Menu du jour simply summer : 44 Recipes


  • Recipe Spicy Chicken Burgers (Simply delightful and very satisfying)
    Spicy Chicken Burgers (Simply delightful and very satisfying)
    Hi everyone! I am so glad to be posting again. Last week was a good week food-wise . I tried out a few new recipes and they turned out pretty neat. One of them was this burger recipe that was a complete hit. Recently I have taken to watching[...]
  • Recipe Fresh Summer Salsa
    Fresh Summer Salsa
    I was overjoyed to find this recipe in Simply in Season . I thought it would be a great way to use up some heirloom tomatoes from my CSA! FOR PRINTABLE VERSION CLICK HERE: Fresh Summer Salsa 6 medium fresh tomatoes (diced) 1[...]
  • Recipe Summer Pesto Pizza
    Summer Pesto Pizza
    Pesto. Pizza. What’s not to love? My basil plant kicked the bucket, so I used chive pesto instead. The recipe for the chive pesto is at the end of this post. FOR PRINTABLE VERSION CLICK HERE: Summer Pesto Pizza Source:[...]
  • Recipe Summer Squash Skillet
    Summer Squash Skillet
    When I saw this recipe in Simply in Season , it reminded me of a favorite stir fry recipe that I used to make when I was first learning how to cook, 10 years ago. So I adapted it to what I remembered. Ingredients: 4 C summer squash or[...]
  • Recipe Summer Poached Halibut
    Summer Poached Halibut
    This was one of those recipes from Simply in Season that did not provide very good instructions. It said to simmer the fish in the sauce, but it didn’t tell you to add water. So DH looked up how to poach fish on the internet and[...]
  • Recipe Easy.  Healthy.  Bean Salad.
    Easy. Healthy. Bean Salad. (1 vote)
    Now wait just a minute.  Before you resign yourself to the images of gloppy, slimy picnic bean salads sitting in their plastic take-out bowls and swimming in oil and vinegar, I have to tell you that it doesn't have to be like that.  And, even[...]
  • Recipe Pesto
    Pesto
    Have I mentioned how much I love my container herbs? I’m so thankful that they have done well, despite being in a yard that’s a bit shady. What better way to use fresh basil than pesto? Pesto is a very forgiving sauce. You can[...]
  • Recipe Plum Tart
    Plum Tart
    Aren?t these plums gorgeous? I picked them up at a roadside fruit stand last Saturday. Just perfect for the Plum Tart that I wanted to make from  Simply in Season . Even though the finished product didn?t turn out nearly as perfect as a[...]
  • Recipe Okra Curry
    Okra Curry
    “It smells like a fungus. And not a good fungus, either.” The famous quote from DH when he saw me slicing the okra. See, we do have a lot of fungus/fermentation going on in our house, between his beer and my cheese. But it was[...]
  • Recipe Okra Saute?
    Okra Saute?
    This side dish from S imply in Season is super quick tastes like summer. Ingredients: 4 C okra (cleaned and trimmed, I sliced mine) 1 large onion (sliced) 2 sweet peppers (chopped) 1 chili pepper (seeded and sliced) 2 large[...]