I like potlucks (community! sociability!) but have little time to cook, between my long commute, full-time job and my blog. And I feel, like, so tacky if I bring chips and salsa when everyone else has managed to make some real food. Hence my invention of curried tuna salad, which I made last night for [...]
Entries Tagged as 'cooking'
Good Potluck Dish: Curried Tuna Salad
May 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments · food & drink
Tags: cooking·fun·potlucks·thrift·tuna salad
My Cheapest, Tastiest, Healthiest Dinner Menu
February 3rd, 2009 · 7 Comments · community, entertainment, food & drink, health & well being, lifestyle, money, simplicity
Here is the way I get excited over cooking: when I’m at the intersection of great taste, great thrift, healthiness and low carbon impact. I also need my cooking to involve community. I got all my conditions satisfied last Sunday when I invited our neighbors Sue and David over to dinner and I served curried [...]
Tags: consumption·cooking·dahl·green living·Indian food·justinhenry·quinoa·thrift
Luscious Food At Half the Carbon
October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · energy, food & drink, health & well being, lifestyle, simplicity, sustainability
Like many people, I shudder with joy over delicious food. Eating, especially with friends and family, is deeply pleasurable to me. And I’ve just discovered a great website about food by Bon Appetit, right here, that lets us count the carbon footprint of our food choices. I just finished “making” my favorite breakfast a veggie [...]
Tags: Bon appetit·carbon footprint·cheese·cooking·global warming·green living·happiness·locavore·meat·produce
How To Save Five Hours A Week
September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · energy, food & drink, lifestyle
Do you suffer from time poverty, i.e. feel that you don’t have nearly enough time? I periodically do, and I’ve seen it termed an American epidemic. The irony and the good news is that many of what I call the over-activities eating up our time and stressing us are the same over-activities that are eating [...]
Tags: breakfast·carbon footprint·consumption·cooking·dinner·global warming·green living·life·lunch·Mount Tabor·running·shopping·thrift·time management·time sink
