If you’re in a recipe rut, June’s the month to break the chains and add some new dishes to your repertoire. Spring has sprung, the landscape is green and blooming, and the first day of summer is right around the corner (June 21). June is the month when we honor our fathers (June 19), celebrate graduations and weddings, and plan weekends around trips to the farmers’ markets. It’s prime time for grillin’ and chillin’!

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Remember how we told you not to flatten your burgers with a spatula or grill press? All the juices will be forced out, we said. So how can we explain the newfound popularity of the smash burger? All we know is this thin burger (we like to cook ours on a plancha has won us over with its simplicity and nostalgic nuances. Makes us think of the ol’ burger joint of our collective youth.