To poach salmon, boil enough water to cover fish in a pan (I use a fish poacher but you could also use a large, wide, deep skillet that has a cover), along with about a cup of white wine, some salt and pepper. Immerse the fish in it and cook […]
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Broccoli With Garlic
Hopefully you already realize that eating plants is better for the planet than eating meat. Animals that are raised for human consumption tend to pollute the environment in many ways. Animals raised on factory farms are often fed antibiotics routinely so that the animals will not get sick in […]
Beet, Goat Cheese and Candied Walnut Salad
Baby beets mixed salad greens crumbled goat cheese candied walnuts Roast about 1 baby beet per person: wrap beets in foil and roast for about an hour at 400 degrees, check to see if tender with a fork. Cook longer if needed. Cool and peel before slicing for salad. […]
Wild Mushroom Sauce for Pasta
Use the mushroom broth from the last blog post as a base for this sauce. Mushrooms have a meaty flavor, so they are perfect for a vegetarian main dish that is suitable even for meat lovers! Makes enough sauce for up to 2 pounds of pasta 1 ½ […]
Wild Mushroom Broth
This broth can be used in place of beef broth or chicken broth in soups and sauces, in case you are a meat eater who wants to try to eat fewer animal products to help save the planet. If you are a vegetarian, you probably already know about substituting […]
Super-Easy Barbeque-flavored Pork Stew
This dish won’t help you become a vegetarian. My family, as I have said before, sometimes craves meat, and I can only get away with vegetarian offerings for a limited number of days-in-a-row. If you can reduce the number of days in a week that you serve meat for […]
Banana Chocolate Chip Rice Pudding in a Slow Cooker
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 […]
Lime Cilantro Flounder
Serves 4 1 ½ lbs. flounder fillets ¼ cup flour ¼ cup cornmeal 1 ½ tsp. lime-infused coarse sea salt (or just coarse sea salt, if you don’t have lime-infused handy) zest from 1 lime dash cayenne freshly ground black pepper to taste 4 TBS olive oil 2 TBS […]
Eggs, Residual Heat and Hard-Boiled Eggs
This picture shows 2 eggs from a local farmstand and 4 eggs from a carton of Trader Joe’s Organic Eggs that I bought at a Trader Joe’s store. Can you tell which ones are from the farmstand? (They are the darker colored ones, at approximately 12:00 and 3:00 positions). […]