9 Fast and Easy Dishes for Summer

You’ll want to make them all

Mark Bittman
Heated
Published in
5 min readJul 30, 2020

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Individual parts of a salad (lettuce, olives, peppers, asparagus, etc) flying out of a salad bowl.
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No one wants to hang out in a hot kitchen in peak summer — and thankfully, you don’t really have to, since summer is the easiest season to make fast, delicious meals. We’ve got nine of them, right here; some don’t require any cooking at all. And those that do? Well, you don’t need to be in the kitchen as you’re bringing up water to a boil for pasta or eggs.

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Mark Bittman
Heated

Has published 30 books, including How to Cook Everything and VB6: The Case for Part-Time Veganism. Newsletter at markbittman.com.