Simplest summer recipes

The Simply in Season recipe of the week, Chilled Tomato Soup, is at the top of my list of the easiest SIS recipes. Throw a tomato in the blender with some plain yogurt or sour cream, fresh basil leaves, and salt and pepper -- and presto! Not even any heating involved. Just don’t even think of trying this recipe with anything but a luscious, vine-ripened tomato. The red but flavorless things in the supermarket will not do.

I’ll be traveling and unable to check in for a while. In celebration of the official beginning of summer this week and hopes that yours includes at least a few lazy days, here’s seven other especially easy recipes to try from Simply in Season.

Seven super-simple SIS summer recipes
-- Squash and Basil Salad (p. 102) (use small, slender zukes less than 8” in length)
-- Spicy Roasted Eggplant (p. 119)
-- Fresh Tomato and Basil Pasta (p. 122) (again, do not attempt without good tomatoes)
-- Chicken Cacciatore (p. 143) (a crockpot recipe)
-- Beef Burritos (p. 147)
-- Campfire Salmon (p. 148)
-- Plum Tart (p. 153)