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 View Post
One Thing a Day: Re-Grow Green Onions
Welcome back to our irregular “one thing a day” series, where today, we are re-growing 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: View Post
10 Easy Recipes With Fresh Tomatoes (how does your garden grow?)
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 View Post
How to Make Fire Roasted Tomatoes in the Oven
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 View Post
Ten Fresh Garden Tomato Recipes
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 View Post
DIY Garden Bed Kit — Use fence boards to make one on the cheap!
Today MashupDad has a DIY Garden Bed Kit project for you. So take it away, MashupDad! DIY Garden Bed Kit -- Using Fence Boards A few years ago for Mother's Day, I set up a couple of garden beds for Mashup Mom. These beds are located on the View Post
