With a hat-tip to Cole Porter, when the thermometer goes manner up and the temperature is scorching scorching — it is no time to be slaving over the range.
Listed here are 10 solutions for maintaining it cool within the kitchen.
1. Exit to eat
Clearly, proper? That is the time of yr when you need to search for spicy meals (strive Namkeen in Chatham for a spicy hen sandwich or Jalwa in Montclair for Indian meals and nice lunch specials); or mild meals (Porter in Weehawken for small plates; True Meals Kitchen in Hackensack for plant-based eating); and darkish eating places (Tommy’s Tavern & Faucet in Clifton; The Quiet Man Irish Pub in Dover).
Or, put in your lightest linen shirt, get your hair off your neck and go someplace exterior, ideally close to the water. Attempt Marcus at NoHu Rooftop in Weehawken, The Windlass in Lake Hopatcong, or Haven Riverfront Restaurant & Bar, Edgewater.
2. Get takeout
A number of of our favorites lately: Dottie’s Hen Sandwich (primarily based in Nutley, Harrison and Jersey Metropolis), Jaipur Kitchen (will ship meals to your door) and Salt + Seed (vegan supply). Different solutions, readers?
3. Grill
(See above suggestion of sunshine linen clothes and hair tie.) Get your grill good and scorching and prepare dinner one thing that solely takes a couple of minutes. This isn’t the time to be kicking again with a beer and poking round at a pork shoulder cooking low within the smoker for 8 hours. Take into account flank steak (4 minutes a facet), sea scallops (2 minutes a facet) or seared tuna (30 seconds to 1 minute a facet for those who use Alton Brown’s methodology of a grill grate over a charcoal chimney). (Watch out with the flame on that final one.) Recommended cool sides? Iceberg lettuce wraps (for the steak, particularly for those who marinate with soy), arugula scattered with uncooked corn kernels (for the scallops) and microwaved rice-in-a-bag (for the tuna).
