We're in the middle of peak stone fruit season, a time when farmers markets are overflowing with a bounty of succulent apricots, cherries, peaches, and their hybrids (like pluots and apriums). From salads to sangrias and sweet treats, here are a few of our favorite ways to enjoy this fruit family — aside from eating them out of hand, of course.
— Additional reporting by Nicole Perry
Get the recipe: watermelon, peach, and raspberry rosé sangria
Get the recipe: pluot and butter lettuce salad
Get the recipe: grilled brie with cherry-thyme relish
Get the recipe: honey-baked nectarines with vanilla crème fraiche
Get the recipe: Julia Child's cherry clafouti
Get the recipe: grilled peach salad with grapefruit vinaigrette
Get the recipe: peach fritters with salted caramel sauce
Get the recipe: grilled peach salad with goat cheese
Get the recipe: strawberry-banana-peach smoothie bowls
Get the recipe: Summer fruit salad with mint
Get the recipe: cherry, quinoa, and feta salad
Get the recipe: brioche with cherries, blue cheese, and shallots
Get the recipe: turkey burgers with cherries and bacon
Get the recipe: blueberry-nectarine dutch babies
Get the recipe: ricotta and cherry focaccia pizza.
Get the recipe: grilled pound cake with cherries