Summer Recipes
Last Updated June 21, 2024
It's that time of year when so much produce is available. Visit your favourite market and buy as much as your can while it's fresh - and if you happen to buy too much, you can always freeze some, dehydrate or make some preserves.
Charred Whole Eggplant with herb and garlic vinaigrette
Get ready to hear “wow!” when you put this platter down in front of your guests. Charring the eggplant like this might be the easiest and tastiest way to eat eggplant and it really lends itself to...
3 Eggplant Based Dips
Here are three eggplant dips that turn that humble, spongy orb into delicious, shareable treats.
Marinated Eggplant with Charred Tomatoes and Chèvre
This recipe is great as a side dish or a vegetarian main course.
Grilled Radicchio with Blue Cheese and Tarragon Honey Vinaigrette
Bitter, salty, sweet and sour. This salad hits all the taste notes and is great along side your favourite steak.
4 Pepper Recipes
Peppers can run the spectrum from sweet and mild to the most spicy thing you can put in your mouth. They are over 90% water and contain more vitamin C than an orange. Peppers are used throughout the...
Grilled Shrimp Ceviche
If you are nervous about making a traditional ceviche, where the acid from citrus fruit is the only means of “cooking” the seafood, this recipe is for you. A few seconds on the grill does most of...
Creamed Corn with Shrimp and Jalapeños
This dish is a play on the Southern shrimp and grits. Instead of a cooked cornmeal porridge, this uses creamy sweet corn. Fresh from the cob is best, but if you tuck some of the year's...
Pickled blueberry and cheese crostini
A sweet and sour syrup made by reducing a jar of pickled blueberries gives these crostini a dramatic flavour punch.
Chef Cole Baker's Ultimate Strawberry Dessert
In Sweden, Midsummer's Eve is celebrated between June 19 and 25 when the days are warm and the sun never sets, at least not in the northern part of the country. This celebration of summer lands in the...
When the Season Gives in Abundance
There are few things better than the bounty of produce summer brings. Farmers’ markets and local grocers are full of all our favourites, pick-your-own farms are hopping with pickers and the garden...
Roasted Rhubarb Ice Cream
When pink and green shoots appear in winter-weary gardens, we know spring has arrived. And so has our annual Rhubarb Exchange: neighbours drop off rhubarb from their gardens; we give...
Two blueberry granitas
These icy recipes are a summertime favourite.
Blueberry custard crumble tart
With blueberries bathed in luscious almond custard on almond pastry and finished with a buttery crumble, this is a rich tart that is easy to put together.
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