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Sun, May 11, 2025

Cheery quick bread tastes like a bite of springtime

New! Cherry-orange bread with pecans and orange glaze

Sun, May 04, 2025

Bright and juicy salsa for spring

New! Strawberry salsa perfect for May celebrations

Sun, Apr 27, 2025

Healthy spring salad is packed with antioxidants

New! Blueberry spinach salad with honey-Dijon vinaigrette

Sun, Apr 20, 2025

Strawberries and lemons meet in a delightful, easy treat

New! Strawberry lemonade bars perfect for spring holidays

Sun, Apr 13, 2025

Almonds add extra crunch to apple salad

New! Chopped apple salad with raisins, almonds and cabbage

Sun, Apr 13, 2025
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Almonds add extra crunch to apple salad

New! Apple salad with raisins, almonds and cabbage

Sun, Apr 06, 2025

This chicken soup is a springtime tonic

Recipe: Chicken and wild rice soup packed with vegetables

Sun, Mar 30, 2025

Winter meets spring in strawberry-orange compote

New! Fruit enhances an orange-scented puffy German pancake

Sun, Mar 23, 2025

Versatile, creamy soup makes most of spring greens

New! Spring cream of spinach soup with scapes

Sun, Mar 16, 2025

Potatoes with a little bite, roasted to perfection

New! Salt and vinegar give plain potatoes some personality

Sun, Mar 09, 2025

Make the most of spring berries with this easy dessert

New! Berry-berry parfait with strawberries and blackberries (or blueberries)

Sun, Mar 02, 2025

Put that citrus to work for dinner

New! This orange chicken is healthier than fast food

Sun, Feb 23, 2025

Savory green scones for upcoming St. Patrick’s Day – or any time

Recipe: Spinach scones with cheddar cheese and garlic chives.

Sun, Feb 16, 2025

Celery stars in salad with Thai flavors

New! Chopped veggies, peanuts provide plenty of crunch

Sun, Feb 09, 2025

Mix up fresh citrus for this super salsa

New! Citrus salsa with fresh orange, mandarin, kumquat and lime

Sun, Feb 02, 2025

Gingery carrot soup packs in nutrition and comfort

New! Vegan soup is loaded with vegetables and spices

Sun, Jan 26, 2025

Turn leftover rice pilaf into meatless meal

New! Cabbage rolls stuffed with rice pilaf, mushrooms, raisins and lemon

Sun, Jan 19, 2025

Serve season's oranges dressed for dinner -- or breakfast

Blood oranges and navels with a lavender-lemon syrup

Sun, Jan 12, 2025

Zingy classic lemon squares with extra crunch

New! Meyer lemon squares with candied almond crust

Sun, Jan 05, 2025

Double-lemon muffins help ease post-holiday gloom

New! Cream cheese filling enhances a winter treat

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Garden Checklist for week of May 11

Make the most of the lower temperatures early in the week. We’ll be back in the 80s by Thursday.

* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. Time to set out those tomato transplants along with peppers and eggplants. Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.

* Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins and annual herbs such as basil.

* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.

* In the flower garden, direct-seed sunflowers, cosmos, salvia, zinnias, marigolds, celosia and asters. (You also can transplant seedlings for many of the same flowers.)

* Plant dahlia tubers.

* Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.

* Keep an eye out for slugs, snails, earwigs and aphids that want to dine on tender new growth.

* Feed summer bloomers with a balanced fertilizer.

* For continued bloom, cut off spent flowers on roses as well as other flowering plants.

* Add mulch to the garden to maintain moisture. Mulch also cuts down on weeds. But don’t let it mound around the stems or trunks of trees or shrubs. Leave about a 6-inch-to-1-foot circle to avoid crown rot or other problems.

* Remember to weed! Pull those nasties before they set seed.

* Water early in the day and keep seedlings evenly moist.

Taste Summer! E-cookbook

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Taste Fall! E-cookbook

Muffins and pumpkin

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Taste Winter! E-cookbook

Lemon coconut pancakes

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