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Home | Recipes | Seasons | Summer | Page 17

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 wooden table with a pitcher and a green plate holding a chocolate bundt cake drizzled in chocolate ganache.

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

1 hr 35 mins

Cucumber Gimlet

15 mins

A black bowl filled with green beans, peas, and butter lettuce.

Green Bean and Pea Salad with Buttermilk Ranch Dressing

35 mins

Three ears of grilled Mexican-style street corn slathered with lime mayo and sprinkled with cilantro, cheese, hot sauce.

Elote ~ Mexican-Style Street Corn

35 mins

A slice of blueberry buckle with layers of blueberries and a crumb topping of butter, flour, sugar, cinnamon, and ginger

Blueberry Buckle

1 hr 35 mins

A white plate of zucchini linguine--with pasta, zucchini, garlic, capers, mint, dill, and cheese with a fork

Zucchini Linguine

30 mins

Three glasses of ultimate margarita with lime wedges.

Ultimate Margarita

10 mins

Two chicken enchiladas with green sauce in a black shallow bowl with cubed avocado, sour cream, cilantro, and a lime half.

Chicken Enchilada with Green Sauce

1 hr 45 mins

A cheese crusted grilled cheese sandwich in a skillet.

Cheese-Crusted Grilled Cheese

15 mins

Spring salad with shallot vinaigrette with sliced radishes, avocados, and chives on three plates.

Spring Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette

20 mins

Pieces of browned chicken topped with garlic and rosemary leaves on a white oval platter.

Roman Chicken Cacciatore (No Tomatoes)

1 hr 30 mins

A white plate topped with endive, blue cheese, pears, and walnuts

Endive, Blue Cheese, and Pear Salad

20 mins

Bowl of stir-fried chunks of Chinese chicken, Sichuan peppercorns, celery, ginger, garlic

Chicken Stir Fry with Sichuan Peppercorns

25 mins

A white bowl piled with spicy shrimp and a red bowl of white rice

Hunan Hot-and-Spicy Shrimp

1 hr 10 mins

A clay pot of chunks of Vietnamese caramel chicken in ginger sauce, topped with cilantro

Vietnamese Caramel Chicken

1 hr

A spice-rubbed whole Instant Pot rotisserie-style chicken on a sheet of parchment paper on a wooden board.

Instant Pot Rotisserie-Style Chicken

1 hr

A blue and white bowl filled with shrimp and grits.

Southern Shrimp and Grits

1 hr 25 mins

Salted caramel ice cream in a loaf pan on a pattern baking sheet with a scoop and scooper on top.

Salted Caramel Ice Cream

17 hrs 30 mins

A bowl filled with Chinese chicken salad--greens, chicken, cilantro, and mandarin orange segments with chopsticks on the side

Chinese Chicken Salad

1 hr

Three crockery bowls filled with cooked shrimp with smoked paprika oil

Shrimp with Smoked Paprika

15 mins

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