Summer Recipes

Beat the Heat with Summer Baking! Explore delicious & refreshing recipes – light & fruity treats, cool desserts & more! Not sure where to start? You can’t go wrong with this Strawberry Glaze, these Homemade Blueberry Muffins, or these

Lemon + Sugared Blueberry Coffee Cake


I had to share this one…almost identical to the sugared cranberry coffee cake I did a few weeks back…but with the lemon and blueberry thing happening. This feels fresher…almost like health food. Which is where my mind is at this January 1st. Blueberries are a super food, right? Hope you all have a lovely, happy, healthy, sugar-y, cozy and lazy…

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Fresh Tomato Crostata


{ fresh tomato crostata } Three years ago I started with two raised planter beds for veggies and I ushered in this growing season with nine. That’s right, nine. I had visions of bed after bed of tomatoes. More tomatoes than I could possible eat or can. And then I went seed shopping. I was so compelled by tomatillos and…

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{ grill me somethin’ tasty, beautiful }


{ lemon-rosemary chicken with tzatziki } Let’s start the week off HEALTHY. I tend to be a bit of a weekend warrior, so come Monday I’m ready to clean up my act…at least for a couple of days. Here’s the best thing about this recipe: I’ve never met an easier one. I mean cheap and easy is this guy’s first…

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{ pucker up }


{ lemon-ginger pavlova with fresh strawberry sauce } Lemons are just a beautiful thing. When I was pregnant I couldn’t get enough of fresh-squeezed lemonade. Heaven. Even better was fresh-squeezed and muddled strawberry lemonade. Oh joy. I would search far and wide–which usually meant I sought out the closest Bristol Farms–for a tall frosty glass. We used to live in the…

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{ gardening surprises }


{ lime basil vodka mojitos } I love gardening. Anyone that’s known me for any length of time would find that a fascinating fact. I don’t much like to play in the dirt or lay on the grass. But for some reason, the ebb and flow of gardening trumps all the negatives of getting dirty and being around bugs. One…

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