6 Recipes Oprah's Loving This Summer
Summer is an invitation to pure delight. It's sleeping a little later, reading a little longer, calling an old friend for a spur-of-the moment lunch. It's fresh fruit and vegetables, and the kinds of recipes you see here.
Recipes created by Sonny Sweetman
Fave Rave
Oprah eats a salad every day for lunch, and this chopped salad is her favorite. "The vegetables are all cut fine, fine, fine. It's a very ladies-who-lunch kind of dish!"
Get the recipe: Chopped Salad
Fit for a King
"This grilled-peach and arugula salad is Gayle's favorite," says Oprah. "Whenever she comes over, we do peach cobbler, peach sorbet, roasted peaches—whatever makes her happy."
Get the recipe: Grilled-Peach and Arugula Salad
Fresh grapes and pear; a mixture of grapefruit, passion fruit, lemon and lime juices; plus club soda and ginger ale come together in this refreshing twist on a classic summer drink.
Get the recipe: Virgin White Sangria
Go Nuts
Oprah says, "This quinoa salad is delicious with Marcona almonds, but I sometimes substitute toasted pine nuts, because everything tastes better with toasted pine nuts!"
Get the recipe: Quinoa Salad with Lemon-Shallot Dressing
Simmered fresh raspberries, sugar and orange juice are the keys to this iced tea's bright and tangy flavor.
Get the recipe: Raspberry Iced Tea
Sipping Pretty
On a sunny day in Santa Barbara, Oprah and
O staffers cooled off with these tasty drinks. You can make them without alcohol or add vodka to turn them into cocktails.
Get the recipe: Honeydew-Basil Chiller
From the
August 2015 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
