my favorite end of summer recipes

15 faves plucked from the digital pages of three years of darn good

summer isn’t over, but it will be all too soon. the transition to fall always comes on quickly, feeling nearly unexpected every year. since i’ll be taking a little summer break for the next two weeks, i decided (instead of leaving you with “nothing” other than an index full of free recipes) to go through my archive and pull my favorite recipes from three summers (!) of darn good. may they serve as a reminder to you (and me honestly) to make or remake them before the season is over with the last haul of tomatoes (or first haul of peaches), for just one more summer barbecue or picnic, or for the hottest end of summer days still yet to come.

without further ado, here are 15 of my favorite summer recipes from the archive:

from left to right: fish sauce caramel lettuce wraps, grated tomato carbonara, my best blt

• grated tomato spaghetti carbonara

• caesar-y pasta and potato salad with hot sauce butter croutons

• tomato and gochujang slaw sandwiches

• my best blt

• greek-ish salad dip

• fish sauce caramel lettuce wraps

• tomato sandwich a la piccata

• silken tofu “caprese” salad with cucumber, thai basil and stone fruit

from left to right: no churn blueberry and cinnamon cookie ice cream, pickled candied watermelon rind syrup, chunky monkey semifreddo

• sparkling strawberry limeade

• sparkling orange blossom and yogurt drink

• sour gummy lemonade with pickled, candied watermelon rinds

• chunky monkey miso caramel semifreddo

• no churn blueberry, mascarpone and cinnamon cookie ice cream

• white chocolate and pumpkin seed oil magic shell

• icy green peaches and cream

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i’ve also been cooking other people’s recipes lately. here are some i’ve made in the past few weeks and enjoyed thoroughly:

• sonntagsbrötchen (german bread rolls) by

  Olga The Baker

• the best spanikopita recipe by

  Sohla El-Waylly

• tomato water pasta as outlined here by

  Liv Fleischhacker

• caramelised fennel and feta pie and tomato salad by

  Jodie Nixon

• no bake buckwheat granola by aimee france (a passion reignited by best food blog’s recent feature on buckwheat groats, with a few words from yours truly)

• homemade sichuan chili oil by

  Xueci Cheng

• lil dumpies adapted by cult flav, based on a recipe from

  Zaynab Issa
  ’s cookbook, third culture cooking

• iced coffee overnights oats by

  Rebecca Firkser

• marion burros’s original plum torte (iykyk; find a freely accessible version here)

• plus: cantaloupe and cucumber salad with tajín and one-pot caprese orzo by me (lol cheeky, i know) for simply recipes