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 my [...]
Entries Tagged as 'cooking'
Good Potluck Dish: Curried Tuna Salad
May 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 97215, food, fun, thrift
Tags: cooking·potlucks·tuna salad
My Cheapest, Tastiest, Healthiest Dinner Menu
February 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · 97215, Uncategorized, community, consumption, entertainment, food, green living, health, lifestyle, money, simplicity, thrift
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 dahl [...]
Tags: cooking·dahl·Indian food·justinhenry·quinoa
Luscious Food At Half the Carbon
October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments · 97215, carbon footprint, energy, food, global warming, green living, happiness, health, 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 omelet, [...]
How To Save Five Hours A Week
September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 97215, Uncategorized, carbon footprint, consumption, energy, food, global warming, green living, life, lifestyle, thrift
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·cooking·dinner·lunch·Mount Tabor·running·shopping·time management·time sink
