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We peel our carrots because our dog loves to eat that part! So the peels never go to waste. :)

Yes! I love roasted butternut squash whole wheat pasta chives parm roasted garlic.... YUM. Something especially about butternut with ww pasta--all the nutty flavors meld toget...

I have a recipe for a pecan shortbread crust (which I fill with spiced butternut squash pie, very similar to pumpkin). I work at a magazine and brought some of my pie in the other day. The food cri...

Yes! I used an old recipe for pear butter, and added some spices. It was delicious and is great all by itself or on bread. Something along these lines:

My mom, an excellent gardener, says the same thing @allisen! When I bring veggies home she always tells me to be sure I wash them well, and soak the greens. Once I was driving home with 30 pounds o...

Fair Field Farm Candles offers handmade, all-natural soy candles with amazing scents--and at a fraction of the cost of other soy candle suppliers ($7-$11 for handmade candles in beautiful glass tur...

The absolute best for making your fall evening a perfect fall evening...Saint Arnold Oktoberfest: http://www.saintarnold.com/beers...

Ah! Olive oil cake! Great idea, especially with the fruit. I knew you Kitchn folks would have the answer. I think that would go over very well with the peaches in white wine. Mmmm...

Way to go Cambria! I can't believe you chopped TWENTY onions.... wow. At least canning pickles doesn't bring tears to your eyes. :)

@Claire T.: yes, tape it on! :) @ttbj: that's what we've heard--your feet don't hurt, but you use totally different muscles (aka, the correct running muscles) @graciela: ...

I just discovered the stalks, oddly enough!! (Let's go ahead and attribute that to all the frozen broccoli I'd been buying.) I needed more broccoli for a stir fry and just kept cutting...

zucchini bread is my very favorite. add walnuts, sub applesauce for oil, throw caution into the wind and top with a sugary glaze, add extra spices to make it taste just like autumn.... yum!

I was a little shocked to see the programmable thermostat on there--it has ABSOLUTELY saved us money and energy. Then again... We know how to use it and don't mind living in slightly-less-than-perf...

I love finding good substitutes for things--in this case, I'm reminded that when I can't get chevre right away, I can turn to cream cheese or mascarpone:

My boyfriend's family hails from east Texas... and his grandmother tells me stories of making acorn pancakes out on the farm! The noodles sound a bit more palatable.

STH: The key to bento boxes is to efficiently pack a good amount of food (to reduce waste) and to include a lot of variety and color (to make sure it's as healthy as can be)--not necessarily to sha...

I've tried this before but my technique mustn't have been too keen; all of my muffins wound up on the small side and very funky-shaped. That's not to say I won't try it again; I rarely forget the p...

this is stovetop (one pot!), but it's AMAZING and takes only 12 minutes.... http://sustainablediet.b...

That pot of mussels looks so similar like what we had at a restaurant not long ago (mussels in a garlicky, saffron, tomato-based sauce). Any chance you've got the recipe for that drool-inducing photo?

My mother tossed a few over-ripe heirloom tomatoes in her compost pile one year. The next growing season, she reaped 50 pounds of tomatoes from that very compost pile--they'd grown from those seeds...