31 Refreshing May Recipes To Cook Now That Spring Is (Finally) In Full Swing
April showers brought the May flowers, and now, here we are in the peak of spring surrounded by so many delicious, in-season flavors. So, take advantage of the farmers market's freshest bounty with these recipes that are perfect for your spring cooking bucket list.
1.Strawberry Stuffed French Toast
The only way to make French toast even more delicious? Use two slices of brioche bread and stuff it with a layer of cream cheese and strawberry filling.
Recipe: Strawberry Stuffed French Toast
2.Buttermilk Blueberry Breakfast Cake
It's not every day you hear cake and breakfast used in the same sentence, so when you do, you take full advantage.
3.Garlic Cheddar Chive Scones
This one's for the savory breakfast people out there.
Recipe: Garlic Cheddar Chive Scones
4.Blueberry Muffin Granola Greek Yogurt Breakfast Bowls
Start the day off right with these fruit and granola-packed yogurt bowls.
Recipe: Blueberry Muffin Granola Greek Yogurt Breakfast Bowls
5.Eggs with Chive Flowers
This five-ingredient egg dish looks fancy, but it's so incredibly simple. Make sure to serve it with English muffins, sourdough, or your favorite bread.
Recipe: Eggs with Chive Flowers
6.Quiche with Ramps, Mushrooms, and Brie
Ramps are a type of wild onion that resemble scallions, and they add serious flavor to even the most basic of recipes. Paired with mushrooms and Brie, they take quiche to the next level.
7.Grilled Romaine Caesar Salad with Herbed White Beans
With Memorial Day weekend quickly approaching, grilling season is upon us. Here's some inspiration to toss your romaine lettuce on the barbecue for a spectacular salad upgrade.
Recipe: Grilled Romaine Caesar Salad with Herbed White Beans
8.Crispy Rhubarb Lemon Chicken Bake
You might associate rhubarb with dessert, but here — combined with lemon, balsamic, barbecue sauce, and garlic — it adds just the ideal amount of brightness to this savory chicken dish.
9.Maple Mustard Green Beans
Green beans get tossed in a maple mustard dressing and garnished with tart pomegranates and creamy goat cheese for a show-stopping side dish.
Recipe: Maple Mustard Green Beans
10.Thai Style Papaya Salad Rolls
Keep these salad rolls vegetarian or add something like shrimp, salmon, tofu, or chicken to turn them into a main dish.
Recipe: Thai Style Papaya Salad Rolls
11.Steak Sandwiches with Horseradish Mayo
This recipe calls for ribeye, but you can use any cut of steak you like best. The crème de la crème is the horseradish mayo, which adds just the right kick.
12.Roasted Fennel Pasta
Imagine: pasta tossed in a light lemon sauce with roasted fennel and a dollop of rich ricotta. Yup, it's as fresh as can be.
Recipe: Roasted Fennel Pasta
13.Asparagus Tart with Honey Mustard Sauce
This brunch or dinner side dish starts with store-bought puff pastry and is filled with mascarpone cheese, asparagus, and honey mustard.
14.Stone Fruit Salad
Even lettuce-haters won't want to resist this filling salad, which is made with quinoa, stone fruit, feta, walnuts, and whatever greens you like best. Try a blend of radicchio and arugula for a bitter note that plays well with the sweet fruit.
Recipe: Stone Fruit Salad
15.Spring Pea Risotto with Lemon and Parmesan
This creamy pea risotto is laced with mascarpone cheese, salty prosciutto, and a refreshing squeeze of lemon to top it all off. It's just as decadent (and delicious) as it sounds.
16.Roasted Orange Chicken with Fennel
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. This one is easy enough for a weeknight meal but sophisticated enough for hosting a crowd or a special date night recipe.
17.Air Fryer Artichoke Hearts with Garlic Aioli
These better-for-you "fried" artichoke hearts are ready to eat in just 10 minutes. If you don't feel like making the homemade aioli, grab your favorite store-bought dipping sauce.
18.Creamy Horseradish Potato Salad
'Tis the season for picnics, barbecues, and cookouts galore, so you're going to need a solid potato salad recipe up your sleeve. This one gets an upgrade from a dollop of horseradish mixed into the mayo and Greek yogurt dressing.
Recipe: Creamy Horseradish Potato Salad
19.Spicy Pesto, Asparagus, and Ricotta Pasta with Crispy Prosciutto
Make life a little easier on yourself and grab a jar of your favorite grocery store pesto to whip up this springy pasta.
Recipe: Spicy Pesto, Asparagus, and Ricotta Pasta with Crispy Prosciutto
20.Healthy Broccoli Salad
This salad-meets-slaw features raw broccoli, which is tossed with blueberries, carrots, dried apricots, toasted almonds, and sunflower seeds in a zippy tahini dressing.
Recipe: Healthy Broccoli Salad
21.Simple Baked Miso Salmon with Peas
This sheet pan salmon recipe comes together in about 30 minutes. Serve it over rice or a bed of slaw for a complete meal.
22.Ramp Cacio e Pepe
Sometimes, the best things in life are simple, like in the case of this bucatini. All you need is olive oil, Parmesan, butter, salt, pepper, and — the star of the show — fresh ramps.
Recipe: Ramp Cacio e Pepe
23.Cherry Cheesecake Brownies
Can't choose between desserts? Have your brownies and your cheesecake in one, complete with sweet cherries baked in throughout.
Recipe: Cherry Cheesecake Brownies
24.Mini Blueberry Galettes
You can bake a big batch of these individual galettes and freeze them for later when your sweet tooth strikes.
Recipe: Mini Blueberry Galettes
25.Thai Black Sticky Rice Pudding
Made with sticky rice, coconut milk, coconut flakes, palm sugar, and pandan, this creamy Thai-inspired rice pudding is irresistible. Serve it with your favorite fruit like fresh mango slices.
Recipe: Thai Black Sticky Rice Pudding
26.Strawberry Cream Cheese Danishes
Make them for dessert, have the leftovers for breakfast. It's the best of both worlds, and there's no wrong time to eat a Danish.
Recipe: Strawberry Cream Cheese Danishes
27.Bourbon Cherry Crisp
This crowd-pleasing dessert is made with sweet-meets-tart Bourbon cherry filling under a layer of buttery, crumbly oats. Do the proper thing and serve it with a scoop of ice cream.
Recipe: Bourbon Cherry Crisp
28.Norwegian Rhubarb and Almond Cake
Think: crumbly coffee cake, but with an extra layer of flavor thanks to tangy rhubarb and salty almonds.
29.Blueberry Mojitos
This recipe calls for mint simple syrup, but you can always stick with regular syrup or agave and add some extra muddled fresh mint.
Recipe: Blueberry Mojitos
30.Frozen Pineapple Papaya Margaritas
Warmer weather is ahead, and those sunny late spring days call for frozen cocktails.
31.Blackberry Bramble Cocktails
You only need five ingredients for these seasonal cocktails: fresh blackberries, lemon juice, gin, simple syrup, and sparkling water to add a little fizz.
Recipe: Blackberry Bramble Cocktails
