Summer Recipes are Here! 

Summer Time is here! The heat has set in here in Birmingham and is also producing delicious summertime veggies! I look forward to the summer and enjoying an abundance of these veggies plus making other refreshing recipes to counterbalance the heat!  I’m sharing a couple of recipes below that I made this past weekend. They were fun to make and super yummy to eat. Hope you enjoy these also!

Xoxoxo

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Yellow Squash

Yellow Squash is also called Yellow Zucchini and Summer Squash.

This hot-weather summer veggie can be eaten raw with hummus or dips or can be cooked in various ways:  roasted, baked, grilled and sautéed.  It is a low calorie vegetable that also has little to no fat.

Other nutritional values of Yellow Squash: 

• Good source of Vitamin C
• Good source of Folate, a B Vitamin
• Loaded with Beta-Carotene, which converts to Vitamin A in your body
• Contains the mineral, Manganese

Roasted Yellow Squash with Lemon & Thyme

Roasting Yellow Squash with Lemon is very refreshing and I loved trying this new recipe! Super easy and a fresh herbal and lemony summer taste!

Tomato & Yellow Squash Herbed Tart

This is a picture of the herbed dough pressed into the tart pan; every corner and rippled edge. This is about to go into the oven to Blind Bake. The term “Blind Bake” is a process of baking a pie crust or pastry without the filling. It is also called Baking Blind or Pre-Baking.  This is a necessary step if you are making a pie that is not going to be baked (ex – pudding or cream pie) or in this case for a tart where the filling doesn’t need to be baked as long and the crust must be fully baked.

In the meantime, I oven roasted the tomatoes and squash to top the Tart when it was ready!  After this recipe, below, I post the steps used to roast them!

Roasted Tomatoes & Yellow Squash

I used roasted tomatoes and yellow squash as a topping for this Tart. Here are the steps I used to roast these. I added them to the Tart as the last step before serving.

Potato Salad with Summer Corn

Shrimp & Cod Ceviche

Our weather in Birmingham has been in the 90s!  This hot weather calls for something cool, fresh and citrusy! This past weekend I made Ceviche for the first time and it did not disappoint! This recipe can be adjusted by adding a different fish or just making it simply with shrimp only.

Bon Appetit!