We harvested a big, beautiful bouquet of chard leaves from the garden last weekend, along with a handful of tomatoes from my Early Girl plant. I turned this early spring harvest into a delightful lunch, …
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Recipe: Garlicky Chard with Tomatoes
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Recipe: Green Detox Smoothie
I’ve been traveling for work a lot recently (with more to come next week!), which means I have been eating truly terrible airport restaurant food and a lot of road-trip snacks. I got back late …
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Recipe: Strawberry Lemon Marmalade
I mentioned earlier that life has given me more lemons, as my boss’s tree has been in harvest-mode and you know I can’t resist beautiful produce, especially if it’s free for the taking. After bringing …
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Recipe: Sourdough Levain Flatbread
We, like many other foodies out there, have fallen down the sourdough rabbit hole. We have been baking a loaf pretty consistently every other weekend or so, and have been religiously feeding our starter, Sebastian, …
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Recipe: Pickled Peck of Peppers
My jalapeno plant (or, as we affectionately refer to it as, my jalapeno bush) has been quietly cranking out another large round of peppers throughout the winter. Surviving the winter nights, it’s been working away …
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I’ve Been Posting a Lot of Colorful Cauliflower this Winter
I guess we can say that I’m obsessed – but how could I not be! I’ve been truly loving the many shades of cauliflower this winter season, and I have been highlighting my favorite #farmersmarketfinds …
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Row 7 Seeds Adventures!
I finally got to gift my order of Row 7 Seeds this weekend, and I’m so excited to plant them and share updates along the way next year. Row 7 Seeds is a company that …
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We Grew Lettuce!
For our Santa Barbara winter garden (yes, that’s a thing here), we decided to plant a bed of lettuces. They really took off and grew super well, and were relatively problem free to grow as …
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Lemon Marmalade
The final stage of my citrus preservation weekend was focused around my lemons. I harvested 15 gorgeous lemons, and turned them into 13 jars of marmalade. I followed this recipe through Simply Recipes (click the …
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Candied Grapefruit Peels
As part of my citrus preservation weekend, I decided it would be fun to make candied grapefruit peels from all of the grapefruit skins that I wasn’t going to use through making my Grapefruit Marmalade …
Claire Aucella 