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Recipe: Herbed Sweet Corn and Tomato Salad

There aren't many summer dishes as pure as a sweet corn and tomato salad. It's summer eating at its more blissful: sweet and crunchy, juicy and tangy. And so easy too! ...

Help Me Make a Delicious Ice Cream Cake
Good Questions

Q: My mom's birthday is coming up, and I wanted to make her an "adult" ice cream cake in the Dairy Queen style — all ice cream, no cake. I was hoping for some good ice cream combination ideas:...

Cool Tip: Vegan Coconut "Ice Cream" Sundae
Stay Cool!

Name: Jennifer Location: Long Beach, California How are you staying cool? Coconut "ice cream" with local strawberries and pistachios ...

Re-Inventing a Summer Classic: Bacon, Lettuce, and...?

Looking at that BLT poster this morning made us crave the real thing. But tomatoes are mighty scarce in some parts of the country right now due to a crop blight in New England. This has forced us to b...

Cool Inspiration: Simple and Delicious Salads
Stay Cool!

Name: Jessica Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania How are you staying cool? Creating simple and delicious salads. ...

Great Summer Meal: Homemade Vietnamese Spring Rolls

Our August theme Stay Cool! is wrapping up, but we still have a few more good ways to stay cool in the kitchen coming your way. One of our favorite cool and crunchy summer meals is spring rolls, and t...

Sweet Wines That Are Cool With Ice Cream

August is Stay Cool! month at the Kitchn. As the temperatures have been rising, so has our frequency of serving ice cream for dessert. This always brings up the question of what are the best wines to ...

Cool Inspiration: Stay Both Cool and Caffeinated!
Stay Cool!

Name: Whitney Location: Chicago, Illinois How are you staying cool? Keeping cool and caffeinated at the same time......

More on Hot Peppers: 2 Helpful Guides

Part of being able to take the heat is knowing where the heat is coming from! We recently came across two guides to help us identify peppers and how much heat they're packing. Take a look!...

Individual Peach Ginger Hand Pies You Can Pack for Lunch

We're not even sure we'd risk sending this to school in our child's lunch bag, lest it get traded for an Oreo. These sweet, summery, little handheld pies we'd keep for ourselves... ...

Cool Inspiration: Alicia's Cold Tofu Salad
Stay Cool!

Name: Alicia Location: Westchester, New York How are you staying cool? Cold salads and breakfast for dinner......

Don't Let Watermelon Go To Waste: Drink It!

This is the time of year, replete with picnics and cook-outs, when there always seems to be a quarter of a watermelon languishing in the fridge. We adore ice-cold watermelon, but one of these ponderou...

Just Like Del's? Frosty Frozen Lemonade
Martha Stewart

We should have included this in our roundup of Street Fair Food, because it reminds us of the trademark Del's Frozen Lemonade we see at every outdoor festival and beach boardwalk in the Northeast. Thi...

Top 5 Beers We Hate to Love
Beer Sessions

Or is it that we love to hate them? In either case, in honor of all the students heading back to campus this week, we thought we'd pay homage to the pop-top beers and cheap tall boys that we called ou...

A Sweet Finish: How To Make Strawberry Chips

We are so enamored of this sweet garnish that we just spotted at Pastry Pal, a lovely and helpful blog. These strawberry chips are easy and special; read on to see how they're made! ...

Stay Cool! Show Us How You Keep Your Cool In the Kitchen
Reader Submissions Wanted!

Our theme all August is Stay Cool! It's hot out there, and we are doing many things to stay cool: churning up ice cream, granita, and sorbet; shaking up frosty drinks, and getting out in the garden. W...

The Classic Caprese Salad

Our tomatoes are blessedly blight-free and in full form right now. We've been picking candy-sweet Pink Caspians and tangy Early Cascades, and of course our favorite way to eat them is in a caprese sal...

Cool Recipe: Grated Carrot Salad with Lemon Dressing
Stay Cool!

Name: Michael Location: Copley, Ohio How are you staying cool? Grated carrot salad with lemon dressing. This recipe works great with fresh carrots from the farmers market, and the lemon dressing gives...

What Are You Preserving This Summer?

We know that many of you are avid canners, jammers, picklers, and preservers. So we're curious: Have you "put up" anything yet this summer, and if so, what? ...

Summer Sweets: 5 Twists on the Banana Split

The banana split is such a classic summer dessert. We have fond childhood memories of soft bananas cradling scoops of ice cream topped with mounds of whipped cream and fudge sauce. And a few maraschin...

Summer Love: Raw Shredded Cabbage

While Elizabeth is head over heels for Bibb lettuce, we're nursing our own unexpected food crush...on cabbage. That's right, cabbage. It turns out that raw, shredded cabbage is good for way more than ...

Cool Recipe: Gabriela's Salsa Huevona (Lazy Salsa)
Stay Cool!

Name: Gabriela Location: New York City, New York How are you staying cool? Sweating it out with a spicy salsa that doesn't require us to roast any ingredients!...

Flavor Inspiration Board: Raspberries and Lemon

Just the thought of raspberries and lemon together in the same recipe makes our mouths water! All that tartness in one dish is almost more than we can handle - almost! - but we also can't help reachin...

How To Make Creamy Ice Cream with Just One Ingredient!

Yes, that's right; you heard us. Creamy, soft-serve style ice cream with just one ingredient — and no ice cream maker needed! What is this one magic ingredient that can be whipped into perfectly...

Recipe: Barbecue Chicken and Macaroni Salad

About this time in the summer, we start getting tired of the goopy, mayonnaise-thick side salads that are standard fare at every cook-out and picnic. We wanted something a little different to bring to...

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