Relish Recipes — Cooking with Fresh Herbs

My garden is bursting with so many fresh herbs. I serve this fish dish on a regular basis, but when I have an herb garden in the summer, it's so tasty using my own produce. I prefer Steelhead Trout over salmon, but either will work. It's so tasty when you make it on a cedar plank, but the plank must be soaked in water for 4 hours.

Using a jar of ready-made pesto is a real time saver. We love to add it to roasted vegetables, potatoes, pasta dishes and even as a topping of grilled chicken. We've adapted this recipe from the New York Times and made it with our house-made Garlic Scape Pesto. you make pesto from scratch, you can store it in the freezer over the winter and enjoy fresh garden flavours all season long! Ingredients... 2 medium zucchinis, diced 1 onion, sliced 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes Kosher/sea salt 3 3/4 cups vegetable or chicken stock 2...

Pickle lovers, this dip is for you! It’s creamy, tangy, and fresh. It tastes like an easy, grown-up alternative to fried pickles with ranch dressing. Serve it  with your favourite veggies, but it's killer when you add some crinkle cut or kettle-cooked potato chips! 

If you’re on breakfast duty, these sheet pan omelets are unbeatable for their ease of preparation. Omelets are hearty and filling, but standing over a stove making individual omelets probably isn’t how you want to spend a gorgeous morning at the lake—especially when everyone rolls out of bed at different times. You can serve these alongside bacon and home fries, but for my money, they make the perfect filling for a build-your-own breakfast sandwich bar! (From The Essential Cottage Cookbook by Andrea Buckett, Appetite by Random House, 2025)

In need of a sensational centerpiece? This roasted leg of lamb is truly a stunner. A head of green herbs amp up the aromatic freshness of this dish in two ways: an herb paste that coats the meat before it hits the oven, and a lemon mint gremolata for serving. The sweet potatoes and fennel cooked beneath the lamb are a ready-made side dish.