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Home | Recipes | Seasons | Summer | Page 20

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 black metal skillet with a spatula ready to flip a Welsh rarebit grilled cheese sandwich.

Welsh Rarebit Grilled Cheese

22 mins

Cajun chicken and sausage gumbo with a serving of rice, in a white bowl with a spoon.

Cajun Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

2 hrs 45 mins

People gathered around a cast-iron skillet on a wooden board with some spaghetti and red sauce.

Sugo di Pomodoro ~ Authentic Italian Tomato Sauce

45 mins

Three glasses of classic mojito, with two lime wedges and a jar of sugar beside them.

Classic Mojito

5 mins

A cake with a slice removed covered with white frosting on a striped plate.

Summer Squash and Banana Cake

4 hrs

Two pieces of Peruvian chicken on a white plate with green sauce and a lime wedge.

Peruvian Chicken

1 hr

A container of green avocado sorbet ona slate surface.

Avocado Sorbet

15 mins

A metal pie plate with two slices of roasted tomato quiche, some crumbs of crust and a fork.

Roasted Tomato Quiche

2 hrs

A rack of barbecue beef ribs, with four sliced off the end.

Barbecue Beef Ribs

1 d 3 hrs

A patterned plate topped with a Moroccan salad made with sliced oranges and tomatoes, black olives, and sliced red onion.

Moroccan Salad

15 mins

Pieces of perfectly grilled fish made with the technique explained in 'how to grill fish', on a rimmed baking sheet with a metal spatula.

How To Grill Fish

25 mins

BBQ dry rub seasoning spilling out of a jar.

BBQ Dry Rub

5 mins

A beer battered chicken sandwich topped with slaw on a white plate on top of a paper napkin on a wooden table with a glass of beer in the background.

Beer-Battered Chicken Sandwich

5 hrs 40 mins

A hand holding a grilled fish taco topped with cilantro that is wrapped in a paper napkin.

Grilled Fish Tacos

55 mins

A platter of Spanish-style deep-fried chicken wings on a wooden table with a bowl of wing bones on the side.

Spanish-Style Deep-Fried Chicken Wings

40 mins

A spoon resting in a dish of cornmeal drop-biscuit peach cobbler.

Old-Fashioned Peach Cobbler

1 hr 45 mins

Two whole grilled trout on a grate over an ope fire with a dish of mushrooms and two grilled lemon halves on the side.

Grilled Trout

40 mins

Steamer Clam Chowder in a white soup bowl on a wooden kitchen table surrounded by oyster crackers.

Steamer Clam Chowder from New England

2 hrs 30 mins

Four scoops of blueberry frozen yogurt in a wooden bowl with a spoon resting beside it.

Blueberry Frozen Yogurt

3 hrs

A white plate of larb--salad greens, ground beef, onions, and cashews.

Thai Beef Salad ~ Larb

30 mins

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