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Blog Archive
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2015: The Volunteer Garden
Now that it’s nearing the end of August, I suppose it’s time for a 2015 garden update. One of the things I’ve learned to love about gardening is how each year is so different. The first few years, I found this very frustrating: what grew well one year didn’t grow well the next. However, I’ve…
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Cucumber Melon Summer Salad
Before I get into tonight’s delicious summer recipe, I need to do a plug for our CSA. Did I tell you we joined a CSA this year? CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture — and is basically an association between members of the community and a local farm where you buy into a share of…
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How to Make Grilled Pizza
This is it. The one you’ve all been waiting for. At least, it’s what I had been waiting for my whole pizza-loving life. Grilled pizza. I’d heard of it, but being a grilling novice I had put off trying it until last year. I’m glad I didn’t wait any longer. Tom is normally my grill…
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Garden Harvesting Apron
Here it is: the latest creation from my apron obsession. A harvesting apron! Somehow in my quest for cute apron ideas I stumbled upon this post with an old pattern from the 1940s for a gathering “basket” apron — you know, what every woman needs for easy, hands-free gathering of berries or kindling. I may…
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Springtime Chicken Pot Pie
I have a confession to make. I always disliked Chicken Pot Pie. Only, I’m not sure I ever actually ate it to know that I didn’t like it. It was more the concept. I mean, meat pie? I don’t even like cooked fruit pies (much to my pie-loving mother’s chagrin and dismay). Plus, it usually…
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2015 Spring Garden Update & Wilted Spring Garden Salad Recipe
I suppose it’s time for a 2015 Spring Garden Update. I feel like this has really been an ideal spring for gardening. The snow stopped in a timely fashion. We’ve had a few hot days, plenty of rain and generally weather on par for the season. I started my tomato seeds (and a few others)…
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Making Things: Bagels, Cheese and Other Recipes
Unintended though it was, this past weekend was a weekend of making things — mostly food. On Friday, after a delicious surf ‘n turf meal (in which I almost burnt the house down when the grill caught fire, but miraculously managed to keep the steaks from getting charred or overcooked), I decided to try the…
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My Apron Obsession
I’m not really sure how this happened, though I imagine Pinterest is at least partly to blame, but somewhere along the way I have become obsessed with aprons. I don’t normally wear an apron when I’m in the kitchen. I got one as a wedding gift, and it was the only one I had. I…
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French Bread, Fried Egg and Feta Brunch
Twas the day before Easter and I just had a hunch, that combining these ingredients would make a great brunch! Some freshly made feta, and freshly baked bread, a fried egg and fresh salad did rouse us from bed! (Okay, enough of the rhyming.) Seriously, though. I’ve been on a homemade bread kick since a…
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Welcoming Spring into the Home and Garden!
My dad just told me today that my grandmother used tolook for the crocuses each spring and announce theirarrival — I wasn’t sure I had any anymore, but I found thislittle guy in the front yard today! Spring is my favorite season. Summer is my favorite, too. In fact, so is fall. But, I think…
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