May Food and Recipe Basket: 2025

 

May is such busy month with spring in full swing, wild flowers blooming, garden vegetables being harvested and planted. We have a special basket full of fun celebrations where we will find some really great fresh food. The seasonal foods that we will be talking about this month are currently  harvested in our area. Most of the products can be found in Farmers Markets across the area. Our recipes have been handed down though the generations of my family and are linked on this blog.

Fruit

Blackberries

We grow our own Blackberries and the vines are just loaded!

Blackberry Cobbler

Blackberry Swirl Frozen Pie

Blackberry Ice Cream Dessert

Spicy Blackberry Jam

Raspberries

Raspberry Poke Cake With Marshmallow Frosting

Raspberry Swirl

Vintage Sour Cream Pound Cake

 With Raspberry Sauce

Onions
Most Of The Onions That We Planted In January
Are Ready To Come Out Of The Ground

This is one of my very favorite recipes

 with onions and Brussels Sprouts

Pearl Onion and Brussel Sprouts Saute

Kale

I grow Purple & Regular Kale in the Veggie Pod in the garden and in a antique French bathtub  just outside my kitchen door.

Fruit and Kale Salad With Lemon Vinaigrette

Roasted Butternut Pears, and Kale Salad

 With Honey Wine Dressing

Carrots

We Can Find Carrots The Year Round
But Right Now We Can Pull Them Right
Out Of The Garden

Retro Carrot Apple Soup

Old Fashioned Carrot Cake

Southern Candied Carrots

Holidays In May That We Love

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo Breakfast to Dinner Collection

Mothers Day

Mothers Day Brunch Recipe Collection

Memorial Day

15 Recipe Picnic Collection

I hope that you really enjoy our monthly Food and Recipe Basket. It is really fun to look at the seasonal food that we all know and love. Hope you have a wonderful month and have time to enjoy  the fruits of the earth. Thanks so much for stopping by to see us here at the cottage and come back to see us real soon!

Peace and Joy

Miz Helen

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