Alcohol

Slow Cooker Amaretto-Poached Peaches

Start cooking them right before dinner, and these boozy peaches will be ready just in time for dessert.

Country-Style Ribs with Bourbon BBQ Sauce

Tender, tangy, and accented with just a hint of bourbon, these slow-cooker–cooked ribs are messy, saucy, and perfect for devouring over a long weekend.

Ham Steaks With Curry Sauce (Jambon Le Tout Paris)

Cognac, cream, curry powder, and clarified butter all combine to make an intoxicating sauce for this heritage recipe for pan-seared ham steaks.

The Summer Cocktail That Started as a Mistake

If you want a cocktail you'll be able to recover from, look no further.

Tiki Cantaloupe-Coconut Cocktail

Fresh cantaloupe + coconut make for the perfect summer cocktail.

Blueberry-Apple Cordials

For those times when you buy as many quarts of berries as you can carry, then don’t know what to do with them, preserve them into drinkable form.

Arnie’s Gimlet Slush

It might be hard to go back to regular iced tea ever again.

Sweetbitter Author Stephanie Danler on Cooking, Writing, and Loving Stinky Cheese

The novelist spills the beans on writing, cooking—and doing both at the same time.

Easy Two-Ingredient Homemade Grenadine Syrup

Think outside the bottle.

What to Drink All Summer Long

Add a squeeze of summer produce to your cocktails, mocktails, and even your coffee.

Campari Affogato With Lemon Sorbet

Try this delicious variation on the traditional vanilla-and-espresso dessert.

Throw Your Cocktails on the Grill

Getting a grill into the mix when it comes to summer cocktails adds a whole new dimension of flavor.

Cucumber Gin Cocktail

This herb-infused rocks drink is fresh, cooling, and thirst-quenching, perfect for day drinking.

Grilled Stone Fruit Sangria

Sangria often veers too far on the side of sugary. Grilled stone fruit adds a natural caramelized sweetness to the drink, and lends a smoky char to tame it down.

Sweet Corn Ice Cream With Butterscotch

Sweet summer corn makes a surprising star turn in this ultra-creamy dessert flecked with rich butterscotch sauce and crunchy caramel popcorn.

Beer-Can Chicken, step aside. Cabbage becomes the star of any backyard barbecue with this awesome beer-steaming-plus-grilling technique. It's a smoky, sweet vegetarian play on pulled pork for Beer-Can Cabbage Sandwiches, but the chopped cabbage can also be served as a side dish.