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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,…
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Strawberries for Dinner?
Your kitchen is filled with the intoxicating scent of fresh strawberries. You just couldn’t resist picking up a couple of quarts. But you really need to make dinner. What’s a body to do? Here’s an idea that combines fresh strawberries…
