Leite's Culinaria

This grilled bavette steak is quickly cooked over a screaming hot fire to a perfect medium-rare. Then it's topped with buttery achingly sweet caramelized shallots. Life is good!

Whether you've been grilling for years or you're just firing up for the first time, we've got some delish recipes for you. Fire is good!

Round out your Fourth of July celebration meal with one (or more!) of these easy side dishes.

Crisp fried chicken and cool sweet tea. A combination of the South's two fave things in which a 24-hour marinade subtly suffuses the chicken with the summeriness of tea and lemon.

There's more than one way to make a burger. And we've collected darn near all of the ways worth knowing.

A modern riff on the classic Italian cocktail. The addition of orange-flavored hard seltzer gives your drink a refreshing, and unexpected, upgrade.

Want to fuss with flag-shaped desserts? Go right ahead. Not us. We'll wave these simpler patriotic pleasures instead.

Pretty much exactly what you think of as quintessential potato salad—potatoes, eggs, relish, mayo, celery. Who needs bells and whistles when you have perfection?

Anyone else ready for another weekend? If so, we've got an especially seasonal riff on the sultry Spanish sipper that'll get everyone in the mood...for what, you tell us.

An homage to the pies of summer, whether cherry or stone fruit, old-fashioned or new-fangled, obscenely indulgent or simply satisfying.

We're bringing back fusion cuisine in style with this unabashedly American burger and its Spanish-inspired accoutrements.