CA GROWN Blog

Discover. Learn. Connect.

CA Grown Creators

Meet Them Here

Read Bios »
Eat the Season!
Sign Up For Weekly Recipes

Category: Recipes

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 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...

Original Creamy Old School Grape Salad Recipe

Some recipes disappear for no good reason. This grape salad recipe is one of them. It was a staple at potlucks, church suppers, and family gatherings across the Upper Midwest through the 1950s and...

The Best Summer Corn and Tomato Pizza Recipe

This Summer Corn and Tomato Pizza from the Pizza Party Card Deck is bursting with roasted corn, fresh basil, and sun-ripened cherry tomatoes. It's basically California summer on a...

A Simple Sweet Potato and Kale Salad Recipe

If you have been sleeping on kale salad, this is your wake-up call. Not the sad, chewy, vaguely bitter salad you may have endured at a wedding buffet. This is the best kale salad recipe you are...

An Easy Fruit-Filled Dessert Recipe for Trifle

This fruit-filled trifle is a real showstopper! Layered fruit, soft cake, clouds of citrus-laced cream are stacked into glassware so everyone can see exactly what they are about to eat, then...

Best California Cheeses for Your Next Cheeseboard

California’s dairy story is bigger than a glass of milk. From fog-cooled coastal creameries to Central Valley cheesemakers and Sonoma County classics, the Golden State produces cheeses that can...

A Cantaloupe and Prosciutto Salad That is Perfection

Here's the thing about the classic cantaloupe-and-prosciutto pairing. Everybody has eaten it. Hardly any have ever changed the script of how it's prepared - until now. Rethink The...

New Member Sign Up

Your participation is appreciated. Please fill-out the form below and a Buy California Marketing Agreement (BCMA) representative will contact you. Or, you may contact the BCMA at [email protected].

Download Pdf Form

Licensing Sign Up

Your participation is appreciated. Please fill-out the form below and a Buy California Marketing Agreement (BCMA) representative will contact you. Or, you may contact the BCMA at [email protected].

Certification Mark Licensing Agreement Service Mark Compliance agreement