Your Food Through a Filter: Here’s a Look at July’s Summer Produce Instagram Theme — Last Month on Instagram

Summer is the absolute best for many reasons: There’s that whole warm weather thing, hanging out at the beach, and no school for the youths. But let’s be real, the reason summer is so very awesome is the produce selection. From your local farmers market to your average grocery store, there are tomatoes, delicious fruit, and more squash than you could ever consume.

July’s Instagram theme for The Kitchn was all about summer’s best produce, and you had a lot of delicious things to share. See a few of our favorite photos from last month to get inspired!

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The Best Ways to Store Leftover Ingredients — Tips from The Kitchn

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Ever chopped up too much of something for a recipe, only needed part of a can of beans or tomatoes, or threw half a cucumber into the back of the fridge and completely forgot about it?

Dealing with leftover ingredients so that they stay as fresh as possible but don’t get lost in the recesses of your fridge is a skill everyone should master. Save yourself the guilt from having to throw out spoiled food you forgot you had or improperly put away! Here are five tips to help you store leftover ingredients properly so they won’t be forgotten.

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15 Delicious Ways to Get Your Fill of Sweet Summer Corn — Recipes from The Kitchn

I’ve been waiting patiently (ok, maybe not so patiently) for this moment all summer. I’m talking about the arrival of sweet summer corn!

Whether it’s boiled, grilled or even microwaved, there’s no doubt about it, corn on the cob is a total summer staple. To help you get the most out of this summer’s fresh corn haul, we’ve got 15 corn-filled recipes you’e got to try.

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blueberry crumb cake

blueberry crumb cake

Theoretically, we are supposed to move this Saturday, but evidence is mounting — in the form of a kitchen without countertops or appliances, a toilet in the middle of the living room, and a peeling, black bathtub that looks like the kind place you’d find a horror movie victim — that it might not happen. Did I mention the great plume of drywall dust from the doorway they’re sawing out of a wall today? Nothing that 48 hours can’t sort out, right?

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It’s a good thing, in Opposite Land, that we are not the kind of people who plan every element of a big event like a move up to a month out, with each detail, from sending the kid to his grandparents for a couple nights so he doesn’t have to watch all shh, most of his toys get boxed up, or ordering furniture to be delivered that morning, furniture we have exactly no space for in our current overfilled apartment. I realize that I sound like we’re at Stress Level: Hip Flask this week, but it’s not so bad, mostly because I’ve chosen instead to focus my energies this month on blueberry crumb cake studies.

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