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Justine Lee
Justine LeeRecipe Production Coordinator
Justine Lee is Kitchn's Recipe Production Coordinator and a food writer and recipe developer based in NYC. Her writing frequently appears in Food52, Bon Appetit, Food Network, The Infatuation, among others. She has also been featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In her past, Justine has worked in various professional kitchens and food companies. This, along with her Korean-American culinary identity and a lifelong passion for baking, often informs her work. You will find Justine drinking iced coffees year-round, even in a snowstorm with gloves on.
updated Jul 13, 2023
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All day every day, we would make recipes from Ina Garten with a drop of a hat. If there’s one thing that the cookbook author and television host understands better than anyone else, it’s exceptional summer cooking and entertaining. Maybe your aim is to power through the mountain of summer produce going wild in your garden, or all your heart desires is to eat fresh, tasty food that doesn’t come with tireless hours sweating away in your hot kitchen. Maybe, that invitation to Ina’s got lost for yet another summer (we can relate). The Barefoot Contessa has many recipes that are perfect for any warmer month occasion — from a quick tomato salad to a very simple berries and chocolate dessert to a juicy co*cktail in a big martini glass. Here are 10 of our personal favorite recipes that we tried and will always go back to this time of the year.
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Ina Garten's Frozen Berries with Hot White Chocolate
This 4-ingredient treat is the little luxury we all deserve in the summer. Creamy from the white chocolate sauce and sweet with bursts of juicy, acidic fruit with a satisfying contrast of cold and warm temperatures, Ina's dessert is super fun to eat.
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Ina Garten’s Pomegranate Spritz
This pomegranate spritz is the perfect solution to beat this month’s blazing heat. It's got a great balance between sweetness and tartness. The drink is a pomegranate whiskey sour of sorts, sans whiskey and with far fewer ingredients.
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Ina Garten’s Summer Garden Pasta
Ina's recipe for tomato pasta with basil and oil is extraordinary because she doesn't cook the sauce, but rather chooses to marinate tomatoes to render a simple, stunning no-cook sauce that highlights the season.
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Parmesan Roasted Zucchini
Even if you're the biggest zucchini hater, Ina might change your mind. To make this stunning side dish, she tops roasted zucchini with grated Parmesan cheese and crispy panko breadcrumbs. How easy is that?
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Ina Garten’s Salmorejo
This Spanish chilled soup is all about letting beautiful summer tomatoes shine. They’re the star of the recipe, so follow Ina's lead and use the ripest summer tomatoes from the farmers market or your garden.
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Ina Garten’s Heirloom Tomato Salad
If Ina's effortless personality was a summer salad, it would be this fun, refreshing, no-measurement twist on the classic caprese salad. The creamy-crumbly texture of Roquefort cheese couples beautifully with the juiciness of the tomatoes, and the salty, cheesy flavor adds just the right amount of intensity to every bite.
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Ina Garten’s 3-Ingredient Limoncello Dessert
The Barefoot Contessa strikes again with yet another out-of-this-world recommendation: top scoops of vanilla ice cream with cold lemon liqueur and a crisp biscotti cookie. Limoncello with ice cream may sound wild, but when has Ina ever steered you wrong? The splash of booze brings freshness to every rich spoonful.
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Ina Garten’s Strawberry Country Cake
If you’re a beginner baker or don’t bake often, just know that this recipe requires a little extra time and care, but produces a stunning result.
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Spanish Tapas Peppers
According to Ina, “Roasting brings out the sweetness in bell peppers. This is the kind of dish served at Spanish tapas bars — slices of red and yellow peppers are filled with garlic, green olives, golden raisins, spicy saffron, and breadcrumbs. A nice glass of Spanish sherry would be delicious with it.”
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Lemon Fusilli with Arugula
Come summer, you'll probably have all the ingredients for this invigorating pasta: tomatoes, arugula, lemon. But the beauty of this recipe is how you can really use any fresh summer vegetables you've got around.
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