We’re trading scarves and superfluous layers for sunscreen and picnic blankets, heavy winter meals for fresh May recipes. This collection of spring favorites will help you get ready for the weeks ahead, when you’ll swap your hot morning coffee routine for something a little chillier, pack a bite to take to the park when it’s just too beautiful to eat dinner inside, and really need some quick meal ideas that’ll mesh with the hectic schedule of the school year’s end.
It’s time to cook green peas, asparagus, sweet carrots, and artichokes, not to mention as much rhubarb as you can lug home. We hope this list of our best May recipes—and your first sighting of good ripe strawberries—will help to get you out of that cold weather slump. Fire up the grill, get your pie pan ready, and scroll down for all of our spring recipe essentials.
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