SM ITTEN KITCH EN .CO M
shares ideas fo r simply good food—as in none of her
recipes require pricey, hard-to-find ingredients. Her
thoughtful and sometimes humorous posts read like an
e-mail from your best friend— only with better photos.
fresh
now
b lo g g e d .
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g o o d f u n
Gardening Mama
Majesco’s new video game
($30) for Nintendo DS lets
you com pete online
r e a d e r s
lo v e to
b a rb e c u e .
That's compared
to only about 28
percent of all
women in general,
according to a
recent BHG study.
Throw a backyard
spread for 12 for
under $100—see
our “Barbecue
Bash” story on
page 166.
IN T H E G LASS
F o r a n e a s y s u m m e r s ip p e r, f ill g la s s e s h a lfw a y w it h
p o m e g ra n a te , c h e rry , o r r a s p b e r r y s p a r k lin g so d a , o r
ro sé s p a r k lin g w in e . A d d a sco o p o f le m o n s o rb e t a n d to p
w it h a le m o n s lic e o r tw o.
against your friends to see
whose thum b is greener.
g o o d r e a d
Summer House
Charlotte W heelwright
finally finds her niche with
the organic garden she
plants, cultivating some
lasting bonds in this new
novel by Nancy Thayer.
g o o d d e e d
sa vewa teramerica. com
Take a 90-second online
quiz about bath fixtures
and water usage. Kohler
will donate $1 in water-
saving products to
Habitat fo r Humanity.
Take h im o u t to
th e b a ll game
to see his favorite baseball team. Check out
stubhub.com,
a site where fans buy and sell
tickets and where you can find major league
bargains, especially for weekday games. Make
it a minor league game and you'll have money
left over for Cracker Jacks and drinks.
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JUNE 2009 BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS
PHOTOS: (DRINK) ANDY LYONS; (BASEBALL) QUENTIN BACON; STYLING (BASEBALL): MATTHEW MEAD
