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Tomatoes With Brown Butter

Nutty brown butter takes ripe sliced tomatoes to a whole new level.

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.

Zucchini Risotto

Let summer squash be itself for once in this creamy zucchini risotto recipe.

How to Make Clafoutis, With (Almost) Any Kind of Fruit

The classic French custard is easy to make anywhere, anytime, and with all sorts of mix-ins.

The 27 Most Exciting New Cookbooks of Summer 2024

There’s an impressive fresh crop of cookbooks on the way—and we can’t wait to cook from them. Here are the titles coming out now through August 2024.

Strawberry Muffins

Studded with fresh strawberries and sprinkled with crunchy sugar, these tender-crumbed strawberry muffins are the best bake to wake up to.

Peach Jelly

Summer is fleeting, but this easy recipe puts juicy peaches within arm’s reach all year long.

Rhubarb Cake

This rhubarb cake recipe keeps things simple and scatters thinly sliced fresh rhubarb on top of the cake

Pasta Salad With Corn and Tomatoes

Perfect for picnics, potlucks, or those nights when you simply don’t want to turn on the oven.

Bellini

Bright, bubbly, and hard to resist, a well-made peach bellini is a thing of beauty.

Cherry Pie With Lattice Crust

You’ve never had a cherry pie this good. With a flaky crust and fresh, tangy fruit, this is the homemade cherry pie of your dreams.

Melon Parfait

The most important part of this melon parfait is the melon jelly made from Piel de Sapo—an intensely fragrant melon—but you can use a similar green or orange melon instead.

Tomato-Watermelon Gazpacho

Wait to make this tomato-watermelon gazpacho until it’s the scorching second half of summer when your farmers market is bursting with juicy tomatoes.

No-Churn Blackberry Biscuit Ice Cream Cake

As the name suggests, this no-churn ice cream cake is super-simple to put together: a crunchy biscuit base filled with vanilla ice cream and a blackberry ripple

Close Out Summer With This Vintage ‘Gourmet’ Showstopper

It has tender buttermilk cake and mascarpone whip, but the real star of the show? The sherried berries.

Zwetschgen-Kuchen (Plum Tart With Streusel)

Depending on the type of plums, this Germa nplum tart can get a bit juicy. The amount of may streusel seem small, but the plums shouldn't be completely covered.

Roasted Strawberry Crème Brûlée

Crème brûlée is the perfect dessert to highlight the flavor of vanilla bean, and the strawberries act as a hidden little surprise when you crack the top.

Make One Last Summer Panzanella—and Break All the Rules

Forget everything you think you know about what should go into this classic bread salad.
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