This week's farmers market dinner party meal plan + recipes — 2nd week of June

I’m going on a four-person girlie beach getaway and grilling up a seafood dinner on the first night to celebrate!

But here’s the catch: Like most Manhattanites, I don’t own a grill (private outdoor space? I don’t know her). I actually barely know how to use one, so this will be as much of a treat for my friends as a learning experience for me.

As a grill newbie, here’s what I plan to make, using primarily farmers’ market ingredients, of course.

My haul breaks down to five dishes for four people. The cheapest was my $3 green onions, while the priciest was my $25 pork chops.

Fruits + vegetables

• 1 bundle of mint

• 5 heads of garlic

• 2 aehobak squashes

• 2 gold bar squashes

• 1 bundle of delfino cilantro

• 4 green and red Bibb lettuce

• 1 bundle of green onions

• sugar snap peas

• shishito peppers

Protein

• 2 pasture-raised bone-in pork chops

• 0.8 lb of steelhead trout

• 0.8 lb of tuna

• 0.94 lb whole sea bass

• 30 oysters

I’ll also be grabbing some secondary items I can’t get at the farmers market, such as lemons, lemongrass, and bird’s eye chili peppers.

Subscribe to see how I turned this NYC farmers market haul and some pantry staples into a five-course Asian-inspired dinner for four.