Articles tagged “Eco-Friendly Kitchens”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Make Your Own Pop Tarts By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Feb 1 2008 Confess. Pop Tarts Dough1 1/2 cups flour1/2 tsp salt1/4 cup shortening1/4 cup butter, softened3 tbsp. cold water FillingJam (your choice) Glaze1 cup powdered sugarMilk to thinSprinkles 1. + READ MORE

Build a Green Library: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jan 30 2008 This is the latest post in a series about recommended reading, for building a green library in your home. Ultimately, the book's most sentient takeaway is this: eating local (or any particular way of eating, for that matter) is not about self-denial while marking the days on a calendar until you can have a Big Mac;... + READ MORE

Get Recession-Ready: Make Friends With Your Freezer By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 30 2008 In my post on getting recession-ready in the kitchen, I suggested that you could make good use of your freezer in order to "bank" meals. Tomato Sauce 2 pounds fresh or 2 cups canned plum tomatoes2/3 cup chopped carrot2/3 cup chopped celery2/3 cup chopped onionSalt1/4 tsp granulated sugar1/2 cup olive oil 1. + READ MORE

Fix Your House to Go Green, Not to Make Money By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Jan 29 2008 Are you thinking that it might improve the value of your house for resale if you fix it up a bit, say with a bathroom or kitchen renovation? A good place to start is with our "Green Your Home for Winter " series, starting with a programmable thermostat.Here is a summary of the national averages; more specific local... + READ MORE

Try Cabbage Two Ways By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 29 2008 I realize that cabbage is not an unusual vegetable, but it is a staple of the winter kitchen. Cabbage SaladYields at least 4 servings 1 small head white cabbage, about 1 pound, cored and shredded1/2 small head red cabbage, about 1/2 pound, cored and shredded1 or 2 carrots, peeled, trimmed and shreddedSalt as... + READ MORE

Get Recession-Ready: 10 Ways to Tighten Your Belt in the Kitchen By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jan 22 2008 Recession is in the air, so we are offering up some tips on tightening your belts.Plan meals that will stretch through the week: If you make a spaghetti sauce one night, make enough to use in another meal. + READ MORE

Get Recession-Ready! By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Jan 21 2008 It is everywhere in the news these days-recession is in the air.It is also true that almost all of the things that we preach as being good for the planet are also good for getting recession-ready; use less stuff, lower your heating bills, reduce your use of electricity, make your own dinner-all these things that make... + READ MORE

Join the Shift to Thrift By Lloyd Alter IN Tech & Transport Jan 21 2008 In the United Kingdom, one of the surprise hits in the book world is David Kynaston's Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (2008, Walker & Company), which documents the way Britons adapted to the dire shortages after World War II.Create a soap ball in the kitchen: Collect tiny fragments of soap from elsewhere in the house, then + READ MORE

Find, Buy Refurbished Tools By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jan 18 2008 Though borrowing from tool libraries is definitely the way to go when you're tackling a weekend DIY project, the time will come, for some of us, when we need to own our own tools. Go with factory (sometimes called "manufacturer") reconditioned tools-remember, there's a difference between "refurbished/reconditioned" and + READ MORE

Use Eco-Friendly Cat Litter By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 18 2008 Cat owners should avoid clumping clay litter at all costs. Because sodium bentonite acts like expanding cement-it's also used as a grouting, sealing, and plugging material-it can swell up to 15 to18 times their dry size and clog up your cat's insides.Eco-friendly alternatives-popular brands include Feline Pine, Swheat... + READ MORE

Reduce Kitchen Paper Waste By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 17 2008 The Green Guide suggests three simple yet effective ways of reducing paper waste in your kitchen, including reusing your coffee filters. The second piece of advice, to eat less processed (read: overpackaged) foods, is obvious enough, although we'd like to add that shopping from the bulk-foods section can also... + READ MORE

Reuse Those Empty Wine Bottles: Five Ways By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jan 17 2008 Drinking (organic) wine is sure a joy, but the fun doesn't have to stop there. Crank up the romance with an oil lamp with a wine-bottle base: Pick up a long wick, some lamp oil, a ceramic wick stopper, and a small glass flame-protector, and you're good to go. + READ MORE

Detox Your Body By Lloyd Alter IN Food & Health Jan 15 2008 London Smog 1952 Devra Davis, the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute is, according to Nancy White of The Star, a blue-chip cancer epidemiologist with a Grade A scientific pedigree: a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, a decade at the National Academy of... + READ MORE

Clean, Polish Copper By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 14 2008 Set your copper pots, utensils, and fixtures all agleam, without resorting to pungent industrial solvents. If that doesn't do the trick, you can also boil your article for several hours in a pot of water with a tablespoon of salt and 1 cup of white vinegar. + READ MORE

Write a Grocery List Before You Shop (and Follow It!) By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Jan 8 2008 For even the most mindful eater, food shopping presents a plethora of temptations and tasty-looking treats. To save time, money, and the labor required to lug extra bags full of food home on your cart bike or other preferred transportation, make a list of what you know you need-and you know you'll eat-and stick to it. + READ MORE

Reuse Unwanted Jewel Cases: Top 14 Ways By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 7 2008 Packing your pre-iTunes CDs into a zippered wallet is a clever space-saving trick, except that it leaves you with a towering pile of empty plastic jewel cases, which are usually made from molded polystyrene and not easily recyclable. While options on that front are few and far between, GreenDisk will accept your... + READ MORE

Build A Green Kitchen By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 28 2007 Want to build a green kitchen? Use finger-jointed trim (where small pieces of wood are joined together to form a long length of trim).2. + READ MORE

Teach Your Children to Cook By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Dec 26 2007 As the year comes to a close, we tend to ruminate over the months past and begin to form ideas about what we would like to achieve in the new year. If you make cooking fun for your kids, it will be fun for you too and by the time they are teenagers, they'll be pros-and maybe sometimes they'll cook dinner for you. + READ MORE

Reuse, Recycle Your Aluminum Foil By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 21 2007 If you happen to use aluminum foil in your kitchen, consider giving those shiny crinkles a good scrub with some soap and water, so you can draw out a second use out of them. Plus, recycling aluminum takes as little as 5 percent of the energy you'd need to manufacture virgin aluminum, says the U.S. Department of State's + READ MORE

Cook with Cast Iron Instead of Nonstick By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Dec 20 2007 We've all seen examples or heard stories about Grandma's cast iron cookware that's been in regular use since the Eisenhower administration or before. Don't store your pan with its lid on, as cast iron needs to breathe, and condensing moisture inside of it can counteract all your hard work seasoning the pan. + READ MORE