Leite's Culinaria

Reason number #456 to love summer? This luxuriously decadent yet relatively marginally healthful chocolate zucchini cake. Seriously.

This cucumber gimlet, made with gin, cucumber, simple syrup, and lime, is a classic cocktail with a twist. Or rather, a slice--of cucumber!

Ice cream bars are a very, very personal thing. Which is exactly why we love this approach, which essentially allows you to make whatever custom combination of store-bought ice cream, chocolate, and coatings you fancy.

If in the beginning there was pie, it was probably chess pie seeing as it comes together soooooo simply from pantry staples.

Tired of steamed green beans? One taste of this salad and you'll understand why folks who try it for the first time are making it again and again and again that very same week.

Not only is this eggplant Parmesan gluten-free, it's also one of the best you'll ever taste and easiest you'll ever make.

This chocolate icebox cake is intensely flavored with chocolate and rum and lined with ladyfingers. Make the cake a day a head and keep it in the icebox.

Summer at its simplest, not to mention it's most splendid, seeing as how five minutes of effort yields a meal that rivals round-trip tickets to Italy.