6 Quick Pickles Recipes

Late summer means making the most of all those bushels of veggies and fruits so that you can enjoy them for as long as possible. Time to get pickled.

Grilled Zucchini with Mint Salsa

This healthy, low-carb side dish of grilled zucchini topped with punchy mint salsa verde makes excellent use of an abundance of summer zucchini.

1 hr

Homemade Cultured Butter

David recalls his first time making homemade butter and how he didn't notice the beauty right in front of his face. Recipe included.

18 hrs 15 mins

Blackberry Ice Cream

So exquisite it makes folks say "This recipe is a 10." and "Perfect." and "Gloriously smooth." and "Very rich." Blackberries, lime, and cream, and not much else.

10 hrs

Grilled Kale

Summer's answer to the kale chip. Chewy, nutty, smoky, healthy, and unfathomly impossible to resist.

15 mins

Easy Gazpacho

Perhaps the easiest gazpacho recipe ever, this Spanish classic will have you swearing off takeout all summer long.

20 mins

Green Bean Salad with Mint

This easy, make-ahead summer salad is proof that tomatoes and green beans are a match made in heaven.

1 hr 30 mins

Lemon Vinaigrette

Stylish on any salad, this versatile little number is a staple in every discerning cook's recipe wardrobe.

5 mins

Strawberry Rhubarb Jam

This small-batch refrigerator jam from the famed Sarabeth's Bakery takes barely any effort and just half an hour. And simply stash it in the fridge. No canning required.

30 mins

Plum Kuchen

Breakfast. Brunch. Dessert. Midnight nosh. Heck, there's no time of day or night that we don't welcome this classic plum kuchen.

4 hrs 30 mins

Portuguese Tomato Jelly

Summer tomatoes are turned into a sweet jelly that's a Portuguese classic. Use it as you would any jelly as well as with cheese plates.

1 hr 15 mins

Watermelon Limeade

Taken neat, on the rocks, or with a stealth shot of tequila, we think you'll find no fault with this drink that's designed for the dog days of summer.

1 hr 10 mins

Lemon Cucumber Cocktail

A gentle and genteel sipper, this libation draws on gin, cucumber, club soda, mint, and the lilt of lemon as a solution to lazy, languid summer nights.

10 mins

Baked Eggs

And you thought you didn't have time for breakfast. We're changing that with this handy dandy technique.

25 mins

Charred Corn Salad

You just found your next sweet corn infatuation that'll entice you night after night all the way through the end of summer.

30 mins

Blueberry Prosecco Spritz

Want to know what we're sipping all summer long? It's this easy cocktail of fresh blueberries, lemon juice, simple syrup, sparkling wine, and soda.

5 mins

Open-Face Egg Salad Sandwich

We know. You already have an egg salad sandwich recipe. But trust us, it's nothing like this one, which is whoppingly old school in taste, blissfully healthful in every other way.

15 mins

Pimm’s Cup for Wimbledon

A sprightly summer cocktail, this vibrant variant on a Pimm's Cup is a wham bam grand slam of booze, orange, lemon, cucumber, mint, and lemon-lime soda.

5 mins

Refrigerator Sweet Pickles

A Scandinavian-style pickle that's distinctly sweet, a little sour, and perfumed with dill. It doesn't even require turning on the stove during the dog days of summer.

6 hrs 15 mins