This is your annual reminder — 19 years and counting! — that my favorite summer side dish takes 5 minutes to make, uses all of 3 ingredients, and tastes like 10x the sum of its parts. smittenkitchen.com/2007/08/quic...

Loosely modeled on esquites, this salad has a creamy, cold and sharp dressing below, warm charred corn in the middle, and a mix of lime, pickled onions, and chile powder on top. The result is basically inhale-able. I could eat this every week all summer. smittenkitchen.com/2019/07/corn...

New! Strong opinions on the very best way to make the very best summer beverage, so you can spend your weekend utterly refreshed, ice clinking in your glass. smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/hous...

One of the best pizzas I have *ever* made, it has five ingredients including the ones to make the pizza dough. It’s seasonal and it doesn’t care what else you had planned; it wants to be moved to the front of your cooking queue. smittenkitchen.com/2016/08/summ...

One of my favorite easy summer meals — just cherry tomatoes quick-roasted with olive oil, garlic, and salt until saucy, and then we tumble in a can of beans and let them drink it up. Finish with basil and eat straight from the pan, or ladle it over crostini. smittenkitchen.com/2022/07/roas...

A Top 5 favorite warm-weather meal for me — pan-crisped chickpeas on top of blistered lemony zucchini on top of a salty garlic yogurt sauce, finished with herbs and more lemon juice. It serves exactly one person and it's not sorry about it at all. smittenkitchen.com/2019/09/cris...

Today's Smitten Kitchen Digest is a coming-of-age story (couldn't resist) about going from a reluctant zucchini acceptor to an actual enthusiast, featuring 12 beloved recipes that I think could convert almost anyone. I hope you're hungry. smittenkitchen.substack.com/p/nobody-put...

With sunken strawberries that melt into jammy puddles and edges that brown and become faintly crisp as it bakes, here our favorite summer cake is one-bowl-ed and scaled up, ready to feed the crowd that forms wherever you bring it. smittenkitchen.com/2019/06/stra...

This is my platonic ideal of a summer bean salad -- one that keeps well, getting better as it marinates, and travels fantastically to anyplace your sunny day takes you. smittenkitchen.com/2020/05/beac...

Tiny spiced lamb or turkey meatballs and coins of marinated zucchini are grilled on skewers and served with a minty garlic yogurt sauce. I always wish I made these more often because I don't think it's possible to get tired of a combination this delicious. smittenkitchen.com/2008/08/keft...

It's time! 🫐 My best blueberry muffins are one bowl, tall, almost equal parts berry and muffin, and have the crunchiest bronzed lid on top, perfect for lifting off in a satisfying shell and swiping with salted butter. smittenkitchen.com/2010/08/perf...

A very summery muddle of macerated peaches, their syrup, mint, bourbon, and a little splash of ginger beer that is so unforgettably complex and delicious, it deserves to be a rest-of-summer habit. (Plus, it's easily adapted alcohol-free.) smittenkitchen.com/2018/07/bour...

These cherry brown butter bars are fragrant and tart inside a buttery crisp crust and if you can resist eating them all before you leave your kitchen, they’re a crowd favorite everywhere we bring them. smittenkitchen.com/2009/06/cher...

I was late in finding out how easy wings are to roast or grill on short notice, how impossible they are to mess up, and that picky kids go berserk over them, especially with this glossy, delicious sauce. I have definitely been making up for lost time since. smittenkitchen.com/2014/07/stic...

One of my favorite things to make when I think I don't want to cook: spaghetti tangled with intensely seasoned crunchy breadcrumbs and a broken crispy fried egg comes together as a quick, perfect bowl of undiluted coziness. smittenkitchen.com/2015/02/spag...

This raspberry-studded buttermilk cake with a light sugar crunch on top is so simple, so classic, and so exactly what our Tuesday needs, trust me. smittenkitchen.com/2009/05/rasp...

This week's SK Digest shares my favorite recipes to get us through the hottest days ahead — crisp salads, scoopable ones too, my favorite vegetarian beach sandwich, cold noodles, breakfast popsicles, and the very best thing to pour over ice cream. smittenkitchen.substack.com/p/too-hot-to...

A tall, craggy, crunchy-edged shortcake that’s a cinch to make, requiring no rolling pins, round cutters, unusual ingredients, or more pressingly, advanced planning to put together. Just add berries and cream. smittenkitchen.com/2017/06/easy...

A classic, perfectly seasoned, never overdressed, a little crunchy, always-disappears-first potato salad is a non-negotiable part of our summer bbq spreads and this is my forever go-to. Just make it; you'll be so glad you did. smittenkitchen.com/2007/07/rosa...

These are our go-to fridge pickles, and they are ludicrously easy. Do you have salt? Do you have vinegar? You’re set. They’re not bad at all an hour later, excellent 6 to 8 hours later, and also three weeks from now — but by then, we’ll be on our third batch. smittenkitchen.com/2014/07/easi...

New! Just in time to avoid the worst of the heatwave by cooking inside, a recipe for hot dogs exactly the way I like them: butterflied and topped with vinegared iceberg (lightly pickled and so perfect here), minced onion, salty crumbled potato chips. smittenkitchen.com/2026/07/hot-...

This is my platonic ideal of a corn fritter: crunchy, golden brown, and mostly sweet corn kernels with just the tiniest amount of batter to tether them together. smittenkitchen.com/2018/07/corn...

Today's SK Digest is everything I want to cook for July 4th and — best news, given the heat dome descending this week — the vast majority of these can actually be made inside, if standing over hot metal grates in triple-digit temps isn't your thing. smittenkitchen.substack.com/p/july-4th-e...

A hearty, well-seasoned and picnic basket-/cooler-ready sandwich for wherever your Sunday takes you. Inspired by the pan bagnat, I swapped the tuna here with a smashed chickpea salad, added layers of crunch, richness, and seasoning and never looked back. smittenkitchen.com/2021/05/chic...

It's the best time of year — longer days, better produce — to resist the siren call of pie season and make a galette instead. Everything about them is easier; you could be eating this in less than two hours. smittenkitchen.com/2020/05/any-...

Toasted marshmallows blended with ice cream into an unparalleled milkshake with whiffs of vanilla, burnt sugar, and summer bliss. We want this, urgently. smittenkitchen.com/2015/05/toas...

Cacio e pepe as simple and perfect as you’d have in Rome, made with only cheese, pepper, pasta, and water. A cool trick from restaurateur Flavio de Maio uses cold water to form a cheese paste and hot pasta water to loosen it, keeping your sauce from splitting. smittenkitchen.com/2018/09/fool...

A shout-from-the-rooftops, last-recipe-you'll-ever-need-for chicken curry adapted from @chetnamakan. Not to oversell it or anything, we just love it that much -- and you can finish it in under an hour. smittenkitchen.com/2019/10/chic...

A crispy cabbage and cauliflower salad with a sharp tahini dressing that is fully inhale-able; we've never had leftovers. Don't skimp on the charring; the best moment is when the vegetables just begin to soften against the dressing. smittenkitchen.com/2022/02/cris... .

This week's Smitten Kitchen Digest welcomes the season with a summer cooking bucket list, teeming with inspiration -- from slaws to galettes to a showstopping new party cake -- for how to make this the most delicious and triumphant summer ever. smittenkitchen.substack.com/p/summer-coo...