Food

Recipe: Tilapia Soufflé

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This recipe is a spin off of mine from one I found on the inside of a Stouffer’s Corn Souffle box. I added the tilapia, as I am always looking for good ways to use this inexpensive, environmentally friendly protein source. I also exchanged their white rice for brown. These changes make it a completely … Read more

Recipe for Great Crab Cakes

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Having been in Maryland recently, I finally had what was reported as the area’s “best crab cake,” but I have discovered they have nothing on mine. I can’t really take credit for how good mine are since I use Martha Stewart’s recipe. (see here). The only thing I do different is I separate the batter … Read more

Photos of Secular Easter in Texas

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We had a wonderful Easter celebration with my husband’s family in Texas. Here are some vignettes of the trimmings. There was an Easter Egg Hunt for 14 kids who searched for plastic eggs filled with chocolate and money (my youngest found the most: $18.30, which was comprised of 11 dollar coins and change!). The youngest … Read more

Overfishing

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My non-fiction reading in recent months has been consumed with reading about overfishing. I’ve been a vegetarian for over 25 years, prompted in large part because I read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and was moved to do my part for human sustainability. Over fifteen years ago I slowly started phasing in eating fish, needing more protein, and became a piscivore as well as a vegetarian. A couple years ago I was deeply influenced by Micheal Polon’s book The Omnivore’s Dilemma to try to eat more organic and local food; I was inspired to reduce my carbon imprint related to food and attempt not to pollute either the earth or my body. It has since become obvious to me that I didn’t really know where my fish was coming from, and whether that was sustainable either. Hence my recent self-education, which has been eye-opening as well.

Lemon Cake and an American Poetry Anthology

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I had a pleasant Friday evening last night interspersed with intervals working in my office, making a Lemon Cake and reading a wonderful anthology of American Poetry. The cake was made from a “Lemon Yogurt Cake” recipe in The Barefoot Contessa’s At Home Cookbook. While my family are definitely not cake people, I was after … Read more

Dandelion Salad

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I made this treat for my husband today… “Winter Greens with Egg Salad” from my new cookbook Simply Organic by Jesse Ziff Cool. This is the second time I’ve made it and he’s raved about it both times. It is a little too much chewing for my taste, so once a month is enough! I … Read more