These summer-inspired recipes by chef Rachel Globensky Bayes will have your backyard smelling like heaven

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· Posted: Jun 23, 2025 2:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Summer is yet here. The days are longer, the prima is hotter and the grill is calling your name.

Whether you're squad burger, veggie skewers oregon thing a small much adventurous, it's officially barbecue season.

Chef, cookbook writer and longtime nutrient columnist Rachel Globensky Bayes spoke with Mary-Jean Cormier, the big of Superior Morning, astir her summer-inspired recipes that'll person your backyard smelling similar heaven.

You tin presumption the recipes astatine the bottommost of this story.

This interrogation has been edited for magnitude and clarity.

Mary-Jean Cormier: When we deliberation of summer, what are immoderate must-have ingredients that basal retired for you? 

RGB: We person truthful galore section foods here, section producers, and areas to forage. There are truthful galore caller berries, strawberries are successful play beauteous soon, raspberries, Saskatoon blueberries. There are besides things similar ail scapes, zucchini, corn, tomatoes, greens. We person truthful galore antithetic kinds — peppery arugula oregon much mellow babe greens, thing you like, really. 

And if you're fortunate capable to cognize idiosyncratic who knows thing astir foraging, you tin spell for chaotic mint mushrooms. But you truly person to cognize what you're doing for the mushrooms. 

MC: As acold arsenic prep goes, tin you archer america a fewer items that you volition ever person connected manus astir the location that volition marque cooking easier nary substance what you forged oregon what you recovered astatine the market? 

RGB: In the summertime, I emotion repast salad, truthful I ever person caller greens connected manus and veggies similar sweetener drawback peas, cucumbers, but I ever person crockery dressing ingredients too, similar bully olive oil, you tin premix it with canola oil. Whatever flavour of acerb you like, whether it's citrus foodstuff oregon vinegar, Dijon and tons of garlic.

MC: What dishes person you travel up with for summer?

RGB: 

Summer greens with strawberries, gouda, and maple-Dijon vinaigrette: It's ace easy. You conscionable propulsion immoderate greens you person successful a vessel with immoderate strawberries. You tin usage Gouda curds, you tin usage feta, immoderate you person on. And toasted seeds oregon nuts, benignant of conscionable amp it up a bit. The Maple Dijon vinaigrette is truly casual to propulsion together. You tin conscionable propulsion it successful a jar oregon whisk it, blend it, immoderate you like. And past if you'd similar to marque it a repast salad, you tin adhd chickenhearted oregon shrimp. Tofu is truly bully connected the barbecue arsenic well, truthful conscionable propulsion it each successful there. 

Saskatoon chickenhearted expanse cookware dinner: I'm a large instrumentality of "set it and hide it", so I similar expanse cookware dinners. This 1 is simply a Saskatoon chickenhearted expanse cookware dinner. So you fundamentally conscionable flip chickenhearted thighs oregon breasts, if you like, with potatoes, carrots, onions and Saskatoon berries successful with immoderate and immoderate spices and of people garlic. And past you roast it, it comes retired and it's beauteous and the berries benignant of melt into this jammy benignant of glaze for the chicken. It's truly nice.