While summer is winding down and we’re quickly approaching September, we’re reaching one of my favorite times of year where peak summer produce like tomatoes and peaches coexist with emerging fall produce like early apples …
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Recipe: Summer Brunch with Burrata, Tomatoes, and Peaches
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Recipe: Summertime Couscous Salad
This recipe is summer cooking at its finest – it’s full of summer produce, and you only have to turn on the stove for long enough to boil some water. The base for this salad …
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Recipe: Classic Tomato Toast
I know there are about 5 million recipes for tomato toast out there in the world, and honestly, this one isn’t super unique or different. However, it’s summer and our garden tomatoes are fully taking …
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Recipe: Pasta Salad with Roasted Summer Veggies
This summer has been all about the pasta salad for me – and I have my reasons. It’s the perfect vehicle for all of summer’s perfect produce, and you can pack a lot of veggies …
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Recipe: Easy Greek Salad
If you are scrolling through my past few recipes, you may have recognized a theme: feta, tomatoes, cucumbers, and olives. That’s what we have in the house right now, and to me, these four ingredients …
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Recipe: Butterflied Chicken Breast with Tomatoes and Onions
This recipe has been a summer classic that I make every year. It’s healthy, packed with protein and veggies, and is the perfect sheet pan dinner that uses up some of summer’s finest tomatoes. This …
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Recipe: Squash Blossom Flatbread
It’s been a few days since I’ve last posted, and it feels like the transition to summer mode has gone full force during my time away! Our temperatures have been in the 100s here in …
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Recipe: Colorful Bell Pepper Salad
Last night was taco bowl night in our house (a regular on the meal rotation, to be honest). We decided to switch up our usual toppings with something more fun and colorful than our normal …
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Recipe: The Ultimate Cucumber Sandwich
Nothing says summer like an abundance of cucumbers, and this sandwich really warmed me up for the season. If all goes according to plan, we should be getting lots of cucumbers from both our garden …
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3.16.21 Garden Update – Let the Spring Planting Begin!
We’re finally getting the last of the rainy season and the colder lows are hovering around the mid-40s, which means its finally time to start planting here in Southern California! Over the weekend, we put …
Claire Aucella 