12 Recipes to Celebrate Summer Peppers — Recipes from The Kitchn

While you can certainly find peppers in the store all year long, now is right about the time you can expect them to take over your CSA box or your garden. Once you’ve had your fill of slicing these crisp veggies into salads and eating them with dip, here are 12 more recipes featuring peppers.

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What to Read This Weekend — Food News: August 17 – 23

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Help Them Help You: How to Organize Your Kitchen for School Lunch Making — Think Outside the (Lunch) Box

My son choosing his lunch snacks.

I made my own school lunches as far back as I can remember. Our son — a six-year-old with mild cerebral palsy who can’t stand at the kitchen counter without help yet — has neither the interest in food nor the physical ability to do much of the chopping, spreading, and packaging a school lunch entails.

But the more I chat with other parents, the more I realize it’s a plight that extends far beyond palsy; fridge foraging is a skill that all kids have to learn. So as Graham starts first grade, we are starting the slow, necessary transition toward lunch-making independence.

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