Recipes

This dessert (best eaten within 2 days) is ideal with flavorful small local berries. If using big supermarket berries, cut them into halves or quarters and sprinkle with a bit of sugar to bring out their flavor.

Fresh, local strawberries are best in this granita for the best strawberry flavor. It’s also a great use for berries that have sat around just a bit too long, as they don’t have to be pretty.

Enjoy the flavors of summer in this delicious side salad starring fresh fruits and vegetables.

Enjoy a light and refreshing frozen treat with these simple popsicles.

This tri-tip beef roast is coated with a savory blend of spices then grilled to perfection.

This bread pudding stars caramelized onions, fresh tomatoes and cheese.

A St. Louis original, this cake starts out with a yellow cake mix and bakes up moist and delicious.

Star anise, cloves and chopped ginger are cooked into a sweet syrup for poaching plums.

A creamy pale-green dressing and strips of thick smoked bacon top a bed of crisp fresh greens in this salad based on Del Frisco’s original.

A single crust pie is a perfect way to showcase ripe, juicy plums.

These simple lemon tarts are perfect to make with kids. They’ll love whipping up the filling with a rotary egg beater and spooning it into the tart shells—that is, if they don’t eat all the filling in the process.

An easy-to-toss-together pizza that is simplicity itself in ingredients, but complex as can be in flavor.

Tahini or sesame seed paste, the major ingredient in hummus, takes center stage in these treats that taste a bit like peanut butter cookies.

Got an ailing friend or a new mom caring for a newborn? Nothing heals like homemade chicken soup.