It's technically fall but still feels like summer, meaning your brown bag lunches should be in full celebration of this stage in between seasons.

There are sandwiches, and there are sandwiches.

Kris Hoogerhyde and Anne Walker of Bi-Rite Creamery share tips on making ice cream sandwiches at home using their Balsamic Strawberry Ice Cream and Dark Chocolate Cookies.

There's a secret special ingredient snuck in with the Greenmarket fare in today's peek into Amanda's kids' lunchboxes. Here's what they're having, straight from Amanda herself:

"Smoked ham topped with sautéed turnip greens, kale, and fresh garlic. I think a few asparagus spears are snuck in there as well. The local strawberries are nice this year so I've been putting them in every lunch -- sometimes whole, sometimes sliced and mixed with yogurt, and sometimes on top of stewed rhubarb. My kids went to a birthday party where there was a piñata, thus the lollipop and Hershey's Chocolate. I let our kids have commercial candy now and then, but I draw the line at fast food!"