Cherries
The primary to reach on the summer season stone fruit scene, cherries can be found all through the summer season in a wide range of colours and flavors. Candy cherries, equivalent to Bing, Lapins, or Rainier, are good for having fun with uncooked, preserving, or baking into pies and tarts. Bitter cherries, equivalent to Montmorency, are greatest cooked and are widespread in pies, cocktails, and crisps, the place sugar could be added to tame their tartness.
At first look, the addition of citrus could seem uncommon, however the added lemon or lime within the crust pairs superbly with the almond and recent cherry flavors.
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 vivid and cheery look, there’s a place for it when providing items of therapeutic to others.
There’s nothing higher than a recent cherry pie for launching the summer season fruit pie season. This recipe was a wonderful kick-off! I introduced house about two kilos of cherries and the filling set superbly because the pie cooled. Oh and the crust—stunning, stunning, stunning!
Chiyo
Pickled cherries are a fast, straightforward, surprising strategy to lengthen cherry season. Tartly candy, subtly spiced, and surprisingly onerous to cease consuming, these little gems ably lengthen summer season.
That is the sixth time I’ve made this pickled cherries recipe. It by no means disappoints!
Ilda C.
Apricots
Recent apricots are in season in North America from Could via July, though the dried selection is a well-liked snack year-round. Whereas a wonderful addition to pies, tarts, and crumbles, the sweet-tart taste of those fruits additionally lends itself to cocktails, like this apricot daiquiri, and pairs properly in savory dishes like roasted pork tenderloin with chanterelles.
This apricot tart is filled with recent apricots which might 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.
This no pectin apricot jam recipe, made with solely three components – recent apricots, sugar, and lemon juice – is a simple strategy to make apricot season final all 12 months lengthy.
I LOVE it!!!! I made the apricot jam precisely by the recipe and it was unimaginable.
Mylene
With an apricot galette, you might have the very best of summer season—a ripe, candy fruit that speaks for itself, needing little or no added sugar and a lightweight, buttery crust that is fuss-free.
This can be a incredible galette recipe that’s equal components fantastic California apricots and French pastry. A style of summer season and a style of Paris unexpectedly.
Mr. Mill Valley
Peaches
Whether or not you like 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 recent peach pie, these stone fruits are a much-beloved summer season favourite.
Interested by whether or not it’s best 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 good for canning and preserving.
These grilled peaches with honey and black pepper are a simple summer season dessert that caramelizes the pure sweetness of stone fruits and turns them tender and delicate. A drizzle of honey and a slight chunk from black pepper takes them excessive.
Grilled peaches are the proper summer season dessert! It was the proper 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 comfortable desk!
Lisa
Tomato and peach panzanella might sound unlikely but it surely’s gonna knock your socks off. Or, in the event you’re not carrying socks this time of 12 months, then it’ll knock your flip-flops off. Assured.
This tomato and peach panzanella is summer season 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.
This old school 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 fantastic, both recent 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 stoop.
Baked nectarines with port make a stunning, summery dessert that is each straightforward and chic. Somewhat scoop of vanilla ice cream would not go amiss right here, both.
This peach nectarine cobbler combines evenly spiced stone fruit filling and cakey biscuit topping for a traditional straightforward summer season dessert.
This peach nectarine cobbler is fabulous. You’ll be able to’t go fallacious 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 in rosé syrup. Easy as could be in execution. Refined in presentation. Pretty via and thru.
Plums
Plums are the jewel-toned star of summer season stone fruit recipes. Their sweet-tart taste and delicate, 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 shade that’s nonetheless agency. Keep away from any fruit that feels delicate or has blemishes or darkish spots on the pores and skin.
This skillet plum cake is a simple dessert to make with ripe plums (or your favourite summer season fruit) which might be baked into candy buttermilk cake.
This recipe is impressed by a sorbet that I had on one such night in late summer season, the scoops piled excessive right into a waffle cone and dripping sticky-sweet plum juices down my fingers—the proper finish to a night.
It felt just a little sacrilegious initiating my ice cream maker with one thing apart from a traditional vanilla ice cream, however recent 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.
This plum crumble pie is made a standard pastry crust, a effervescent fruit filling, and a simple crumble topping. A simple summer season dessert.
