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    Home • Recipes • Summer Recipes

    Easy French Summer Recipes

    • tossed green salad with seasonal fresh vegetables such as arugula, avocado and other greens with toasted nuts and seeds
      Simple Green Salad - The Best All-Rounder, Seasonal Side
    • 2 scoops of rhubarb sorbet topped with a dried rhubarb chip
      Rhubarb Sorbet Recipe with Rose
    • individual ice cream with candied fruits on plate with lavender, apricot sauce and a macaron
      No Churn Ice Cream with Candied Fruit (Glace Plombières)
    • mango cream dessert made with fresh mangos, whipped cream, coconut milk, vanilla and lime
      Mango Cream Recipe - Like a Mousse without Eggs or Sugar
    • slice of French blueberry tart, baked in the oven with a crisp pâte sucrée pastry and dusted with powdered sugar
      French Blueberry Tart - The Easiest Recipe
    • mint omelette
      Corsican Mint Omelette (Omelette à la Menthe)
    • plate composed of a classic French salad Nicoise with many ingredients next to a basil plant and French baguette
      Classic Niçoise Salad - With the Authentic Ingredients
    • glass dessert dish of creamy pistachio panna cotta topped with a strawberry coulis
      Strawberry Panna Cotta with Pistachio
    • glass pots with coconut chia pudding topped with mango sauce, mango chunks and dates
      Coconut Chia Pudding with Mango
    • mini cup of creamy ice cream with a sprig of lemon verbena leaves
      Lemon Verbena Ice Cream (Glace à la verveine)
    • cup of lemon ice cream with strawberries
      Creamy Lemon Ice Cream (Glace au citron)
    • black forest chocolate cherry cream with macarons
      No Bake Chocolate Puddings (crème au chocolat)
    • bowl of creamy chickpea spread with extra garlic the French way, served with raw vegetables
      Poichichade: Provençal Garlic Chickpea Spread
    • baked peach without skin and stuffed with a mixture of amaretti or almonds and raspberries
      Baked Peaches (with Amaretti)
    • french green beans sauteed in a salad with a fresh peach
      How to Jazz up French Beans: Add a White Peach
    • French tarts with pistachio pastry cream and stawberries
      Strawberry and Pistachio Tart - with Pistachio Pastry Cream
    • cherry toffee tomatoes on skewers
      Cherry Tomatoes in Salted Toffee - the Best Party Food
    • deep pink cherry chocolate macarons with stalks as decor
      Chocolate Cherry Ganache Macaron Filling
    • rhubarb and custard cheesecake, decorated with rhubarb chips and strawberries
      Rhubarb and Custard Cheesecake
    • glazed upside down almond tart with strawberries
      Strawberry Almond Tart - How to Turn it into a French Cake
    • land and sea salad with a savoury beet macaron
      French Charcuterie Plate Land and Sea (Salade Terre et Mer)
    • asparagus lemon clafoutis slice
      White Asparagus Recipe: French Clafoutis with Lemon
    • bavarois with berries, chilled fruity French dessert
      Bavarois Recipe with Red Fruit (Bavarian Cream)
    • mini macaron raspberry trifles
      Mini Macaron Trifles - Parisian Ispahan Style
    • two rows of whole sardine fish stuffed together in a roasting dish with fresh parsley
      Roasted Fresh Sardines (Sardines Farcies)
    • long wafer thin rhubarb chip on a bowl of sorbet
      Dried Rhubarb Chips
    • gratin dish of berries in a creme brulee cream
      Berry Gratin - A Light Crème Brûlée
    • macaron berry trifle with red blue fruits
      Macaron Berry Sherry Trifle (Red, White & Blue)
    • cherry chocolate cream macaron trifles
      Black Forest Creams using Cracked Macarons

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