Tomato & Winter Squash Recipes to Ease into Fall

These recipes featuring tomatoes and winter squash (sometimes both!) are sure to help you savor the last of summer, while easing into fall.

Fresh Asparagus & Celery Salad

This salad is a delightfully refreshing spring treat. Both the asparagus and celery are kept raw - enhanced by sweet almonds, zingy lemon juice, and fresh mint. It comes together very quickly, but delivers a lot of flavor! Simple food for big flavor. The cheese is optional, but highly recommended.

Sugar Pie Pumpkin Jam

This jam is quite a seasonal treat! Try spreading on toast with butter or ricotta, using in sandwiches, drizzling over some vanilla ice cream, making jam bars or windowpane cookies, adding into salad dressings, as the base for a ham or BBQ glaze - get creative with it!

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Roasting Winter Squash

Simply roasted winter squash is, simply put, great. It’s so easy to do, and it lets the flavors of each variety shine on their own.

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Butternut Squash Roasted with Chili Paste

This recipe has it all - sweetness from the squash, a kick from the chili paste, savory scallions, crunchy sesame seeds - and is oh-so-easy to put together! It’s a great way to use butternut, and sure to be one of your new favorite fall dishes.

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Watermelon Juice

Savor the summer with this watermelon agua fresca.

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Broiled Sweet Corn Salad with Cherry Tomatoes

Make this Broiled Sweet Corn salad with cherry tomatoes as a side for any summer sun-soaked meal. Bonus: enjoy the leftovers (should there be any) as a salsa, quesadilla filling, toast topping, or tossed with some cooked grains.

Cherry Tomato and Peach Salad With Basil Vinaigrette

With our tomato vines bursting with colorful ripe fruit, and local peaches filling the farmers market stands with their sweet scent, we were excited to come across a recipe featuring both of these summer delights!

Easy Homemade Watermelon Slushy

Watermelon slushies are a fantastic way to “beat the heat,” so to speak. They are so refreshing you may just find yourself “enjoying” the heat.

Cherry Tomato Jam

Cherry Tomato Jam! You might just be surprised by how often you reach for it…

Salty Sumac Seasoning for Watermelon & Cucumber

This recipe is as delicious as it is simple. Make a big batch of the seasoning to have it on hand all summer long.

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How To "Halve" a Pint of Cherry Tomatoes

No, this isn’t a How-To for eating half a pint of tomatoes — it’s a quick trick for slicing an entire pint into halves at once!

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Blistered Asparagus with Dates, Radishes, and Cheese

Looking for a new spring recipe? Look no further! This is it.

Asparagus + Dates + Goat Cheese + Radishes + Lemon + Mint = Wow.

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Raw Asparagus Salad with Breadcrumbs, Nuts, and Herbs

Looking for a fresh and easy way to prepare asparagus? This salad is the answer!

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Creamy, Smoky, Winter Squash Pasta

An incredibly easy way to turn your pureed winter squash (sugar pie pumpkin, kabocha, butternut!) into a delicious, creamy, pasta sauce, this recipe makes us wish we’d stockpiled more squash in our winter pantries! If you have the puree on hand (homemade, of course!), it comes together in a snap.

Savory (Dried) Tomato Scones

With dried cherry tomatoes, you CAN enjoy the warmth and delight of summer on a chilly winter morning with these tomato-cheddar-onion buttermilk scones. (We’re thanking our late-summer selves right now for putting the dehydrator to good use…)

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How To "Spaghetti" Squash

Here’s a simple how-to guide for preparing spaghetti squash: a cheery winter squash known for its noodle-like flesh. Its uses extend far beyond the spaghetti substitution your mind might automatically go to: remove “spaghetti” from your thoughts and open up your kitchen to all the fun possibilities!

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Melon Sorbet

Late October may seem an odd time to be sharing a recipe for melons, let alone a recipe that calls for the freezer, but we planted a late crop of Cantaloupe this year, so they’re still rolling in and what better time to try preserving some of their delicacy for a winter day when we’re dreaming of sunshine?

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Roasting Cherry Tomatoes: A Perfect Fall Food?

When the seasons change, the temperatures cool, and we’re feeling “cozy,” BUT we still have a taste for tomatoes…it’s time to roast! Here are our favorite ways to roast tomatoes and keep on enjoying them into the cooler days of Fall.