Double-Chocolate Malted Milk Shake

For the thickest shakes, use a dense, premium brand of ice cream, like Ben & Jerry’s. And if you’d rather have just a chocolate milk shake, skip the malt powder…

Farmers’ Market Quesadillas

These quick quesadillas are loaded with the best of the season: summer squash, fresh corn, and diced tomatoes. Fresh chiles and chipotle powder add depth and give the dish some…

Feta & Dill Galette with Lemony Spinach Salad

Grilled Five-Spice Chicken Thighs with Soy-Vinegar Sauce & Cilantro

Grilled Rosemary Chicken Thighs with Sweet & Sour Orange Dipping Sauce

Chicken thighs offer all the benefits of boneless, skinless chicken breasts—convenience and fast cooking—without the tendency to turn tasteless and dry, thanks to their slightly higher fat content. The hearty…

Grilled Tandoori-Style Chicken Thighs

This recipe can also be prepared as kebabs (see the instructions below).

Grilled Garlic Bread

Grilled Eggplant

Basic grilled eggplant is a simple side dish that lets the vegetable's flavor shine through. To dress things up a bit, try grilled eggplant topped with Toasted-Breadcrumb Salsa Verde; Olive, Orange & Anchovy…

Grilled Eggplant with Olive, Orange & Anchovy Vinaigrette

The classic combination of anchovies, olives, and orange is also delicious over lamb—or both lamb and grilled eggplant. If you’re not a fan of anchovies, don’t let that discourage you. The flavor…

Grilled Eggplant with Toasted-Breadcrumb Salsa Verde

This topping is also delicious on grilled meat or fish.

Grilled Eggplant with Garlic-Cumin Vinaigrette, Feta & Herbs

Grilling eggplant is a fantastic way to add a smoky note to its sweet flavor. Watch the video to learn how to ensure that your eggplant cooks all the way…

Grilled Eggplant with Roasted Red Pepper Relish

If you have any leftover relish, it's also delicious on bruschetta with fresh ricotta cheese, or in a sandwich.

Grilled Flank Steak with Sesame Sauce & Grilled Scallions

Grilled Goat Cheese Crostini with a Tangle of Marinated Roasted Peppers

Goat cheese speckled with fresh thyme is the perfect creamy counterpoint to the sweet, tangy roasted peppers in this recipe. Serve these crostini as an appetizer or paired with a…

Grilled Corn, Shrimp & Chorizo Salad

This one-dish meal marries the best flavors from summer shore dinners—seafood and corn— with the smokiness of Spanish paprika and chorizo.

No-Cook Tomato Sauce (Salsa Cruda)

This sauce is for 1 lb. of imported Italian dried pasta. You can pair the sauce with any pasta shape, though it clings best to short, ridged types like penne…

Marinated Peaches

The deep flavor of brown sugar in this syrup is the perfect complement to fresh peaches. For a simple summer dessert serve these peaches with honey whipped cream.

Roasted Chicken Thighs with Late-Summer Vegetables & Pan Sauce

We consider this dish late-summer comfort food. The chicken thighs cook up moist and tender and are more flavorful than chicken breasts, and the aromatic herbs and roasted vegetables make…

Steak with Red Onion, Wine & Port Sauce

The easy sauce reduction elevates this steak into a sophisticated dinner. The sauce can be made ahead and kept refrigerated for several days.

Steak Adobo

Some cooks mix the lime juice into the powdered spices to create a paste, but I find it easier to brush the juice onto the meat and then dust it…

Steak with Three-Chile Sauce

For this dish, the earthy combination of three of Mexico’s most distinctive chiles creates a nuanced result that is not nearly as hot as you might expect. Much of the…

Summer Corn Chowder with Scallions, Bacon & Potatoes

When you've got fresh corn coming out of your ears, use them in this quick, satisfying soup, which uses the cobs to infuse even more corn flavor into the broth.

Spiced Pickled Beets

Believe it or not, sliced pickled beets are great on a hamburger. In fact, in Australia pickled beets and even a fried egg are often served atop a burger. But…

Summer Bouillabaisse with Smoky Rouille

Ripe, gorgeous summer vegetables are a treat for anyone who loves to cook: the only challenge is finding the time to cook them all. This smoky bouillabaisse helps you make…

Corn & Mushroom Sauté with Leeks & Pancetta

Chili-Rubbed Rib-Eye Steak with Corn & Green Chile Ragoût

This spice-rubbed steak get a nice kick from a poblano pepper. Poblanos vary a lot in spiciness, so taste yours before you add it to the pan and hold back a bit if it’s…

Corn Sauté with Canadian Bacon, Potatoes & Peppers

Canadian bacon and potatoes make this corn sauté hearty enough to stand alone as a light main course, but it also makes a wonderful side dish or a zesty bed…

Arugula Salad with Pears, Prosciutto & Aged Gouda

Aged Gouda is one of distinct flavors that make this arugula salad feel elegant and special. Gouda that’s been aged a couple of years takes on a rich, almost toffee-like character; the older it…

Angel Hair Pasta with Sautéed Cherry Tomatoes, Lemon & Tuna

This dish is built around the season's luscious offerings yet designed for speed. The sauce only looks like you slaved over it, and its strong flavors are perfectly in balance.

