Food
Living the Green Life includes eating healthy food that tastes great too. If you can't grow it yourself, then pick it yourself, cook it yourself, & enjoy it. Grab a recipe or 2 for food I eat & feed my family, share some of your own, or just chat about what works & what doesn't when you're trying to eat healthy tasty food.
A green Design & Sustainable lifestyle blog. At the intersection of home, well-being, & sustainability. Food - reviews & recipes
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Pasta with Pesto & Green Beans and Italian Eggplant Salad
A few years ago, we started having meatless meals on a regular basis at the Green House. And by “regular” I mean more than just when I either need to 1) go grocery shopping or 2) use up some stuff before it goes bad. After we completed a whole foods cleanse without strangling each other, I decided it would be good to do it even more regularly. I used to try to stick to “Meatless Monday” because it was a good way to ease into the week after a weekend of indulging in pretty much everything. But now “Meatless Monday” has turned into “Meatless Anyday I Remember To Do It”. I just…
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Homemade Pickles
Remember when I wrote about making sauces and condiments at home instead of store-bought? Well, here I go adding to the list of things I won’t be buying at the grocery store again. Pickles. Pickled ANYthing. A while ago I made a mental note to make some quick pickles because I bought too many cucumbers and I remembered an episode of 30 Minute Meals where Rachel Ray made some pickled veggies. Before that, I always thought it took weeks to make pickles, at least. Anyway, I never got around to making my own and could not eat enough salad fast enough to keep those cukes from going bad. On my…
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Kid Friendly Toscana Soup
Today in Houston, TX everything was pretty much shut down. Schools closed, businesses closed, the Y closed, the government… CLOSED! Even the IRS has made concessions for my little ol’ home town. There are only a handful of reasons this ever happens (in general): Ice Snow Anything that resembles ice or snow The threat of ice or snow Flooding Well, it’s the middle of April and if it there was ANYthing that looked like it might want to be ice or snow, we would have to make plans to build a (high-end) bunker and y’all might not see me for a while. THAT would be insane. {Note to self: start…
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Who Doesn’t Love Fried Rice?
Fried rice is kind of like pasta – all kids love it for some reason. And, like pasta, it’s easy and you can hide so many good for you ingredients in it. I know what you’re thinking… why put things that are “good for you” in a dish that’s just not? It IS fried rice. Nothing healthy about that right? Wrong. What makes fried rice fried isn’t a pot full of oil or anything battered. It’s the cooking method – super fast over hella high heat. In fact, this fried rice uses brown rice, has no eggs, and can take as many veggies as you could possibly want to throw…
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Quick & Easy Pasta Puttanesca
I love pasta. And so does my littlest – in fact, most kids love all kinds of pasta. So should parents because it’s of the easiest kitchen staple to work with AND because you can hide so many good for you ingredients in any given pasta dish AND because you can make random dishes and call them whatever you want. But this isn’t a random dish, it’s a tried and true Italian favorite. With a twist. Pasta Puttanesca is an absolutely deliciously spicy and flavor-FULL dish. Unless you hate anchovies. Then it just makes you wanna turn tail and run to someone else’s house for dinner. But here’s the dish……
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Hearty Healthy 30-Minute Chili
It’s Tuesday, it’s cold, and you’re tired when you hear “What’s for dinner?!” That’s when you remember that you never made it to the grocery store today and haven’t even thought about dinner. There are some things you just always know are in the fridge or freezer and it’s top of mind when they are out. If you’re like me, unfortunately those are the basic items that so many of your meals are made with. Oh well, what’s a busy woman (or man) to do? Again, if you’re like me, you’re not about to go out in the cold just to get something for tonight – that’s not very efficient.…
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What’s the Difference Between Pico de Gallo, Salsa, & Picante
I LOVE Mexican food – I probably should call it Tex-Mex, since what I’m referring to isn’t always totally authentic. For me, probably more important than the food itself , are the flavors and the SAUCES! Which brings me to the topic of this post… What’s the difference between salsa, picante, and pico de gallo? Well if I was thinking about what you’d buy from the store, I would say picante is thin and sauce like and may even be cooked. Salsa may (or may not) have more ingredients than picante but is thicker and uncooked. And pico, for me, is the best of all three. From what I’ve seen in…
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The Green Goddess
Some nights you just don’t feel like cooking. Every now and then, the thought of turning on the oven or standing over the stove makes my stomach churn. And that’s when I’m glad I have enough leftovers for the family… everyone but myself, that is. And since I don’t want to cook OR ask my DH to do it, my options are limited. Maybe. Good thing I love veggies and could live my entire life off salad – so many salad options, so little time! On this night, though, I really wasn’t too interested – plus I didn’t have any lettuce. No dice. I had been eyeing some avocados all day. I’m sure…
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Cranberry Apple Muffins
Thanksgiving week I wanted to make something yummy to have with for breakfast without having to cook every morning (which was NOT gonna happen). And since the littlest was out of school all week I had lots of apples to use up that might have normally gone into his lunch. AND I also forgot that I had some dried cranberries (no NOT craisins, dried cranberries) that I was snacking on the week before. Soooo, can you tell where this is going? Cranberries + Apples + Thanksgiving = Cranberry Apple MUFFINS! I promised to share the “recipe” last week, so yes I am a little late but…. here it is! I…
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My Best Ever Turkey Sliders
This post is inspired by the wonderful parents of Mrs. Enyart’s PK4 class at Northland Christian. We had our Thanksgiving feast on Friday and it was a great 1! The dessert table was packed full of yummy goodies from cookies and chocolate covered pretzels to pumpkin pie and apple cinnamon muffins! We had so much food that I think we parents ate more than the kids. Did I mention we are a group of parents who love to eat?! Ok on to the purpose of this post…. for the feast, I made some turkey sliders. It was my chance to get our kids to eat their veggies. Let me tell…
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