Small Actions 
What’s Up With the Paper Cup?
Oscars tonight. In the meantime something else to ponder, and sorry, no gowns involved. It’s the not-so-glamorous, but equally frivolous paper cup. Use them once and discard. While others have been carrying their reusable cups into coffee shops the past few years, I rarely have. Truthfully, I don’t buy much coffee out, but still, I [...]
Shop Your Pantry & Freezer
Last week while my car was being repaired, I was forced to think about my all-too-often impulse to “run to the grocery store” to pick up something for dinner. Run meaning, of course, drive. I’m sorry to say that it took me not having my car to look at the food I already had and [...]
Carbon 101, Foodprints
In the past few years I’ve read several books about food and meat production, Omnivore’s Dilemma (Michael Pollan), Grub (Anna Lappe & Bryant Terry), watched the film, Food Inc. I reached a tipping point recently while reading Eating Animals (Jonathan Safran Foer). A perfect storm of revelation and repulsion happened. I guess you could call [...]
Mixed Greens 2010 Calendar Giveaway
It’s time for our first giveaway of 2010. All you have to do to enter to win a Mixed Greens 2010 Calendar is comment on this post by January 24th. In your comment we’d like you to mention at least one sustainable practice you hope to incorporate into your daily life during 2010. It can [...]
Snacks Unwrapped
I’m reading the paper the other morning, oblivious to the impending New Year, when from across the room Bob asked if I had resolutions for 2010. Not yet, was my absent-minded reply. But then the brain started buzzing, independent of what I thought I wanted it to do, and it began to muse about the [...]
Desperately Seeking Silence
Is it just me being cranky or has Seattle gotten much noisier? Not that we need one more thing to worry about but city noise is starting to take a toll on me. I’m reluctant to even bring it up since you may not have been aware of it. It’s the kind of thing that’s [...]
Foraging Backyard Bouquets
I’ve been foraging in the backyard for bouquets, looking at the garden with a murderous glint in my eye for lush leafings and anything gone to seed. Surely plants don’t need all of those leaves and pods.
A bouquet with vegetable leaves might be a little avant-garde in the flower-arranging world. Avant-garden. My own [...]
Handmade Dressings for Salad
I swear I’m going on the road to promote homemade/handmade salad dressing. Not a lot of hoopla, no sponsors that I can imagine, just me on my bandwagon. And this would be my plug: forgo the processed stuff and make salad dressing because it’s tasty and because it’s a small action toward sustainable living.
Annie, and [...]
A Strawberry Jamboree
I was recently reminded of small batch jam making, which simply means that you make a few jars at a time and repeat the process whenever you have an hour and a few cups of fruit to spare.
Preserving any food is a satisfying experience, and in this case you have luminous jars of ruby-colored [...]
Tabbouleh & Salmon, Summertime on a Plate
Tabbouleh from the middle east meets salmon from the PNW and summer romance begins, together they make sweet and local dinner music. Good beat, you can dance to it and it tastes delicious. Cook on.
This is the moment for herbs. In warm, dry conditions, they flourish. Actually, it’s false to characterize herbs as having a [...]
