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What grows fastest in an indoor garden: the instant gratification guide
If you want a real harvest from your indoor garden in the next two weeks, microgreens are your answer. If you want it in the next month, the answer expands.
The Memorial Day garden party menu, grown in your living room
Be the host who serves a salad that is still alive when it hits the plate. Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer hosting, and the difference between
How to make pesto: the formula, plus 7 variations beyond the classic
Classic Genovese basil pesto is one of the great food inventions: green and garlic and salt and fat, blended fast enough to keep the herbs alive. It’s also the entry
How to make fresh tomato sauce from cherry tomatoes
Once you make tomato sauce from your own cherry tomatoes, the canned version becomes hard to go back to. Vine-ripened tomatoes have flavor compounds that develop only on the plant,
Summer grilling herbs: 7 to grow for the best cookouts
Anyone who has tasted grilled chicken brushed with fresh rosemary versus the dried jar version knows the difference is not subtle. Fresh herbs on the grill are the easiest upgrade
Homegrown summer salads: a fresher, healthier way to eat through the heat
Summer is supposedly the salad season. In practice, it is the season your bagged greens turn to slime three days after you buy them, the season your refrigerator drawer becomes
Edible flowers: a magical way to get kids to taste new things
Picture the scene. A kid who pushes salad away with the dramatic disgust only a five-year-old can produce. The same kid, twenty minutes later, picks up a tiny purple pansy
Why kids eat the vegetables they grow themselves
Every parent has lived some version of this. At dinner, your kid pushes the carrot to the edge of the plate, declares it disgusting, and refuses to make eye contact
Cooking with your toddlers: 8 things they can actually help with
Cooking with a toddler in the kitchen is supposed to be a sweet bonding moment. Sometimes it is. Most of the time, honestly, it is a flour-covered hostage situation. The
What is the carbon footprint of a grocery store salad?
Most articles online that try to answer this question are either too vague (climate-lifestyle blogs that quote a single number without context) or too dense (academic LCA papers that are