PITTSBURGH — Summer is a time when many of us eat at least some of our meals outdoors, which means looking for bright and delicious dishes that hold up to the rigors of car travel.
Those trips can come in the form of rolling out to a cookout or neighborhood get-together, but warm and sunny weather and kids being home from school also inspires impromptu picnics and trips to the pool too — or maybe the beach or mountains, if you’re lucky.
No one can blame you if you’d rather silence a growling stomach with something quick from a drive-thru, but homemade eats are almost always cheaper and healthier than ones you get from a fast food or even a fast-casual restaurant.
Packing a picnic basket or cooler with scratch salads, sandwiches and desserts that you can reach for whenever you get the munchies on route is also quicker for those of us who like to get where they’re going in the shortest amount of time possible.
I used to shake my head at my mother whenever she would limit my dad to just an ice cream cone for lunch or dinner when they traveled. But now that I’m a weekend road warrior myself, I think she might have been on to something.