Summertime! Is there anything better than a cool, creamy popsicle on a scorching hot afternoon? Or for that matter, a scorching hot morning. These fruity yogurt pops can serve as both breakfast and afternoon snack, a fact to which I can personally attest. I recommend having a batch in your freezer at all times. More

Summertime is the bonanza, the gold rush, the shining pot at the end of the rainbow for vegetable-lovers. Maybe you're already looking forward to a bumper crop of zucchini or an extra paper bag full of sweet corn. Here are 20 recipes, ripe with ideas for summer vegetables, from French-style zucchini breakfast cake, to simple braised eggplant and tomatoes, to an Indian-inspired cucumber salad with sour cream and mustard seeds. There's a three-cheese tomato tart, and a corn and zucchini salad with chives. More

Tasting strawberries straight from the vine can be a life-changing experience. Simply smelling a freshly picked pint will have your mouth watering. After a day "picking our own," our kitchen was filled with the sweetest strawberry aroma. That intoxicating scent is a sure sign the berries are at their best, which poses the challenge of enjoying them all before they turn to mush. More

I know I'm not usually the one to share bountiful salad recipes here on The Kitchn. It's not that I don't like salads. I do, I really do. But most of the salads I eat on a regular basis are not "exciting" enough to photograph and wax poetic about for the blogosphere. Something tells me this bright summer salad might make a pretty good exception. More

On hot summer days, we often don't feel like cooking or even eating. In fact, we have a bad habit of forgoing lunch or dinner altogether, but this year we've resolved to change that by keeping the juicer, blender, and a bushel of fresh summer produce close at hand. More

I spent last week on the coast of Northern California, splitting the time between Marin County north of San Francisco, and Big Sur to the south. We drove north to south in the middle of the week, through golden hills and irrigated rows of green. Suddenly, with fields all around, I sniffed. Had I forgot to wash my hands after last night's garlicky pasta dinner? No — even that wouldn't give off this garlic pungence, this scent of a thousand garlic cloves minced and oily. Welcome to Gilroy, California, the capital of garlic. Here, in honor of Gilroy, for all you garlic-lovers, is a pasta salad with not one, not two, but three whole heads of garlic. More

Right around this time of year, the early summer salad boredom sets in. Potato salad? Eh. Another green salad? Maybe later. So without fail in mid to late June, I start experimenting with different salad and dressing combinations to keep it interesting. Right now, this mixture of crisp napa cabbage, carrots and radishes mixed with a velvety peanut dressing is my absolute #1 go-to salad. More

During my early childhood years, my family lived in Southern California. Our house was tiny, but the backyard was a huge, tiered thing that sloped upwards to a two-story garage and an alley that served all the homes on the block. That property was a wonderland to a small child and nothing was more magical to me than the fact that we had three productive plum trees. More

Pasta salad can mean a lot of things to a lot of people; down South, we've certainly made "macaroni salad" our own. Heirloom recipes sometimes include onions, celery, hard boiled eggs, pickles, or sweet relish, and you can always count on a heaping dollop of, but what else? Mayonnaise, of course! More

It's been over ten years since we lived in Georgia and yet we still miss those ripe sweet peaches. If you're lucky enough to live where there's a plethora you have no idea how the rest of us dread the hard little baseballs our grocery stores commonly passed off as peaches. Last year we decided we'd beat the system and plant our very own peach trees!
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