Quick and Easy Summer Recipes
Summer is the time to enjoy the outdoors, and not spend time slaving over the stove. These summer recipes are tasty, quick and easy to make on a hot summer day.
Summer Cooking
Keeping cool and refreshed while enjoying tasty foods
Summer recipes should be fast and easy, so that you can go back to all of the great outdoor activities that you should be spending your time on. It is also important to keep yourself cool and refreshed, so that you do not get overheated or dehydrated in the hot summer.
These recipes are designed to be easy for even the most basic cook, and many of them can be taken along to picnics or cooked on a grill.
I will continue adding to this article all summer, as I gather up new recipes from gatherings and parties. You are also welcome to add your own recipes or variations in the comments section of this page. Happy summer cooking!
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Summer Cookbooks
Refresh your summer recipe list
 | Home Made Summer Home Made and Home Made Winter blew readers away with their stunning packages, delicious recipes, beautiful photos, step-by-step instructions, and hand-drawn artwork throughout.... Stewart, Tabori & Chang |
 | The Big Summer Cookbook: 300 fresh, flavorful recipes for those lazy, hazy days The big cookbook that celebrates summer bounty and summer funSummer means ripe, juicy, fragrant, and delicious fresh fruit and vegetables, barbecues, picnics on the beach and at... Wiley |
 | The Summer House Cookbook: Easy Recipes for When You Have Better Things to Do with Your Time Whether your summer house is a beachside bungalow, a lakeside cottage, or a year-round retreat, cooking for family and friends while on vacation can be a delight—if you know how... Clarkson Potter |
Chicken and Burger Recipes
The traditional grilled hamburger is still the best summer food, as far as I am concerned. A plain ground beef patty, thick enough to stay nice and juicy, cooked on a charcoal grill outdoors, then put on a sesame seed bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, and ketchup.
However, there are lots of interesting variations of the traditional burger for those who get tired of hamburgers, just want some variety, and for those who do not eat beef.
Salad Recipes
Cool and refreshing salads for summer
This salad is one of my personal favorites. It is simple to make, and you can make it a day ahead of time. It is also easy to put together from items on your cupboard shelf, or with fresh ingredients from your garden. Perfect for summer, it also makes a great autumn meal addition.
Vegetable Recipes
Mexican Avocado Soup and a Side of Corn Bread
Mexican Avocado Soup is a cool, refreshing soup to eat in the summer, perfect for a lunch on the patio, or an afternoon tea.
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Condiment and Sauce Recipes
Dessert Recipes
There is nothing better than a homemade dessert. Here are some great summer dessert recipes, and some that can be made all year.
My Favorite Biscotte Recipe is a recipe that I developed from numerous biscotti recipes, using trial and error, and a taste testing family as guinea pigs. These biscotti are extremely easy to make, travel well, and last without refrigeration in a sealed container for several weeks.
American Recipes: Home Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies
Nectarine and Blueberry Crumble
Cold Summer Drinks
Brew Toddy Cold Brew Coffee At Home for Iced Coffee Drinks
If you are a coffee lover, then toddy is the right drink for you during the summer. You cold brew the coffee which takes off the bitterness, yet leaves the coffee flavor. Toddy makes the best iced coffee that I have ever had, and I have had a lot of coffees.
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Comments
Summer is all about eating IMO. Thanks for the quick and easy recipes.
That peach and blueberry dessert sounds very delicious.
I love quick and easy anyhting! LOL
no really any good chicken salad recipe will do the trick! ;-)
I agree with you: a hamburger on the grill is the best way to go in the summer. :-) Of course, a nice salad on the side, like the Corn and Black Bean Salad you mention, is a good idea.
Nice selection of recipes here for all day long!
My tumbly is rumbling and to be honest there's so many recipes here, I dont know where to start :)
All of these sound absolutely yummy. Don't know which one I would try first.
Love the recipes!
You've got some excellent summer recipes here and I shall probably try some of them.
@sandralynnsparks Yes, the toddy is one of the best summer drinks for me, and real easy to make.