I ground up teff grains in my grain mills to make a gluten-free sourdough starter but store-bought flour also works as do various grains.
Author: Zero-Waste Chef
Make Use of Preserved Lemon Brine, Pulp and Rinds
Preserved lemon pulp and brine stashed away in your refrigerator is like having a genie in a jar on standby, ready to transform your dishes.
How to Travel With a Sourdough Starter
If you plan to travel after a year plus of lockdowns, during which time you adopted a pet sourdough starter, will you have to find it a sitter?
15 Ways to Conserve Water in Your Kitchen and on Your Plate
Directly conserve water flowing out of your kitchen taps and indirectly conserve it on the farm by considering how and where your food grows.
How to Make A New Sustainable Habit Stick
Are you attempting to adopt a new sustainable habit but find sticking with it difficult? These 11 strategies will help you succeed.
A Remake of Julie & Julia: Monique & Anne-Marie
Make way Julie & Julia for Monique & Anne-Marie. Monique has vowed to make 75 recipes from my cookbook in 75 days. Here are nine.
How to Make Homemade Paneer (from Rescued Milk)
Don’t cry over wasted milk. Instead, make paneer—a soft, non-aged cheese similar to ricotta—and neither waste milk nor cry over it.
15 More Creative Ideas for Food Scraps
Think like Grandma, use every last bit of your food and elevate food scraps to their rightful status in your kitchen: ingredients.
Do Individual Actions Matter?
You’ve no doubt heard the argument: Individual actions don’t matter, only collective action does. Must we choose one or the other?
Limoncello Mixed-Nut Biscotti
Determination to use every last peel from a near 30-pound haul of lemons culminated in this fabulous limoncello biscotti.
The Zero-Waste Chef Book Is Here
I’m excited to announce that my new book, The Zero-Waste Chef: Plant-Forward Recipes and Tips for a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet, is here!
Eat All the Food You Buy and Invest the Money You Save
If, yearly, you invested the dollar value of food the average American family of 4 buys but doesn’t eat, in 10 years you’d have piles of cash.
Turmeric Bug for Naturally Carbonated Sodas
A turmeric bug, like a ginger bug, is a starter you prepare and nurture. Once it has matured, use it to brew naturally carbonated drinks.
When Life Hands You Lemon Peels, Make Limoncello
If only life would give you whole lemons! If instead, life sees fit to give you mere lemon peels, make this limoncello and celebrate.
11 Sourdough Discard Recipes
Even if you never bake the bread, you may want to keep a sourdough starter alive to make these sourdough discard recipes.