Food and Recipes Dish 15 Fresh Summer Recipes to Add to Your August Menu By Southern Living Editors Updated on August 5, 2019 Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos Photo: Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Just because summer is slowly coming to a close doesn't mean we still can't enjoy the tastes of the season. How do Southerners combat dwindling farmers' market stock? By pickling any and everything we can, of course. Start with our master pickling brine, and make one (or all five!) of our colorful pickled vegetables, including zesty okra, spicy beans, Tuscan-style cherry tomatoes, turmeric-dill cucumbers, and easy red onions. It's the tastiest way to preserve summertime. And to cap off every late-summer cookout, we're going old-school—super old-school. Southerners have always known that soft drinks can serve as the ultimate secret ingredient, and we're bringing back vintage favorites with updated recipes: 7UP Bundt Cake, Coca Cola Layer Cake, and Cheerwine Cherry Cupcakes, to name a few. There's no better way to send off summer than with these 15 delicious new recipes. 01 of 16 Here Are a Few End-of-Summer Favorites 02 of 16 Easy Steak Fajitas Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Torie Cox Recipe: Easy Steak Fajitas 03 of 16 Creamy Pesto-and-Shrimp Penne with Peas Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Torie Cox Recipe: Creamy Pesto-and-Shrimp Penne with Peas 04 of 16 Chicken Salad-Stuffed Tomatoes Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Torie Cox Recipe: Chicken Salad-Stuffed Tomatoes 05 of 16 Crispy Chicken-and-Broccoli Salad Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall Recipe: Crispy Chicken-and-Broccoli Salad 06 of 16 Any-Berry Muffins with Cornmeal Streusel Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling; Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall Recipe: Any-Berry Muffins with Cornmeal Streusel 07 of 16 Creamy Peach Icebox Cake Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling; Kathleen Varner; Food Styling: Torie Cox Recipe: Creamy Peach Icebox Cake 08 of 16 Pickled Cherry Tomatoes Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall Recipe: Pickled Cherry Tomatoes 09 of 16 Zesty Pickled Okra Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall Recipe: Zesty Pickled Okra 10 of 16 Pickled Red Onions Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall Recipe: Pickled Red Onions 11 of 16 Master Pickling Brine Anna Theoktisto Recipe: Master Pickling Brine 12 of 16 7-UP Bundt Cake Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Recipe: 7-UP Bundt CakeRecipe: Lemon-Lime Cream Cheese FrostingRecipe: Sugared Lemon-Lime Zest 13 of 16 Coca Cola Chocolate Cake Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Recipe: Coca Cola Chocolate CakeRecipe: Fudgy Coca Cola Cake Frosting 14 of 16 Nehi Orange Poke Cake Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Recipe: Nehi Orange Poke Cake 15 of 16 Dr Pepper Texas Sheet Cake Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Recipe: Dr Pepper Texas Sheet Cake 16 of 16 Cheerwine Cherry Cupcakes with Cherry-Swirl Frosting Antonis Achilleos; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall; Prop Styling: Kathleen Varner Recipe: Cheerwine Cherry Cupcakes with Cherry-Swirl FrostingRecipe: Cherry-Swirl Frosting Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit