• Smoothie Adventure

    Blender There sat the word on my “Things to Get” list for well over a year. As a smoothie-lover, my $40, 14-speed Osterizer just wasn’t cutting it anymore. Barely crumbled…

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  • Growing Garlic Redux

    While we’re contending with frigid temperatures here in Montreal (“feels like” -27C / -17F tonight!), next year’s crop of 101 garlic bulbs happily hibernates beneath the ground in my backyard.…

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  • Friendly Printing

    I love cooking, and I enjoy trying out recipes I find across the Web. When I see a recipe I want to make, I print it out and file it…

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  • Let’s Talk About How to Grow Garlic

    At this year’s annual Automattic all-company Grand Meetup, the four-minute flash talk I gave my colleagues was a crash course in growing garlic. Many folks later told me they were…

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  • Cindy’s Caribbean Chicken Curry

    As some of you know, I work on the Theme Team at Automattic, helping WordPress users with all things theme-related. We recently rolled out a new recipe shortcode which lets…

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