Summer

It took poet Kwame Alexander twelve tries to recreate his late mother’s perfectly crispy-juicy fried chicken. Luckily, he wrote down the recipe for you.

As long as you’ve got sausage, a quick-cooking vegetable, pasta—and, oh yeah, a chunk of parm and a knob of butter—you’ve got dinner.

Cabbage as its best self: Grilled to charred, tender perfection, then doused in a creamy sesame sauce.

If you’ve never grilled fish before, this recipe, featuring forgiving swordfish, is the best place to start.

Tangy, spicy, and herbaceous, tuk trey ping poh is a versatile Khmer condiment that’s great served with any protein and as a dipping sauce and a base for soups and curries. Make extra!

This gnocchi (Is it pasta? Is it a salad?) with a jammy cherry tomato sauce takes just 25 minutes and one pan.

A laid-back risotto (not an oxymoron!) in a summer state of mind.

When you start with good kimchi, all you need is a little neutral oil to make a vinaigrette that will flatter any selection of raw and blanched vegetables.

Combine perfectly ripe, in-season stone fruit (like peaches, plums, or cherries!) with a rich sweet caramel for the perfect ice cream, pound cake, and yogurt topping.

It only takes a few minutes to turn ripe, in-season berries into a syrupy topping for a not-so-typical summer sundae.

Yes, this berry shrub recipe takes a couple of weeks to make—but once it’s ready you’ll have a tart-sweet, utterly refreshing beverage whenever you want.

Basting a rib eye with jarred crab paste adds flavor and intensity with almost no effort.

The only thing better than a tomato salad? Tomato salad with a lemony, oniony roast chicken on top.

Take sweet, juicy melon into the realm of dinner with a hit of Taiwanese black vinegar. (Chile crisp, fish sauce, and fried shallots help, too.)

This fantastic make-ahead recipe is ideal for a picnic or tomorrow’s lazy lunch.

A scaled-down seafood boil you can pull off on a weeknight with nearly any quick-cooking vegetables.

Turn your bag of frozen berries into a sour-sweet sauce for crispy wings. 

Don’t break a sweat looking for the perfect summer steak recipe. We’ve got what you need right here.

Brothy meatballs, potato-stuffed flatbreads, and more of our readers’ favorite recipes this month.

Eight peak-summer recipes. One month to cook them all.

Tomato season is dead. Long live tomato season!

Tomato slices are salted ahead and then set into a garlicky, somewhat spicy olive oil bath with Cotija, a dry-aged Mexican cheese. 

Here’s everything you need to know.

Solicited, ever-questionable advice from Alex Beggs for your next family dinner.