Summer Garden Planning

Miracle Gro Growables

Have you seen the commercials for Miracle Gro Growables? They’re cute little seed pods that arrived at my door today. For less than $30.00, you get a wide variety of lettuces, tomatoes, herbs, snap peas, cucumbers and sweet peppers, perfect for a starter garden. Only have a small space for plants? Then this is exactly [...]

Indy Winter Farmers Market, Chicken Stock and More Projects

Carrots

I’ve been busy, I promise. These photos speak the truth.

Top 5 Food Magazines to Subscribe to

Top 5 Food Magazine

These five magazines are so good I’m willing to subscribe to them in the mail, each giving me a different perspective on food.

First time gardening: raised beds

Pepper plant box

In an effort to reduce the cost of produce (and so I can learn to can more things), we started a garden for the first time ever this year.

Summertime bucket list

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I have a bucket list for my “whole” life, and it includes two things: drive an RV around the country on a food-related road trip and get a food-related tattoo. I know, I’m EXCITING. But I DO have a pretty lengthy summer cooking bucket list, a list of all the things I want to cook/eat/see/make [...]

My Little Blue Kitchen

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My kitchen is very blue. The cabinet doors are an aztec blue and the tile floor is a faded, spotted teal tile. The walls are a light shade of blue. When I first saw the kitchen I definitely thought “Uh, can I do this?” because it was so unexpected that it really threw me off. [...]