Summer Solstice Recipes - Life's Little Sweets (2024)

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Dandelion Fritters

This Dandelion Fritters recipe is made with freshly foraged Dandelion Flowers, dipped in a flour-cornmeal batter with thyme, paprika, Kosher salt, and freshly ground black pepper, and then deep fried in a cast-iron skillet. You can top them with freshly chopped chives or your favorite green garnish. They are crispy and easy to make!

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Egg Carrot Salad

Egg Carrot Salad has crunchy, shredded carrots, 12 hard-boiled eggs, smoked paprika, cumin, onion, mayonnaise, vinegar, pickle relish, fresh chopped chives. This egg salad recipe is a great way to use up extra eggs and makes a delicious appetizer or side dish!

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Mint Pesto

Mint Pestois made with fresh mint which is then blanched and blended with pine nuts (or almonds), Parmesan cheese, fresh, garlic, olive oil salt & pepper. Enjoy this mint pesto recipe on pasta, as a spread on toast, with salad, or other recipes.

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Sautéed Stinging Nettles

This simple, Sautéed Stinging Nettles recipe uses freshly harvested Stinging Nettles, olive oil, minced garlic, and Kosher salt, and fresh ground pepper to taste. Optionally, you can add hot sauce or your favorite sauce to pair with the Stinging Nettles.

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Tomato Salad

Tomato Saladhas fresh, ripe, organicHeirloom tomatoes, freshbasiland marinated in a homemadeBalsamic vinaigrette dressing.This seasonal salad truly offers wonderfulSummerflavors!

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Apple Carrot Raisin Massaged Kale Salad

This Apple Carrot Raisin Massaged Kale Salad is delicious, nutritious, and easy to make through the Summer into Fall months with seasonal produce. It also makes a bright, fresh side on the holiday table during the Winter holidays. Customize this classic, yet modern salad with your favorite ingredients!

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Chicken Pesto Pasta

Chicken Pesto Pastacan be served hot or cold and is made with homemade basil pesto, chicken, protein pasta, and topped with shaved Parmesan.

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Roasted Radishes

This Roasted Radishes recipe has the healthy, spicy, root vegetable Purple daikon radishes, regular olive oil, Kosher salt, pepper, and cumin. You can keep it simple or season them with your favorite seasonings. This recipe is vegan and gluten-free.

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Air Fryer Watermelon Radish Chips

Air Fryer Watermelon Radish Chips are an easy way to make a tasty, salty, healthy snack with only 3 required ingredients! These vibrant-colored hot pink and bright green chips are made with minimal oil in the Air Fryer. This recipe is vegan and gluten-free.

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Apple Cider Vinegar Drink Recipe

This Apple Cider Vinegar Drink Recipe has water, apple cider vinegar, mint leaves, optional thyme, optional Wildflower honey, and optionally served with ice. A healthy, tasty, and refreshing alternative to regular water, especially during hot weather! (enjoy hot or cold, gluten-free, makes 1 serving)

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Vinegar To Water Ratio For Pickles

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Rosewater Lemonade

This Rosewater Lemonade is a thirst-quenching classic lemonade recipe with a fragrant and floral twist. Try this unique and beautiful lemonade for your next gathering!

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Mixed Summer Berry Trifle

This Mixed Summer Berry Trifle recipe is a delightful, showstopping, and delicious dessert that is “no-bake”, making it perfect for those warm-weather events and gatherings. It has two layers of angel food cake, sweet vanilla-lemon cream cheese, vanilla pudding, mixed berries, and topped with cool whip and more mixed berries! You can make it ahead and add the toppings right before serving! (8-10 servings)

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Fresh Herb Baked Salmon

Fresh Herb Baked Salmon is a great way to utilize fresh garden herbs and make salmon in a simple and delicious way. (4-5 servings, gluten-free)

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Avocado Garden Salad Recipe

This Avocado Garden Salad Recipe is the perfect Spring or Summer salad or for bringing to a BBQ, family dinner, holidays, or any gathering. Filled with fresh garden flavors and creamy avocado, top it with your favorite dressing! (vegan)

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Baked Dijon Lemon Caper Salmon Dinner

This Baked Dijon Lemon Caper Salmon Dinner is flavorful as it is delicious. Salmon lovers can rejoice with Dijon, lemon, and caper flavor infused into melt-in-your mouth fillets of salmon. Served with roasted dill red potatoes and green beans, this dinner is sure to be a new family favorite!

