Cherries
The primary to reach on the summer time stone fruit scene, cherries can be found all through the summer time in quite a lot of colours and flavors. Candy cherries, corresponding to Bing, Lapins, or Rainier, are excellent for having fun with uncooked, preserving, or baking into pies and tarts. Bitter cherries, corresponding to Montmorency, are greatest cooked and are in style in pies, cocktails, and crisps, the place sugar could be added to tame their tartness.
Contemporary Cherry Tart with Cream Cheese Filling
At first look, the addition of citrus could appear uncommon, however the added lemon or lime within the crust pairs fantastically with the almond and contemporary cherry flavors.
Candy Cherry Pie
For some folks—er, me—apple pie is a favourite. For others, it’s unquestionably cherry that rocks their world. I get requested each weekend on the Pitchfork Pie Stand if I’ve cherry pie. My response is a fast one: “Who’s going to pit all these cherries?!” However cherry pie is bred deeply within the American DNA, and for that, and its brilliant and cheery look, there’s a place for it when providing presents of therapeutic to others.
There’s nothing higher than a contemporary cherry pie for launching the summer time fruit pie season. This recipe was a wonderful kick-off! I introduced dwelling about two kilos of cherries and the filling set fantastically because the pie cooled. Oh and the crust—lovely, lovely, lovely!
Chiyo
Pickled Cherries
Pickled cherries are a fast, simple, surprising technique to prolong cherry season. Tartly candy, subtly spiced, and surprisingly laborious to cease consuming, these little gems ably prolong summer time.
That is the sixth time I’ve made this pickled cherries recipe. It by no means disappoints!
Ilda C.
Apricots
Contemporary apricots are in season in North America from Could by July, though the dried selection is a well-liked snack year-round. Whereas a superb addition to pies, tarts, and crumbles, the sweet-tart taste of those fruits additionally lends itself to cocktails, like this apricot daiquiri, and pairs effectively in savory dishes like roasted pork tenderloin with chanterelles.
Apricot Tart with Frangipane
This apricot tart is stuffed with contemporary apricots which can be sitting on a buttery frangipane, or almond cream, all nestled in a crumbly candy tart shell. On high are chopped pistachios, for the wow issue.
Apricot Jam
This no pectin apricot jam recipe, made with solely three elements – contemporary apricots, sugar, and lemon juice – is a simple technique to make apricot season final all yr lengthy.
I LOVE it!!!! I made the apricot jam precisely by the recipe and it was unimaginable.
Mylene
Apricot Galette
With an apricot galette, you will have the very best of summer time—a ripe, candy fruit that speaks for itself, needing little or no added sugar and a light-weight, buttery crust that is fuss-free.
It is a implausible galette recipe that’s equal components great California apricots and French pastry. A style of summer time and a style of Paris .
Mr. Mill Valley
Peaches
Whether or not you favor to take pleasure in completely ripe peaches unadorned, juice dripping down your arms, remodeled into candy and spicy peach salsa, piled atop burrata and peach pizza, or baked right into a contemporary peach pie, these stone fruits are a much-beloved summer time favourite.
Interested in whether or not you need to select clingstone or freestone? It’s as much as you. Freestone peaches are simpler to chop and pit, making them excellent for the grilled peach recipe beneath or for having fun with out of hand, whereas clingstone peaches are smaller and sweeter, making them excellent for canning and preserving.
Grilled Peaches with Honey and Black Pepper
These grilled peaches with honey and black pepper are a simple summer time dessert that caramelizes the pure sweetness of stone fruits and turns them tender and mushy. A drizzle of honey and a slight chew from black pepper takes them excessive.
Grilled peaches are the right summer time dessert! It was the right ending to a stunning dinner of grilled lamb chops, potato gratin, and fennel arugula salad. I served the peaches with vanilla ice cream and I had a really blissful desk!
Lisa
Tomato and Peach Panzanella
Tomato and peach panzanella could sound unlikely nevertheless it’s gonna knock your socks off. Or, in case you’re not carrying socks this time of yr, then it’ll knock your flip-flops off. Assured.
This tomato and peach panzanella is summer time in your mouth! I can’t say sufficient about how good this was. It’s peak tomato and peach season right here in Southern California which made for a scrumptious deal with.
Nancy D.
Previous-Usual Peach Cobbler
This old style peach cobbler is made with peaches, flour, milk, sugar, and a shock trick to make the floor irresistibly crackly and crisp. It is the very best cobbler we have ever tried.
I wait longingly for peach season, simply to make this cobbler. It’s really great, both contemporary out of the oven or after a day or two within the fridge…that’s, in case you have any left!
Janet D.
Nectarines
Nectarines have the identical candy taste as peaches however lack the fuzzy pores and skin. Genetically, the fruits are the identical and are sometimes paired collectively in pie, crisp, cobbler, and stone fruit droop.
Baked Nectarines With Port
Baked nectarines with port make a stunning, summery dessert that is each simple and chic. A little bit scoop of vanilla ice cream would not go amiss right here, both.
Peach Nectarine Cobbler
This peach nectarine cobbler combines frivolously spiced stone fruit filling and cakey biscuit topping for a basic simple summer time dessert.
This peach nectarine cobbler is fabulous. You possibly can’t go flawed with completely ripe peaches and nectarines, however these biscuits on high stole the present! I used to be hopeful that there can be leftovers to eat for breakfast however my grasping household made certain there have been none.
Angelene
Poached Nectarines
Poached nectarines in rosé syrup. Easy as could be in execution. Subtle in presentation. Pretty by and thru.
Plums
Plums are the jewel-toned star of summer time stone fruit recipes. Their sweet-tart taste and mushy, juicy flesh make them excellent for baking into desserts and plum torte. For essentially the most flavorful fruit, search for plums with a deep, constant colour that’s nonetheless agency. Keep away from any fruit that feels mushy or has blemishes or darkish spots on the pores and skin.
Skillet Plum Cake
This skillet plum cake is a simple dessert to make with ripe plums (or your favourite summer time fruit) which can be baked into candy buttermilk cake.
Roasted Plum Sorbet
This recipe is impressed by a sorbet that I had on one such night in late summer time, the scoops piled excessive right into a waffle cone and dripping sticky-sweet plum juices down my arms—the right finish to a night.
It felt somewhat sacrilegious initiating my ice cream maker with one thing aside from a basic vanilla ice cream, however contemporary fruit was calling. Roasting with cinnamon, sugar and vanilla beans was such a easy course of, and produced an fragrant, wealthy plum sorbet with sundown colours.
At serving time, the sorbet had a richness that I might not have anticipated from a sorbet. It was easy, simply tart sufficient to be refreshing, and a fantastic inaugural run for my ice cream maker. Thanks!
Judith P.
Plum Crumble Pie
This plum crumble pie is made a conventional pastry crust, a effervescent fruit filling, and a simple crumble topping. A simple summer time dessert.
