Summer

If you have a batch of our Chile Crisp at the ready, you can make this summery, no-fuss pantry salad in just 5 minutes.

AKA fruit sandos, the delightfully squishy Japanese dessert we can’t get enough of.

Featuring cornmeal AND fresh corn kernels.

High in B vitamins, cucumbers both cool and calm you.

A delicious almond crust is the perfect complement to this beautiful, summery berry tart.

Pantry pasta at its best.

We like to think of this refreshing sangria as spa water but with a little buzz!

The ultimate dinner-to-desk lunch dish.

This silky dessert is clutch when the peaches are perfect but it's too hot to bake.

When tomato season rolls around, this no-cook tomato pasta is our ace in the hole.

To test boiled potatoes for doneness, use a skewer or the tines of a fork rather than the tip of a knife so you know they’re truly tender (a knife slides through the flesh way too easily). To test boiled eggs for doneness—wait, you can’t! Just make sure the eggs are room temperature when you drop them in the water (otherwise they’re prone to cracking), set a timer right away, and have an ice bath at the ready.

This recipe makes just enough salsa verde to coat one bag of chips, but it's so tasty and versatile that we always make a double batch. If you can, choose a heftier chip that will hold up when stirred into the sauce.

This is a perfect recipe to make when you have bought too many tomatoes at the market and they are starting to show their age.

Cooking bacon in the oven on a sheet tray is so hands-off, so splatter-free, and so easy, it just might convince you to eat a lot more bacon in the future.

Quickly boiling the agave thickens it a bit; adding the strawberries while it’s still warm infuses the syrup with flavor and a pretty pink color. Blackberries or pitted cherries can be substituted if you wish!

If you have a perfectly ripe melon—great! If you don’t, no worries. The salt, acid, and a bit of heat here will give life to lackluster specimens.

Like the song of summer, but pancakes.

These easy crumble bars are the ultimate bring-over dessert. They're incredible when made with blackberries, but any other berries that look good—raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, or a even a combination—make a more than acceptable substitute.

Plenty of cheese, peak summer tomatoes, tons of garlic, and a cracker crust make for a totally addicting savory pie.

You want that lamb fat to render out gently; it’ll eventually become part of the sauce that will tie the whole dish together.