Making these pastries is super easy with frozen puffed pastry and spreadable Norwegian cheese.

Let the freshness of summer tomatoes shine through in this no-cook pasta sauce.

Fire up the grill for spicy, zesty, Tex-Mex chicken al carbon.

An easy-peasy dish that takes barely 10 minutes: grilled shrimp with lime, cilantro and peanuts.

Beat the heat with soba noodle salad with chevre, pickled shiitakes, cashews and Asian pears. From my new cookbook.

Turn banh mi into fried rice — and make it gluten-free, too.

Salt & Straw’s delicious recipe for stout milk sorbet swirled with fig-blackberry jam.

The incomparable grilled sea bass with a profusion of fresh herbs — from Chef Bryant Ng of Cassia restaurant.

Martha Stewart’s delectable take on a filet-o-fish.

Summer’s smoked barley with blistered tomatoes and burrata.

Summer figs dazzle in this ancient grain salad.

Summer’s perfect finger-food: shishitos or padrons with goat cheese and crisp sage leaves.

A summer tray-bake: chicken in plums with sweet spices.

This beloved fruit stand may be no more, but it’s famed cherry pie recipe lives on.