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Home | Recipes | Seasons | Summer | Page 18

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.
Four chicken enchiladas in a nonstick skillet, topped with scallions.

Skillet Chicken Enchiladas

1 hr 15 mins

A Dutch oven filled with a cherry tomato confit of Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, oil, and fresh basil leaves.

Cherry Tomato Confit

1 hr 15 mins

Five ears of grilled corn on the cob with chipotle butter on a white wooden board.

Grilled Corn on the Cob with Chipotle Butter

1 hr

A white plate white 2 pieces of fish, one sliced and one whole with crisp skin attached. Garnished with slices of lemon, lime, and parsley.

Pan-Seared Fish Fillet

15 mins

A round blue plate topped with rainbow chard salad, candied nuts, and creamy dressing.

Rainbow Chard Salad

30 mins

A jar of pickled watermelon rind on a rack with a dish and spoon beside it.

Pickled Watermelon Rind

12 hrs

A woman holding a wooden tray with 3 breakfast burgers topped with eggs.

Breakfast Burger

45 mins

Two individual blueberry pies on on a wooden table with forks beside them.

Blueberry Pie

2 hrs

A bowl of creamy crab soup drizzled with cream, and sprinkled with pepper, with a crab leg sticking out of it.

Creamy Crab Soup

3 hrs 30 mins

A blue background with a white bowl filled with sliced peaches, tomatoes, red onions, basil, and chunks of bread.

Tomato and Peach Panzanella

1 hr

A black platter with several grilled chicken tacos with fruit salsa, a few cherry tomatoes, and a wooden board with cut chicken, halved plums, and queso fresco.

Grilled Chicken Tacos with Fruit Salsa

6 hrs

A pile of barbecue pickles next to some barbecued meat and a fork.

Barbecue Pickles

10 mins

A person squeezing North Carolina barbecue sauce from a plastic bottle onto a sandwich.

North Carolina Vinegar Barbecue Sauce

1 hr 15 mins

Three pulled pork grilled cheese sandwiches stacked on top of each other and secured with a wooden skewer.

Pulled Pork Grilled Cheese

10 mins

Two BBQ pulled pork tacos in a cardboard dish with a bear and a dish of coleslaw on the side.

BBQ Pulled Pork Tacos

1 hr 25 mins

Two ancho fish tacos in a metal dish with lime wedges and chipotle mayo on the side.

Ancho Fish Tacos

40 mins

A fried boneless chicken thigh drizzle with honey on a white plate with a fork next to it.

Fried Boneless Chicken Thighs

1 d 2 hrs

A bowl filled with zucchini risotto and a spoon resting inside.

Zucchini Risotto

2 hrs 15 mins

Two plates topped with kimchi tacos with glasses of beer and a bowl of guacamole on the side.

Kimchi Tacos

1 d 30 mins

A bowl of buffalo chicken wings with a bottle of beer, a shot glass of raw vegetables, and a cup of dip on the side.

Buffalo Chicken Wings

2 hrs 30 mins

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