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Home | Recipes | Seasons | Summer | Page 16

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.
A tall cool glass of a winter mojito made with rum and a sugar syrup of rosemary, thyme, sage leaves.

Winter Mojito

1 hr 10 mins

A bowl of a little gem salad--made up of little gem lettuce, radishes, shallots, walnuts, and walnut vinaigrette

Little Gem Salad

20 mins

A yellow bowl filled with cowboy caviar salad with a bowl of tortilla chips on the side.

Cowboy Caviar Salad

30 mins

A platter of shish taouk or Middle Eastern grilled chicken and thighs slathered with a pomegranate-tamarind sauce

Shish Taouk ~ Middle Eastern Grilled Chicken

1 hr 30 mins

Shrimp Risotto

Shrimp Risotto

1 hr 45 mins

A white plate with cavatelli past topped with a roasted tomato sauce, fork on the side

Roasted Tomato Sauce and Pasta

35 mins

A white bowl filled with peach, burrata, and basil salad.

Peach, Burrata, and Basil Salad

15 mins

A tray of chicken thighs with balsamic barbecue sauce, corn on the cob, glasses of beer, forks, and plates

Chicken Thighs with Balsamic Barbecue Sauce

50 mins

Four bowls of curried crab corn chowder, filled with crab, corn, and a curried broth, on bread and spoons nearby

Curried Crab Corn Chowder

45 mins

Two blue glass plates with scoops of Turkish coffee ice cream, and a spoon

Turkish Coffee Ice Cream

3 hrs 30 mins

A bowl filled with Southern potato salad with a wooden spoon ad a scoop of salad on the side.

Southern Potato Salad with Duke’s Mayo

30 mins

Three scoops of watermelon sorbet in a white serving dish.

Watermelon Sorbet

20 mins

A cooked cherry tomato tart with a herbed crust on a red plate.

Cherry Tomato Tart

2 hrs 30 mins

A frosty metal pan full of dark chocolate ice cream on a counter covered with sprinkles.

Dark Chocolate Ice Cream

5 hrs

A pan with two handles filled with a Southern peach cobbler on a baking sheet

Southern Peach Cobbler

50 mins

An ice cream scoop with a scoop of easy fruit sorbet resting on top of a container of sorbet.

Easy Fruit Sorbet

3 hrs

Glass bowl filled with garlic shrimp, sautéed with oil, butter, chiles pepper, and garlic.

Garlic Shrimp

20 mins

A what plate with steamed lobster with drawn butter--claws, knuckles, and tail meat

Steamed Lobster with Drawn Butter

30 mins

A tangle of Japanese cucumber salad, made with cucumbers, mint, cilantro, and an rice vinegar dressing.

Japanese-Style Cucumber Salad

10 mins

Two plates of warm cabbage salad with fried crispy tofu, carrots, cilantro on woven placemats

Cabbage Salad with Crispy Tofu

45 mins

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