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Home | Recipes | Seasons | Summer | Page 23

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 cake pan of golden brown cornbread with a slice removed

Cornbread

45 mins

Three burger buns topped with sesame seeds on a wooden surface.

Burger Buns

1 hr 45 mins

A black oval dish filled with watermelon salad with Aleppo pepper and black olives.

Watermelon Salad with Aleppo Pepper

15 mins

Two barbecue pork burgers with slaw and barbecue sauce stacked on top of each other.

Barbecue Pork Burger

30 mins

A frozen gin fizz in a martini glass with an orange stir stick and a little piece of lemon on the rim.

Frozen Gin Fizz

5 mins

A small pot with a small amount of spicy bourbon barbecue sauce left in it and a spoon resting inside.

Spicy Bourbon BBQ Sauce

2 hrs 40 mins

Sticky pork ribs cut into individual ribs on a piece of parchment with a knife.

Sticky Pork Ribs

13 hrs 10 mins

A white bowl being filled with Bobby Flay's barbecue sauce.

Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Sauce

1 hr

A silver spoon holding a large scoop of the milkiest chocolate ice cream in the world.

Milkiest Chocolate Ice Cream

45 mins

A bowl of five spice chicken wings.

Five-Spice Chicken Wings

40 mins

A plastic container filled with vanilla bean ice cream with a metal ice cream scoop resting in it.

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

1 d 1 hr

Two skewers of grilled shrimp with piri-piri sauce in a dish on the side.

Grilled Shrimp with Piri-Piri Sauce

3 hrs

A spoonful of black coffee ice cream on the tip of a silver spoon.

Black Coffee Ice Cream

35 mins

Black pottery bowl filled with the Chinese dish gung bao chicken

Gung Bao Chicken

35 mins

A person carrying a decorative blue and white serving platter loaded with five-spice grilled pork chops.

Five-Spice Grilled Pork Chops

1 hr 15 mins

A glass of lemon cucumber cocktail with a sprig of mint, a lemon wheel, and a slice of cucumber.

Lemon Cucumber Cocktail

10 mins

Shrimp with three dipping sauces piled on a platter, beside a glass of ale

Shrimp with Three Dipping Sauces

40 mins

A couple slices of plum-blueberry upside-down cake on a white plate with a knife resting on the edge of the plate.

Plum-Blueberry Upside-Down Cake

1 hr 30 mins

A wooden cutting board with a carved grilled Greek chicken and a knife resting beside it.

Grilled Greek Chicken

1 d 55 mins

A peach and crème fraîche pie sitting on a window sill with a pitcher nearby.

Peach and Crème Fraîche Pie

2 hrs 25 mins

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