Marge wrote:

> We've been eating lots of already roasted chicken and salad in order to
> cut out the cooking because of the heat this summer.
>
> I'd love some suggestions for dishes that don't take a lot of cooking.
> We live in the city and don't have a grill. We do have a microwave.

One of the things I miss from my childhood days is the cottage cheese fruit
salads my mother used to serve on hot days, a good dollop of cottage cheese
on a leaf of lettuce, a marchino cherry on the top and some sliced canned
pears on the side, along with a hard boiled egg or deviled egg, some sweet
pickles or gherkins, maybe some salmon salad or tuna salad.

I suppose I could whip one up for myself but we never seem to have cottage
cheese around the house because m wife doesn't like it much, and because
she is a carnivore and doesn't consider anything a proper dinner unless
there is meat on the plate.