Earth-Kind Opportunities in the Kitchen: In Honor of Earth Month Reducing food waste is an easy way to be kind to the earth. You've probably seen the reason, but if not: Once in a landfill, food waste breaks down and emits greenhouse gasses, including carbon dioxide...
Note: This recipe is part of a series on making your good eating resolutions come true. A couple months ago, I resolved to make my own almond milk so I didn’t have to drink the additives in store-bought almond milk. While you can learn a lot about how to make...
Tasty Waste Not-Want Not Strategies + Where Is This Story Going? Two weeks into my almond milk experiment I came to an uncomfortable realization: Making my own nut milk was producing a lot of food waste! I want to tell you more about why this is a problem and how...
Note: This recipe is part of a series on making your good eating resolutions come true. A few months ago, I resolved to make my own almond milk so I didn’t have to drink the additives in store-bought almond milk. While you can learn a lot about how to make almond...
Note: This recipe is part of a series on making your good eating resolutions come true. A few months ago, I resolved to make my own almond milk so I didn't have to drink the additives in store-bought almond milk. While you can learn a lot about how to make almond...
This is a blog about everyday meal making, so you're likely wondering why an article on world hunger? Because I have met and talked to most of the people on our newsletter list and I know they, like most people, really, have a deep concern for the plight of others. ...
“Think Ahead” That’s the key to reaping the benefits of a CSA. You will be hungry this summer and autumn, just like you are every day. That won’t change. What can change is thinking ahead now and ordering a CSA. Each week, you’ll have a magnificent box of produce and clean meat. Then, when you’re hungry, you’ll fill yourself up with real food that nourishes and nurtures, i.e., what you really want to be eating.
More tips on money-saving, cooking dried beans in a super accelerated fashion, classes and using bean juice.
Think organics are too expensive? Try this on for size: What if, every time you purchased an organic vegetable, you actually got not just one but two or three vegetables? No doubt that would make the economic equation a lot more attractive.
Food storage containers don’t rank in the A-list of kitchen gadgets like sleek Kitchen Aid stand mixers and shiny All-Clad cookware. But hear this: If you are interested in meals with any of these attributes–healthy, efficient, affordable, stress-free and/or tasty–then you need decent storage containers. The yogurt cups and take out tubs can (mostly) be recycled so get a set of sturdy containers that will last for years. Read more on the benefit.
Think brown rice doesn’t taste as good as white? Try these flavor-boosting tricks and you’ll be loving your whole grains.
What un-bored home cooks know that bored cooks don’t, is that some of the best flavor in the kitchen comes from leftover bits and pieces, the kind that most people would pitch. Discover some ideas for “bits & pieces” cooking.