve the dish with a creamy Buffalo-style sauce made with sour cream, mayonnaise and herbs. A meal packed with flavour!
2. Grilled Eggplant Stuffed with Chickpeas
To make this recipe, cook the eggplant whole on the barbecue. Then remove the flesh and mix with garlic and chickpeas. Use the skin of the eggplant to hold the stuffing and sprinkle everything with tahini. An original and delicious recipe.
SUMMER COOKING
Grilled Eggplant Stuffed with Chickpeas
3. Savoury Fennel, Tomato and Olive Tart
A pie from scratch in the middle of summer? Sure, but on the barbecue! Use a pizza stone set on the grill and top the dough with seasoned fennel, cherry tomatoes from your garden and kalamata olives. Leave everything to bake for a few minutes. Cut into rough squares and you’re ready for Happy Hour!
QUICHES AND SAVOURY PIES
Savoury Fennel, Tomato and Olive Tart
4. Open-Faced Sandwiches with Cashew Spread, Tomatoes and Grilled Peppers
After a few rounds of Marco Polo in the pool, pause for lunch with these open-faced sandwiches that recall the summertime tomato sandwiches of your youth. The recipe includes a simple homemade cashew spread: soak the nuts, then purée them and enhance the flavour with nutritional yeast.
5. Corn with Garlic and Fennel Cream
Elevate your annual corn roast with this recipe for corn on the cob served with a velvety garlic and fennel cream that won’t make anyone miss salt and butter. As a final touch to make the dish even prettier, sprinkle it with fennel fronds and a pinch of Espelette pepper.
VEGETABLES AND GRATINEES
Corn with Garlic and Fennel Cream
6. Udon Noodles with Tofu and Green Beans
Your veggie patch is overflowing with green beans? Add them to a bowl of udon noodles and crumbled grilled tofu. Coat the noodles with a creamy sauce combining ketchup, soy sauce and peanut butter. A speedy recipe that’ll have you back to your activities on the lake in no time.
TOFU, SOY AND CO.
Udon Noodles with Tofu and Green Beans
7. Cucumber Melon Gazpacho
The pool isn’t enough to cool you down? Then count on these two seasonal ingredients that have enough freshness and water to cool down a furnace: cucumber and melon. Use them to make an ice-cold gazpacho, with plain yogurt and mint. To give a gorgeous shade of green to your soup, use honeydew melon, canary melon or yellow watermelon instead of the usual pink.
SOUPS AND BROTHS
Cucumber Melon Gazpacho
8. Feta and Cucumber Pita Sandwich
Before leaving for a bike ride, make super simple sandwiches with pita bread topped with feta cheese, fresh mint and thin ribbons of Lebanese cucumbers. Savour in the shade underneath a big tree.
NO-COOK MEALS
Feta and Cucumber Pita Sandwich
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