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Shake, Shake, Shake Your Dressing!
Maybe you eat salad because it’s healthy, because you grow greens in your garden, because you feel like having a light lunch, because it’s 100 degrees out and warm food […]
Random Acts of Kindness & Thinking of You Gifts
Random Acts of Kindness Day caught my fancy because it reminded me of my mother. During the years I was undergoing steroid eye injections, my mother would often take me […]
The General Specifics on Garlic
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species in the Amaryllidaceae family of plants. It is closely related to onions, shallots, leeks, and chives. A native of Central Asia and northeastern Iran, […]
Mediterranean Salad Plate
Pure, simple flavors sometimes make for the most epic eats and stunning plates. This Mediterranean salad plate embodies the elegant and beautifully simple. And it’s also the kind of dish […]
Grilled Cheese Margherita
I read somewhere that the difference between a cook and a chef is that a cook follows the recipe and a chef experiments with the recipe. To me, grilled cheese […]
Growing Great Garlic
The first garlic I saw growing in a garden was at an Iowa City Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. We were touring the farm in March, when the transplants were […]
Bouquets of Basil
And now it’s confession time: If I could grow only one herb, just one herb, for the rest of my life, I would grow basil. Basil has been my top pick […]
Caring for Your PETs (Peppers, Eggplants, & Tomatoes)
In the plant world, tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are close relatives who share similar wants and needs, and I often group them together when describing how to tend the vegetable […]
A-Mah-Zing Quiche
Have you ever walked into your kitchen, gotten creative with an old recipe (maybe so you could use up the odds and ends in your fridge), taken the first bite […]