Get Your Desert Landscaping Ready for Winter
So much gardening advice is based around four-season climates, but a sizable contingent of the United States is only now entering ideal gardening weather. If you live in a desert…
The Best Ways to Freeze Any Kind of Fresh Fruit
There’s little better than ripe fresh fruit eaten out of hand, but when you have too much to eat before it goes bad, do the next best thing: freeze your…
Koshō is the Citrusy Umami Bomb You’ll Want to Put on Everything
Yuzu koshō is like sunlight on your tongue. A fermented paste of yuzu, chilies and salt, it brings the umami, but with a brightness you only get from fresh citrus.…
Blend Spent Citrus Rinds Into a Cocktail Syrup
Citrus season may be over, but lemons and limes persist. Both fruits are widely used to add a little (or a lot) of acid to dishes and drinks, and both,…
Make Your Own Aperitif With Oranges and Shitty Wine
Many West Coasters know that citrus season is one of abundant fruit, and while people from other regions may or may not have this wonderful problem, they can get good…
Freeze This Fancy Citrus Fruit Before the Season Ends
Sumo citrus season is almost over, and I am a mess. By the end of this month, the lumpy, juicy fruit will have vanished from produce markets and grocery stores…
Unexpected Ways You Can Use Orange Peels In Your Kitchen
In addition to being a delicious and portable snack, oranges—or more specifically, their peels—have a second life as everything from candy, to pest control in your garden, to an egg…
I Am Begging You to Dip a Clementine in Cinnamon Sugar
Photo: Claire Lower I’m good at cooking meals, but bad at eating them. My preferred method of food consumption is snacking, also known as “luxurious grazing.” I like to lay…
12 Fruit Trees You Can Actually Grow Indoors
Photo: S_Photo (Shutterstock) When we think of farming or gardening for food, we think of the great outdoors. If you want to squeeze a fresh orange or lemon in the…
This Is Truly the Best Way to Eat a Grapefruit
Photo: Fotosr52 (Shutterstock) For most of my life, I thought I didn’t like grapefruit. I loved the flavor—grapefruit seltzer is the tops—and the scent, but the actual fruit? Too bitter,…