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Lemon Garlic Hummus

It only takes less than 7 simple ingredients and 5 minutes to make this Lemon Garlic Hummus! Enjoy with your favorite veggies, as a spread on a sandwich, or with Way Better Snacks Tortilla Chips!

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Fresh Herb Salad Dressing

Fresh Herb Salad Dressing is used in three different ways: as a dipping oil for bread, as a salad dressing, and brushed on bread for toasting. It's light and Summer-y with fresh, chopped sage, mint, and basil. This easy dressing recipe required only a few simple ingredients and can be prepared in under 10 minutes!

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Wild Blackberry Wineberry Pear Oatmeal Galette

Wild Blackberry Wineberry Pear Oatmeal Galette is made with wild blackberries, wineberries (Japanese Raspberry), and pears (similar to the Bosc variety). The recipe also includes a filling infused with mint & basil, has added oatmeal, and has a homemade, buttery pie crust.

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Carrot Ribbon Salad

Carrot Ribbon Saladis easy to make with your vegetable peeler. It has a simple, bright,lemon vinaigrette dressing. Enjoy this simple appetizer or side with your lunch or dinner meal.

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Butter Salt Thyme Honey Radishes

Butter Salt Thyme Honey Radishes are a delicious way to enjoy fresh, crisp radishes; sliced radishes, spread with unsalted butter, sprinkled with Kosher salt and fresh thyme leaves and drizzled with Wildflower honey.

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Massaged Baby Red Russian Kale Salad

This Massaged Baby Red Russian Kale Salad recipe is easy and made with kale, olive oil, Kosher salt, optional lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, and fresh ground black pepper.

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Dill Dijon Garlic Baked Salmon

Dill Dijon Garlic Baked Salmonis tender and flavorful, simply prepared, and takes only 15 minutes to make! Make this healthy Salmon dish for lunch or dinner. Makes 2-4 servings.

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Lemon Herb Baked Chicken Tenders

Lemon Herb Baked Chicken Tendersare bright, zesty, and easy to prepare; they only require 30 minutes of marinating time and bake in 20 minutes!

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Purslane Herb Salad

This Purslane Herb Salad has several fresh garden herbs and foraged purslane all chopped up. Similar in texture to Tabbouleh salad, this simple-to-prepare salad makes a great appetizer, topped on toast, crackers, and chips. Try this healthy, green, and plant-forward recipe!

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Sweet Tea

Learn how to make the perfect batch of homemade sweet tea with our easy recipe! With just a few simple ingredients and some kitchen tools, you'll be sipping on this refreshing southern classic in no time. Perfect for hot summer days or any time you need a little pick-me-up, our Sweet Tea recipe is sure to become a favorite in your beverage rotation.

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Lavender Mint Water

Lavender Mint Wateris a Summer, spa water recipe that you can make passively by cold brewing in the refrigerator overnight. vegan, gluten free

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Hibiscus Tea

This Hibiscus Tea Recipe uses dried hibiscus flowers and can be served unsweetened or sweetened with honey or your favorite sweetener and garnished with lime slices. Enjoy the health benefits of hibiscus with this lovely warm weather sipper! vegan option, gluten-free

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Strawberry Lemonade

Strawberry Lemonade is the perfect iced beverage for Strawberry season! Give your classic lemonade a twist with this delicious and thirst quenching drink!

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Lavender Lemonade Recipe

This Lavender Lemonade is made with freshly squeezed lemon juice then sweetened with a lavender-infused simple syrup. Garnish with food grade dried lavender flowers and a sprig of fresh lavender and you have yourself the ideal summer sipper! This recipe uses Lavender Simple Syrup.

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Frozen Mint Lemonade

Frozen Mint Lemonade, also called Limonana (a Middle Eastern Frozen Mint Lemonade) is one of the MOST refreshing drinks of the Summer months. If it’s hot and you need to cool down fast with a sweet and sour, frozen drink – this is it! (1-2 servings, vegan, gluten free)

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Sheet Pan Lemon Tarragon Salmon Dinner

This Sheet Pan Lemon Tarragon Salmon Dinner has savory roasted green beans and cauliflower. This easy-to-clean-up recipe has minimal preparation, tons of flavor, and cooks in only 30 minutes! (2-4 servings)

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Garden Herb Mayonnaise

Garden Herb Mayonnaise has garden-fresh flavors and is a great addition to burgers, veggie burgers, and fish. It only takes minutes to prepare.

