Healthy Recipes from the Garden

How to Use The Last of the Summer Produce

© Stephanie Gallagher

Sep 27, 2007

From Caprese salad to corn chowder, these healthy recipes take advantage of late summer's bounty.


It won't be long before juicy tomatoes and plentiful zucchini are but a memory. So why not take advantage of the summer and early fall bounty now while you can?

There's nothing better than Caprese salad when the tomatoes are juicy and ripe. Or make pesto stuffed tomatoes. You can use any variety of large tomatoes you have, except Roma, grape or cherry tomatoes.

Use the last of the summer corn in corn chowder, or make a corn saute with fresh local sweet corn and homegrown peppers.

Marinated cucumber salad is always a good idea when the cucumbers are plentiful. Or give salsa a new twist with my tomato cucumber salsa recipe.

And nothing beats eggplant parmesan when it's made with fresh eggplant from the garden or local farmer's market. If you have extra eggplant, make roasted vegetable dip.

Indeed, summer may be over, but you can still enjoy the taste of summer produce with these recipes.


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