Here’s an impressive and delicious way to use your summer tomatoes! Classic Thai ingredients create a spicy, flavorful companion to HMR Entrées or grilled favorites such as corn on the cob, Portobello’s, planked salmon or turkey burgers. (more…)

Gorgeous stone fruits such as peaches, plums and apricots are fragrant, shining jewels in our farmers’ markets. Although they stand alone as the perfect dessert, visions of sugar plum (or peach, apricot, or berry) tarts, pies and cakes dance in our heads! (more…)

Gazpacho is a classic Spanish summer dish that collects our favorite Mediterranean summer vegetables in a luscious, refreshing liquid salad! Our perfect coastal climate, similar to the Mediterranean, allows patio gardens, community gardens and farmers’ organic gardens to overflow with tomatoes, cukes and sweet peppers each summer. (more…)

It’s summer! Inexpensive and readily available summer vegetables of red, orange, yellow, green and blue-purple colors are in the markets. Put ease into preparing summer veggies of all sorts in a simple 2-step oven “veggie roast.” Use the roasted vegetables for salads, taco filling, and egg-white omelet filling or add them to HMR Chicken Soup for summer stew. (more…)

Sure, you can always enjoy summer’s fruit bounty “as is,” but for a great change of pace, why not try grilling? Grilled fruit makes a tasty, elegant, and healthy dessert option, perfect for any barbecue! (more…)

Gorgeous, juicy, Vitamin A-rich peaches and other stone fruits are beginning to bless our farmers’ markets now. Pick fruit that is firm but still feels soft enough to bruise if squeezed. Pick it ready for table since hard stone fruits will soften, but not ripen or become sweeter while stored. Avoid fruit with blemished, wrinkled skins. (more…)