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Fresh Heirloom Tomato and Peach Caprese Salad

There is a stretch of summer when heirloom tomatoes and juicy peaches are sitting three feet apart at the farm stand, both at their absolute peak, and almost nobody thinks to put them on the same...

A Veggie-Packed Recipe for Creamy Farrotto

Farrotto is the dish that makes turning on your oven in July feel like a good decision. It's farro cooked low and slow, risotto style, until it turns rich and creamy. Then, it's topped with a pile...

A Summer Sweet Corn Salad with Tomatoes and Wild Rice

Every summer I overbuy sweet corn. Six ears for a household of two, every single trip, like the season might get called off early. This corn salad takes the same ears and turns them into something...

A Fruit Forward Blended Cottage Cheese Bowl Recipe

Blended cottage cheese is having a moment, and honestly, it's about time. That tub of cottage cheese in the back of your fridge just got a serious glow-up. Throw it in a food processor with fruit...

An Easy Recipe for Fig + Nut Stuffed Sweet Potato

There's a particular kind of dinner win that comes from a stuffed sweet potato, and it asks almost nothing of you. Bake a few California sweet potatoes until the insides turn soft and jammy, then...

How to Make Oven Roasted Corn – It’s Almost Too Easy

Roasted corn might be the easiest recipe you make all summer, and that is exactly the point. Skip the grill, skip the boiling pot, and let the oven do the work while you handle everything else for...

In Season Summer Recipe Ideas for Dinner

Stuck in a weeknight rut? The best summer recipe ideas for dinner start with what's already at its peak in California fields right now. Sweet corn is at its juiciest, tomatoes are practically...

Sizzling Cinnamon Apple Skillet with Raisins

Some nights you want dessert without the production, and this apple skillet gives you that. It's caramelized Fuji apples, plump California raisins, and honey-soaked cinnamon in about twenty minutes,...

The Best Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bar Recipe

Our Salted Caramel Apple Pie Bar recipe is exactly what you need since apple season just landed in California. Forget the fussy lattice top and the two hours of crust anxiety. This is a bar recipe,...

How to Make Grilled Avocado for Use in Summer Recipes

Summer cookouts have a way of turning even the simplest produce into something worth bragging about. Like this grilled avocado that might be the most underrated trick in the whole backyard arsenal....

How to Build an Easy and Effortless Produce + Cheese Board, California-style

As we head into the season of long sunny days that slip into golden evenings, entertaining at home naturally shifts toward the easy and effortless. And nothing is simpler than setting out a CA GROWN...

Irresistible Spring Roll Recipe with Fresh Fruit & Veggies

If you’ve ever stood in front of a pile of peak-summer produce and thought, what do I even do with all of this? This spring roll recipe is your answer. We’re talking rice paper rolls packed with...

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