Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 21:11     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
rhubarb
garlic scapes
radishes
asparagus
hakurei turnips
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 21:08     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
I wait until August to make peach things.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 20:55     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Per the pick your own at Butler’s Orchard, only strawberries are available now until mid June when some other veg/fruit become available. Asparagus was available but is done now.

Anyway, I associate asparagus and lemon in spring, and strawberries late spring/early summer.

I can’t wait for peaches, plums, blueberries, watermelon!
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 19:08     Subject: Re:Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Anonymous wrote:Strawberries, peaches, asparagus, corn, watermelon, soft shell crabs, crab cakes


Yes to soft shell crabs!! I have had 4 times this spring as I just seemed to keep hitting specials when I was out with friends. Sooooo good!
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 18:02     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Fiori di Zucca
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 17:57     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
I consider ham a spring food. Probably because of Easter. And ham means leftover ham for ham salad, which I love, and split pea soup.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 17:56     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Anonymous wrote:Asparagus - the Bobby Flay green peppercorn vinaigrette recipe, as well as a longtime family recipe using prosciutto and cheese. Cherries and corn a bit later in the season.


Cherries are my fave. They are in the stores now, but I didn't buy them assuming it is too early for them to be any good.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 17:55     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Anonymous wrote:I usually don't buy corn and watermelon until a little later in the season, but I've had really great ones so far this year.


good to know. I have not bought any yet, but will try it.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 17:42     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Asparagus - the Bobby Flay green peppercorn vinaigrette recipe, as well as a longtime family recipe using prosciutto and cheese. Cherries and corn a bit later in the season.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 16:15     Subject: Re:Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Strawberries, peaches, asparagus, corn, watermelon, soft shell crabs, crab cakes
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 15:10     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
I usually don't buy corn and watermelon until a little later in the season, but I've had really great ones so far this year.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 15:09     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Anonymous wrote:Rhubarb


Great one!
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 15:07     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Rhubarb
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 15:01     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
Peaches. Any preparation.
Anonymous
Post 05/27/2025 14:57     Subject: Favorite Seasonal Foods -- Late Spring, Early Summer
I've been thinking about how foods are so much less seasonal than they were for earlier generations given how advanced food transport is and how ubiquitous freezing is. It still feels so nice to eat seasonally though, and at this time of year I think of certain things. What do you think of having in May and June? And how did you have it?

For me it is:

Asparagus. Fresh steamed or broiled with lemon. Cream of asparagus soup.

Strawberries. We had these in the garden, and when we had a lot of them my mother would make a pavlova with macerated strawberries.

Artichokes. We only had these once or twice, in the spring, because they were expensive. They would be steamed and we'd peel the petals off one by one and eat them by dipping in melted butter with lemon juice, scraping the meat off with our teeth.