home eco-nomics for the rest of us
Holy smokes, folks, check out this awesome resource to help us make fact-based, truly good kitchen choices re: climate change. For the planet today and for the kids, too! A few surprises to me: Cheese (oh how I love cheese) is sometimes worse, in terms […]
One of my favorite appetizers or snacks is a vegan street food from southern France called socca. It’s made with garbanzo bean flour, and although it looks like flatbread, there’s no gluten in it. Best of all, no recipe necessary! Here’s the formula: 1 C. […]
Beets like this – magic. Golden, red, and everything in between, there are difficult and messy ways to prepare beets (those ways have their time), and then there’s this. Works every time. And there are so many things you can do with them! Like this […]
This curried red lentil soup just happened despite my efforts to make more of an effort of it. It’s finally super easy, requires only one cutting board and one pot (out of which you can eat, if you’re that sort. I am.). It’s delicious with […]
Okra is way too easy to hate, which isn’t fair because there’s so much to love! It says “summertime” almost as ringingly as the tomato sandwich. But it’s okra’s slime that turns people off. I get it. And I’ve been one of those people. Then […]
(to accompany this essay also on Huffington Post): Sometimes a dish of beans and rice is just the thing, the just thing. I live in Charlottesville, plenty famous enough, thank you very much, without the white supremacist rally mid-August that catapulted our town into national news. […]
I wasn’t planning to make this, or any summer squash thing for that matter, but plans seldom affect what I actually end up doing. I’d gone to a small, off-day farmers market up the road from our place to pick up (or so I thought) […]
Imagine. August 12, 2017. Charlottesville, Virginia. Imagine with me an alternative day. Early morning. The dawning sun eases its light down Water Street, the pedestrian Mall, Market Street. It’s quiet, as usual. But something happened overnight. Where there had been none before, banners sweep across […]
