Stone Fruit Lemonade

What if lemonade had body? Not thickness from sugar or ice, but actual fruit holding it together. Three nectarines blended with cold water, maple syrup, and the juice of four lemons, then strained. The nectarine gives the lemonade a colour somewhere between gold and peach …

Sparkling Strawberry Cocktail

How do you make Prosecco taste like strawberries without turning it into a blended drink? You make a syrup. Strawberries, water, a split vanilla bean with seeds scraped out, and sugar, simmered together for twenty minutes, then strained. The syrup is bright red and smells …

Corn and Quinoa Salad

This is my go-to lunch from July through August. Sweet corn cut off the cob, quinoa cooked and cooled, red onion, lime juice, cilantro, and a little cumin. No cooking required beyond the quinoa, which takes twenty minutes and can be done the night before. …

Raspberry Yogurt Popsicles

The simplest frozen treat I have ever made. Five hundred grams of vanilla yogurt, blended with two hundred fifty grams of raspberries and three tablespoons of sugar. Poured into popsicle moulds and frozen for at least four hours. The colour is a swirl of pale …

Cucumber Rose Gimlet

A gimlet is gin, lime, and simple syrup. That’s the whole drink. This one adds fresh cucumber juice and a splash of rose water, and it tips from bar-classic into something that feels like the best version of summer in a glass. Chill your coupe. …