Main Course

Pasta with Vegetables and White Balsamic Vinegar

 

  I am on an email list for America’s Test Kitchen, and periodically receive recipes that have been tested and are usually good.  Recently, they sent me a recipe for pasta with pan-roasted vegetables, which I adapted to include many more vegetables, what I had in my kitchen, and what […]

Lentil Soup with Mushroom Broth and Spinach

 

  I recently visited the National Aquarium in Baltimore.  Reading the information on the exhibit signs heightened my awareness of why we should choose organic food whenever possible.  Agricultural runoff pollutes the rivers, oceans and lakes.   It depletes oxygen from the water, making it difficult or impossible for some […]

Beef Stew

 

  Animal farming consumes more of earth’s resources than plant farming does, but animal farming on small family farms, especially ones located near where you live, consumes fewer resources than large corporate farming does.  If you do not want to be a vegetarian, you can still take steps towards eating […]

Fish with Mayonnaise and Old Bay

 

  This is the simplest of dishes, and very tasty.  This recipe was sort of given to me many years ago by someone I sat next to at a dinner party, a Chesapeake Bay fisherman from the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  He told me to basically cook striped bass (also […]

Baked Sole with Garlic, Olive Oil, and Oregano

 

  Yesterday I bought fish for dinner, not knowing exactly how I was going to cook it.  I bought sole that came from Rhode Island waters, which are very close to where I live in Connecticut.  My reasoning being that fish sourced close to home requires fewer resources to transport […]