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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...

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...

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