Summer Recipes Archives - Beyer Eats and Drinks

Looking for easy summer dinner ideas? These 12+ quick and flavorful recipes are perfect for busy nights—featuring grilled meats, fresh salads, veggie skillets, and no-bake desserts the whole family will love.

☀️ Easy Summertime Dinner Recipes for Busy Nights

Say goodbye to soggy wings! 👋 This baking powder trick guarantees crispy, dry-rubbed smoked chicken wings every time. Perfect for game day!

Crispy Dry-Rubbed Smoked Chicken Wings (The Baking Powder Secret!)

Grill the Kabobs: Place the skewers on the grill and cook for 10-15 minutes, turning occasionally to brown all sides. The potatoes should be tender and slightly charred.

Delicious Grilled Baby Potato Kabobs Recipe

Before serving, give the sweet macaroni salad a gentle stir and garnish with fresh parsley or dill if desired. Serve it chilled and enjoy the delightful combination of flavors and textures.

Sweet Macaroni Salad – Old-Fashioned Creamy Pasta Salad with Sweetened Condensed Milk

Discover an easy and delicious pickled beets recipe featuring whole mustard seeds and peppercorns. Perfect for salads, sandwiches, and snacking. Includes variations and storage tips.

Easy Refrigerator Pickled Beets

No need to wrap the beets in aluminum foil when you can follow this simple guide on how to roast beets without foil.

How to Roast Beets without Foil in the Oven

These refrigerator spicy pickled radishes are an easy pickled radish recipe made with fresh radishes, jalapenos, red onions, white wine vinegar, salt, sugar, and spices.

Quick Spicy Pickled Radishes in the Refrigerator

The secret to grilling pork chops? A perfectly balanced homemade dry rub that brings out the best in your meat.

The Best Grilled Pork Chops Dry Rub Recipe

This smoked corn dip is made on your smoker or in your oven with ground pork, roasted poblanos, cream cheese, shredded cheddar cheese, and adobo seasoning.

Smoked Corn Dip with Sausage, Cream Cheese and Poblanos

Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies are a pudding cookie recipe made with cheesecake pudding, fresh strawberries and white chocolate chips.

Strawberry Cheesecake Cookies Recipe

Cold Spaghetti Pasta Salad is a garden vegetable heaven in this delicious Italian pasta salad filled with cucumbers, celery, carrots, onions, peppers, olives, tomatoes, and parmesan cheese.

Cold Spaghetti Pasta Salad

With just a few simple ingredients and a bit of time, you can create a jar of homemade freezer strawberry jam that's bursting with flavor.

Homemade Strawberry Freezer Jam Recipe

Easy Grilled Pork Chops in a soy sauce and honey pork chop marinade is so full of flavor from soy sauce, honey, red pepper flakes, and garlic.

Grilled Pork Chops with Soy Sauce and Honey Pork Chop Marinade

These jalapeno popper stuffed pork burgers are made with ground pork and filled with cream cheese, fresh jalapeno slices, and bacon pieces then topped with even more cheese for the perfect spicy pork burgers recipe.

Juicy Jalapeño Popper Stuffed Pork Burgers: A Fiery Twist on Classic Burgers

A combination of frozen strawberries, frozen pineapple, and frozen mango with orange and pineapple juice makes the best Tropical Smoothie Cafe Sunrise Sunset smoothie.

Sunrise Sunset Smoothie

Top off with the mineral water. Garnish with a lime slice, blackberry, and mint leaves.

Blackberry Mojito

Here are the ingredients you need to make these mouthwatering steak bites.

Cajun Bacon Wrapped Steak Bites on the Grill or Air Fryer

Garnish the sea breeze with a lime wedge or even a grapefruit wedge too.

Sea Breeze Cocktail – Vodka Cranberry Grapefruit Drink

Italian Coleslaw recipe is a creamy coleslaw recipe made with Italian dressing and is similar to that TikTok sandwich slaw recipe.

Italian Coleslaw with Banana Peppers – Tangy, Creamy, and Packed with Flavor

Bourbon peach slab pie is a peach pie bars recipe that is just like a slice of peach pie that is even better topped with brown sugar glaze.

