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    Easy Summer Recipes

    Celebrate summer, picnics, back yard BBQ’s and family get-togethers with our selection of seasonal fresh dishes, including light main meals, tropical salsas, berry fruity desserts, grilled meats, hearty salads, and no-bake recipes that’ll keep you cool and satisfied all summer long.

    • Italian 24-month aged prosciutto crudo wrapped around smooth white "liscio" (meaning smooth) cantaloupe melon wedges, brunch appetizers and brunch menu ideas for Mother's Day.
      Italian Prosciutto Wrapped Melon Slices (Prosciutto e Melone)
    • A skillet full of homemade pasta alle zucchine (or better known as pasta with zucchini with tagliatelle standing in for spaghetti and sprinkled with a handful of freshly grated aged Grana Padano cheese.
      Pasta alle Zucchine (Spaghetti with Zucchini)
    • A double layer no-raisin best carrot cake with pecans and matcha cream cheese frosting, piped in kisses and garnished with toasted pistachios.
      Best Carrot Cake Recipe (Super Moist, Made from Scratch)
    • Golden broiled shrimp gratin served in a natural scallop shell, bubbly and caramelized on top. A quick and elegant lenten seafood appetizer or dinner.
      10-Minute Italian Shrimp Au Gratin (Gamberi Gratinati)
    • eggplant and zucchine parmigiana with text overlay stating the recipe was a pinterest and Food52 Grand Prize Recipe winner
      Nonna Anna's Eggplant & Zucchini Parmigiana (Food52 & Pinterest Grand Prize Winner)
    • Perfect thick-crust pizza dough with pizza margherita toppings (including homemade pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, and mini buffalo mozzarella balls.
      Thick-Crust Pizza (Fluffy 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe)
    • Pizza dough recipe for a homemade pizza with sausage and onion on a crispy bread flour pizza crust recipe, how to make pizza dough for the best homemade pizza dough.
      Best Bread Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (5 Ingredients)
    • Homemade 00-thin crust pizza with pioppini mushrooms, pepperoni, shallots, mozzarella, buffalo mozzarella, and large green and black olives.
      Best 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (Thin-Crust, 5 Ingredients)
    • Light green basil and Parmigiano savory crepes stacked and ready to fill, showing the natural green color from fresh basil blended into the batter. A versatile meatless lenten breakfast or dinner crepe.
      Savory Crêpe Recipe (Fresh Basil and Parmesan IN the Batter)
    • Shrimp and vegetable stir fry in a light Cantonese white sauce with sauteed shrimp, carrots, asparagus spears, cabbage, and peas in a serving bowl. An easy and healthy lenten Asian seafood dinner.
      Easy Shrimp & Vegetable Stir Fry (w/Cantonese Style White Sauce)
    • Homemade Singapore noodles on an oval platter with chopsticks showing how to make shrimp mei fun at home.
      20-Minute Singapore Mei Fun Noodles (Shrimp Mei Fun)
    • Cajun royal red shrimp tossed with spaghetti pasta in a spicy seasoned sauce, showing bright red gulf royal red shrimp over al dente spaghetti. A bold and flavorful lenten seafood pasta dinner.
      Cajun Style Royal Red Shrimp Pasta For One (Or a Crowd)
    • Sesame scallion yellowfin tuna salad on whole wheat bread sliced in half to reveal the best tuna filling and crispy fried onions and shredded purple cabbage for extra texture, served with a side of potato chips. An easy and satisfying lenten lunch idea.
      The Best Tuna Salad Recipe (Easy Sesame-Scallion)
    • Naturally creamy triple shrimp pasta made without cream, featuring trighetto pasta in a rich tomato shrimp sauce that uses all parts of the shrimp including the heads to flavor the pasta in a deep pasta bowl. A decadent lenten seafood pasta recipe.
      Triple Shrimp Pasta (Creamy Shrimp Trighetto Pasta)
    • A perfectly boiled lobster tail sitting in a pool of warm clarified butter, showing the bright red and white tender lobster meat. An easy and elegant lenten seafood dinner in just 4 minutes.
      Delicious 4-Minute Lobster Tails (for one or a crowd)
    • A pile of bright red-orange pan-seared sauteed Argentinian Red Shrimp perfectly cooked and tender.
      4-Minute Sauteed Shrimp Recipe (Pan-Seared Garlic Shrimp)
    • summer fresh tomato and zucchini pasta sprinkled with Grana Padano cheese
