Ten Great Ways to Use up Your Summer Cherries
As summer’s cherry season fades, you might be faced with a lingering bag of the fruit in your fridge. Maybe you’re cherried-out and you can’t bring yourself to eat them…
My Three Favorite Tools for Processing Summer Fruit
Processing fruit every summer can be daunting. We all start out with the same ambition: We see the cherry branches dripping with red lobes and dream of an entire winter…
So, You Cut Into an Unripe Avocado
Photo: Elena Pavlovich (Shutterstock) It’s 7 a.m., and you’re feeling smug about waking up in time to make breakfast. Your dish of choice? Avocado toast. But then, disaster. You slice…
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…
11 Things You Use (or Eat) That Aren’t Made the Way You Think
Silk worm farming in India: how your silk is made You’ve probably heard that silkworms “make” silk, but they don’t just sit around happily squeezing it out. A silkworm is…
There’s a Better Way to Peel an Orange, According to TikTok
Photo: Aleksei Lazukov (Shutterstock) Oranges are a pain in the ass. First off, they’re wildly inconsistent. Sometimes, they’re heaven. Other times, they’re flavorless mush. Of course, to even find out,…
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…
10 Great Ways to Use up Your Last Summer Cherries
Photo: Robert Kneschke (Shutterstock) Cherries have a nice balance of fruit fiber to water content, which means they make a great sauce. Fruit compotes are, at minimum, fruits that is…
2-Ingredient Cocktail Cherries Are the Perfect Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Gift
Photo: Claire Lower I am bad at Valentine’s Day. Or, maybe, I am very good at it. My boyfriend and I get each other gifts if the right gift presents…
Let’s Bring Back the Fruit Stocking Stuffer
Photo: Toasted Pictures (Shutterstock) I read a lot of historical fiction as a child—most of it in the American Girl Doll series. I don’t know how they do it now,…