Stretch Your Dollars Gardeners aren’t cheap. We’re thrifty! If not by choice, then by necessity. We find creative ways to give new life to throwaways and sniff out freebies wherever they may be found. Buying plants, soil amendments, tools and all of the other accouterments of our chosen occupation can get quite expensive if we…
Starting Planning for an Autumn Harvest We just picked our first bunch of tomatoes last week, but I’m already thinking our fall vegetable garden. Partly because we’ve hit the nineties and the humidity has me dragging in the afternoons, but also because vegetable gardening in fall is my favorite. It starts with hot days but…
The Preferred Baked Potato of the Swedes Hasselback…not Hasselhoff. The potato dish was not named after the former Knight Rider turned Baywatch life guard heartthrob. This method of preparing potatoes gets its name from a Swedish restaurant called Hasselbacken in Stockholm, where it was first served. It is a simple dish prepared with the simplest…
Not Pumpkin Bread time yet! The great pumpkin invasion has begun. Pumpkins are all over Pinterest: in recipes, wreaths, planters, jack-o-laterns! Here in the deep south, it’s hard for me to get excited about fall when it’s still in the 90’s. In fact, the extended weather forecast shows the hot, humid weather will continue well…