Enjoy the flavors of summer with recipes and inspiration from the kitchen to the table. You’ll find a bumper crop of recipes using Farmers Market fresh tomatoes, corn and peaches along with summer table inspiration for alfresco dining.
Are you looking forward to the lazy days of summer?
I pulled together some of my favorite ways to celebrate summer from the archives. Click on the links in red for the full recipe or table!
Farmers Market Tablescape
Farmers Market Pasta Salad
A bumper crop of delicious flavors in a pasta salad
You Say Tomato Centerpiece and Tablescape
BLT Bruschetta
Mini Tomato Pies
Hot Bacon Caprese Salad
Fresh Corn. . .
Corn Utopia Tablescape
“Corn on the Cob” Cupcakes
Sweet corn kernels of Jelly Bellies with Laffy Taffy butter pats!
Corn, Tomato and Basil Pesto Pizza
A trio of summer flavors in every slice
Summer Peach Tea Punch
Patchwork Fruit Cobbler
A medley of peaches, plums, and blueberries with patchwork squares of sugar-crusted pastry!
Peach and Prosciutto Crostini with Basil and Goat Cheese
A light summer appetizer that’s sweet and salty, tangy and creamy
Skillet Bourbon, Peach and Blueberry Crumble
A celebration of summer fruit in a skillet!
Fishing . . .
Catch of the Day and Fishing for Watermelon
Fishing for Cupcakes
Fun in the Sun. . .
Nutter Butter Flip Flops
Served on a brown sugar beach!
Building Sand Castles
and a Fantasy Island Getaway
Cheering on the Loggerheads
More Loggerhead Love Tablescape
Swimming Lessons for Chloe
Boating. . .
Dinner Cruise
Nose To The Air & Wind In Our Ears
Caribbean {Floating} Island Picnic
Wishing you Happy first day of Summer
and Father’s Day on Sunday!
Chloe and Gracie want to know your favorite things about summer. . .
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Metamorphosis Monday
Like old home week, lovely ways to while away the summer~
We have a stalled weather pattern here in Ohio and it has rained for days! Such a lovely post. Can’t wait for a sunny day to try some of the recipes.
Same here in Indiana and predicting more! Can’t wait for sunny, summer days..😎 gotta have sun to ripen these tomatoes along with some heat!!! Hopefully, soon!! ☔️☀️☀️
Your pictures are just beautiful. I love to go to the beach in the summer and listen to the ocean, and eating blue crabs. Can’t wait.
It’s 114 today here so summer has definitely arrived. Heading out to the local organic farm to pick fresh fruit and veggies in about 15 minutes.
Mary, I think you are extraordinarily talented. You and Molly of remedial reading, are my very different and very favorite bloggers. I am forwarding this post to my daughter, I want her to see the “Fishing for Cupcakes” and the turtles, er loggerheads. Happy days lady!
I’m so glad you posted all of these recipes! I’m planning to make the Pasta Salad. Do you think the decorative pasta shapes (bells , flags, etc.,) found at specialty shops will work out nicely in this recipe? Thank you!! Debbie
OMG!!!! Best post ever and I cannot wait till I have some quiet time today to go back thru every recipe and tablescape to enjoy and smell the smells of summertime!! Gonna make so many of these dishes at our lakehouse with friends. Yum!
This entire post should SO be submitted to a magazine. It’s THAT good!
Happy Summer days to you!
How I love reading your site, seeing your photos, tablescapes, and trying your recipe sharings. You make my day!!!!! THANK YOU!
I LOVE THIS. LOVE YOUR BLOG. WISH OUR FARMER’S MARKET COULD LOOK LIKE THIS. BY THE WAY, WHERE IS DAVIDSON?
Thanks Cookie! It’s in NC :)
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Love how you entice us to spend our summers… Gorgeous!
Mary, you can put together some really awesome recipes…..are you a personal chef? The pictures are so tastefully captured…..As said above you are one talented lady!!!!!
Happy Summer…..
Thank you for this beautiful kick-off to summer! I just spent a crazy amount of time reading through every single thing in this post! Even though it’s chilly and dreary where I am today, I feel so warmed by your post! Thanks for making my day!!
You have the best ideas and so many recipes. I love your blogs. Thank you.
The best for summer all in one post….thanks Mary….I remember that scene of the farmers market…Loved seeing the girls and the swimming lesson for Chloe!
Hilarious! I don’t think I’ve ever seen The Girls wet before! Happy Summer Mary, I hope we all get to indulge in it’s pleasures:@)
Oh Mary, to begin with the farmer’s market mural and table is such a perfect way to kick off summer! I have to tell you that your tomato centerpiece table is my all time favorite and is one of the things that inspired my starting a blog~ I adore all your beachy, sandy scapes and recipes, and your precious pups swimming and boating. What a super summer round-up, you make magic with your creative and beautiful posts, worthy of revisiting again and again~ Happy Summer!!
Jenna
~Mary~
Ohhh how I love tomatoes !! You sure seem to have a colorful summer, everything looks so yummy, and a must try for sure!! The minnow keeper reminded me of my daddy fishing days so very long ago, but what a nice picture to see here on Fathers Day.
Paula
IN
p.s. your puppies make me giggle :)
Oh my goodness…one goodie filled post for all my summer favorites….Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent!! I so look forward to your posts! Happy Monday Mary!
Thanks for a great post!
Hi Mary! I guess I missed this,post because I was traveling to Florida. I’m at a beach house with some family and enjoying the sand and waves. Your,post is chock full of fabulous summery inspiration for all of us!
love the brick wall, the dogs, the food, everything as always fantastic, thank you!
You asked what my favourite thing about summer was. Mine is the loooong days, In the UK, the sunrise is 4:45 am and the sun sets at 9:30. I love having 17 hours of daylight!
My favorite thing about summer is sitting on the deck with my morning coffee breathing in the fragrance of all my fresh herbs.
What wonderful ways to celebrate summer, the tablescapes are probably my favorite, but wow, peach and prosciutto together? That sounds like a fantastic combination that I have never thought of before. Your pictures of swimming in the lake make me anxious to get up North. No swimming in the lakes in Florida for me! I would love it if you would stop by and share this or one of these fantastic posts (like the peach and prosciutto), or even a couple of them at my new link party! Check it out at Celebrate and Decorate! I will be back again at the ‘boat’ again this week, I am sure, I never miss a post, you always inspire me1