The 25 Most Popular Summer Recipes

Looking for a refreshing Italian cocktail to cool down with? The warm weather is calling for a delicious limoncello spritz recipe! Made with limoncello, prosecco and club soda, it's a simple and refreshing Italian cocktail that is the perfect bubbly drink!

Homemade Chicken and Waffles is a true soul food brunch dish that everyone loves. My recipe includes juicy Southern fried chicken and fluffy waffles with an amazing sweet and spicy sauce made with maple syrup or honey.

Need an easy, dependable appetizer that is both simple to make and a complete crowd pleaser? This herbaceous olive oil-marinated mozzarella recipe is exactly what you're looking for! It takes less than 5 minutes of your time to put together, then the creamy mozzarella soaks up all that delicious robust flavor as it marinates. Serve in a charcuterie board, with crostini, tossed with cherry tomatoes, or even on top of pizza!

This cherry tomato caprese salad has all the flavors of your traditional caprese salad made cute and miniature with colorful cherry tomatoes, mozzarella pearls, fresh basil leaves, and seasoned with a little salt and flavorful olive oil.

Make this extra creamy cherry tomato pasta alla vodka in less than 30 minutes! Using sweet summer cherry tomatoes for the best flavor, along with fresh herbs and plenty of parmesan cheese, this creamy sauce is bursting with fresh, craveable flavor.

Learn how to create a beautiful charcuterie board for all your summer entertaining -- whether it's the fourth of July or a simple evening-- using a variety of meats and cheeses and all the bountiful fresh produce available! An easy and effortless appetizer or snack plate that can be used for any occasion.

Mojo Criollo is the signature Cuban marinade that goes on just about anything! Full of garlic and citrus flavors that really impact whatever meat, poultry, or seafood you're marinating.

Crowd-pleasing coconut shrimp are crispy little bites of golden-brown deep-fried goodness with juicy jumbo shrimp inside. This recipe is super easy, quick to whip up, and there's the tangy, sweet, and savory coconut shrimp sauce that everyone loves.

This sunny Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake recipe is a fantastic way to to bring summer into the kitchen. It's full of sweet juicy blueberries, has a tender crumb, and a heavenly glaze made with fresh lemon juice.

My salad motto is 'use what's in season' so juicy blueberries with a zesty homemade dressing was a no-brainer for my summer salads. It's no-cook, comes together quickly and easily, and is a fantastic side salad for your summer main course with lots of texture, flavor, and color!

This lemon thyme and blueberry smash is vibrant, smoky, effervescent, and refreshing! Summer's perfect cocktail is made with fresh blueberries, a little honey for sweetness, lemon juice, some fragrant lemon thyme, bubbly club soda, and smoky mezcal! This is a cocktail you'll be making for every celebration all summer.

Sweet and bubbly, this peach mimosa recipe is exactly what your next brunch date ordered. With a mix of peach juice, pureed peaches, and orange juice with tons of bubbles, it's a refreshing drink that you'll want to make again and again all summer.

This lobster benedict recipe is a luxurious breakfast and brunch dish that is perfect for lobster season! Toasty english muffins are the bed for butter poached lobster meat and lobster tails which are topped with a beautiful poached egg covered in rich and creamy hollandaise sauce. It's absolute decadence and really straightforward to make, especially with my easy blender hollandaise sauce!

Defeat the picky taste buds of your worst salad-hater with this easy strawberry spinach salad. Made with a few fresh ingredients: juicy strawberries, leafy greens, crunchy candied pecans, and salty feta cheese, drizzled with an easy poppyseed dressing, this salad is a serious crowd favorite!

Fresh blackberries are perfect additions for this bubbly, refreshing Blackberry Bourbon Smash Cocktail. It's a simple cocktail made with juicy blackberries, fresh lime and mint, and soda water that's perfect for a hot summer day.

This authentic churrasco recipe is served with flavorful chimichurri sauce. It's fast and easy to make with incredible flavor thanks to a quick marinade in Cuban mojo. Churrasco is the perfect dish for your upcoming barbecues and summer cookouts.

Connecticut-style warm butter lobster rolls are a classic New England summer sandwich. Steamed, shelled, then tossed in drawn butter and dressed with lemon zest and scallions, these are the old-school lobster rolls you've been looking for.

This easy fresh strawberry lemonade recipe is exactly what the warm weather ordered. All you need are four ingredients: water, sugar, lemons, and fresh strawberries for a seriously delicious drink with all the flavor and no blender required! Skip the store bought stuff, fresh-squeezed lemonade at home is a breeze.

This elegant lobster pasta recipe is bursting with succulent lobster poached in butter in a creamy parmesan sauce with flavorful herbs. It's the perfect recipe to make for your next date night or Valentine's Day.

A fruity and boozy drink, the flamingo cocktail is an easy summer cocktail that's also easily turned into your next cookout's party punch!

This chimichurri sauce recipe is the ultimate summer grilling accessory: pour over grilled steak, serve with bread to dip, eat with chicken or pork, coat your veggies all up in it! It's versatile, vegan, paleo-friendly, gluten-free, whole30-friendly, and super flavorful.

A spicy tuna avocado tower is a gorgeous, fun, and super easy appetizer using crispy fried wonton wrappers, sushi-grade tuna, ripe avocados, and delicious spicy mayo. Perfect for any dinner occasion!  

Birria de Res for Birria Tacos is easily made using your pressure cooker or Instant Pot! Perfect for the warmer months, this instant pot birria recipe makes the most flavorful, tender beef for birria tacos in no time without heating up your kitchen! Use the shredded beef to make juicy, drippy, pan-fried birria quesatacos dipped in that savory birria broth.

This fresh and fruity strawberry gin smash is a super simple cocktail that is perfect for spring and summer!

This iced guava passion fruit drink is identical to the pink Starbucks drink, made with a homemade guava pineapple ginger syrup, passionfruit and guava juices, then shaken up with coconut milk and served over ice for a creamy tropical summer drink any time!