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Filed under: Frugal Food, Teas, Spring, Summer Many of the plants I read about and see can be used for tea. Some must be dried first, and some can be used dried or fresh. I would like to start with the most common ones first. These plants can be found almost anywhere. I found these three growing in my yard upstate. While mowing the lawn ...

Filed under: Breakfast, Dessert, Recipes, Fruit, Spring, SummerFresh papayas are in season, and I keep finding myself in the grocery store, picking up various specimens and thinking ''what are the chances I could eat all this before it went bad?'' I used to not like fresh papaya. I found them sickly sweet, tasting of cheap perfume with ...

Filed under: Vegetables, Recipes, Lists, Slashfood Ate, Spring, Summer As a child, I never enjoyed eating peas. I associated them with split pea soup which I almost always found to be a nauseatingly mushy green mess. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I recently tried pea salad with radishes and feta cheese. The peas were vibrant green and had ...

Filed under: Recipes, Soups/Salads, Memorial Day, Spring, Summer Warmth is great and all, but one of the best things about summer is potatoes -- growing, barbecuing them, and of course, lathering them in all sorts of tasty things and making a potato salad. For years I didn't go near the German variety of tater salad -- I was a strict mayo and ...