Tee's Kitchen - Keeping Cool Regarding Summer Foods

Today I'm talking with Christi at Tee’s Kitchen.

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00:00 You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters, and topics adjacent. I'm your host, Mary Lewis.  A Tiny Homestead podcast is sponsored by Homegrown Collective, a free to use farm to table platform, emphasizing local connections with ability to sell online, buy, sell, trade in local garden groups, and help us grow a new food system.  You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. Today I'm talking with Christi.

00:27 at Tee's Kitchen in Louisiana. And Christi was a guest on my podcast back, I think, in March.  And it was cold and snowy and gross, and we're rolling into summer.  So Christi and I are going to talk about some  less hot,  cooler summer dishes that we can maybe introduce people to so they can make their electric bill go down.  Good morning, Christi. How are you? Good morning. I'm great. I'm so excited to be back on. I had so much fun. had

00:56 Such a great conversation the last time.  We did and I listened to it this morning because I was like, what exactly did we talk about? And I was like, oh my God, I still love this lady. She's fantastic.  Oh, I feel the same way about you. Thank you. Good.  I just I make so many new friends who I probably will never meet through the podcast. And my husband says, so what new friend did you make today? love that. I'm like, oh, well, do you really want to know? And he's like,

01:25 Kind of?  And I give him the short version. He's like, I'm so glad that you have people that you get to talk with all over the place. He said, because  you need that. I'm like, I do. I really do need that. So it's wonderful. you're in Louisiana. We're rolling into summer. We're not quite there yet, according to the calendar, but it's literally a week or so away.  And  we've had some really hot days so far here this spring in Minnesota. I'm guessing  Louisiana hasn't been any different.

01:55 Louisiana has been really, really hot.  We're approaching 100 degrees here and it's just,  the humidity is insane. So it's pretty hot here.  So it's summer here as far as I'm concerned. Okay.  So how do you combat that when it comes to feeding your family? I have lots of ideas, but I want to hear yours first.  Well, we,  you know, we, we try to grill outside, but then again, it's very hot. We always have to have a fan going.

02:25 Um, so I try to do meals that I don't have to  use my oven as much, or if I have to use my oven, it's like a shorter period of time. Um, because it just, it gets really, really hot in my house. We do a lot of like,  uh, rice cooker meals. do,  uh,  one pan sheet pan meals. Sometimes I use my air fryer, but I don't like to use it for, it's not big enough for the whole family.  Um, yeah, we grill just simple quick meals, I would say.

02:55 Okay, well, let's back up just a titch. The first thing I would tell anybody right now in the climate that we're all living in, meaning weather  and government, is