Not sure what to do with persimmons? Make this sweet, sour, spicy and slightly salty chutney to serve with cold-weather main dishes.
Author: The Zero-Waste Chef
Thanksgiving Dinner for One (or Two)
Stay home to reduce the spread of Covid-19 this Thanksgiving. Plan ahead to reduce food waste.
Book Excerpt! The Freshest Pumpkin Pie: Full Recipe
Full recipe reveal from my book! Once you taste this pumpkin pie, made with fresh pumpkin and fresh ginger, you can never go back.
Cultured Cashew Cheese
This tangy cultured cashew cheese contains a handful of ingredients and like my sourdough crackers, tastes cheesy but contains no cheese.
Free Sourdough Starter Zoom Class!
Mark your calendars! Free sourdough starter Zoom class on December 3rd. Bring a jar, flour and water and we’ll make our starters together.
What I Learned Writing a Cookbook
These are just some of the things I learned while I worked on my cookbook. Many of them apply to life outside the kitchen.
Low-Waste Self-Care that Costs (Almost) Nothing
These low-waste, self-care ideas can help alleviate stress and anxiety without requiring you to spend money buying stuff you don’t need.
Avoid Shopping a Bit Longer During Covid
Food shopping during Covid is stressful. These ideas will help you avoid the store for a bit longer between shopping trips.
Lazy, Experimental, Give-It-a-Whirl Gardening
If Covid disrupted the food supply chain, imagine what more extreme weather will do. Now’s a good time to start a garden.
Shop-the-Fridge Soup
Reduced food waste can play a major role in addressing the climate crisis. A pot of soup is the easiest way to ensure we eat the food we buy.
Plastic-Free Glue and Homemade Paper Tape
Keep money in your pocket and plastic glue bottles out of landfill with this simple, 2-ingredient homemade wheat paste.
Donate-What-You-Feel Cooking Workshop: Make Soup, Not Waste
Bring a pot and the random vegetables you find in your refrigerator and pantry. We’ll make soup together in this interactive workshop.
How to Help Fire-Ravaged California (and Oregon and Washington)
Want to help victims of the California wildfires? Here’s a list of organizations to support and actions to take. Plus enter a raffle to win a bread saw for your sourdough bread.
Zoom Interview with Permaculture Guru, Paul Wheaton
As promised, here is my discussion with permaculture guru Paul Wheaton of his book, Build a Better World in Your Backyard.