Summer is my favourite time of year: not only is it a welcome change from a long cold winter, but is the time when gardeners can see the efforts from their Spring plantings.
Grand country homes like Downton Abbey had vast kitchen gardens to feed family and staff, as a quick trip to the market was quite impractical. My parents still maintain a large garden where I was first exposed to vegetable gardening growing up. If you live in a concrete jungle, container gardening is an option to grow some easy to grow favourites like herbs, strawberries or cherry tomatoes. Fellow suburbanites can claim a little patch of the backyard to join the grow your own movement.
If you don’t have your own garden you can still enjoy fresh local produce from farmers’ markets or your local grocery store. Here is a list of my favourite recipes:
HERBS/VEGETABLES
Mixed Vegetables
Basil
Beets
- Bake your Beets for Maximum Flavour
- Gorgeous Beet Salad with Orange and Ginger Dressing
- Can’t Beet this Rich Chocolate Keto Torte
- Unbeetable Moist Chocolate Cake
- Hearty Russian Beef Beet Borscht
Carrots
Peas
Leeks
Zucchini
FRUITS
Berries
- Jiggly Strawberry Jelly
- Strawberries withh Madeira
- Guiltlress Strawbery Charlotte Russe
- Victorian Strawberry Water Ice
- Heavenly Light Low Fat English Trifle
- Low Fat Eton Mess
- Summer Blueberry Clafoutis
- Verastile Blueberry Fool
- Bountiful Serviceberry/Saskatoon Pie
Peaches
Rhubarb
- Moist Rhubarb Cake
- Healthier Rhubarb Crumble
- Delightful Rhubarb Ginger Jam
- Yummy Strawberry Rhubarb Jam
- Grilled Salmon with Sherry Rhubarb Sauce
- Scrummy Rhubarb Orange Brown Betty
