Lemon bread pudding with Greek yogurt, raisins and almonds
Pears contrast with tart cranberries
Fruity winter salad with maple-mustard vinaigrette
A Sunday recipe for a cold winter day
'Rubied sprouts' feature two seasonal favorites
Try mandarins in an easy parfait dessert
Treat features fruit and a special ingredient
Citrus season starts just as days get shorter and chillier
It’s persimmon season! Try them in a baked pudding
Pumpkin and herbed greens fill appetizers fit for a party
Gnocchi roasted in the oven is a revelation
Layer fresh Mediterranean vegetables for a colorful salad
Upside-down treat is perfect for brunch or dessert
Fresh tomato soup uses only five ingredients
Savor the taste of late-summer produce
Turn those early apples into an almost-fall treat
This creamy dessert won’t heat up the kitchen like most fruit pies.
Melon-avocado salad with lemon vinaigrette
Fragrant fruit melds well with peppers, cilantro
P.A.T. Chutney combines plums (or pluots), apricots and tomatoes
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Garden Checklist for week of April 13
Enjoy this spring weather – and get to work! Your garden needs you!
* Start setting out tomato, pepper and eggplant transplants.
* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, radishes, and winter and summer squash.
* Plant onion sets.
* In the flower garden, plant seeds for asters, cosmos, celosia, marigolds, salvia, sunflowers and zinnias.
* Transplant petunias, zinnias, geraniums and other summer bloomers.
* Plant perennials and dahlia tubers for summer bloom.
* Plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.
* Smell orange blossoms? Feed citrus trees with a low dose of balanced fertilizer (such as 10-10-10) during bloom to help set fruit. Keep an eye out for ants.
* Apply slow-release fertilizer to the lawn.
* Thoroughly clean debris from the bottom of outdoor ponds or fountains.
* Trim dead flowers but not leaves from spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips. Those leaves gather energy to create next year's flowers. Also, give the bulbs a fertilizer boost after bloom.
* Weed, weed, weed! Don’t let unwanted plants go to seed.
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