Pass the party, please
A cheese that puts the party in dinner party. A tradition that combines sitting around a fire with sharing and passing around good food. What more could you want?
Seven Vegetables: A Holiday Feast
Not just for vegetarians and vegans. For everyone looking for deeply delicious vegetable - and fruit - dishes to cook, share and eat. Dishes to serve "family style". On a day that's all about passing it around. Feast for less than $10 per person.
Eat A Wreath
Whip up this delicious, nutritious holiday pizza and wow yourself, your friends and your family. A killer pizza for $2.50. For the whole thing, not a slice. Doubles as a holiday sight gag. And a 10-second centerpiece.
5 Little Piggies: The Feast
Five Festive Ways to celebrate savory, smoky pork, ham and bacon. Each one of these family style dishes makes the case for eating less meat and enjoying it more. Lots of whole grains and vegetables with a lot of flavor from a little pork. Pass it around.
Feeding Santa & His Vegan Elves: Sushi
Quick and simple to make. Less than 15 cents per piece. Every bite's a little party in your mouth. Light, fun, interesting, beautiful. Almost fat-free. Want to come back as roasted vegetable sushi in your next life?
Bouillabaisse: Feast of 7 Fishes. 1 pan.
This turns out so spectacularly well you'll be amazed you made it yourself. It tastes and smells so ... complex. But its preparation isn't even slightly complicated - and it takes less than one hour, start to first mouthful. The first in a series of seriously festive holiday meals.
Shortcakes for short days: Pear & Maple
When time is short and your holiday to-do list is long, make dessert. Prep the shortcake biscuit dough in five minutes flat. Seven to ten minutes in a 450-degree oven and you've got a killer dessert for $1. Like this Pear & Maple Syrup Shortcake.
Winter Tabbouleh. Oh, K. Salad Lessons.
It's "just" a warm salad, but it comes with two important lessons. First, how to eat seasonally when it seems like a lot of delicious things aren't in season. Second, how to get enough Vitamin K to maintain your bone health.
Meat & Potatoes. By any name.
You could call this Shepherd's Pie. You could call it hachis Parmentier. Or you could call it leftovers. A Meat & Potato Pie that's the best leftover dish of the season. For half the price of a Big Mac with fries.
The Gift of Transformational Growth
The most amazing thing I've seen in a while. I just grew a salad in my kitchen - in 16 days. In late November. In New York. In this AeroGarden thing. Seeing is believing. Click for the photos.