Bourbon Peach Slab Pie – Peach Pie Bars 🍑 🥧

Cucumber pizza is a simple no-bake appetizer made with naan bread, cream cheese, Italian seasoning, and cucumbers cut into cucumber bites.

Cucumber Bites – Cucumber Pizza

Skillet zucchini and summer squash recipe with corn and mushrooms is a quick sauteed squash recipe that comes together with lots of flavors thanks to onions, garlic, and fresh herbs.

Skillet Zucchini and Summer Squash Recipe with Corn and Mushrooms

Tomato basil sauce is easy to make by oven roasting the tomatoes, garlic, onions, basil, and olive oil before pureeing into the sauce.

Roasted Tomato Basil Sauce – Homemade Tomato Sauce Recipe

Cucumbers and sour cream salad is a creamy cucumber salad that is tangy with a hint of spice from the combination of cucumbers, onions, sour cream, hot sauce, dill weed, and vinegar.

Cucumbers and Sour Cream Salad – Creamy Cucumber and Dill Salad

Pickled red onions are easy to make with onions, lime juice, jalapenos, radishes, and vinegar and the perfect topping for tacos, salads, and sandwiches.

Easy Pickled Red Onions

Grilled chicken no longer has to be dry and tough with this simple method for how to make the best grilled chicken recipe with boneless, skinless chicken thighs and honey garlic seasoning.

How to Make the Best Grilled Chicken Recipe

Air fryer broccoli is a delicious crispy broccoli recipe that is ready to eat in just 10 minutes! This broccoli in the air fryer recipe EASY made with a simple combination of fresh broccoli crowns, olive oil, and my favorite garlic pepper seasoning.

Air Fryer Broccoli Recipe- Ninja Foodi Broccoli

Learn how to can banana pepper rings with this easy refrigerator pickled peppers recipe that is made with your mild or hot banana peppers plus salt, sugar, vinegar, and water.

How to Can Banana Pepper Rings – Easy Refrigerator Pickled Peppers

Guacamole burgers combine taco night with burger night straight from the grill with flavorful burgers, pepper-jack cheese, guacamole, sauteed onions, peppers, and street taco tortilla shells.

Guacamole Burgers – Lettuce Wrapped Burger Version

Teriyaki Pork on a Stick is a simple pork marinade recipe made from soy sauce, brown sugar, pineapple juice, and ginger that is perfect for grilled pork.

Teriyaki Pork on a Stick – Grilled Pork Skewers

Fire-roasted salsa recipe takes garden fresh tomatoes, jalapenos, onions, garlic, and cilantro to the grill for a flame-grilled salsa recipe that is outrageously good and easy to make.

Fire Roasted Salsa – Grilled Salsa Recipe

Bacon parmesan stuffed mushrooms are a gluten-free stuffed mushroom recipe is low-carb, filled with bacon, cheese, garlic, onions, and herbs that can be grilled or baked.

Bacon Parmesan Stuffed Mushrooms – Grilled Stuffed Mushrooms

Summer dinner ideas that will keep your kitchen cool and your stomachs filled with everything from grilled chicken, steaks, and burgers to salads and garden-fresh recipes to accompany everything coming off the grill.

Easy Summer Dinner Ideas

Pork Burger Seasoning Salt is a combination of three salts, paprika and chili powder to create a seasoning salt that is perfect on pork burgers, pork chops and even chicken and beef. #pork #Burgers #Seasonings #Salt #Spices #Grilling #Recipes

Pork Seasoning Salt

This grilled lemon pepper chicken marinated for two days in 7-Up and garlic. After grilling, this chicken was some of the best grilled chicken I have ever had.

7-Up Lemon Pepper Grilled Chicken

How to freeze sweet corn without blanching the corn and requiring to cut corn off of hot cobs and instead making a simple sugar and salt brine to freeze the corn in is the way I grew up freezing sweet corn.

How to freeze sweet corn without blanching

Garlic Lemon Basil Grilled Chicken is the perfect summer dinner idea. The marinade is made with white wine, lemon, limes, mustard, garlic, and basil.

Garlic Lemon Basil Chicken

BLT salad is a simple salad recipe combining lettuce, tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, and bacon crumbles with a homemade creamy dressing that is a cross between ranch and caesar dressing.

BLT Salad