What is Macerating?
Macerating vs. Marinating I just received an email asking what the difference is between marinating and macerating. Macerating is a procedure used in food preparation where raw, dried, or preserved...
View ArticleWhat is Elephant Garlic?
A viewer wrote to ask me why I use small garlic cloves when I prepare food rather than the larger, easier to peel, elephant garlic. The reason is that elephant garlic really isn’t garlic at all, but...
View ArticleCool Summer Food
Yesterday I met some friends in Portland for breakfast. While we were waiting we started reading the lunch and dinner menu for the day. This particular place is very vegetarian friendly, and there are...
View ArticleHow To Re-Hydrate Dry TVP
I just received a question about rehydrating dry TVP (textured vegetable protein). Many stores carry ready to cook TVP in the form of faux “meats” (whether frozen, refrigerated, or canned), but in some...
View ArticleMeatless Beef and Hot Dog Substitutes
I get lots of letters from viewers asking great questions about how to best transition away from meat and into vegetarian meat replacers. This is such a common question that I’ve decided to post viewer...
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Little arms of love
Broccoli’s name comes from the Italian piccoli bracci meaning “little arms” and just a single serving of this amazing vegetable provides 30 mg of vitamin C, plentiful fiber, and a slew of other...
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Summertime and the grillin’ is easy
For us, summer means less time in the kitchen and more time outside in “the big room” – so of course, the less fuss involved in the preparation of meals, the better we like it. And what could be less...
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Better Than Feta
I never really ate a lot of cheese, but I did use bits of it in and on a great many of my traditional Italian or Greek recipes. Personally I found working around not adding cheese to my food to be...
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Fabulous Fourth of July Grilling ideas from Toni Fiore
I love when people ask, “Hey what do vegetarians cook on the grill anyway? Veggie burgers, corn, fake hot dogs??” Well, since all we hear about for the entire week leading up the Fourth of July are...
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Save the Rainforest Blueberry Crisp
by Toni Fiore Rainforests are the earth’s largest sinks of carbon, safely storing the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. In Indonesia, rainforests are razed to create industrial palm oil...
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Refrigerator Pickle Dilly Beans
Allison Carol Duffy prepared this recipe from the University of Southern Maine Cooperative Extension Makes 2 pints of Dilly Beans Ingredients: 1 pound fresh green beans 1 gallon of water for...
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