Spring has sprung! My backyard oasis in progress -- how's yours coming along this year? Plus, check out my adorable new little patio set. 😉 It was randomly 85 degrees here in Chicago on a late April day yesterday (you know... after snowing last week, and thunderstorming today...), so I've made the most of the …
Welcome back to our irregular “one thing a day” series, where today, we are re-growing and re-planting green onions. What's One Thing a Day? Well, this is the series where we increase our future selves’ happiness… when our current selves focus on accomplishing just: One thing a day! You'll always find a little dish of …
I have garden tomatoes coming out my ears right about now (talk about problems to have, right?!) -- so figured some of you might be in the same boat. Tomatoes, peppers, and a couple of fresh herbs are about the only things I manage to grow with any consistency, but I'll take it. Beyond just …
This is an update of a 2014 post with some newer photos -- but I've only changed my method up slightly from the original post and have been making homemade fire roasted tomatoes this way every year since, using Roma tomatoes from my garden. They're just that good, and just that easy! So without further …
How about some recipe ideas to help use up some of those fresh garden tomatoes this year? (More ideas will be forthcoming over the next couple of months, I'm sure -- I'm scratching up recipes with mine all the time lately!) There are so many great garden tomato recipes, so here are just a few …
Last week I was walking through my local produce store and saw that they were selling "snip 'n gro" salad colanders for $15.99. What a cool idea, right?! So, I thought it would be fun to put together a perpetual salad colander as a super useful and easy DIY Mother's Day gift this week. (Or hey: …