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Spiced Roasted Eggplant with Bulgur Salad
Every October, the eggplant leaves in my garden end up looking like Swiss cheese. The flea beetles get to them the same way they do every year, and I never quite get around to fighting back. This fall, there was also a tomato hornworm, so enormous by the time I found it that I didn’t…
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Time Management for the Life You Actually Want
A lot of people who love hands-on hobbies, things like gardening, cooking from scratch, canning and preserving, composting, or just spending more time outdoors, run into the same problem. There never seems to be enough time. Add a demanding job to the mix, and it can feel impossible to fit any of it in. But…
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Dry-Rubbed Grilled Steak with Grilled Corn and Tomato Salsa
Holding on to summer, one cherry tomato at a time Are you sleeping with the windows open yet? We are. This is my favorite stretch of the year, the slow handoff from summer into fall, and I am not ready to let go of summer food just yet. So I’m eating every late-season vegetable I…
Tomato Envy
tomatoes, the garden around them, and the kitchen they end up in