I will be trustworthy with you, I have not cooked a lot this week—hardly in any respect, truly. One night time I used to be struck with a sudden, random yearning for a poké bowl; one other, it was hen tikka masala. (On each events, I turned to my pal Seamless, the takeout supply app, for fast gratification.) Two of my associates had been additionally visiting from out of city the previous couple of days, and their major agenda was to do every part however cook dinner in my tiny NYC residence.

Subsequent week, although, I am able to get again within the groove and into my kitchen. I plan on beginning off with Martha Stewart’s one-pan pasta—it is so fast, really easy, and has a bit little bit of kick to it, which I like. As soon as hump day rolls round, I will in all probability deal with myself to some oven-fried hen, perhaps with a facet of excellent pan-roasted potatoes.

And are available Friday, I am positively placing the peaches which were sitting on my counter for a little too lengthy in a candy, easy tart (our co-founder and CEO Amanda Hesser’s, truly!) to get pleasure from all through the weekend.

You won’t have seen, however these recipes all have one factor in widespread: Other than being very tasty, they’re only a few of our hottest recipes from July (full listing under). Bookmark your favorites so you can also make them too, and take a look at the opposite dishes—pies! panzanella! extra pasta!—that Meals52 readers cherished cooking final month.

1. Marcella Hazan’s Tomato Sauce With Onion & Butter

Will Marcella Hazan’s iconic/well-known/beloved tomato sauce with onion and butter ever stop to be fashionable? In all probability not. Is {that a} unhealthy factor? Heck no. This unfussy, but oh-so-easy sauce packs a surprising quantity of taste contemplating its teeny-tiny substances listing (summer season tomatoes, butter, and onion—however I guess you already knew that) and is ideal for every part from spaghetti to pizza to hen Parm.

2. Invoice Smith’s Atlantic Seashore Pie

Any pie that is described “lazy and beachy” is an automated winner in my ebook, however Invoice Smith’s crowd-pleasing Atlantic Seashore Pie will get bonus factors for the way in which its tangy-creamy-sweet filling (hello there, lemon juice and sweetened condensed milk) and salty cracker crust play off of one another.

3. Traditional Nigerian Jollof Rice

“Spiced and stewed in a flavorful tomato broth,” writes longtime group member Kitchen Butterfly, this much-loved West African dish can go from weeknight dinner to ceremonial dinner with out blinking a watch. Serve it with fried plantains and crunchy coleslaw for an immeasurably scrumptious meal.

4. Easy Brine for Pork Chops

Hold this recipe on tab for all of your summer season grilling escapades. As a result of whether or not you’ve got received two hours or 12, this easy brine from butcher and cookbook creator Cara Nicoletti will take any pork chops from simply common to fairly presumably the very best you’ve got ever had.

5. Early Summer time Panzanella

This contest-winning salad combines all of my favourite issues: garlic (scapes, that’s), heaps and many bread, peak heirloom tomatoes, and different summer season veggies like bell peppers and carrots for crunch. Every thing works collectively to create a dreamy, herby, delightfully carby dish that I am very grateful to have the ability to name a salad.

6. J. Kenzi López-Alt’s 10-Minute Lime Cracker Pie

It does not get simpler than this 10-minute icebox cake that’ll remind you of basic key lime pie, however would require far much less effort. Layer up the 5 substances (significantly, simply 5 whole) and ship this dessert off to the fridge the place, after a number of hours, it will rework into a wonderful tart-sweet-creamy-cakey pudding. Yum.

7. Martha Stewart’s One-Pan Pasta

It ought to actually come as no shock that this nine-minute, one-pan pasta from home goddess Martha Stewart simply cracked our listing of prime summer season recipes. It is received a pleasant contact of warmth due to the purple pepper flakes, and within the phrases of 1 reviewer is “easy and actually good.”

8. The Greatest Pan-Roasted Potatoes

“I needed one thing in between oven-roasted and a few sort of fried potatoes,” writes recipe creator Gretchen. “To my thoughts they require no butter or sauce. The trick is to train persistence and restraint; let the potatoes fry till you’re positive they’re close to burning—no peeking!”

9. Peach Tart

With nearly 500 glowing critiques, how might this showstopping peach tart not crack our top-10-most-popular listing this summer season? Better of all, to make it you will solely want a knife, a bowl, and a few sort of pan for baking—and comfortable, ripe peaches in fact.

10. Judy Hesser’s Oven-Fried Hen

This Genius-approved fried hen from Co-Founder Amanda Hesser’s mother, Judy, is the very best purpose to show in your oven in the course of the scorching summer season months. Sure, it would warmth up your kitchen a bit bit, however we promise that it is easy, nearly completely hands-off, and licensed crunchy-tasty.

What recipes are you cooking up this month? Inform us within the feedback under!