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Look for the first fresh blueberries of the season at the Pacific Beach Tuesday Farmers’ Market from Lone Oak Ranch and Smit Orchards. Toss them in a cool fruit salad with Suzie’s Farm’s strawberries and Kawano Farms’ raspberries or enjoy them stirred into Ancient Secrets’ yogurt with a drizzle of Mikolich Honey.

Pick up fresh chevre from Nicolau Goat Farms and organic butter from Spring Hill Cheese Company for blueberry goat cheese muffins - we serve them with a cup of Black Rose from the Tea Gallerie. Grab citrus from Paradise Valley Ranch and fresh mint at Gilbert Quintos Farm for a refreshing blueberry lemonade.

Ask L’Ardiguel to fold some fresh berries into one of their authentic French style sweet crepes. It’s going to be a blue Tuesday!

Buy fresh sweet basil from Suzie’s Farm or Valdivia Farm at the North Park Farmers’ Market and lend its lovely aroma to fruit, vegetable, cheese and pasta dishes each Thursday. You’re probably already imagining ripe tomatoes from JR Organics mixed with chopped basil and spread over bruschetta of toasted slices Belen Bakery’s ciabatta rubbed with California Olive new truffle oil. What says summer like simple plates of basil, tomatoes and sinful fresh burrata from Taste Cheese? Try fresh linguine from Lisko Imports topped with homemade basil pesto.

Basil also gets friendly with fresh summer fruits: try a salad of fresh greens from Maciel Farm topped with sliced peaches from Smit Orchards, a little chevre from Nicolau Farms and a healthy handful of freshly chopped basil. Use strawberries from Kawano Farm and Eureka lemons from Paradise Valley Ranch in this strawberry-basil lemonade or add an apple for this summery Sangria. Basil’s in season throughout the summer, so add a little basil-dazzle to dinner tonight!