Happy August! Just think in a month and a half it will be autumn! Maybe the weather will cool down. I am not a summer person and I long for the days when I can make any sort of dinner I want, not just the ones that don’t heat up the kitchen.

One way to beat the kitchen heat is to dine out. John and I went out to lunch at a Thai restaurant on Thursday. We enjoyed our favorite dish, Thai basil eggplant with tofu. Whatever town or city we may be passing through we often check out the local Thai restaurant to try their version of this dish.

Since the portion size was plentiful I took half of my lunch home and ate it for dinner. Doing this made our dining out more economical and I did not have to heat up the kitchen cooking! (John ate leftover chicken enchiladas from Monday.)