If you doubt that I can actually provide 23 ways to use chicken leftovers, much less creative ways, I guess you’re new here. Welcome! Today I want to talk a little bit about the many ways that we can use the bodies of the animals that we eat for meat. Read more…
I’m often asked how to use large amounts of meat at once. A few years ago, a friend’s husband got excited at Costco and bought a large piece of meat for an undetermined use. When he got it home, his wife instantly said, “We need to divide that up and Read more…
You can hardly go a day without someone mentioning “good” and “bad” fats (or “healthy” and “unhealthy” ones). There are entire blogs dedicated to which fats are good and which fats are bad. Some even rank them from best to worst, or vice-versa. We have an obsession with fats, especially Read more…
Sometimes the idea of reducing food waste seems complicated and all about minutely-detailed planning. But it’s just as much about what we don’t do, and focusing our efforts on a few key areas. So here are 3 key areas where you can waste less food, starting today! Less food waste Read more…
If you’re like me, you regularly look at scraps or expired food and hope there are uses for it. I can hear it now, the chorus saying, “Come on, Lia! Trash is trash!” And they’d be right…sort of. In some cases, spoiled food is just trash, but sometimes there are useful ways Read more…
Who doesn’t love a good family tradition? One of ours is mince pies at Christmas and the New Year, and what decadent treats they are! Traditional mincemeat has beef products in it, so here’s a version that even your vegan cousin Larry can eat! If you need a recipe for Read more…
Vegans have a heck of a time finding appropriate pie crusts that actually taste good. This recipe is both flaky and able to brown nicely (especially with a nice nondairy milk glaze!). Try this recipe the next time you have lots of quickly-ripening fruit that you have to use up! Read more…
It happens every fall: beautiful pumpkins carved and going to waste. It’s super great to celebrate tradition, but afterwards it’s even better to cook down that pumpkin into super yummy pumpkin purée! Then it can be used in recipes like this one, where the spices perfectly complement the heartiness of Read more…
For me, it’s always the parties. You’ve got this idea for great cocktails you can serve, so you grab lemons for garnish. But then you get distracted trying to stash the cat in someone’s bedroom before your guest goes into full-blown allergy mode, or you have to pull out the Read more…
We’ve all been there: that gorgeous loaf of bakery-style bread that looked so tempting in the grocery has been forgotten. It’s dry and generally unappealing and making you want to simultaneously weep and kick yourself in the pants. I get it, trust me. Enter the noble crouton! Croutons are, by Read more…