Fresh Spring Recipes + Cookbook Roundup |

[Photo borrowed with permission from Pinch of Yum. Recipe for Next Level Zoodles with Creamy Corn Sauce below!]

It’s officially Spring! According to my brand-new still-straggly editorial calendar, this is the perfect post because the Spring equinox is today. Except it was actually Monday. Dang.

“Spring” in Florida, especially Central Florida (where I live) or lower, is a bit of an odd concept, since we don’t have much of a Winter. It’s normal for us to boomerang between short periods with highs in the 50’s and the 80’s.

This year, it got warm in February, then blasted us with a cold long weekend just as we’d forgotten about winter. Thank goodness that the mood-swing weather doesn’t prevent us from cooking like it’s Spring.

Below are dozens of Spring-suitable recipes. Some are lighter, some are less so, but they all feature delicious seasonal veggies, fruit, or herbs (mmm, herbs. If it stays alive, I’ll tell you all about my oregano plant). Some of these recipes are mine, but most are from other food bloggers I deeply admire.

Speaking of bloggers I admire, the last section here is cookbooks by my fellow bloggers! I feel like about a million bloggers have released or are on the cusp of releasing their first cookbook, and to a one, they are all FABULOUS. I don’t own any of these yet–some haven’t yet come out!–but I love the look of every single one of these. [This is not an affiliate pitch: I just seriously admire these ladies’ work {the fact that they are all ladies is complete coincidence but seriously cool}.]