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Complete Summer
The only cookbook you’ll need during the year’s warmest months.
New England Clambake
Seemingly Endless Culinary Possibilities
Whether you’re looking for a quick weeknight dinner, planning a make-ahead meal for a crowd, or taking the party outside, with The Complete Summer Cookbook in hand you’ll be ready.
Small Bites Burgers, Sandwiches, and Tacos Mains Inspired by the Farmers’ Market Keep Cool with Countertop Cooking Icebox and Frozen Sweets
Ready to Take the Party Outside?
Recipes to keep you and your kitchen cool
The Complete Summer Cookbook is a collection of 500 inspired recipes that will help you settle into a more relaxed kind of cooking designed to keep you and your kitchen cool. You’ll find recipes ready in 30 minutes or less, dinner-size salads, make-ahead meals, dishes that can be served cold or at room temperature, and so much more. From backyard barbecues to beach picnics to patio parties, socializing outside on a beautiful summer day is best with food.
Unique focus on ease and keeping the kitchen cool: These recipes use smart strategies to minimize both heat and effort. Taps into the rise of small cooking appliances: These days we have more appliances that won’t steam up the kitchen, opening doors to a new style of hands-off recipes perfect for the summer. Recipes for grilling, smoking, preserving: Here the test kitchen offers a wealth of guidance and foolproof recipes for cooking techniques from grilling juicy burgers to simmering fresh tomato sauce.
Dinner-Size Salads
Bitter Greens and Fig Salad with Warm Shallot Dressing
Fresh figs and salty prosciutto are a perfect pair around which to build a hearty main-dish salad. To match their strong flavors with a sturdy base, we chose to create a wilted green salad with a rich warm dressing.
Burgers, Sandwiches, and Tacos
Crispy Fish Sandwiches
A deliciously golden fried fish sandwich is undoubtedly a summertime staple in New England. For our take on this sandwich, we enhanced the slaw’s freshness with a vinegar-based dressing for extra acidity to counterbalance the fish, which we fried dunked in a seltzer-based batter.
Mains Inspired by the Farmers’ Market
Stuffed Eggplant with Bulgur
Stuffed eggplant is a fantastic dinner option when you crave a satisfying meal that’s also appealingly light. The smaller-size Italian eggplants you often see at summer farmers’ markets are ideal for stuffing, making this dish all the more appealing this time of year.
Dinner Off the Grill
Grill-Roasted Bone-In Pork Rib Roast
The biggest challenge when grilling a bulky cut of meat like a pork rib roast is getting the interior cooked to the proper temperature without charring the exterior. We discovered that we could cook the roast on the cooler side for the duration of the cook time, and after an hour, a mahogany crust developed.
Picnic Table Favorites
Orzo Salad with Broccoli and Radicchio
Orzo salad is a great all-purpose side for a picnic, a day at the beach, or a patio dinner. Wherever it’s served, it benefits from boldly flavored additions. We included vibrant broccoli, bitter radicchio, salty sun-dried tomatoes, and crunchy pine nuts.
Summer Fruit Desserts
No-Bake Cherry Crisp
Most fruit crisps are baked in the oven, but we wanted a summer cherry dessert as good as the baked version that didn’t require us to turn on the oven at all. After testing various methods, we found that the best was actually the easiest: After browning the topping, we cooked the fruit filling in the same pan — making it as easy and delicious as possible.
Icebox and Frozen Sweets
S’mores Ice Cream Cake
The combination of chocolate, graham crackers, and marshmallows is irresistible. Combining warm, gooey s’mores with ice cream may sound like a mess, but we found a way to add the heat without causing a meltdown. By using a fudge layer on top of the graham cracker base, and then allowing adequate freezing, we were able to create the toasty marshmallow top without melting the cake.
Publisher : America’s Test Kitchen; Illustrated edition (April 21, 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 1948703149
ISBN-13 : 978-1948703147
Item Weight : 3 pounds
Dimensions : 8.5 x 1 x 10 inches
