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Add a Little Spice (Blend) to Your Life
In March 1959, when I was in the eighth grade, my family embarked on a monumental road trip from the freezing farmland to Arizona and sunny California via Route 66. That road trip would put National Lampoon’s Vacation movie to…
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Ditch the Stove
When it’s been hot for a long stretch, you’re not only tired of cooking over a stove; you’re also getting a little tired of those salads. Now what? To the rescue! Have you thought about a slow cooker, Crock-Pot, or…
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Watermelon: No Longer Just an Athletic Event
There was a time when my only questions about watermelon involved which one of my pals had the injector to get the vodka or rum into the big green melon. Or, having achieved this milestone, who could spit the seeds…
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What to Do with All Those Cucumbers
I have a cucumber tree in my vegetable garden. At least, that’s what I tell my grandchildren. And this summer, the “tree,” a circular trellis supporting several vines, is working overtime. I’m not alone. I’ve heard from fellow gardeners that…
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Undressing Your Salad Dressing
Warm weather means salads, and salads typically need dressing. Most grocery stores have a large portion of shelf space devoted to a premade liquid dressings, which may well end up populating the back of your refrigerator shelf before becoming a…
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Next Steps for the Starving, Reluctant Cook
Don’t cook? Don’t like to? Yet you have to eat. Don’t just survive on cereal or a tin of sardines. Cooking can be fun, and it doesn’t have to be complicated or mysterious. If Farmboy can do it, you can…
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Cool! Salad’s for Dinner
Believe it or not, we did not have a vegetable garden on our 400-acre farm. Fresh vegetables were out of the question. That’s why I did not grow up with a history of green salads. Other than iceberg lettuce, the…
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The Potato Salad in Your DNA
It’s finally summer in the northern climes. With hot nights, who wants to work over a stove inside? It’s grilling season, and that also means potato salad. Talk to almost anyone, and you can learn about their family potato salad.…
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Solving the Jack Sprat Problem
Do you live in a Jack Sprat household? You know – Jack could eat no fat and his wife could eat no lean. I have a friend named Robin whose husband Dave is a big meat lover. She, on the…
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Whip Up a Pavlova for a Strawberry Sensation
It’s strawberry season, and for me, that conjures up my favorite strawberry dessert: Strawberry Pavlova, an airy and elegant dessert that is deceptively easy to make. My introduction to Pavlova was happenstance. While living in Cambridge in the late 1970s,…
