Summer isn't summer without at least one Insalata Caprese: fresh mozzarella layered with amazing tomatoes and basil leaves, topped with coarse salt and balsamic reduction. A balsamic marinade makes this chicken a tender and juicy side.
30 min
If you are lucky enough to live near Eat Street (Mpls) or Frogtown (St. Paul), perfect bành mí sandwiches are seconds away. If not, making them at home is the best way to enjoy them. Crusty baguette topped with lemongrass pork, mayo, crisp vegetables, condiments and pickled carrot and daikon radish.
45 min, plus marinade
This is a seriously refreshing dish. Sweet shrimp layered with rich mango, tangy red onion and spicy habañero pepper in a corn tortilla. Yumalicious.
30 min
This is one of my favorite soup recipes, from The Daily Soup Book, and it's a perfect time to make it with summer's bounty of sweet corn. Poblano peppers meld nicely with potatoes and corn, and a spackling of chipotle peppers perks it up on the finish.
1 hour
Bành mí combine the bold flavors of Vietnam with classic French colonialism. But for the rest of us, learning to make them at home is the best way to enjoy this great sandwich. Crusty baguette topped with lemongrass eggs, mayo, crisp vegetables, condiments and pickled carrot and daikon radish.
45 min, plus marinade
This classic Indian dish — fragrant sauce, with coconut, ginger, tomato, and plenty of spices — is a great way to use seasonal baby eggplants, which are ripening to perfection this time of year.
45 min