In Season: 125+ Sweet and Savory Recipes Celebrating Simple, Fresh Ingredients
Author(s): Lisa Steele (Author), Tina Rupp (Photographer)
Publisher: Harper Celebrate
Publication Date: May 5, 2026
Language: English
Print length: 320 pages
ISBN-10: 1400253322
ISBN-13: 9781400253326
Book Description
Bright, vibrant, and packed with flavor, these simple seasonal recipes range from protein-packed egg dishes to fresh meals celebrating seasonal produce.
Lisa Steele—cookbook author, fifth-generation chicken keeper, Maine Master Gardener, and founder of Fresh Eggs Daily—is back with fresh, flavorful recipes that are simple to make and anything but basic. With her bold, seasonal flavors and beautifully crafted meals, Lisa brings her celebrated no-fuss, high-impact cooking style, inspired by the best each season has to offer.
From the light and bright dishes of spring and summer to warm, comforting recipes for fall and winter, every recipe highlights nature’s best and feels like a treat. Expect colorful salads, satisfying soups, vibrant veggies, delicious sides, delectable desserts, creative cocktails, and mocktails.
And of course, more of her signature egg-based recipes, too. (Deviled eggs ten ways? Yes, please!)
You’ll love In Season because it is:
Seasonally Inspired: Explore 125 + recipes inspired by your local farmer’s market!
Budget-Friendly: Save money by sourcing locally and cooking with what’s in season.
Simple, yet Sophisticated: Feel confident in the kitchen as you whip up recipes that are approachable yet elevated enough to impress family and friends.
Versatile: From brunch staples to light lunches to decadent desserts, there’s something for every occasion, all times of year.
Instructional and Transformative: Find out what’s in season when, how to best store your produce, and how to grow and harvest herbs.
Regionally Inspired: Lisa’s Scandinavian roots and New England way of life shine through in every chapter.
Featured recipes include:
Smoked Salmon Salad with Lemon and Dill
Finnish Summer Soup (Kesäkeitto)
Nectarine Panzanella Salad Poached Eggs with Mint
Three-Cheese Tomato Tarts
Smashed Eggs on Honey Ricotta Toast
Monte Cristo Breakfast Bake
Mushroom Goat Cheese Omelets with Crispy Shallots and Sage
Jammy Dressed Egg Flights
Warm Molten Lemon Soufflé Cakes
Barista-Style Cinnamon Latte
Honey Ginger Whiskey Sour
Lisa Steele’s approachable methods and expert tips make seasonal cooking an easy and rewarding experience for cooks of all levels. Whether you’re a seasoned foodie, home gardener, or just love a good brunch, In Season will inspire you to create flavorful dishes that celebrate the best of every harvest.
Editorial Reviews
From the Author
My first cookbook (The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook, 2022) focused solely on cooking eggs. But a girl can’t live on eggs alone! While eggs are my signature ingredient, I do cook other things! So this time around, in addition to sharing more fabulous egg recipes, I’ve also included some sensational soups, salads, sides, and of course desserts to serve alongside your eggs all year long.
Eating fruits and vegetables at the height of their freshness not only saves you money, but also means taking full advantage of their peak natural falvor, nutrition, and texture. Eating in season means no longer relying on prepared, packaged, or processed ingredients. Maybe it means growing or raising as much as you can. Maybe it means bartering with neighbors. Or maybe it simply means a trip to the farmers market or produce aisle of the grocery store.
I hope you will start to think more about eating seasonally, about choosing fresh produce, and lean into the natural cycles of growth. It is my hope that the next time you have extra eggs or a pile of fresh vegetables – whether you grew them yourself or not – and want to do something new and different with them, you’ll pick up this cookbook and try one of my recipes. I’m excited to be sharing more of our family favorites that I hope will also become yours.
-Lisa Steele
From the Back Cover
Enjoy four seasons of simple, affordable, falvor-packed recipes for every meat of the day.
“In Season is right in line with how I love to cook and eat.” – Rocco Dispirito, James Beard award-winning chef, television personality, and author of Everyday Delicious
“This cookbook is a love letter to the seasons – proof that cooking with simple, fresh ingredients can be both effortless and extraordinary. Whether you’re a seasoned home cook or just getting started, these recipes make it easy to eat well, savor the moment, and trust taste the time of year.” –
Tiffani Thiessen, actress and cookbook author of Pull Up a Chair and Here We Go Again.
“In Season is full of recipes that celebrate the kind of food I love to cook? simple, seasonal with great ingredients… But more than that, it’s a reminder that great food doesn’t have to be complicated – it just has to be made with care and meant to be shared with your loved ones.” – Luca Manfe, MasterChef winner, chef, author of My Italian Kitchen, and owner of Mangia Carne, Dinner with Luca, and Italy with Luca
“This book embodies everything that I love about fresh, seasonal cooking for farm-to-table inspiration at home.” –
Jaymee Sire, host of Food Network Obsessed podcast
About the Author
Lisa Steele is an author, popular media personality, and creator of the Fresh Eggs Daily brand, the premiere online resource for chicken-keeping advice. Lisa has amassed an audience of nearly one million worldwide, who look to her for tips on raising backyard poultry naturally, gardening tips, and her coop-to-kitchen recipes. Dubbed “queen of the coop” by the media, Lisa has been recognized by many national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, Country Living, the Farmers Almanac, and Parade. As a television and radio personality, Lisa has appeared on the Hallmark Channel’s Home and Family show, Martha Knows Best on HGTV, NPR’s Maine Calling, and P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home on PBS. She also hosted her own “country lifestyle” show Welcome to my Farm on PBS/CreateTV. A fifth-generation chicken keeper and Maine Master Gardener, Lisa lives in rural Maine, with her husband, their two corgis, and a mixed flock of chickens, ducks, and geese. She is currently working on her third cookbook.
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