Squash gargantua in Michael’s parents’ backyard garden

Last night’s salad was magnificent: a downy, tender pile of baby lettuces in green, burgundy, and purple mixed with young French tarragon shoots and sunrise-orange day-lily flowers. Optional toppings included roasted and crushed mixed nuts, fat sultanas, and crunchy day-lily buds. Once each of us had assembled our salads, we dressed them with raspberry-infused ...
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Well-used potluck cutlery

Just on the dry side of the weekend’s sopping weather, Friday night’s Withrow Park Potluck Supper — the second in this year’s trio of gatherings; in 2007 the potlucks will occur monthly from May through October — drew a good turnout of east-enders (as well as a few supporters from other areas of the city) for a tasty ...
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