low-stress ideas for living a deeper shade of green
Whether you are sifting through your smartphone for a recipe list or for a stellar local restaurant, there are countless apps available today for foodies everywhere and of every kind. It seems pretty likely today that when we’re in a pickle for where to eat or what to cook for dinner, we’re going to opt [...]
Green Diva Lisa and I had a great time yesterday making our little Green Diva Quickie video about this year’s Mother’s Day. We had some laughs as we memorialized our wonderful mom who has been gone for 17 years now. If I have any talent at all, I’d like to think it came from mom, who [...]
I do love meat, but am eating less and less as I think about lowering my impact on the environment. I was reading a piece from Mario Batali and he mentioned how he joined the Meatless Monday campaign. If you are just beginning to thinking about eating less meat, Meatless Mondays is a good place [...]
In Freedom in Your Relationship with Food, Myra Levin combines the principles of Ayurveda and yoga to promote a whole life plan to raise the reader’s consciousness toward food and eating.
It’s still raining zucchini! Well, maybe not literally, but it can feel that way at this time in the year, when home gardens, farmer’s markets and fresh produce aisles abound with these versatile and prolific veggies. There is something kind of funny about these little green monsters. It could just be the word ‘zucchini’, which [...]
Wayne and I have been going to Princeton, NJ one Sunday a month for a couple of months to a unique, healthy dinner club. It was founded by the mama earth of Princeton area herself, Dorothy Mullen - local vegetable garden educator, holistic nutritional advocate and certified addictions counselor. She and co-founder of Suppers for Sobriety, [...]
In addition to being a nut job, I am a nut lover. I really haven’t tasted a nut I didn’t like – even the peanut, which is technically a legume. I feel dreadfully sorry for those who have the dangerous nut allergy. My fiance has an allergy to chocolate, which I’m actually jealous of, but [...]
Is there anyone NOT sucked into the whirlwind of earth day hype? Is there anyone that isn’t thinking of how they can get their green on? Is anyone else feeling overwhelmed by it all? Us Green Divas area all about easy does it! If we make earth day more of a lifestyle and simply start [...]
We had a hankerin for something different for our sunday dinner this weekend. Then I had a timely conversation with a dear friend who fell in love and moved to Tennessee and now owns and runs a restaurant called Papa Boudreaux’s Cajun Cafe & Catering Company. I did some research and decided to try and create [...]
This picture reminds me of a little cherry convention. I’ve been asked to review a new cherry drink, but I thought I would indulge in a little cherry 101 first. Did you know . . . Cherries are related to apricots Cultivation of cherries dates back to 300 b.c. Prunus avium, the common cherry tree [...]
