Dat Candy: Fish recipes to make after a day on the lake.

Good morning. In a few weeks' time, I'll find myself in the best place on earth: a tiny cabin on a tiny lake in an even tinier town in Northern Michigan. There, I'll share a single bathroom with 15 relatives, make a responsible amount of our 52 favorite cocktails, and fish, and fish—and then fish again. Whatever we catch that's worth keeping will get cleaned, broken down, and turned into the following:

1. Tacos. These can go high or low. If my 3pm Wiffle ball bout goes into extra innings, I'll opt for something like Amanda's low-maintenance fish tacos. If I've got time, patience, and this Mezcal Amaro in hand, I'll conquer these white fish escabeche tacos.

2. Cakes. Sometimes it rains in heaven up there. When it does, I want a cribbage board, two cold beers, and a mountain of these fish cakes.

3. Baked Filets. These five-ingredient, 15-minute baked filets from James Peterson prove that fresh fish doesn't need to be fussed with to taste great.

Last week, our team competed against the clock in a cream whipping relay—and we won. This iota of semi-athletic success has reinvigorated my thirst to blend through all 33 of our favorite smoothie recipes. Here are the four I'm knocking out first.

Gingery Beet Smoothie

Matcha Smoothie

Avocado Lassi

Almond Butter Smoothie Bowl

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the 12,000 baguettes getting baked at the Olympic Village. Which I thought was cool and interesting, until it was completely upstaged by two Olympians completely sending us an awesome and infinitely more entertaining video tour of the actual dining facility. You can watch the video here.

Back in April, our team went up to Vermont to profile makers from our shop. One of them was AO Glass—a glass blowing studio based in Burlington, Vermont owned and operated by Tove Ohlander and Rich Arentzen. We were especially stoked to meet with AO for two reasons: 1) They're world-class glass blowers that make beautiful things. 2) They're Nea's parents. You can watch the video here.

According to Food52 HQ Manager, Lauren, the Peugeot Pepper Mill isn't just her favorite product in our shop—it's also, seemingly, her roommates' favorite:

"I like how the Peugeot gives me a big, big, big, big cracked peppercorn. Which is actually how I know my roommates always steal it—because whenever I come back to it, the grind's always changed to the finest setting."

Point being: The Peugeot's everyone's favorite.