Honeyed summer fruit compote.

Take advantage of seasonal local fruit with this easy recipe for honey roasted fruit compote. Great on ice cream, cereal or pound cake. Get the recipe on the blog.

Easy strawberry galette.

If you’re intimidated by baking a pie, make this easy free-form strawberry tart! Find the recipe on the blog.

Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Hermits.

This recipe for hermit cookies kicks off our Christmas Cookie-Palooza at writes4food. Stock up on butter and sugar, and bake along with us!

Grape and goat cheese appetizers.

This great appetizer recipe for grapes wrapped in goat cheese would make a perfect pre-Thanksgiving nibble.

Beautiful fresh fig tart.

This simple recipe for fresh fig tart with almonds is an Italian classic. Make this while figs are in season.

Know what I’m loving right now? Fresh, ripe, juicy melon … with a ton of freshly cracked black pepper. Pepper’s spiky heat is just the right flavor to complement the funky, sweet-savory taste of the melon. …

Berry-almond muesli.

In winter, a warm bowl of oatmeal satisfies. In June? Not so much. Instead, make this muesli recipe before bed, pop it in the fridge and wake up to a healthy breakfast.