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About a month ago, a copy of Bon Appetit magazine found it’s way into my hands. As I was flipping through the pages, I came across a recipe for strawberry tarts, and it stopped me in my tracks. I don’t consider myself to be an adventurous cook, I just tend to make whatever’s fast and easy Read More >>
Strawberry Streusel Bread Thanks to all those strawberries we have growing in gutters, berry season arrived a little early for us this year. Now the challenge is to figure out what to do with all of of those juicy berries. Do you have any ideas? For today’s after school snack I made a batch of Read More >>
Although the bees seem to be out in full force this year, I can tell already our raspberry patch will not be producing a bumper crop this summer. I expect the berry output to be around half of what it was last year. In some ways it’s a little disappointing. I still have plenty of Read More >>
The Handsome Husband walked though the kitchen last night after a long day at work with a sack of fresh oysters in his hand. “Oysters? Where on earth did you get oysters? What are we suppose to do with oysters? Do you even like oysters? I know I don’t,” I quipped. What does this have Read More >>
Back in early March I did something a little crazy. I installed gutters our greenhouse and planted strawberries in them. I knew it was possible to grow strawberries in gutters because the man I bought the greenhouse from had them in his greenhouse. But it was February when I first spotted his gutters, and obviously Read More >>
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