Thank goodness I canned a bunch of peaches and pears! I love peaches and am bummed that here in CO we get them in Aug/Sept vs. late June with how I grew up with them in CA.

Peaches! Nectarines! I guess any stone fruit, really. . . .
This photo made me sigh with sweet sweet longing.

Tomatoes of all kinds!!

Strawberries! My kids adore them and I still buy them off-season to keep them eating a variety of fruits, but they're the saddest, mealiest strawberries ever. Last season we were overseas and missed our window for u-pick strawberries and it just didn't feel like summer without a massive box of the perfect berries in the fridge, waiting to be turned into jam and tarts. There's always next year, I guess.

I'm enjoying the heck out of citrus, which is currently in season here in south Louisiana. We should start seeing strawberries in a month or so, although I'm concerned it didn't get cold enough this winter (highs have been hanging around the low 70s a lot) for a really good crop. I could definitely go for a warm from the sun tomato or a peach right now, though....

Tomatoes, cherries, and plums. Next year I'm not going to miss out on cherry season, even if canned or frozen aren't quite the same as fresh.

Easy-tomatoes! And while this is more of a spring vegetable but green garlic and aspragus. Love those too.

As for fruit...I adore nectarines and apricots.

Tomatoes for sure! Also strawberries, cherries, and blueberries.

Sweet eggplant, nectarines, sweet corn, tomatoes, and loads of fresh herbs. I've mitigated the pain of winter with the 2 gallon bags of blueberries I froze this past summer by slowly working through them for breakfast with yogurt and homemade granola. I am, however, staring down my last frozen bag of roma tomatoes, and know now is the time to be strategic. It's a LONG time till tomatoes.

I agree with the above posters: any fresh berries and garden tomatoes. Frozen berries and canned tomatoes are paltry substitutes, but they'll do.

For Summer produce it's peaches peaches peaches but for other times of the year I'm craving fresh pumpkin or celery root when they're not available.

peaches and nectarines!

Peaches - yum. Also, and this isn't specifically summer, but I crave asparagus all year. It's season is so short!

@INKSTAINEDWRITER Yes! Asparagus, how could I forget. Just last weekend I was moaning about how it was still 3 months away and how I couldn't wait to use it 20 different ways. Aaaaasparagus. Mmm.

Tomatoes and nectarines. The out-of-season and/or imported ones just don't compare!

Peaches and cherries. Hands down!

Juicy, sweet watermelon - so refreshing!

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but really, I miss two Jersey staples the most: corn and tomatoes. Mid-June and the return of the farmers' market cannot come soon enough around these parts.

Peaches, and just about everything else! It's so hard to incorporate vegetables right now because nothing seems super appealing, all I want is fresh from the garden goodness!

Peaches, tomatoes, grapes, berries ... pretty much all fruits. Though I did can a bunch of peaches, and I opened up a jar the other day for a little taste of summer. Yum!

I miss tomatoes that actually taste like tomatoes!

watermelon, tomatoes, berries (of all varieties). Ok really just all fruits!

PEACHES! i was just thinking last night about how ready i am for peach season to begin. to hold myself over until then, i bought a bag of frozens to toss into smoothies... sigh.

I miss cherries!

heirloom tomatoes. cut thick on sourdough bread.

Heirloom tomatoes!!

tomatoes
stone fruits
shell beans

But I live in California and Spring is right around the corner!

I can't wait to bite into a juicy, red cherry that stains my fingers and tongue.

- Garden tomatoes so I can eat them in sandwiches or on BLTs or salted as a salad,
- REAL strawberries, not those red pointy golf balls in the store,
- any fresh stonefruit,
- fresh green beans that were not grown in Mexico or California or goodness knows where and
- cherries. Especially tart cherries. Two years ago I basically missed the local cherry season (we were moving into a new house) and this past year the harvest was so poor they were hideously expensive and there was no U pick in our area. Tart cherries scarcely even made it to the farm stands. Had to content myself with less-than-perfect, but oh-so sweet and dark sweet cherries.

Crap. Now I REALLY miss summer! :( Only 6 more months. Although the weather outside (55 today in the Hudson Valley) wouldn't make you think that tomorrow was Feb. 1st. *sigh*

Strawberry, Asparagus, Apricot and Cherry times are right around the corner for Californians. Love the spring time bounty.

Baseballs- spring training is just around the corner...

Tomatoes of August and September (I'm a Michigander now...), and last year's were wonderful. The only other thing I miss in winter are strawberries that actually taste right, but they should show up in another month or two from Florida... I don't eat very many since it is expensive to ship, but I love them.

Berries and watermelon!!!

The big, orange-fleshed, deeply ribbed melons that are called Indiana or Honeyrock melons here in Ohio. They're very sweet, and the best ones do have a bit of honey flavor to them. I never see them out of season, they don't seem to be imported, so I buy as many as I can possibly use while they're available. Maybe they're strictly a midwest thing?

My tomatoes and green plumbs from my tree.