Garden Salad is the best when you can walk out your back door and pick your salad fixins fresh from the dirt.

I visited turkey in the summer of 2019 and fell in love with their simple breakfast spread consisting of cheese, eggs, olives, fresh peaches, oranges and bagels.

Delicious vegetables can also provide us with protein. Moreover, it is as colorful as summer.

Kimchi is a traditional Korean dish consisting of pickled vegetables, which is mainly served as a side dish with every meal, but also can be served as a main dish. Kimchi is mainly recognized as a spicy fermented cabbage dish globally. (this is not a traditional version of kimchi as usually there is fish sauce this recipe is vegan). For this recipe you will need a few small bowls for holding the ingredients at different stages, a few clean air tight jars (make sure your jars are properly cleaned and dry otherwise your kimchi may spoil), a sharp knife, a blender, weighing scales.

Being Chinese American, it's a salad from my childhood that never disappoints and always refreshing for the sunny summer funs. Here are the ingredients. Have fun splashing and experimenting around (hint - the size of each ingredient represented is proportional to their needed ratios.) Enjoy~

Pasta recipe with delicious and healthy vegetables.

Scallion Oil Noodles is one of my favourite pasta dishes. This is a traditional and classic Shanghai recipe. It's very delicious and easy to cook.

My favorite thing about summer is the farmers market - where I also worked for 10 years of my life. Fresh produce, lively faces, and a gathering spot. This roasted veggie salad recipe features my favorite farm fresh ingredients! Roast with olive oil and seasoning: beats, garlic, peppers, and carrots. Toss together fresh kale and radishes, top with the roasted veggies, olive oil, and seasoning!

A Farmer's Market treat—fresh zucchini blossoms. Different regions of Italy make them even more decadent by stuffing them with ricotta or mozzarella and prosciutto before frying.

This a very easy & extremely refreshing salad! Perfect for the hot summer afternoons

As a youngster, I took life-drawing classes at the Art Students League in Manhattan. Class started promptly at 5:00; since school let out at 3:00, there was just enough time to grab a bite at the nearby cafeteria before class. My favorite item on the menu? Their date nut bread! (There were so many dates in the sandwich; I could hardly taste any bread!) That experience turned me into a lifetime lover of dates. This recipe is very simple with only two ingredients; the sweetness of the dates beautifully compliments the tartness of the goat cheese. Enjoy!

For this delish dish, we bought the herbs from our local farmers market. This year, the shopping experience at the market is different. All shoppers and vendors are required to wear masks. Shoppers can't touch the produce and must maintain 6' distance from one another. The first hour of shopping is restricted to the elderly population and those with health issues. Despite the experience, the produce tasted and looked good as usual.

Beet roots fresh from the Farmer’s Market are the star of the show in this delish pesto. Serve on pasta, meat, chicken, or fish.

Taste the garden, Rose Petal Jam Recipe

Growing up , summers meant mangoes for all meals in different forms. Clean ,cut pieces for a mid morning or evening snack, freshly squeezed juice in the late evening or ,the best of them all, eating the whole fruit in one go ,rejoicing every drop and making a tasty mess all over the clothes.