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Summer Sunday Dinner suggestions

It being August and a Long Lazy Summer day, staying out of the heat and planning a great Sunday dinner maybe on your mind. I found this article Master the Art of the Summery Sunday Supper With These Light & Bright Recipes from http://www.bonappetit.com
And even a book about Summer Sunday Dinners

Summer Cooking - avoiding the heat

The other big thing about cooking in the summer heat is avoiding the heavy cooking and stove heat. Lots of recipes for the summer involve little or no heat in the preparation, or outdoor cooking, of cold foods. I went looking around for a few such themed cooking resources.
From the folks at CookingLight I found Superfast Summer Recipes
From Racheal Ray I found 15 Fast Summer Recipes
From CookingChannel I found LIGHT SUMMER DINNER RECIPES
From Amazon.com here are a few summer cookbooks:

And then also you might want to order some special fresh ingredients from these suppliers/grocers:

And finally if you are on the road or planning a trip you might make use of BoAppeTour to locate great local dining and networking:

I've been caught amidst a heat wave ... so I am thinking about desert territory foods

When you're living in the hot and dry there are certain classes of food that come to my for pragmatic reasons.
Because of that, today I have picked Arizona as my center of the regional cooking theme :)
Click here to check out Recipes from Arizona
In particular replacing salts and supplementing hot spices is said to be good in hot dry climates for your health, and to aid in body heat reduction by sweating.
Here are a few cook books for Arizon recipes I found:

The books above are available through Amazon.com

Ozarks Mountain Life cooking

18 Ozark Country Recipes found in Midwestliving.com brings to mind the food I encounter when I visit Branson, MO and parts nearby. The food is Homestyle, hearty, based on local grains, fruits, and vegetables. Meat is pork and chicken, although beef is not out of the question.
Here are a few Ozark Cook Books I found in various formats:

or check out more at Amazon.com

Foods that Mean TEXAS!!!!

When I moved to Texas 25 years ago, I had never visited, short of my job interview, and had only outsider views of what Texas food meant. Hot, spicy, beef and tacos. An ignorant view, but then again I was sure every food chain, and grocery item would be available, so it didn't scare me.
After only a little exposure to Texas, I discovered that TexMex was more or less any meat grilled in open smoke, plus Mexican which means beans, rice, cheese, lettuce, tomato, peppers, maybe meat and the whole served on a tortilla folded, spindled, or mutilated and given a spanish name :)
But now after years of exposure I have come to really appreciate the abundance of Texas specific cuisine, as well as the everything from around the world available in any large metropolitan area.
But since this blog is about the regional foods, I thought I would find a good reference to all the classical foods than mean TEXAS. So here is s good reference, although mind you the source is from further north than I'd prefer 12 essential Texas foods and drinks as per The Dallas Morning News. Note that these quitessential Texas foods are available in just about every well traveled roadside food trailer, and Bar and Grill to some degree of quality ALL OVER TEXAS. Most of these places have at least one dish that is good enough to keep the customers coming and the doors open.
Texas is where I learned to like Avocados, tortillas in everything, brisket and BBQ'd "everything". If you're not from Texas, here are a few cook books to get your Texas cooking up and running, Y'all.

All Available from Amazon.com