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This is the time of the year I always look forward to. I love it when dinner can consist of nothing more than a couple of ears of corn, a plate of sliced tomatoes and a green salad.

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I wrote last week about how well the eggplant is doing in my garden and the eggplant stack I made, and this week my daughter brought a whole bunch more to the cottage. There are so many things you can do with eggplant and so many different flavours it works with.

Urban Decay's Vegan Palette. Photo courtesy of Urban Decay.

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Moby After His Wanderlust Speakeasy photo: Bonnie Hulkower

Wanderlust Festival, the eclectic four day yoga retreat/rock concert, just culminated its second year in Lake Tahoe's scenic Squaw Valley.

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When I was a kid potato salad was a fixture at every barbeque, picnic and family party. It was all pretty much the same stuff, lots of mayonnaise and green onions. Believe it or not, at a party of the extended family, there might be three or four bowls of potato salad on offer.

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Of course, the story for the past week was the unremitting heat. One of the great things to serve on a hot day is a pasta salad. You make it ahead of time, and let the flavours meld together and then serve it at room temperature....Read the full story on TreeHugger

Toms snow leopard print shoes, fall 2010. Image courtesy of Toms Shoes.

During heat waves in my childhood, my mother would send us outside with thick slabs of sweet, dripping watermelon. My brother and I would stick out faces into it and let the cold juice run down our chins.

People often think about meat when they consider barbequing, but grilled tofu works extremely well.