It’s easy, tasty and less wasteful to make your own dressing.
Green Plate Special
Eat whole grains, preferably local, for breakfast – or any meal
Prep the grains in advance and toss them in whenever a salad requires substance, a simmered dish needs to stretch for an extra eater, or a main cries out for an effortless side.
Draining bacon challenges resolve to curb paper towel habit
A plan helps, and so does a recipe for Buttermilk, Bacon Grease and Blue Cheese Dressing
Green Plate Special: Maine farms satisfy desires of oyster lovers and help the ocean, too
With pollution and warming hurting wild oysters, aquaculture comes to the rescue and also provides an ecosystem service.
Green Plate Special: Make garbage salts – trust us
Take the stuff you’d normally throw away – carrot and celeriac peels – and use them to make flavored salts.
Green Plate Special: One easy flatbread recipe helps plastic disappear
With just two ingredients, you can make a dough that works for all your flatbread needs.
Looking for green gift ideas?
Here are some cooking tools for the sustainable kitchen. And a raspberry thumbprint recipe to sustain you on cold winter days.
Tired leftovers take on fresh identity as plan-overs
Prep potatoes once, eat three times, three ways.
Trips to the woodlot can improve pork’s disposition
When pigs do what pigs do best, both your forest and, eventually, your table will benefit.
Cold fact is that transporting food can become less harmful
Changes in technology hold the promise of reducing energy use, food waste and hunger.