Fruit
The Best of Epi: August 2020
For the best cooking month of the year (okay, it’s a tie with September), Epi dove deep into cookbooks, throw-together dinners, and lots of desserts.
Pear and Hazelnut Frangipane Tart
A simple fall dessert.
Our 43 Favorite Fig Recipes
Lush, plump figs are the perfect accompaniment for roasted meat—but they're also easily the star of dessert.
How to Survive a Weekend Full of Eggplants, Plums, Shishitos, and Figs
Late summer is here and the time is right for basking in perfect produce for as long as you possibly can.
Embrace the End of Summer With This Stone Fruit Custard Tart
With an easy press-in cookie-like crust, a shower of ground pistachios, and nearly three pounds of peaches, plums, apricots, or nectarines, this tart celebrates the season.
Stone Fruit Custard Tart
This new tart from Tara O’Brady has an easy press-in pistachio crust and a few pounds of peaches, plums, or apricots coddled in a supple layer of custard.
These Grilled Plantains Taste Like Banana Crème Brûlée
It's a dessert that grills itself while you eat dinner.
Baked Banana With Crema and Cheese
This recipe shines for its simplicity. However, in order for it to be spectacular, the quality of the three ingredients really matters.
This Peach and Tomato Salad Is Summertime Thrift at Its Best
Hot pickled peppers, a smattering of bacon, and crisp cubes of bread round our this budget-friendly high-summer dinner.
Charred-Peach Panzanella With Pickled Pepper Vinaigrette
Peaches and tomatoes might not sound filling, but hear us out. Crisp some bacon, char the peaches (and some bread) in the rendered fat, toss the tomatoes in a garlicky, spicy brine, and you’ve got dinner.
Our Best Sweet and Savory Plum Recipes
When the late-summer fruit is in season, we're eating it every way we can.
Instant Pot Bisibelabath
Bisibelabath is kitcheree’s spicier cousin. The name means “hot lentil rice,” so consider yourself warned—this is a spicy dish of vegetables, rice, and lentils straight out of South India. I like to serve it with raita to cool things off.
12 Tomato, Corn, and/or Blueberry Recipes to Cook This Weekend
It's one of the few weekends where tomatoes, corn, and blueberries are all perfectly, supremely in season. Take advantage of it.
Demystifying the Magic of Homemade Magic Shell
A thick pour of magic shell over ice cream is simultaneously creamy and crackly, both smooth and shattery. But the real mind-blowing thing about it? It's a snap to make.
Django Reinhardt
I suggest this in place of your usual mimosa.
Rosé All Day
Strawberries, rosé, Aperol, and mild carbonation yield a refreshing, barely sweet tipple.
Double Ripple Ice Cream Cake
This cake is a tie-dyed composition of textures and flavors that starts with a tahini-enriched blondie base and continues with vanilla ice cream layered with seedy maple syrup and bands of cooked plums.
Tiger Fruit Salad
This salad is inspired by Chinese dish lao hu cai, otherwise known as tiger salad. Unripe plums, nectarines, or peaches marinate in a spicy dressing and get tossed with crisp celery and herbs.
Almond and Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream
No ice cream machine required for this frozen treat, as the cream is whipped before being frozen.
My Favorite Flour Isn't Flour—It's Grated Cassava
Grated cassava gives this classic Filipino cake a sweet, nutty flavor and a sticky, chewy texture.