A blog with recipes and tips for sustainable eating and cooking
This is a hearty salad which is great as a side dish for a light vegetarian main course. I served it last night with a cheese souffle and roasted mushrooms. Delicious!
I made this salad with a bunch of things I had on hand. When I cook corn on the cob, I buy and cook more than I need that day, so that I have leftovers I can use for something else the next day. Corn salad is a favorite […]
Lucky me, I live near a farmer who grows peas and sells them freshly picked from his farmstand. I just bought these beautiful snow peas and wanted to transform them into a colorful salad to serve alongside a vegetarian casserole for dinner. I scoured past blogposts to see if I […]
That lemon dill vinaigrette from my last post was so good, I figured it would be tasty with other combinations of things. Yesterday, I saw something that Ina Garten (aka Barefoot Contessa) posted on Instagram that inspired me. She posted avocado toast with runny eggs, and it looked super delicious. […]
It is beginning to feel like summer. A perfect summer dinner is filled with a variety of fresh vegetables, brought together with a sauce that complements and binds the ingredients. Since my family includes both carnivores and vegetarians, I love to figure out ways to satisfy both preferences with […]
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warning about the necessity of making rapid changes in order to prevent catastrophic effects of global climate change is sobering. It is also frustrating, as an individual, to lack control of many elements contributing to climate change. One thing we […]
Yesterday I had the good fortune of attending a Thai cooking demonstration by restauranteur Brenda Kou, who owns 3 Thai restaurants in Omaha, NE, including Thai Kitchen Lakeside. She taught me and a few other women how to make these very easy and delicious Thai dishes. In order to make […]
A couple of weeks ago, I posted my recipe for millet cakes pictured with a roasted beet salad. I got the recipe for that beet salad from epicurious.com. While I was eating it, though, I thought, “this would taste so much better with oranges and a dressing made with […]
Sustainable eating requires eating foods that are in-season, grown locally. Tomatoes, watermelon and basil are plentiful now in New England, and hopefully where you live, too. I have to admit that the feta cheese I used for this did not come from a local farm. If you can source […]