It's always an "Ina Garten Girl" summer

Since the 2019 advent of the Megan Thee Stallion song "Hot Girl Summer," people have used their own iterations of the phrase to categorize the season a little differently. At this point in my life, I'd like to have an "Ina Garten Girl" Summer. Related Here are our 6 favorite budget recipes from Ina Garten Garten was actually behind another phrase that took on a life of its own; throughout her seasons of "Barefoot Contessa," the Food Network host would occasionally remark that "store-bought is fine" to assure home cooks that they didn't really need to make everything from scratch — even if that's what she was doing in the episode. Just a few days ago, Garten posted a recipe on Instagram for her Summer Garden Pasta, which was originally published in her 2006 book "Barefoot Contessa at Home" and developed by her late friend Jean Halberstam It's incredibly simple: Garten combines chopped garden-fresh cherry tomatoes, basil, good olive oil, garlic and spices in a big glass bowl and allows them to marinate for four hours. But I'd argue that most of Ina Garten's best summer recipes are the ones that don't really require a recipe, like her watermelon mojitos, a simple tomato and avocado salad, orzo with roasted vegetable, and her lemon chicken breasts, all recipes that Garten classified as some of her personal favorites for summer in a July post on her website.