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This colorful pie, loaded with every color of the rainbow, takes veggie pizza to a whole new level. It’s a great way to put your farmers market haul to work, and makes firing up the oven totally worth it.

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From Apartment Therapy → This Candy-Inspired Lighting Is Pretty Sweet

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Move over, steamed broccoli. Inspired by a favorite green bean side dish, these broccoli florets get a sweet, fiery boost and a crunchy nut topping.

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Minimal & Modern In Brooklyn

Call us magpies or perhaps just easily distracted, but we’ve always been fans of decor with a little shine to it. Gold, silver, bronze, copper — if it gleams, we’re going for it. One great space for a dose of metallic style? Your kitchen!

Throw the traditional kitchen materials of wood and porcelain by the wayside and embrace metallics instead. They’re simultaneously classic and modern, and they look good with any decor.

Here are five kitchens with metallic accents that made us swoon.

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The lie that tomato seeds are bitter has met its timely end. We now know that the seed pulp is actually quite flavorful and we should not discard it to the waste pile. When a recipe calls for removing tomato pulp, it’s usually for a textural reason — say, a super-smooth sauce or for juicing the tomato pulp.

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Open Slideshow

Diced tomatoes are paramount to summer salads and sides. This benign task is easily overlooked, in part because there really is no wrong way to dice a tomato. However, with a little understanding of tomato anatomy and the right tool, tomatoes can be diced perfectly — uniform inside with minimal tomato jelly spills. The trick is to think of the tomato as an apple.

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“Staycation” may seem like a made-up word for people who don’t have the time or energy to plan an actual holiday, but hear us out: A vacation in your hometown doesn’t have to suck. In fact, it can be pretty wonderful. Consider: You save on airfare and transportation, you don’t have to worry about outsourcing care of pets or plants, and you can sleep in your own bed (if you want). Win-win-win!

This month, we’re exploring how five different people staycation. Read on for ideas and inspiration for planning a few days off without leaving your area code.

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