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Homemade Frosted Lemonade

This Homemade Frosted Lemonade is a Chik-fil-a copycat recipe. It's sweet, creamy, lemony, refreshing, and tasty! (1 serving)

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Strawberry Salad Recipe

This Strawberry Salad Recipe has fresh strawberries, baby spinach, arugula, chopped pecans, feta with a light lemon vinaigrette dressing. It is garnished with blueberries, sliced ripe avocado and optional chicken. Enjoy it in the Summer months or year round!

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Mint Lemonade

Mint Lemonade is a refreshing, sweet drink recipe to cool your Summer days. (gluten-free, vegan)

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Strawberry Salsa Recipe

This Strawberry Salsa is naturally sweet, savory, refreshing, and crisp. It has sweet ripe and fresh strawberries, a little heat from 1 jalapeño pepper, crisp red onion, fresh cilantro, and optional maple syrup. Enjoy this full-flavored, fruit salsa that has garden-fresh flavors in an incredibly simple recipe!

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Lemon Rosemary Salmon

Lemon Rosemary Salmon is a bright, simple, savory and delicious Salmon recipe. (serves 4-6)

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Strawberry Galette

Strawberry Galette is a sweet, delicious, Summer, and garden-inspired dessert recipe filled with ripe strawberries and encased in a homemade, flakey pie crust.It goes perfectly with a large scoop ofvanilla ice cream! (6-8 servings)

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Mint Water

Mint Wateris a refreshing spa water, perfect for enjoying during hot weather and for entertaining when mint is in abundance in the garden.

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Lemon Verbena Tea

Lemon Verbena Teais a hot (or iced) tea that has digestive aid and relaxing, stress-relieving effects, making it the perfect “after dinner” tea. It’s fresh and vibrant, it tastes great on it’s own or with honey (or vegan sweetener) and lemon slices.

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Basil Pesto

This Basil Pesto recipe has blanched (or fresh) basil leaves, Parmesan cheese, almond (or Pine nuts), extra virgin olive oil, fresh garlic, Kosher salt and pepper. Enjoy it on toast, pasta, rice or in a dressing for salad!

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Basil Simple Syrup

Basil Simple Syrup is a herbal, floral, vegetal syrup perfect for mixing in seasonal co*cktails, mocktails. This easy recipe only requires basil leaves, hot water and sugar.

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Mint Simple Syrup

This homemade Mint Simple Syrup recipe is a fresh, bright, herbal, sweet syrup made easily with freshly brewed mint tea (using fresh mint leaves) and sugar. It’s a wonderful syrup to use in co*cktail drinks, mocktails, and various desserts.

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Sun Tea

Discover the refreshing world of sun tea! Learn about its history, how to make it safely, and where it's most popular in the United States. Find out why sun tea has been a beloved summertime drink for decades, and get tips on making it with herbal tea. Check out this informative article from Life's Little Sweets blog and quench your thirst for knowledge about this classic beverage.

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Watermelon Bowl

This thirst-quenching, sweet Watermelon Bowl is perfect for any Summer gathering or holiday. (1-ingredient, feeds a crowd!)

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Watermelon Lime Mint Salad

This Watermelon Lime Mint Salad recipe is light, hydrating, refreshing, and the perfect fruit salad for the Spring and Summer months. With zesty lime and refreshing mint, this cooling salad is sure to please on those hot days.

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Frozen Watermelon Mint Slushy

This Frozen Watermelon Mint Slushy recipe is a frosty, sweet, Summer-y drink to help you cool off. (1-2 servings, vegan, gluten-free)

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Watermelon Juice

Watermelon Juice is a Summer-y, sweet and hydrating juice. Only 1 ingredient! vegan, gluten-free

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Dill Pickle Grilled Chicken

Dill Pickle Grilled Chicken is a favorite, summer grilling recipe. This recipe has only 2 required ingredients: Chicken and leftover dill pickle juice - don't throw out that pickle juice! This chicken is easy to make, so juicy, and tender!