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    Home » Seasonal Recipes » Summer Recipes

    Summer Recipes

    Think beautiful fresh and bright summer recipes — sweet and savory — full of seasonal produce and flavors. Don't miss out on the Watermelon Halloumi Salad Sandwich or the Grilled Strawberry Basil Kebabs in July and August

    • Pineapple Pork chops and sliced with pineapple slices and cilantro, on a white plate.
      Pineapple Pork Chops
    • Pickled tomato salsa in a jar with a spoonful on top.
      Pickled Tomato Salsa
    • Close up of Hatch chile butter in a terra cotta bowl.
      Roasted Hatch Chile Butter
    • Spicy Serrano-Tomato Preservesin a round jar with serrano stem poking out.
      Spicy Tomato Preserves
    • Three pieces of Bruschetta with Champagne Grapes on wood board.
      Champagne Grape Bruschetta
    • Rounded glass filled pale yellow-colored smoothie with a rambutan on the edge.
      Tropical Rambutan Smoothie
    • Terra cotta bowl with peach avocado salad and fresh flowers behind it.
      Peach Avocado and Zucchini Salad
    • Minty Avocado Toast Recipe-Three Ways -- Fresh, beautiful fruit is a beautiful touch on minty avocado toast. Oh yes, it’s the perfect summer appetizer!
      Minty Avocado Toast with Fruit
    • Cold Cucumber Soup with a slice of lemon in orange bowl with white rim
      Cold Cucumber Basil Soup
    • A few scoops of lychee ice cream in a pink-rimmed ceramic bowl with pink Gerbera daisies in the background.
      Lychee Ice Cream
    • pile of lychees spilling out of a bowl
      How to Peel and Eat Lychee Fruit
    • White rectangular plate on a bamboo sushi mat with charred shishito peppers.
      Blistered Shishito Peppers
    • Small turquoise-rimmed ceramic bowl fill with chunky apricot preserves and a small golden spoon.
      The Best Apricot Preserves
    • Green Lemon pesto with lemon slice and basil leaf on top, in a green bowl, fitted inside a yellow bowl.
      Lemon Pesto
    • Light green bowl filled with strawberry and avocado salsa, with a halved strawberry on top.
      Strawberry Avocado Salsa
    • A few Spiced Avocado Fries on a white plate.
      Spiced Avocado Fries Recipe
    • Creamy Avocado Butter in a red and white striped bowl.
      Avocado Butter Recipe
    • sliced loaf of avocado zucchini bread
      Avocado Bread
    • Small white and blue plate with Pecan Green Beans.
      Pecan Green Beans with Orange
    • Large glass goblet with caramel-colored rim, filled with passion fruit mousse, with a purple cloth behind it.
      Passion Fruit Mousse
    • How to Juice and Eat Passion Fruit
    • Tomato Poblano Salsa on a tortilla chip held above a dark grey bowl filled with more salsa.
      Roasted Tomato Poblano Salsa
    • Close up of 2 watemelon Halloumi sandwiches on a white narrow plate with toothpicks and mint leaves.
      Watermelon Sandwich
    • Large Mason jar with blackberry vinaigrette and a whole blackberry on the top rim, and pretty purple cloth next to it.
      Blackberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
    • Open jar of lemon verbena pesto with small leaves on top.
      Lemon Verbena Pesto
    • Close up of Easy Tomato Gazpacho recipe in a blue and white bowl with diced avocados, tomatoes and onion on top.
      Easy Tomato Gazpacho
    • Horizontal image of Creamy Avocado Gazpacho in white bowl.
      Creamy Avocado Gazpacho
    • Stacked slices of Chipotle Mango Quesadillas.
      Chipotle Mango Quesadillas
    • Top view of Strawberry Swirl No-Churn Ice Cream in a small white mug with strawberry on top.
      Strawberry Swirl Ice Cream
    • Papaya seeded and filled as a bowl with greens and avocado.
      Papaya Bowl Salad with Avocado
    • Black bowl filled with mango salsa with a small Habanero pepper right on top.
      Mango Habanero Salsa
    • One slice of a basil cheesecake with a small basil sprig on top, on a white plate.
      Sweet Basil Cheesecake with Lemon Crust
    • Top view of a mango salad in a white-rimmed bowl with handles.
      Mango Manchego Salad with Basil
    • Chicken pieces on the bone baked in mango coconut sauce in a baking dish with fresh cilantro.
      Baked Coconut Mango Chicken
    • One avocado cut in half with pit still in on half.
      How to Cut and Peel Avocado
    • How to Cut Papaya
    • Mango sliced in half and diced within the skin with a spoon scooping the pieces out, on wooden cutting board.
      How to Cut a Mango
    • Close up of fig toast on dark bread on top of a fig leaf on a white plate.
      Fig Toast with Basil Oil
    • fresh fig preserves in small wooden spoon over small white bowl
      Fig Preserves Recipe with Vanilla
    • One slice of peach cheesecake on a dark blue plate with sunflowers in the background.
      Peach Cheesecake with Almond Crust

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    Hi, I'm Valentina, certified chef, owner, recipe developer and photographer at Cooking on the Weekends. I'm also a mom of two boys and a Los Angeleno. I use seasonal whole foods to create unique and comforting recipes for casual entertaining.

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