Summer Recipes Archives - A Recipe For Fun

A small jar is filled with honey French dressing with honey and shallot to the side of the jar and a side salad in the background.

Honey French Dressing (Easy Shallot Salad Dressing)

Cherry tomato and garlic confit in a jar with a spoon in it.

Cherry Tomato Garlic Confit (Roasted Cherry Tomatoes and Garlic)

A small bowl of cherry tomato sauce garnished with fresh basil is in a small bowl, surrounded by fresh ingredients.

Cherry Tomato Sauce (Easy Sauce for Pasta or Pizza)

A big batch Aperol spritz pitcher recipe.

Big Batch Aperol Spritz (Pitcher Italian Cocktail)

Two Aperol spritzes are on a blue kitchen countertop.

Classic Aperol Spritz Cocktail (Easy 3-2-1 Recipe)

A small jar of Italian olive oil and herb marinated mozzarella sits on a plate surrounded by crostino crackers and fresh herbs.

Italian Olive Oil and Fresh Herb Marinated Mozzarella Balls

A bottle of Aperol Italian Aperitivo liqueur sits behind a small tasting glass of the liqueur.

What is Aperol? All About the Classic Italian Aperitivo

A finished plate of crostini crackers sits on a cutting board ready to be served.

Sourdough Crostini Crackers (Easy Italian Crostino Recipe)

A classic silver margarita sits on a countertop with the ingredients used to make the cocktail in the background and foreground.

Classic Silver Tequila Margarita (Tequila Blanco Margarita)

A bottle of agave simple syrup sits on a small dish on a cutting board. A bottle of agave nectar is in the background.

Agave Simple Syrup (Easy Agave Syrup for Drinks)

A blueberry latte is garnished with a cocktail pick of blueberries. Blueberries are scattered around the frame.

Blueberry Latte Recipe (Coffee with Blueberry Syrup)

A burrata caprese salad is on a large oval platter. It's made of multiple kinds of tomatoes, including heirloom tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, and it is garnished with fresh basil.

Burrata Caprese Salad (Easy Tomato and Burrata Salad)

A feature image collage for a roundup style blog post featuring recipes for tropical summer fruit simple syrups.

Top Tropical Syrup Recipes for Summer Drinks

A bottle of starfruit infused rum sits on a cutting board surrounded by starfruit, with a bottle of rum in the background.

Starfruit Infused Rum (Tropical Carambola Fruit Rum)

A feature image collage for a roundup style blog post featuring recipes for infused simple syrups.

How to Make Infused Simple Syrup (Easy Simple Syrup Recipes)

A feature image collage for a roundup style blog post featuring recipes for blackberry drinks.

Must-Try Blackberry Drinks (Perfect for Blackberry Season!)

A sparkling blackberry basil lemonade sits on a coaster on a wooden cutting board.

Sparkling Blackberry Basil Lemonade (with Blackberry Syrup)

A blackberry bourbon bramble cocktail sits on a coaster on a wooden cutting board with another bramble cocktail in the background and blackberries scattered around it.

Blackberry Bourbon Bramble (Whiskey Bramble)

A blackberry basil margarita sits on a marble coaster with ingredients used to make the drink in the background.

Blackberry Basil Margarita (Summer Berry Basil Margarita)

A non-alcoholic blackberry lemon sour sits on a coaster on a wooden cutting board.

Non-Alcoholic Blackberry Sour (Blackberry Lemon Mocktail)

Two blackberry Italian sodas are sitting on a wooden cutting board.

Blackberry Italian Soda (Blackberry Cream Soda)

An iced blackberry latte, with blackberry cold foam, sits on a wooden coaster and is garnished with fresh blackberries.

Iced Blackberry Latte (Easy Coffee with Blackberry Syrup)

Two glasses of homemade starfruit soda sit on a wooden cutting board, surrounded by slices of starfruit.

Homemade Starfruit Soda (Carambola Soda Recipe)

A bottle of starfruit simple syrup is sitting on a wooden cutting board surrounded by starfruit.

Starfruit Simple Syrup (Carambola Fruit Simple Syrup)

A jar of dehydrated starfruit is being spilled out onto a cutting board and countertop.

Dehydrated Starfruit (Dried Starfruit for Garnishing Drinks)

A homemade starfruit smoothie is in a retro style soda fountain glass on top of a rattan coaster. The drink is garnished with a slice of starfruit and a striped straw.

Starfruit Smoothie (with Star Fruit and Mango)

A bottle of lavender infused vodka sits on a cutting board with dried lavender sprigs. It is tied with a bow and a sprig of dried lavender, ready to be given as a gift.

Lavender Infused Vodka

An iced lavender honey latte sits on a purple countertop.

Honey Lavender Latte (Iced or Hot Lavender Honey Coffee)

A bottle of lavender honey simple syrup sits on a marble footed tray.

Lavender Honey Simple Syrup (with Dried Lavender)

A small jar of Earl Grey simple syrup sits on a countertop.

Easy Earl Grey Simple Syrup (for Cocktails and Mocktails)

A sage gin gimlet sits on a pink stone countertop with a sprig of sage on the countertop and limes that have been squeezed on the counter.

Easy Sage Gin Gimlet (Sage Gin Cocktail Recipe)

A bottle of sage simple syrup sits on a mauve plate surrounded by sage leaves.

Sage Simple Syrup

Two blackberry daiquiri cocktails sit on a yellow terrazzo countertop on coasters ready to be served.

Blackberry Daiquiri Cocktail

A bottle of homemade blackberry syrup is on a small cutting board with a bowl of blackberries in the background. There are blackberries scattered on the countertop.

Homemade Blackberry Simple Syrup (with Fresh Berries)

A glass mug contains a virgin moscow mule mocktail. The glass is sitting on a marble coaster on a marble countertop and has dehydrated limes, mint, and a bottle of ginger beer in the background.

Alcohol Free Moscow Mule Mocktail (Virgin Moscow Mule)

A small bowl of salt and a jar of water sit on a stone countertop next to a dropper bottle of saline solution to use in beverages.

How to Make Saline Solution for Cocktails and Mocktails

A finished Cuban daiquiri cocktail sits in a couple glass garnished with a dehydrated lime wheel.

Cuban Daiquiri (Original Daiquiri Recipe & A Revised Classic)

Two bottles of rosemary simple syrup sit on a green countertop with rosemary on the countertop as well. A small bowl has syrup being poured into it. One bottle of syrup has been infused longer and with more rosemary, so it is darker than the other.

Easy Rosemary Simple Syrup (For Cocktails and Drinks)

Two iced cortados sit on a countertop. There is a jar of coffee beans in the background, and coffee beans are scattered on the countertop.

Iced Cortado (Cortado Coffee)

Feature image for an espresso martini mocktail. Two glasses of virgin espresso martinis sit on a countertop next to the ingredients used to make them.

Espresso Martini Mocktail (Alcohol Free Espresso Martini)