Summer Recipes

Finally, it’s summer! Time to embrace casual living, cookouts, and garden abundance. Get recipes for grilling, home canning, super-fresh salads, frozen desserts, cooling drinks, and all the foods that make summer so special.

Basil Pesto Sauce

Fresh Basil Pesto

Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil

Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil

Ceviche with fish, onion, tomatoes, and chilis in a bowl

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Baked eggplant parmesan in a casserole dish.

Eggplant Parmesan

Fresh Cucumber Salad in a bowl with herbs

Easy Cucumber Salad

How to Make Pina Colada in a blender with less ice

Overhead view of a plate of green tomatoes that have been breaded and fried.

Fried Green Tomatoes

A large mason jar of easy homemade horchata with a cinnamon stick inside is in front of a similar glass and a pitcher of homemade horchata. A small bowl of rice and cinnamon sticks are to the left.

tomato salsa in a bowl showing chopped tomatoes and onion

Pico de Gallo (Fresh Salsa)

Tomatillo Salsa Verde

Tomatillo Salsa Verde

Tandoori Chicken

Tandoori Chicken

Easy cold brew with milk in a tall glass

How To Make Cold Brew Coffee

Best Chayote squash with Tomato and Green Chiles

Chayote Squash With Tomato and Green Chiles

A tall glass of ginger ale soda with a bowl of sliced limes next to it.

Homemade Ginger Ale

Blistered Shishito or Padron Peppers in a bowl

Blistered Shishito Peppers

Bread and Butter Pickles

Bread and Butter Pickles

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

Green beans, sauteed with bacon and served on a plate

Green Beans with Bacon

How To make Crepes

How To Make French Crêpes

Roasted Zucchini with garlic and black pepper on a serving platter

Roasted Zucchini with Garlic

Zucchini muffins cooling on a rack.

Zucchini Muffins

How to Grill Pizza

How to Grill Pizza

Finished seafood paella from the grill in a skillet ready to serve

Overhead shot of a homemade keylime pie, covered with whipped cream and with a linen beside

A serving spoon with homemade cream corn inside.

Overhead view of primavera pasta in a bowl with a navy linen underneath.

Classic Pasta Primavera

A bowl of zucchini fritters set on a white background.

Zucchini Fritters

Maryland Crabcakes wtih greens and lemon wedges on a white plate wtih mayo

Pickled Beets

Agua de Jamaica, Hibiscus Tea

Agua de Jamaica (Hibiscus Iced Tea)

Easy oven-roasted beets in a serving bowl

Roasted Beets with Balsamic Glaze

A crumb topped easy shoofly pie.

A jar of homemade pickles

How to Make Easy Refrigerator Pickles

Overhead view of a bowl of a shrimp ceviche recipe.

Easy peach cobbler served in a bowl

Triangle cut cucumber tea sandwiches are stacked on a cake stand and encircled with fresh herbs. Sliced cucucumbers are visible inside each one.

Cucumber Sandwiches

Escabeche (Pickled Jalapenos) in pint jars, canned with carrots and cauliflower

Escabeche (Pickled Jalapeños)

Oysters on the grill to show how to grill oysters.

Grilled Oysters with Spicy Miso Butter

Homemade cherry pop cocktail with fresh cherries and lemon set next to it.

Cherry Pop Cocktail

Two summery peach margaritas on a white tray with a whole peach next to it.

Peach Margarita

Blender strawberry lemonade served in a glass and in a pitcher with lemon slices and strawberries set around it.

Strawberry Lemonade

Best frozen margarita in a blue rimmed glass with limes in front and another glass and linen behind it.

Pitcher Frozen Margaritas

The top bun set to the side of the BEST spicy buffalo chicken burger.

Spicy Buffalo Chicken Burgers

Nacho Mexican Burger with a side of fries.

Best bacon cheeseburger set on a wood board outside.

Bacon Cheeseburger

A slice of Strawberry Layer Cake Made with Fresh Strawberries on a plate with a fork.

Old-Fashioned Strawberry Layer Cake

Bourbon Cherry Crisp with a serving removed from the baking dish.

Bourbon Cherry Crisp

Blueberry Cake

Chocolate penaut butter pie topped with whipped cream and peanut butter cups.

Peanut Butter Pie

Overhead view of a homemade coconut cream pie with a slice removed and set on a plate to the right.

Coconut Cream Pie

Homemade Tomato Juice

Homemade Tomato Juice

Overhead view of easy blackberry cobbler in a baking dish with a spoon set where a serving was removed.

Blackberry Cobbler

How to make a hurricane cocktail

Hurricane Cocktail

Beet Greens

Coffee Ice Cream scoops in a bowl

Coffee Ice Cream

Green Bean Salad on a platter.

Green Bean Salad with Basil, Balsamic, and Parmesan

Bee's Knees simple cocktail recipe with gin and honey and lemon

Bee's Knees Cocktail

A platter of whole romaine in a romaine salad.

Grilled Romaine Lettuce

Milk being poured into a glass of iced chai

Iced Chai Latte

Easy Lavender Lemonade

Lavender Lemonade

Classic Margarita

Classic Margarita

Gluten Free Greek Pasta Salad

Greek Pasta Salad

Fresh Plum Cobbler

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