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The Well-Stocked Spice Rack
When was the last time you examined your spice rack? And I mean, really gave it a good looking-over? Are the herbs and spices fresh? Or, to put it another way, do you remember the last time you...
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Garden Update – Early April 2012
I feel like I’m in some sort of crazy time warp. Just yesterday (I pinkie-swear!), I was dreading the turn of the yearly calendar and staring down cruel, snowy January and February. But here it is,...
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Scenes from a Yard in Mid-May
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Gardens + farmers markets = happy SoupAddict
Hello, June! For months and months you’ve been awaited and now you’ve arrived [muah!]. Here. Take a seat and stay a while. A long, long while. Please? Okay? Pretty please? With cheese? Because you are...
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Garlic harvest twenty twelve
Although my true garden love is the heirloom tomato, my favorite crop to grow is actually garlic. Unbelievably easy — fairly little effort with huge return: you plant the cloves in the fall (in my...
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Onions and shallots, all growed up
‘Memba this (from this early April post)? Little wispy onion sprouts, mere weeks old in the ground. And garlic and shallots, strong and productive from a good overwintering. Time flies, my friends. It...
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Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes + black cherry sauce
This summer’s growing season has been emotionally harrowing — exuberant highs and furrowed-brow lows. When July’s heat wave arrived … and made itself right at home … I thought my tomatoes, my beloved...
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In the garden + in the kitchen
As summer marches onward, exiting (thankfully) a brutally hot July, I can’t help but be struck by all the ways Nature finds to surprise us (like the random Black-eyed Susan that sprouted up next to my...
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Early fall in the garden
I wrote the title of this post in near disbelief. It’s October. Four days into October, in fact. Summer is not only in the rear view mirror, it’s a tiny speck in soft focus, just visible and fading...
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Fall alliums
Of all the many things I grow in my vegetable gardens, I have to say, alliums win the title for all-around awesomeness. They are so easy to grow, and the reward for cooks is huge. Most are great...
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Wilted red cabbage with mint and feta
The cookbook lover in me has been more than thrilled at the selections coming out of publishing lately. Truly unique and useful tomes by cooking pros that will stand the test of time — books that I’ll...
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It’s Springtime!
I can’t believe it’s mid-May already. Spring weather has been weird and chilly, but still much to do for the garden, both inside and out. My summer tomatoes, peppers, and basil are huddled under the...
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Garden Update – Early April 2012
I feel like I’m in some sort of crazy time warp. Just yesterday (I pinkie-swear!), I was dreading the turn of the yearly calendar and staring down cruel, snowy January and February. But here it is,...
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Grow a Pantry Vegetable Garden This Year
For new gardeners, it can feel overwhelming planting that first home vegetable garden. Aside from learning the best practices for growing vegetables, you have to decide what you’re going to plant, as...
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Five No-Fuss Edibles to Plant Right Now
I can hardly believe it, folks: warm weather actually seems to be here! I’m going to take a chance and drop off my winter coat at the cleaners today, so if it suddenly snows for no good reason at all,...
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3 Simple – but Powerful – Ways to Make a Lasting Impact on the Food Movement
This weekend, the 2014 Edible Institute was held in NYC. This event brings together some of the most progressive minds in the food industry to conduct seminars and roundtables on topics in the food...
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5 Tips for Successful Container Gardening
I almost bought a condo last year. The whys and wherefores aren’t really relevant here, but the experience did get me thinking about my gardens (naturally), and I spent much of the winter thinking...
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A Midsummer’s Garden – Why You Should Grow Your Own Vegetables & Herbs
SoupAddict.com is a food blog, but it’s owner — moi — is a gardener first, and a home cook second. That’s the order that these two activities came into my life, and it’s the order of their importance...
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