Seasonal Recipes: Summer
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Caprese Recipe With Crispy Polenta Croutons
In this recipe, classic caprese salad goes from side dish to main, all thanks to a tube of precooked polenta. Sliced and fried, it's the ideal weeknight sidekick. Scatter the polenta croutons alongside sliced tomatoes, torn mozzarella, and fresh basil, then dress everything in a simple combination of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. It's a delightful summer dinner. But for a heartier meal just add grilled chicken, shrimp, or tofu.
Tomato and Cherry Quinoa With Pistachios
This simple recipe—a seriously good celebration of high summer—deserves the very best tomatoes you can find. A mix of size, color and flavor works really well, but if you have a bowlful of one excellent variety, don’t hesitate. The quick-pickled shallots are a wonderful thing: make them once and you’ll find any number of uses for them.
Summer’s Best Tomato Sauce Isn’t Cooked; It’s Smashed
There’s a time and place for slowly simmering tomato sauces; but summer’s not it. Now to answer some questions: No, the sauce isn’t watery. And yes, it’s as rich and flavorful as any of its cooked tomato sauce counterparts. Here’s how to make the best, easy, summery tomato sauce.
Tomatoes With Brown Butter
One of the best ways to serve fresh tomatoes is with brown butter, black pepper, and salt. There is something about the nuttiness of brown butter that takes peak-season tomatoes to a whole new level. Use brown tomatoes here, which have a meatier, more robust, umami-forward taste than green, red, or orange types. To dress this dish up, feel free to add a few briny capers, delicate slivers of shaved sweet onion, a scattering of earthy chanterelle mushrooms, or petite leaves of fresh basil.
Zucchini Risotto Recipe
Wondering what to do with all that summer zucchini Put it in some risotto. Zucchini can be a challenge to cook. It’s watery and dense, so can be hard to properly brown or grill. But it's also nutrient-dense, gorgeously green, and abundant at the height of summer. So instead of working against the inherently soggy nature of the summer squash, lean into it. This silk risotto, a dish that loves to stay hydrated, is the ideal place to put your bounty of summer zucchini to work.
Use Your Summer Zucchini Supply to Make This Silky Risotto
Zucchini is nutrient-dense, gorgeously green, and—of course—quite watery. Some recipes will try to work against the inherent sogginess of the summer squash, but this risotto leans into it instead. Risotto, a dish that loves to stay hydrated, is the ideal place to put your bounty of summer zucchini to work. Here's your new favorite summer risotto recipe.
Herby Green Goddess Potato Salad
This herby spin on a potato salad recipe leans into a green goddess-esque sauce. Tender herbs get blitzed into zingy sour cream and luscious mayo, with lemon zest and juice for brightness. The skins are left on the potatoes for texture. Use any small variety of potatoes you want (fingerlings, baby gold, or creamers). This side dish tastes best after chilling in the fridge for a couple of hours. It’ll be easy to pop it in your summer picnic bag. Finish with more herbs and olive oil if you like.
46 Tomato Recipes to Make While Summer Is Hot
These fresh tomato recipes showcase the best ways to serve the juicy orbs as soon as they’re finally tasting great at local markets. While it is absolutely valid to simply slice and salt a juicy tomato in season, our best tomato recipes go a step further, letting the savory-sweet flavor of peak season tomatoes shine in easy salads, summery pastas, and cooling bowls of gazpacho. Here are 46 of our very best tomato recipes.
53 Memorial Day Dessert Recipes for a Sweet Start to Summer
Memorial Day desserts are really the highlight of the holiday. It’s the ideal moment to enjoy strawberry shortcake, anything made with rhubarb, or your first ice pop of the season. Kicking off summertime right means selecting the best Memorial Day menu—your grilled food, your salty snacks, your summery drinks, and definitely some easy homemade sweets. Here are our best Memorial Day dessert recipes, including simple cakes, bar cookies, ice cream sandwiches, fruit pies, and more.
Our 29 Favorite Cucumber Recipes
Looking for creative ways to incorporate cucumber into your meals? Our favorite cucumber recipes will set you on the right path. Whether you’re growing cucumbers in your garden or came across some particularly nice ones at the farmers market or grocery store, you’ll want to make these fresh salads, tangy pickles, and towering sandwiches—all have a welcome cucumber crunch. Here are our very best cucumber recipes.
Pasta With No-Cook Zucchini Sauce
Made with cut zucchini that is salted and marinated in a flavorful mixture of olive oil, lemon, garlic, and basil, plus tangy cream cheese for richness, this recipe is proof that a satisfying pasta can be made with minimal cooking. It's the perfect dinner recipe if you don't know what to do with all that summer squash. Plus it's great for those hot days when you don't want to cook over the stove for too long.
Som Thum Tua-Thai (Som-Thum-Style Green Beans) Recipe
Som thum is a popular Thai green papaya salad with many regionally specific variations. But green papaya isn't always readily available where you may live. So this recipe swaps in green beans—for accessibility, but also because the texture and flavor are really next-level. This green bean salad is great as a sidekick to char-grilled chicken or barbecue pork and some thum is commonly eaten with cabbage wedges and sticky rice too.
Yum Khai Dao (Fried Egg Salad) Recipe
This Thai salad highlights bold, bright flavors, pairing lacy fried eggs, a punchy dressing, and fresh vegetables. Most people may associate egg salads with a mixture of hard-boiled eggs tossed with mayonnaise, but this is very different. Texturally, the salad is a party. The dish makes a great complement to larger meals but is equally as delicious enjoyed simply with a plate of steamed rice where the velvety yolk contrasts the spicy dressing.
23 Best Potato Salad Recipes for Parties, Potlucks, and Picnics
Here are all the potato salad recipes you need this summer. We've put together a list for you that covers all of your bases. So whether you’re looking for a classic Southern potato salad, a German-style salad, or something new altogether, we’ve got you covered. Get ready to be the “potato salad person” forever after you’ve brought your new favorite to your next barbecue or potluck.
37 Best Corn Recipes for Making the Most of Every Ear
We’ve compiled all of our favorite corn recipes (grilled, on the cob, and all the corn salads you can eat), plus new ideas for how to use up your summer corn supply. We also have a helpful guide for how to buy fresh corn and store it for the sweetest flavor.