Summer Primary Pantry
Corn Relish with Roasted Peppers
Summer Ingredient: Corn
Recipe: Corn Relish with Roasted Peppers
Riff: Sweet tangy corn relish is good with anything grilled, from shrimp to hot dogs.
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Skillet Corn Bread with Corn Relish
Summer Ingredient: Corn
Recipe: Corn Relish with Roasted Peppers
Riff: Corn relish provides all the seasoning required for this slightly sweet corn bread. The relish also adds heft, making the corn bread substantial enough to serve as a vegetarian lunch with a green salad and some sliced tomatoes.
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Toasts with Tomatoes and Cheese
Summer Ingredient: Tomatoes
Recipe: Oven-Dried Tomatoes
Riff: Arrange on toasts, top with cheese and broil.
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Pasta with Tomatoes and Purple Basil Leaves
Summer Ingredient: Tomatoes
Recipe: Oven-Dried Tomatoes
Riff: Toss with pasta, crushed red pepper and purple basil leaves.
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Garlicky Butter
Summer Ingredient: Garlic
Recipe: Garlic Confit
Riff: Mash the garlic confit in butter and spread it on bread or slip it under chicken skin before roasting.
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Rice Pudding with Blueberry Syrup
Summer Ingredient: Blueberries
Recipe: Blueberry Syrup
Riff: Drizzle the blueberry syrup over rice pudding.
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Pasta with Mixed-Herb Pesto
Summer Ingredient: Herbs
Recipe: Mixed-Herb Pesto
Riff: Toss the pesto with pasta, mix it with ground beef to make meat balls or meat loaf, or whisk it with vinegar to create a delicious herb dressing for salad, tomatoes or fish.
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Peach Chutney
Summer Ingredient: Peaches
Recipe: Peach Chutney
Riff: Grace Parisi's gingery peach chutney is terrific on a grilled cheddar-cheese sandwich or brushed on pork chops during the last few minutes of cooking. To make removing the pits easier, look for freestone peaches, rather than clingstone.
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Yogurt with Blueberry Syrup
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Blueberry Smoothie
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Blueberry-Glazed Ribs
Summer Ingredient: Blueberries
Recipe: Blueberry Syrup
Riff: Blueberry glaze makes the edges on these ribs nice and sticky.
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Tomatoes with Feta and Mint
Summer Ingredient: Tomatoes
Recipe: Oven-Dried Tomatoes
Riff: Layer the oven-dried tomatoes with sliced feta, mint leaves, olive oil and crushed red pepper.
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Lemony Chickpea and Oven-Dried Tomato Stew
Summer Ingredient: Tomatoes
Recipe: Oven-Dried Tomatoes
Riff: Oven-dried tomatoes give this simple stew an astounding depth of flavor. Serve it with greens; roasted meat or poultry like lamb, beef or chicken; or with pan-seared snapper, halibut or shrimp.
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The Summer Primary Pantry
As any cook with a pulse knows, the farmers' market is full of tomatoes, corn, blueberries and more right now. F&W's Grace Parisi takes advantage of those vividly hued foods, creating recipes that become the basis for the very best dishes of the summer (and the fall and winter, too).