Everything You Want to Eat

Raw zucchini, Meyer lemon, feta and pinenut pasta. A perfect summer meal with minimal cooking. Slicing the zucchini thinly and marinating it in lemon juice, garlic, olive oil, s+…

Fruit cobbler season is here!!! I make this one with all kinds of spring/summer fruit combos: raspberries, blueberries, cherries, strawberries, peaches, blackberries and plums. I …

Lemon mousse and berry Tart! Here she is! This is a simple tart crust filled with lemon mousse (lemon curd combined with whipped cream), and topped with fresh berries. Perfect for…

Fattoush is a Northern Lebanese salad made with leftover pita, tomatoes, herbs, cucumber and other vegetables. It started as a way for people to use pita scraps so they didn’t go …

Two layer strawberry cake with whipped cream and berries. This cake is based on Marian Burro’s 1983 plum torte recipe from The New York Times. I’ve been doing it with strawberries…

I forgot how much I love a good Greek salad! It’s simple, healthy and so delicious. Did you know a traditional Greek salad (horiatiki) doesn’t have lettuce??It’s just tomatoes, be…

This is a summery, light eggplant Parm more that's much more like the traditional Italian version than the fried version you see in Italian-American restaurants (w…

This grilled corn salad with peaches, arugula, tomatoes, hatch chili and lime is about as summery as salad gets.... Ingredients:5 ears corn, shuckedone hatch chili or jalapeño…

Using ripe, juicy peaches will give you the best flavor in this frozen yogurt recipe. You can use regular whole milk yogurt or for something even creamier, use Greek yogurt. Defin…

Pickled cherries are a great way to use cherries coming into market right now. They're fantastic  alone, in salads, with meat (especially grilled pork chops and chicken) or o…

Blackberry Ice Cream 
A couple weeks ago I was picking wild blackberries in upstate New York and I was inspired to make a blackberry ice cream when I got home to LA and my ice crea…

Did you know you can make RAW strawberry jam in no time at all with just a small amount of sugar or sweetener? I love old fashioned jam but this is great in the summer when you do…

A fruit galette is a rustic, free form tart (in Italy known as a crostata.) In my opinion they're easier and more forgiving than a pie, and only a little more work than a cri…

I have been sampling a lot of plums, pluots, peaches and nectarines at the farmer's markets lately. People say don't go to the market hungry. Those people clearly don&#…

If you're trying to eat "clean" this soup is about as clean as it gets. Cucumber, avocado, mint, lemon, a little onion, lemon juice, water and Greek yogurt. It'…

Summer travels have brought me to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Everyone calls Wisconsin the cheese state, but as much as I love cheese, I am all about the corn. My days here have been…

It's not officially summer but you wouldn't know it here with all the berries at the farmer's markets. This is a quick and easy summery dessert that can be made with…