This salad looks especially nice on wide, shallow, square or rectangular white plates.

White beans, cherry tomatoes, lemon and olive oil make a classic and delicious pairing for fresh halibut.

This recipe is adapted from one by Marcella Hazan. The salmon is diced, mixed with some Italian seasonings, mounded into a scooped-out tomato, and baked.

This is an easy, no-cook summer pasta sauce using fresh garden tomatoes combined with lightly seared tuna chunks, fresh herbs, and olives.

Whether it’s jam or tomatoes you want to can, you can easily learn the basics. Then perfect your skills with our recipes for hot peach chutney, green-chili salsa, and berry syrup.

Native Islander Polly Bassett, who lives in West Tisbury, shares this recipe for a mild but flavorful salsa that you can use as a taco sauce, chip dip, or seasoning sauce.