      Italian Spaghetti With Zucchini & Fresh Tomatoes
    • closeup of fresh egg maccheroni pasta with purple and red sauce
      Fresh San Marzano & Purple Carrot Pasta Sauce w/Maccheroni
    • Pasta bowl filled with creamy corn and zucchini pasta with radiatore pasta shape for the perfect summer pasta recipe.
      Sweet Corn and Zucchini Pasta (Summer Pasta)
    • Homemade BBQ (barbecue) dry rub seasoning blend in a glass Weck canning jar.
      3-Minute Homemade BBQ Spice Rub (Best Barbecue Dry Rub)
    • Pepperoni topped pizza in the shape of a heart that's been cut in a zigzag down the middle and slightly separated to reveal a broken heart pizza
      20-Minute Valentine's Day Heart-Shaped Pizza
    • Close-up of homemade cuttlefish ink pasta nests in various shapes on tray, fresh black pasta ready for seafood pasta recipes and nero di seppia dishes.
      Squid Ink Pasta (Homemade Pasta al Nero di Seppia)
    • An All-Clad sauté pan filled with homemade red enchilada sauce with a whisk resting in the pan.
      Red Enchilada Sauce Recipe (Authentic Tex-Mex w/Video)
    • Authentic Italian vanilla bean panna cotta in pandoro star shape with wild berry coulis sauce and chopped strawberries with white chocolate, classic Italian panna cotta recipe easy no bake dessert.
      Velvety White Chocolate Vanilla Bean Panna Cotta
    • Perfectly golden brown blind-baked fluffy pie crust on a cutting board.
      Flaky Butter and Lard Pie Crust (Easy Recipe)
    • Closeup of a well-hydrated, shiny, deep yellow-colored ball of homemade egg pasta in my great grandmother's bread bowl with a vintage Italian cookbook open to the tortellini recipe page.
      Homemade 00 Flour & Semolina Pasta Dough (Semola Rimacinata)
    • Garlic butter shrimp scampi with extra virgin olive oil, grated parmigiano reggiano parmesan and scallions, garlic shrimp scampi recipe.
      Delicious Shrimp Scampi for Two (or a Crowd)
    • 6-Minute Soy Ginger Miso Salmon (w/Crispy Skin)
    • plum and mozzarella caprese salad with basil leaves and olive oil on a plate
      Plum Caprese Salad (with Buffalo Mozzarella)
    • Top down view of classic devil's food cake with fluffy 7-minute frosting and colorful sprinkles, traditional devil's food cake recipe showing the best frosting for this moist devil chocolate cake.
      Best Devil's Food Cake (Super Moist Vintage Recipe)
    • Closeup shot of an oversized bakery-style chocolate chip pecan cookie on a platter.
      Half-Batch Bakery-Style Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
    • A strawberry cheesecake crostata with lattice-crust on a linen table cloth.
      Strawberry Cheesecake Tart (Cheesecake Crostata)
    • all-natural strawberry cake cupcakes in rose gold foil cupcake liners, topped with all-natural strawberry vanilla bean whipped cream sitting on top of a strawberry gelée with mini baby strawberries with stems still attached on top of the whipped cream from my garden
      Strawberry Cake Recipe (for Cupcakes or Double-Layer (All-Natural)
    • Easy strawberry sugar using double the amount of strawberries to get the dark pink flavored sugar.
      Strawberry Sugar Recipe (All-Natural w/Video)
    • a pitcher half full milky-looking bright yellow homemade Italian limoncello next to a bottle of homemade limoncello and a fresh lemon on a red and white striped pot holder
      How to Make Limoncello (The Authentic Italian Way)
    • Homemade lobster ravioli and shrimp ravioli in heart and star shapes on a serving platter covered with lobster tomato cream sauce, showing the best sauce for lobster ravioli recipe.
      Lobster Ravioli With Tomato Cream Sauce
    • Authentic Italian pasta ai funghi in a white bowl topped with grated Grana Padano, a traditional mushroom pasta recipe made without cream.
      Authentic Mushroom Pasta ai Funghi (No Cream)
    • Extra beefy-tasting Beyond Burger on a homemade sesame and poppy seed potato bun.
      How to Make Extra "Beefy" Beyond® Burgers
    • A stack of silky homemade wonton wrappers dusted with cornstarch to keep them from sticking together with a slight yellow hue from the addition of egg.
      Thin & Chewy Homemade Wonton Wrappers (Using All-Purpose Flour)
    • Homemade bucatini all'amatriciana made from scratch with fresh homemade bucatini pasta for a truly authentic pasta amatriciana recipe.
      Amatriciana Recipe (Pasta Amatriciana with Guanciale or Pancetta)

