Because grocery store strawberries are available all year long, it’s easy to forget the stunning flavor of farm-grown, sun-burnished strawberries at the peak of their season in summer. TABLE contributor Anna Franklin brought a few dozen June beauties into our studios one afternoon and worked her usual magic with them to create six recipes. The results are as visually stunning as they are delicious, and we’ve been waiting for months to share them with you, just in time for strawberry season 2026. Find the nearest “pick your own” location and take advantage of this moment of ripeness!
6 Strawberry Recipes for Easy Summer Living
Strawberry Kiwi Bramble
This oh-so-sippable cocktail strikes a summer-y balance of sweet, tart, and boozy. Fresh lemon, strawberry, and kiwi bring the tartness. Strawberry simple syrup brings the sweet. Your choice of gin completes the picture. Since summer is a veritable theater of ripeness, rework the recipe with cherries, raspberries, and blueberries as the season unfolds. The drink is perfect for hot evenings across June, July, August, and beyond.
Strawberry Rhubarb Salsa
Both strawberries and rhubarb have a vegetable quality in their flavor profiles, which makes savory dishes possible…and delicious. Combine farm fresh strawberries and rhubarb along with onion, a fresh and spicy Fresno pepper, and cilantro to create the base for a delicious salsa. Add lime juice and zest, vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper…and start snacking. Keep some in reserve for your next grilled chicken or pork supper: this salsa doubles nicely as a chimichurri. Scroll down to the bottom for a delicious Strawberry Balsamic Chicken Wings recipe to try it with.
Herby Balsamic Marinated Strawberry Focaccia
Don’t be intimidated. This is an easy-to-make bread recipe. All you have to do is follow Anna Franklin’s instructions and a lovely focaccia studded with balsamic-marinated strawberries will be the result. The bread pairs beautifully with our Think Pink Salad (see below). To further the depths of flavor here, you might mix up some cream cheese with a teaspoon of sumac, a sprinkle of salt, and a generous drizzle of honey so that you can slather the focaccia to your heart’s content.
Think Pink Salad with Strawberries and Pink Peppercorn Vinaigrette
Have you ever tasted haloumi cheese? Your time has come. Sauté a few slices. Around them, compose this salad of pink radicchio from Coldco Farm, strawberries, grapefruit, and radishes. A fantastic pink peppercorn and sherry vinaigrette completes the picture. No, wait: a glass of Mazza Wines Perfect Rosé does that job. And also, perhaps, a slice of Strawberry Focaccia, shown just above.
Pretty in Pink Strawberry Smoothie Bowl
Happiness begins with a blender full of dragon fruit, bananas, strawberries, and yogurt. Top the beautiful bowlful of pink that emerges with chia seeds, goju berries, strawberry and banana slices, slivers of fresh summer plums, and a sprinkle of granola. It’s a perfect breakfast. Or a wonderful lunch. Or a solo dinner, barefoot on the patio and enjoying a late summer sunset.
Strawberry Balsamic Glazed Chicken Wings
Have you ever made your own BBQ sauce? This recipe is a wonderful way to get started. Its sweet, sour, spicy brilliance will get you craving your own customized versions. Perhaps you drop the sriracha for gochujang and a few drops of vodka. Maybe you swap ginger for toasted and crushed coriander seeds and a little extra soy sauce. Maybe you exchange strawberries for blueberries. Whatever you do, you’re just a few minutes away from something delicious and memorable.
Looking for more ways to take advantage of strawberry season? Check out 20 more strawberry recipes.
Recipe and Styling by Anna Franklin
Photography by Laura Petrilla
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