Happy Friday!! I love Memorial Day weekend! It’s the gateway to summer! Pools open, the days are longer, the weather is sunnier and warmer, and summertime fruits and veggies are starting to show up in the stores.
One of my favorite parts of summer is berry season! I look forward to all those sweet berries: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and especially blackberries. We go through pints of them all summer long.
For this Friday Five post, I wanted to share some of the recent recipes that I’ve found that highlight all those berries!
1. Angel Food Cake with Berry Compote
I have to share this one again! This was one of the best things I made last summer for dessert. I loved that you can cook the berries in the crockpot. Perfect for making it early and letting it cook while you are at the pool! 
2. Red, White and Blue Strawberry Shortcake
Nothing says Happy 4th of July more than a red, white and blue flag cake. It’s like a staple of all July 4th cookouts!
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3. Greek Yogurt with Warm Berry Sauce
This one recipe sounds awesome and I would actually make a lot of the sauce to use throughout the week in the summer! Perfect breakfast!
Photo: Nigel Cox; Styling: Tiziana Agnello
4. Strawberry-Avocado Salsa with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips
Our friends, Nathan and Katie, have made this one for several of our get togethers. It is always a hit and there is never any left.
Photo: John Autry
5. Blueberry French Toast Sandwiches
I made these for several brunches. They are absolutely delicious! I serve it with a side of orange marmalade to dip the sandwiches in. Oh man, now I’m craving this! 
What are some of your favorite berry recipes? Please share them with me!
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Oh, that salsa sounds so interesting! I haven’t tried the strawberry/avocado combination.
Give a try!! So good!!
The red white and blue strawberry shortcake looks so pretty. I may need to make that this summer! We usually just eat berries straight from the package, well after they have been washed of course!
We do too, by the pint!!
That salsa sounds really good! I never actually make anything with berries – we just eat them LOL, but my mom makes an amazing blueberry peach jelly that I hoard for the rest of the year. ;o)
Oh blueberry peach jelly sounds awesome!! I’d hoard that too! 🙂
I make strawberry salsa as well but never thought of adding avacodo to it. Will have to try that next time.
It’s really good with the avocado!
We used to grow strawberries in the backyard, and so I have a lot of recipes for them. I make shortcake with baking powder biscuits or chocolate biscuits, pavlova, salad….you name it!
Strawberries and biscuits sounds really good!
All of these berry recipes look delicious! I can’t resist a red, white and blue 4th of July cake! I love blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. I need to get more creative and try recipes like these!
The sauces are great because you can save it and use it throughout the week!
This is sort of a berry recipe, but not really. I like to take the inside of a watermelon and carve it into a cylinder, cover it with whipped topping and then berries. So delicious! And it looks like a cake so it’s kind of fun to trick people 😛
Oh yum!! That sounds super good!! What a fun thing!
Strawberry avocado salsa sounds delicious I have to try that immediately. 🙂
It really is that good!!
mmm, wow! all of these recipes sound great! I love berries 🙂
Me too!! This is my favorite time of year!
These all sound amazing! I especially want to try the salsa and cinnamon tortilla chips – yum!! Have a great weekend 🙂
It’s a good one!! Easy to make and tastes great!
Yum! Can’t wait to try these. Berries are my favorite!
I love berries of any kind in summer! The strawberry avocado salad sounds great!
blueberry french toast sandwiches?! yes, please. that sounds delicious!
They are awesome!!
All of these look delicious! I really like the idea of cooking something in the crock pot- less work for me, more yummy! I’ll probably use one of these ideas for my work’s memorial day cookout Monday. We were asked to bring in desserts and I totally forgot until just now! Oops!
Perfect!! You got options now! 🙂
Yes yes. To all of these. I’ve had greek yogurt with berries but never a warm berries. I’m making this today. Wait. No yogurt. I’m making this tomorrow after I go to the groc store today.
Have a wonderful weekend Melanie! xoxo
I am making it this weekend too!! It sounds like the perfect breakfast and dessert too! Have a great weekend, Jill! 🙂