A blog with recipes and tips for sustainable eating and cooking
Quiche is a mainstay of my cooking repertoire, and has been for many years. I usually try to make two at a time, one for dinner the evening I cook it and the other for the freezer. Also, I use frozen pie crust. My favorite is Wholly Wholesome (brand) Organic […]
This soup takes a little time spread over the day to make. It is easy to make, but you should make it on a day when you are home much of the time. It is delicious, hearty and a wonderful vegetarian meal to eat on a very cold day. […]
I have always loved brussel sprouts roasted or fried with olive oil, garlic and salt. In recent years, I have had brussel sprouts that were even better than that in restaurants. Once I had brussel sprouts that were roasted with sriracha sauce in a restaurant. More recently, I had […]
After a bit of a lengthy hiatus, I am back! In hopes of helping people move towards more sustainable eating practices, I will begin again to post recipes and tips about cooking plant-based meals. Recently, I came across a recipe for butternut squash coconut soup that called for Thai […]
The inspiration for this recipe came from a dish that a friend brought to me when I was sick a couple of months ago. It was so delicious I asked for the recipe, but she had purchased it from a gourmet-to-go place, so could not provide it. I have […]
I owe the idea for this soup to my sister-in-law, who recently developed and shared with me a recipe for roasted butternut squash soup. I wanted to make a turnip soup, and adapted her recipe to the turnips and other root vegetables I had in my refrigerator. The ginger […]
This recipe has evolved. It began many years ago as a recipe that I got out of a cooking magazine–I think it was Bon Appetit. The recipe called for layers of tortilla, canned black beans mixed with Mexican-style canned tomatoes and cilantro, and grated cheese. The recipe below contains […]
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 few days ago, I noticed some beautiful dried beans in the bulk food section of the market I was shopping at. They were labelled Jacobs Cattle Trout Beans. They are large, creamy white with mottled red blotches. I soaked them overnight, then cooked them in plenty of water […]