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Weekday Vegetarian: A Leftover Lentil Salad

When I was first married, my mother-in-law told me not to bother serving my husband leftovers because he and his sister had always refused to eat what they called “used food”. And, in that way that only new daughters-in-law can be, I replied then he will go hungry. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Use Up Your Less Than Perfect Strawberries with this Strawberry Bread

Photo: Kelly Rossiter I had a big dinner party last week and I served fresh strawberries in chocolate cups for dessert. As usual, I bought too many strawberries, and we had lots left over. They were quite ripe, so eating them before they went bad was proving to be a bit of a challenge. I can’t stand food waste, especially when it is something as delectible as fresh strawberries, so I had to figure out a way to use them up before I had to throw them away. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Healthy and Delicious Lentil Patties

Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband and I were out of town the past weekend. He spent his days at a conference working, and I was lying around a beautiful house on Lake Erie with old friends, essentially spending the weekend overindulging. We were in a big farming community, but he got an unappetizing dinner served cafeteria style, despite the claims that dinner would be “local Ontario cuisine”, while we dined on a fantastic local flank steak,

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Weekday Vegetarian: A Farmers’ Market Spinach Pie

Photo: Kelly Rossiter We were spending the weekend with old friends and although we all enjoy cooking and expected to do a lot of it over the three days we were together, I wanted to take something that was ready to eat when we arrived. . I had lots of spinach from the farmers’ market left over from my spinach eggdrop soup , so I made a spinach pie that we could eat warm or at room temperature. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Don’t Eat Food That Doesn’t Rot – Michael Pollan’s Food Rules (Book review)

Michael Pollan travelled to London this week to dish up his latest nourishing read, Food Rules – An Eater’s Manual. This collection of home spun dietary advice, that was previewed in the New York Times last year, has now been published in the UK by Penguin. Speaking at the Royal Society of Arts on Monday Pollan put forward the case that actually, with or without the increasingly prescriptive advice… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Deconstructing the Twinkie

Image credit: Good The Twinkie is, perhaps, the most iconic highly-processed snack food American culinary ingenuity has ever devised. Originally invented in the 1930s as a means to utilize strawberry shortcake cream-filling machines when strawberries were out of season, the “Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling” is now an entity all its own—one that photographer Dwight Eschliman has broken down into an elemental 37 or so Ingredients …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NRA’s Greener Restaurant ‘Recognition’ Program is Clear Greenwashing Without Third-Party Verification

Certificate for a fake restaurant obtained through the Greener Restaurants program of the National Restaurant Program, provided to TreeHugger. A few weeks ago word started coming out about how the new Greener Restaurants program from the National Restaurant Association , which appears to certify restaurant’s efforts to tread more lightly on the planet, wasn’t worth the paper the certificates are printed on–thanks to no independent verification. TreeHugger finally tracking down… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Charles Eames And His Wacky "Do Nothing Machine"

Charles Eames is my hero and my house is full of Eames chairs (half of which are broken because the rubber pucks dried out and split, small design flaw) but I never knew about his “do nothing machine” shown in BoingBoing. It is part of a Life Magazine Solar Power Back In The Day slideshow, every picture of which I remember from my childhood. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Charles Eames And His Wacky "Do Nothing Machine"

Listening to the Music of the Garden

Image credit: Good OK, it’s a bit of a diversion—or as Good calls it , an “intermission”—but this great music video from Nick Bertke features sounds he recorded in his mother’s garden mashed into a song…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Weekday Vegetarian: Fantastic Fava Bean Puree

I’ve always stayed away from making anything with fava beans because inevitably the recipe will say how much work they are. The idea of shelling the beans and then having to peel each one of them seemed like a ridiculous amount of effort. On the other hand, people are positively rhapsodic about how delicious they are. Faced with a big bin of fava beans at my organic grocery, I figured, what the heck, give them a try…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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