Hello, friends. I’ve been on hiatus for a while, but I wanted to say that I hope you are okay today, and being kind to one another. Right now, I’m feeling scared — scared that the fear and hate and violence will escalate, and that we won’t be able to find our way back. History has […]
The Troll Cookbook
Want more confidence in the kitchen? Learn to cook like a troll. Not the snarky internet commenters, but the magical, lumbering creatures of folklore. Don’t worry — troll cooking goes beyond eating billy goats gruff (and the occasional unwary child). In The Troll Cookbook, local authors Karima Cammell and Clint Marsh show us another side of the […]
Kids Cook Monday: Best Knives for Children
The kids’ favorite part of cooking is chopping things up. This is great, because they like to snack on the fruits and vegetables that they’re chopping up — even things that they won’t try when they’re on their dinner plate. Want your kids to eat more veggies? Give ’em knives and a cutting board. However, the kids also like to […]
Green Zebras and Purple Bumblebees
How do you choose which tomatoes to plant? If you’re me, you go to the nursery, see what seedlings they have, and get one of everything that sounds good, with double points for varieties with amusing names. Between the Green Zebras, Purple Bumble Bees, and Chocolate Sprinkles, my tomato patch is starting to sound like Willy […]
How to transplant tomato seedlings
It’s tomato planting time! If you missed it last year, here’s my post on how to get those transplants into the ground. I love tomatoes. I love growing them: pinching off the suckers, twining the vines around their rope trellises, watching them get taller than I am. And I love eating them in any […]
Gardening with kids: 6 reasons to grow snap peas
Ready to start gardening? The very first thing you should plant is a row of snap peas (a.k.a. “edible pod peas”), and that goes double if you’re gardening with small children. Here’s why: You already like them. Snap peas are the kind that come in those mixed vegetable platters from the store — the sweet crunchy […]
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