I love teaching and sharing what I know about plant-based proteins and meatless cooking. My next class is just a week away, so I hope you'll join me on Saturday, January 24, 2015 in Rock Hill at the York County Library from 2-3:30 for a lively class on how to make tasty meatless meals, as well ...
Resolve to Waste Less Food in 2015
Happy New Year! The beginning of each new year is a time about resolutions and goals. One of my goals in 2015 is to waste less food. Our son brought home on winter break from college a barely touched clamshell of Earth Farms Organic Spinach. Although the spinach was past its "best by date," ...
Cooking Collards for a Crowd
Happy New Year! Hopefully, you're in the process of making your own version of a New Year's Day Good Luck Dinner. In Italy, they eat green lentils and a spicy pork sausage. In Denmark, they eat stewed kale, boiled cod, and pork. And in Poland, they eat pork and sauerkraut. Personally, I've ...
Amazing Beet Pasta
I love beets – always have, always will. Unfortunately, my family doesn’t share my infatuation with beets. I have tried, with moderate success, to get them to tolerate beets. Which is why it is sometimes nice to be a Boy Scout widow. I know that there are worse things in this world to ...
How to Stop Hating Brussels Sprouts
Brussels Sprouts - the veggie that so many people hate . . . or think they hate. That was my son, Nick . . . until I baited him with Brie - one of his favorite cheeses. I figured if I could create a pasta that featured both Brie and the dreaded Brussels Sprouts, Nick might learn to like the ...
Thanksgiving for Non-Meat Eaters
As a non-meat eater since 1974, I have spent forty years of holidays explaining why I was not eating the meat focus of the meal. Trust me – I’ve brought a lot of delicious and creative vegetarian dishes to each holiday meal with my hubby’s family – only to find them bypassed or overlooked on the ...
Great Turkey Analogue for Two
Since Thanksgiving is only two weeks away, I figured I better get cracking and start evaluating all the new turkey analogues that have come on the market since last year. Sure, there are some tried and true favorites, like Quorn’s Turk’y Roast. But what if you are having your Thanksgiving meal with ...
Autumn Fix for Pesto Lovers
I don’t know about you, but I LOVE pesto. That’s why we grow so much basil in our herb garden every summer. Only this year’s basil crop was disappointing – to say the least. I don’t know what it was about our Carolina weather, but I had the worst basil crop I’ve had in the past two ...
