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Home | Recipes | Seasons | Summer | Page 15

500+ Summer Recipes for a Sizzlingly Hot Season

Time to furlough the oven, let that beast of a grill do the work, and to actually use up all that gorgeous produce before it pulls a “Little Shop of Horrors” on you.

Few things capture peak-season flavor better than this Zucchini, Peach, and Burrata Pizza—proof that summer’s oddest hookups are always its best. For company, I go straight for these Grilled Skirt Steak Tacos, always delicious, always impressive. When it’s too hot to fuss, Easy Grilled Vegetable Salad is the kind of recipe that keeps the kitchen—and you—from schvitzing. For dessert, nothing beats this Easy Strawberry Icebox Cake or ice cream, ice cream, ice cream!

So, grab your tongs, pour something cold (like this Homemade Lemonade, or a bucket full of Tinto de Verano), and get your butt out there, kids!

A whole strawberry ice cream pie in a fluted tart pan.
Two racks of barbecued baby back ribs, and a third rack cut into individual ribs, resting on a knife.

Barbecued Baby Back Ribs

6 hrs

A tray with 18 grilled chicken wings with maple bourbon sauce.

Grilled Chicken Wings with Maple Bourbon Sauce

1 hr 15 mins

2 chicken gyros filled with romaine, chicken, tomatoes, red onion, pepperoncinis, and tzatziki, with a bowl of tzatziki next to it.

Chicken Gyros

2 hrs 45 mins

An oval platter topped with Greek salad - sliced cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, peppers, and feta cheese.

Greek Salad

1 hr 15 mins

A canning jar filled with cherry liqueur and whole cherries, with a pot of liqueur and many cherry stones beside it.

Homemade Cherry Liqueur

2 d

A grilled whole trout in a cast-iron skillet with sliced potatoes, parsley, and lemon

Grilled Whole Trout

1 hr

Portuguese Salt Cod and Chickpea Salad on a white plate with a silver serving spoon resting on the edge of theplate.

Portuguese Salt Cod and Chickpea Salad

2 hrs 30 mins

A tall glass of frozen margarita with a salt rim and lime wheel beside a bowl of chips and guacamole.

Frozen Margarita

10 mins

A bowl inside another bowl filled with Thai chicken salad with peanut dressing on the side.

Thai-Inspired Chicken Salad with Peanut Dressing

30 mins

A partially carved ham on a platter with a bottle of ginger beer and a jar of sauce in the background.

Instant Pot Ham with Ginger Peach Glaze

1 hr

A white baking dish filled with zucchini strata

Zucchini Strata

1 hr 30 mins

A woman spooning a portion of slow cooker Indian butter chicken and rice into a white bowl

Slow Cooker Indian Butter Chicken

5 hrs 25 mins

An oval serving bowl filled with German potato salad

German Potato Salad

1 hr 25 mins

Two bowls filled with chicken biriyani on a blue cloth

Chicken Biriyani

10 hrs 50 mins

A grilled cheese sandwich cut into cubes of grilled cheese croutons.

Ina Garten’s Grilled Cheese Croutons

10 mins

A serving of chicken and preserved lemon salad on a blue plate.

Chicken and Preserved Lemon Salad

1 hr 50 mins

Catalan lamb skewers on sliced cucumbers topped with a romesco sauce

Sofregit ~ Catalan Tomato Sauce

2 hrs 10 mins

Gray speckled bowl of beet salad with feta and pumpkin seeds, along with spinach and sliced red onions.

Beet Salad with Feta and Pumpkin Seeds

3 hrs 15 mins

A tumbler filled with amber liquid and a teapot in the foreground.

Therapeutic Drink to Ward Off Colds

15 mins

A glass jar filled with a layered Vietnamese chicken salad.

Vietnamese-Style Chicken Salad

1 hr 30 mins

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