A blog with recipes and tips for sustainable eating and cooking
If, like me, you love mushrooms. pasta, and creamy sauces, you will want to make this sauce. It comes together quickly and easily and tastes delicious! In my case, I had some leftover diced tomatoes in a carton in my refrigerator and so combined that with some chopped fresh […]
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 […]
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 […]
With good vegetable stock, you can adapt lots of soup recipes calling for chicken or beef stock to a vegetarian version. Using canned vegetable stock or a vegetable bouillon cube is always an easy alternative, but the stock I suggest here is much tastier, and pretty easy. Much of […]
It’s Taco Tuesday! These are the easiest tacos imaginable, especially if you happen to have leftover cooked lentils in your refrigerator. That’s what happened to me. I cooked lentils for dinner one night, then the next night just loaded them into taco shells with traditional taco additions: shredded cheese, chopped […]
With so many people working from home these days, perhaps your daytime environment is more conducive to putting together an interesting sandwich. This is what I made for today’s lunch. I had made a batch of Barefoot Contessa’s luscious eggplant spread for dinner a couple of nights ago and still […]
It’s Taco Tuesday again! Tacos are an easy meal that most people like. The problem for me was always that the traditional recipe called for browning ground beef and mixing it with that taco seasoning packet. Green Planet Eating calls for trying to reduce the impact of our food requirements […]
If you want to help stop climate change, find vegetarian alternatives to meat. Eat a vegetarian sandwich for lunch instead of a coldcut sandwich, and make it yummy! I spend a lot of time trying to figure out ways to substitute vegetarian ingredients for meat in recipes. My favorite sandwich […]
I’ve had a craving for cheddar cheese. I love the way it enhances other foods, especially broccoli and cauliflower. I have a couple ways to combine them here today. First, I have a yummy side dish for you: Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and Cheese Sauce: Then, save some of that […]