A blog with recipes and tips for sustainable eating and cooking
To help reduce climate change, I try to reduce food waste, both in my own household and in yours. I have come up with a yummy recipe that takes items which are deteriorating in the fridge and transforms them into something easy and elegant. In hopes of helping you figure […]
Green Planet Eating means looking for ways to choose, prepare and consume food in a way that reflects conscientiousness about the effects that our food has on our planet. A great way to be kind to our planet is to figure out ways to eliminate food waste. By doing so, […]
Here’s another dish to use up that leftover pork from the pork shoulder we cooked in the slow cooker (posted 2 days ago). My husband and kids LOVED this. You should definitely try it. And it is so easy to make. Why is it green planet eating? Because by using […]
I whipped this up in less than a half hour, and it was quite good. I got the idea after watching “The Taste,” a TV show on ABC. One of the cook-contestants prepared a winning dish that she described as “braised pork in cream with lemon zest and sage.” […]
This is the perfect dish to feed to a group of people that includes both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. This is for those families that have one or two vegetarian members amidst others who want meat with their dinners. This is for the cooks who want to please everyone. […]
A simple action that each of us can take to increase the sustainability of our eating is to waste less food. This can be such a challenge, as we collect bits of leftover vegetables and meats and nobody in the family feels like eating them anymore. They get old […]
Whenever I have leftover chicken meat, I make a chicken pot pie. It is a great way to use leftovers, a practice that is good for the planet (avoiding waste). Leftover vegetables can easily be incorporated into this recipe, as well. I have used summer squash, zucchini, corn, cauliflower, […]
You can use leftover chicken instead of poaching a whole chicken for this recipe. You could also incorporate leftover vegetables into it as a substitution for or addition to the vegetables I list. Also, I must acknowledge Jeff Smith’s The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines cookbook for the idea […]
Wow. This one is a real winner. Necessity is the mother of invention, and with my oven not working, I was in search of a dessert I could do in my slow cooker. I had a lot of leftover rice in the fridge, so I decided to put a […]