A Parisian Evening: Dinner for Two on the Seine
Gail and I have traveled the globe, each destination offering its own special charm, but nothing has captured our hearts quite like Paris. …
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Romantic Dinners for Two: A Mediterranean Journey
This Tuscan Bean and Tomato Stew comes from the tradition of "cucina povera," or the peasant cooking of Italy, where fresh, local ingredients were used to create simple yet nourishing …
Top Edible Houseplants for Boosting Your Health
Your green thumb could make your diet more well-rounded, even in the winter. You just have to know which kinds of plants to grow indoors. As you learn which indoor …
8 French Cooking Herbs to Grow to Make Herbs de Provence
I promise this isn’t a fan-girl post about my undying love for Julia Child, but we’ve got to start somewhere! Around the 1960s, Julia Child brought French cooking into the …
What’s the Charles Dowding Multi-Sowing Seeds Method?
Tell me, fellow gardener... if you buy a square of onion sprouts at the gardening supply shack, do you plant each little tiny bulb one by one, or do you …
White Asparagus with Butter and Chives
I don't know what it is about cream-yellow veggies, but they're just so tasty. Take yellow wax beans for example—they're the delicacy of beans and you only need butter and …
7 Creative Vegetable Garden Border Fence Ideas
Good fences make good neighbors, but can they make good gardens, too? A vegetable garden border fence can accomplish a few different goals all at once. For one, it can …
Garden-Fresh Lamb Stew Recipe
In the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd named Angus discovered happiness through a hearty lamb stew. …
Hardy Vegetable Stew
I grew up in a suburban neighborhood near Sacramento, California, with a chef father who was also an avid gardener. …
13 Deadly Vegetable Garden Pests
I’m just going to say it: There is a lot that can go wrong with a garden. Somehow, we humans have cultivated vegetables for about 10,000 years. But a few …