Pork Lo Mein with Seared Scallions & Shiitakes

You can usually find Chinese noodles in the produce section of the supermarket.

Peaches & Cream Parfait

This dessert looks pretty served in stemmed goblets, tall water glasses, or martini glasses that hold 1-1/4 to 1-1/3 cups.

Peaches & Cream Shortcakes

These buttery biscuits are the perfect platform for peaches and cream. Sprinkling the tops of the shortcake biscuits with demerara sugar before baking gives them a nice crunchy texture.

Pickled Cauliflower with Carrots & Red Bell Pepper

Serve these pickles as part of an appetizer spread with fresh tomatoes, olives, flatbread, and hummus or baba ghanoush. They’re also tasty alongside grilled meats.

Indonesian Grilled Chicken Thighs with Mango-Peanut Salsa

Boneless chicken thighs are ideal for grilling, since they keep their juiciness better than breasts. These are rubbed with a sweet-and-hot spice paste and paired with a vibrant, chunky salsa.

Honey Whipped Cream

When serving this with marinated peaches, I prefer a delicately flavored honey, such as orange blossom or clover, because I don’t want the whipped cream to outshine the peaches. If…

No-Cook Tomato Sauces

Great tomatoes don't need cooking to become a great sauce

Cool Off with Refreshing Cucumbers

Cool, crisp, and juicy, cucumbers are always a welcome addition to my summer kitchen. When the temperature soars above 80°F, I find few things as refreshing as a snack of…

Spoon and Spatula in One

This silicone spoon/spatula from Chef’n is my new go-to tool. It has a steel core, so it’s sturdy enough for mixing thick batters and soups, and the silicone means it’s…

Cherry Pitter Contains the Mess

Pitting cherries or olives can be tedious but no longer has to be as messy: OXO’s new pitter has a removable splatter shield to protect your counter and clothing. It…

An oven that does the heavy lifting

Anyone who has struggled to lift a heavy roast out of the oven or gotten burned leaning over an oven door to baste a turkey will appreciate the Lift Oven…

Keeping Food Fresh Longer

Food vacuum-sealers are one of the bigger-ticket kitchen appliances that raise the question, Are they worth it? I gave two of the more popular versions a test run and was…

Preserving the Harvest

Ice on Demand

Nothing stops a party short—especially in summer—like running out of ice. To avoid having to run out to the store, a portable ice maker, though pricey, may be just the…

Equipment Review: Ice Cream Scoops

Ice cream scoops are simple tools with a simple purpose, but for some reason, they don’t do a very good job. Most scoops can’t do better than to scrape shavings…

Chicken Thighs Take a Turn on the Grill

More flavorful than chicken breasts, boneless thighs cook quickly and stay juicy

Endless Summer Corn Sautés

In the Delaware summers of my childhood, there were some things as certain as death and taxes. My uncles fished for flounder and drank Budweiser. We kids picked crabs, snapped…

Grilled Bread

For Satisfying Sides, Starters & Mains

Mexican-Style Steaks

Go beyond fajitas with sophisticated renditions of traditional Mexican steak dishes. Mexican food expert James Peyton shares his versions of juicy, tender rib-eyes, T-bones, and New York strips, punched up…

Dressing Up Grilled Eggplant

Grilling is the perfect way to showcase eggplant’s earthy flavor and meaty texture. Author Tasha DeSerio explains the simple tricks to perfectly grilled eggplant and offers bold vinaigrettes and sauces…

Scallions: More Than a Garnish

These little green onions can be a side dish on their own or a starring ingredient in soups and stir-fries.

Peaches & Cream

Ripe, juicy peaches and honey-sweetened whipped cream are all you need to create three quick summer desserts.

How to Can Pickles, Jam, and Preserves

Whether you’re using our recipes or one of your own favorites, follow this basic hot-water canning method

Tasting Panel: Chocolate Ice Cream

We’ve sipped vinegar from the bottle, sampled mayos straight from the jar, and chowed down sauceless whole-wheat pastas. So for this issue’s Tasting Panel, we decided to reward ourselves with…

Corn, Sweet Onion & Zucchini Sauté with Fresh Mint

Green Gazpacho

To dress up this cold soup, serve it with lumps of cooked lobster, crab, or shrimp.

Corn Sauté with Ginger, Garlic & Fresh Cilantro

Thai Seafood Salad (Yum Talay)

This dish boasts a playful mix of flavors: the natural sweetness of fresh seafood, the breezy notes of cilantro and mint, and the sharp accent of lime juice against a little sizzle…