There comes a point where you can’t eat another steamed, sauteed, or fried bite of zucchini. The thought of making another loaf of zucchini bread or batch of zucchini muffins makes you almost nauseous.
But come February, the fresh flavor of steamed crookneck squash can often help brighten even the most dreary winter day. If you take the time now to freeze some of that glut of summer squash you’re getting from your garden or CSA, you’ll be sure to have some on hand when you want it this winter, without resorting to rubbery, flavorless supermarket zucchini.
How to Freeze Summer Squash
There are two basic ways to successfully freeze summer squash:
Blanch and Freeze You want to retain the flavor and texture, so how you freeze the squash matters.
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So you’ve made the environmentally conscious choice to be green this year… but how will this decision impact your entertaining? Maintaining environmental self-discipline can be difficult while entertaining. However, maintaining a green focus doesn’t have to mean bland food and brown, recycled napkins. Organic food can be delicious – special enough to serve at parties – and sustainable table linens can be glamorous. Green choices can actually enhance your guests’ experience in your home; rather than inhibit it.
Green products are far from plain and unattractive. The ‘green
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Green, Green Entertaining
By Mindy McIntosh-Shetter
Gardening and renting has created a dichotomy of those who have verses those who have not.
But recent human ingenuity has stepped in to create an even garden path for urban dwellers that rent or just do not have the land or space to garden traditionally. The new gardening path is permaculture.
This by definition is an agricultural system that incorporates trees, shrub, and perennials along with animals in a self-sustaining ecosystem that produces crops and other products. The bases of this concept is to create a more natural gardening habitat that is polyculture in nature not monoculture and mimics a forest.
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Do you take your garden multi-tasking seriously? Do you only have so much space? This clever garden seating/storage solution from the Canadian design Urban Product is just a win-win as far as I’m concerned. Clean lined and elegant, it’s made from cedar, rubber and steel.
Garden Seating, Storage