10 Best Ina Garten Recipes We Make Every Summer

This 4-ingredient treat is the little luxury we all deserve in the summer. Creamy from the white chocolate sauce and sweet with bursts of juicy, acidic fruit with a satisfying contrast of cold and warm temperatures, Ina's dessert is super fun to eat.

This pomegranate spritz is the perfect solution to beat this month’s blazing heat. It's got a great balance between sweetness and tartness. The drink is a pomegranate whiskey sour of sorts, sans whiskey and with far fewer ingredients.

Ina's recipe for tomato pasta with basil and oil is extraordinary because she doesn't cook the sauce, but rather chooses to marinate tomatoes to render a simple, stunning no-cook sauce that highlights the season.

Even if you're the biggest zucchini hater, Ina might change your mind. To make this stunning side dish, she tops roasted zucchini with grated Parmesan cheese and crispy panko breadcrumbs. How easy is that?

This Spanish chilled soup is all about letting beautiful summer tomatoes shine. They’re the star of the recipe, so follow Ina's lead and use the ripest summer tomatoes from the farmers market or your garden.

If Ina's effortless personality was a summer salad, it would be this fun, refreshing, no-measurement twist on the classic caprese salad. The creamy-crumbly texture of Roquefort cheese couples beautifully with the juiciness of the tomatoes, and the salty, cheesy flavor adds just the right amount of intensity to every bite.

The Barefoot Contessa strikes again with yet another out-of-this-world recommendation: top scoops of vanilla ice cream with cold lemon liqueur and a crisp biscotti cookie. Limoncello with ice cream may sound wild, but when has Ina ever steered you wrong? The splash of booze brings freshness to every rich spoonful.

If you’re a beginner baker or don’t bake often, just know that this recipe requires a little extra time and care, but produces a stunning result.

According to Ina, “Roasting brings out the sweetness in bell peppers. This is the kind of dish served at Spanish tapas bars — slices of red and yellow peppers are filled with garlic, green olives, golden raisins, spicy saffron, and breadcrumbs. A nice glass of Spanish sherry would be delicious with it.”

Come summer, you'll probably have all the ingredients for this invigorating pasta: tomatoes, arugula, lemon. But the beauty of this recipe is how you can really use any fresh summer vegetables you've got around.