POURING LIGHT LAMP – inspired by moving water, the cup holds the light which cleverly flows down to the irregular base, creating a spilled effect – love it!
BUDDHA BOWLS – perfect design with a spot for your thumb, so soup, chili or stew can warm you twice – in your hand and your soul!
GUTTER GARDEN – how brilliant! Want to grow a salad garden but have no room? Try gutters! Affix them to a fence & slope them for drainage and you're set!
There’s no question that I’m a sucker for all things loaded with whole-grain, fruit, nuts & seeds and if I can pack ‘em into a cookie, well, all the better! Here oats, chia seeds, pistachios & coconut join whole-grain pastry flour to create a cookie so delicious you’ll swear it couldn’t possibly be good for you, but it is!
To perfectly cook bok choy, separate the green leafy part from the white stalk to create 2 piles– heat up a pan, swirl in a little olive oil, add the stalks, cook until tender and finish with the leaves.
Coleslaw is another method to master – it’s all about the shredded cabbage base and what you add from there is completely up to you!
Having an easy, tasty pot pie recipe in your back pocket is like knowing your ABC’s – in an attempt to free us all from the shackles of a recipe – meet pot pie 101. whether you fill it with chicken, turkey, pork, beef, fish, shrimp, scallops, clams or a mess of roasted vegetables – it’s a method. So learn the method and you’ll have pot pie from now ’til the end of time!
Rice is totally underrated – and joins pasta and potatoes as a blank canvas all us cookers turn to – which makes one wonder how it could ever end up completely unadorned, in a naked pile on a plate. And, by the way, when it does – all I see, is a missed opportunity! It’s cheap, it’s versatile and it’s good for you – especially if it’s brown!
If seasoned food writers can rethink canned beans, so can you! Check out the info under “dried beans & legumes” for the dried bean approach, but right now I’m pushing the canned variety. Just know going in that the same ideas apply, once you have the cooked bean in hand. Whether out of a can…
Whole-grain/wheat pastry flour can replace white flour in most recipes, especially these heavenly whole-grain buttermilk pancakes. Nix the white, go for something heartier and do your health a favour in the process.
Olive oil is the new fat for a healthier cake! Trade the butter, lard or vegetable oil for olive and you’re on your way to transforming many a cake recipe – add a whack of citrus and you’re halfway to Tuscany!
Talk about superseding – these babies should be superseding all seeds and be crowned the super seed of all time. But first a little backstory – remember chia pets? If we’d only known we should’ve been eating the seeds instead of growing them, we may be a collectively smaller planet! Chia seeds are like little…
Tortillas are for so much more than the obvious – so this my attempt to get us all to look beyond the roll and the fold, as in burritos and quesadillas and start to think of tortillas as pre-rolled dough. It is dough-like by nature, so why not use it as such – kinda halfway to pastry.