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    Best Lent Recipes

    • Best lenten recipes and meals including cheese enchiladas, lobster ravioli with tomato cream sauce, har gow shrimp dumplings, shrimp toast, crab linguine pasta, crispy Teochew shrimp burgers, asparagus risotto with pan-seared scallops, Italian scallops au gratin, and St. Louis style whole wheat pizza for meatless Friday dinners during Lent (A 9-photo collage of these recipes).
      80+ Best Lent Recipes, Meals & Meatless Dinner Ideas (6-Week Plan)
    • Extra beefy-tasting Beyond Burger on a homemade sesame and poppy seed potato bun.
      How to Make Extra "Beefy" Beyond® Burgers
    • A bowl of paccheri pasta with shrimp and zucchini in a tomato and white wine sauce.
      Paccheri Pasta With Shrimp and Zucchini Sugo
    • Brithish style fish and chips on a wire rack looking super crispy and golden brown.
      British Style Fish and Chips (Crispiest Fried Fish Ever)
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    Our Favorite Easter Recipes

    • Best easter recipes collage featuring homemade spinach ravioli, easter dinner ideas like asparagus lasagna and sauteed carrots, easter desserts including carrot cake and colomba pasquale italian easter bread, easter brunch asparagus frittata, asparagus risotto with scallops, mushy peas easter side dish, and homemade peeps without corn syrup.
      50+ Best Easter Recipes for Dinner, Brunch & Desserts 2026
    • Homemade lobster ravioli and shrimp ravioli in heart and star shapes on a serving platter covered with lobster tomato cream sauce, showing the best sauce for lobster ravioli recipe.
      Lobster Ravioli With Tomato Cream Sauce
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      Italian Easter Dove Bread Recipe (Colomba Pasquale)
    • beautifully golden brown frittata in the cast-iron skillet that's been flipped to show off it's perfectly golden underside
      Asparagus and Zucchini Frittata Recipe (Perfect for Spring)
    • A double layer no-raisin best carrot cake with pecans and matcha cream cheese frosting, piped in kisses and garnished with toasted pistachios.
      Best Carrot Cake Recipe (Super Moist, Made from Scratch)
    • Homemade pink Easter Bunny peeps and Hershey-Kisses-shaped peeps.
      How to Make Homemade Peeps (Without Corn Syrup)
    • A slice of the the best strawberry crostata (aka strawberry jam tart from Italy) on a plate.
      Strawberry Crostata (Italian Crostata di Marmellata di Fragole)
    • Easy Mushy Peas Recipe

    Make Better Homemade Pizza

    • Collection of 25 homemade pizza varieties including vegetarian options, meat-vegetable combinations, hawaiian, prosciutto-arugula, marinara, margherita, mushroom, various cheese pizzas, olive, breakfast pizza, capricciosa, zucchini and ham, pepperoni, quattro formaggi, BBQ chicken pizza, and more on different kinds of homemade pizza dough including neapolitan, whole wheat, bread flour, 00 flour, St. Louis Style, pizza fritta, and pinsa Romana.
      Best Pizza Toppings & Pizza Dough Ultimate Guide w/Real Photos
    • Pizza dough recipe for a homemade pizza with sausage and onion on a crispy bread flour pizza crust recipe, how to make pizza dough for the best homemade pizza dough.
      Best Bread Flour Pizza Dough Recipe (5 Ingredients)
    • Super crispy sliced whole wheat Supreme pizza with green olives, spicy ventricina salami, salsiccia, prosciutto cotto, mushrooms, red bell peppers, and onions.
      Best Whole Wheat Pizza Dough Recipe (For Thin Crust Pizza)
    • Perfect thick-crust pizza dough with pizza margherita toppings (including homemade pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, and mini buffalo mozzarella balls.
      Thick-Crust Pizza (Fluffy 00 Flour Pizza Dough Recipe)
    • A platter with three golden brown fried pizzas topped with burrata cheese, mozzarella, prosciutto di parma, olives, and sun dried tomatoes.
      Crispy Italian Fried Pizza (Easy Abruzzo Pizza Fritta)
    • St. Louis style thin crust whole wheat pizza cut into squares topped with artichoke hearts, Taggiasche olives, caramelized onions and melted mozzarella cheese - no yeast pizza dough recipe.
      Easy 20-Minute Thin & Crispy St. Louis-Style Whole Wheat Pizza
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