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What to do with all those fresh-picked cucumbers? Try this Greek salad

By KATIE WORKMAN
Aug 21, 2024 6:00 am - You can use cucumbers in cooked dishes, such as stir-fries or sautés, and you can obviously pickle them. But most of the time we tend to enjoy our cucumbers fresh, in salads of all stripes.
Home and garden calendar, Aug. 25-Sept. 5

Aug 20, 2024 10:10 pm - Heirloom vegetables, mushroom foraging, seed swapping and more.
Hammerheads (the garden variety) pose a threat to earthworms

By JESSICA DAMIANO
Aug 20, 2024 9:16 pm - Not all worms in your garden are the benevolent kind that tunnel through the soil, aerating it and breaking down organic matter. One in particular is toxic, deadly to beloved earthworms and nearly impossible to kill: the hammerhead worm.
Don’t miss chance to make O’Hare pup a star in TSA’s ‘Cutest Canine’ contest

By Marni Pyke
Aug 20, 2024 5:10 pm - TSA’s ‘Cutest Canine’ contest features O’Hare contender, Badger, who loves his ball and is a hardworking pup.
August’s supermoon is the first of four lunar spectacles

By MARCIA DUNN
Aug 20, 2024 11:32 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Monday’s supermoon is the first of four this year. During a supermoon, the full moon inches a little closer than usual to Earth. A supermoon isn’t...
Jamaican escovitch catfish is a spicy, more sustainable seafood dinner

By Ellie Krieger
Aug 20, 2024 8:39 am - In Jamaican escovitch, spice-rubbed fish is pan-fried, then served smothered with sauteed onions, carrots, bell peppers and hot chiles, which get a generous splash of vinegar to quick-pickle the vegetables.
Fresh tomatoes and tomato paste impart deep flavor in this comforting Indian rice dish

By CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL
Aug 20, 2024 8:35 am - Robust tomato flavor is key to tomato rice, a popular southern Indian dish. It’s typically prepared when there is an abundance of ripe, red tomatoes and leftover basmati rice.
Homemade cream soda lets vanilla beans take the spotlight

By Allison Robicelli
Aug 20, 2024 8:30 am - Though the name suggests a dairy-based drink, cream soda is vanilla-flavored, with nary a drop of dairy in sight, and is one of the few sodas worth making at home.
Relay For Life in Roselle kicks off with Drifter concert Friday

Submitted by Carol Kurczak
Aug 20, 2024 6:34 am - On Friday, Aug. 23, come to the “Concert in the Park,” a Relay For Life event featuring the band Drifter, which hails from the Northwest suburbs.
Seeds are gifts from nature, one organic producer says. It’s ending sales and giving them away

By CARA ANNA
Aug 19, 2024 11:21 pm - In a dramatic shift, a New York organic seed company with a national reach will no longer be selling (or shipping) its seeds, which they see as “kin” and gifts that should be shared. They plan to give away hundreds of varieties. Their decision has both bewildered and inspired others.

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