Recipes

Add the ultimate light and crispy fish fry batter to your summer repertoire with this super easy recipe. It doesn’t matter if you caught the fish yourself—I promise everyone’s gonna love it!

Don’t be fooled by how decadent it looks and how fancy it sounds—my Honey Citrus Summer Fruit Salad recipe is surprisingly easy to make at home, and it only takes about 20 minutes.

The recipe I’m sharing with you today is a variation on a traditional pesto—we’ll add a few sprigs of fresh mint to brighten it up. Like I mentioned earlier, this recipe calls for almonds, but feel free to use pine nuts or walnuts if you like those better.

Whatever you like to bake, it’s always handy to have an easy and delicious pie crust recipe in your back pocket. I’m talking about a versatile pie crust recipe that’s easy to make, easy to store, and that has many, many applications. My Favorite Pie Crust recipe fits the bill.

This piña colada recipe brings me right back to Mexico with its tropical flavors and combination of light and dark rum. Bonus: you can easily make this a mocktail or virgin cocktail recipe by just omitting the rum. Because the flavor combination of pineapple and coconut is so rich, nutty, and sweet on its own, the kids are sure to enjoy!

This recipe is somewhere between a cake and a giant cookie. The extra-chocolatey, caramel-gooey goodness of this one calls for vanilla ice cream. Take it all the way—everyone deserves it!

Lemonade is to summer as hot chocolate is to winter: you just have to have some. It’s one of those seasonal drinks you enjoy because of the weather. My Summer Strawberry Lemonade is pretty, and it’s really refreshing—certainly on a hot summer day.

My Classic French Niçoise Salad with Tonnino Tuna takes me back to Paris with my girls. It’s one of my favorite meals and I enjoy it with my daughters every chance I get. This Niçoise salad recipe is deceptively simple to make and can be used in larger portions for summer entertaining.

There’s nothing better than blueberry pie on the 4th of July. The blueberries are juicy and sweet because they’re in season, and everybody loves a good piece of pie at a barbeque or cookout. That in itself is a reason to celebrate! Join me for a step by step on this classic American pie recipe.

Everyone calls her Auntie Norma—she’s one of my mother-in-law's best friends. We love Auntie Norma, and we love her cooking, too! Today is our lucky day, because I get to share her amazing chicken salad recipe with all of you. Thank you, Auntie Norma!

This classic chimichurri sauce recipe will add a nice pop of flavor and color to steak, salads, pastas, paninis—actually, it goes on everything!

Empanadas are one of my all-time favorite foods. I have so many vivid memories of enjoying a few before asado (grilled meat), when I was traveling through Argentina. To this very day, it's my favorite Argentinian dish to make at home—and I have no doubt it’ll be yours too!