recipes
April’s Recipe of the Month: Lemon Cleansers
Spring has officially sprung and if you’re like us, it’s time for some deep cleaning around the house. To help keep cleaning green, try using lemons – they’re inexpensive and currently in season. Lemons have the acid to break through scum and remove residue, and even have antibacterial properties. Plus, they make ……
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March’s Recipe of the Month: Green Beer
The greenest of all the holidays is approaching. You know, the one where you are actually supposed to pinch someone if they aren’t green? (If only that was allowed every day!)
This St. Patrick’s Day, we challenge you to keep the green in green beer – and we don’t mean by a droplet of food ……
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February’s Recipe of the Month: Trifle
Looking for an inexpensive, easy dessert to make for your sweetie this month? Try a trifle! We love trifle’s because they’re super versatile, low-energy (for you and your appliances) and pretty. Did we mention delicious?
Our favorite trifle’s are made with fresh fruit, but since there are so few fruits in ……
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January’s Recipe of the Month: Grow a Christmas Tree
With the Holidays over and a new year beginning, the last thing you’re probably thinking about is next year’s Christmas tree. Well, you should! In the great tree debate between cut and artificial Christmas trees, the clear winner is potted, living trees that can be replanted in your yard or a community garden ……
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December’s Recipe of the Month: Window Dressing
December is a great time to sit back with a cup of something hot and watch the snows of winter fall from the sky. Whether you’re entertaining family and friends for the Holidays or just watching the season from the comfort of your warm home, make sure windows are clean and shiny without the ……
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November’s Recipe of the Month: Green Tomatoes
…eat them! The first frost may have stunted your tomato vines but think twice before sending them to the compost. These unripe, tarty fruits are amazingly delicious as salsas, soups, relishes, fried (like the movie), or even in desserts – bizarre but tasty.
Fried Green Tomatoes (from epicurious.com)
4 large, firm green tomatoes cut crosswise ……
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October’s Recipe of the Month: Word to the Bird
Oh Thanksgiving, that wonderfully delicious day signifying the things we’re most appreciative of. For some it’s a day of rest, for others its slaving away in the kitchen. Many will gather with family and friends or watch football on the couch and cuddle up to a slice of pumpkin pie. For most, ……
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September’s Recipe of the Month: Pack a Lunch
Pack a Lunch!
The time has come to revive the lunch box! Pack a lunch to bring to work and/or send one with the kids school. Bringing your own saves money and disposable packaging everyday. Be the envy of all your friends (or colleagues!) when you bust out your healthy, delicious eco-meal when the whistle ……
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August’s Recipe of the Month: Clean Water
This month’s recipes are fit to keep a favorite – and highly necessary – beverage as clean as possible. Yes, you guessed it: it’s your water. You may have heard that over 2/3rd of your body weight is actually “water weight”, but did you know that blood is 83% water, ……
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July’s Recipe of the Month: Garden Party
Lay the cutting board out as a fabulous fashion runway and return to your roots – of carrots and beets and onions! This July, show off the pick of your produce by throwing a Garden Party.
Who: You and your feasting frenzy of friends
What:
1) Go to your garden and grab all the ripe produce you ……
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