Seasonal recipes for today's kitchen

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Minted Corn and Zucchini Salad

Minted Corn and Zucchini Salad

Crunchy sweet corn meets just-tender zucchini in this salad that celebrates summer. The vinaigrette that binds it has touches of mellow onion and bright notes of mint. It’s pretty simple to put together, can be assembled ahead of time, and will wow whoever is gathered–Read more

Palisade Peach Tart

Palisade Peach Tart

Colorado summers are made sweeter with Palisade peaches that are grown and  harvested in the western part of our state. Farmers markets, grocery stores, and even street corner vendors have piles of these fruit jewels for sale.  We’ve baked fruit crisps and made ice cream–Read more

Grilled Shrimp and Scallops with Vegetable Kebabs

Grilled Shrimp and Scallops with Vegetable Kebabs

A couple of weeks ago I happened upon a Bon Appétit magazine from June 1986. The cover featured skewers of grilled shrimp and scallops alongside colorful vegetable kebabs. Like seeing a photograph of an old friend in a picture album, I was transported back several decades–Read more

Pan-Fried Fish with Corn and Chili Sauce

Pan-Fried Fish with Corn and Chili Sauce

The mounds of fresh corn at the farmer’s market are an invitation to celebrate summer.  Beneath the green husks and silk are rows of gleaming kernels, filled with crunch and sweetness. We love grilling corn right on the cob or doing a quick sauté of–Read more

Asparagus Mimosa

Asparagus Mimosa

Sometimes giving a vegetable very simple treatment is the way to let it shine. This asparagus recipe, adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s “vibrant vegetable” cookbook Plenty, has few ingredients, basic preparation steps, yet wows with its flavor.  Although the ingredient list is short, making sure those–Read more

Roasted Raspberry Applesauce

Roasted Raspberry Applesauce

Imagine a Valentine’s dessert that’s warm, spicy and the color of an old-fashioned Cupid’s heart.  That’s where my brain went to when I saw Ina Garten’s recipe for an oven-roasted applesauce flavored with fresh raspberries in her latest book, Cooking for Jeffrey.  Ina is famous–Read more