U.S. VegWeek Saves Your Bacon Originally posted for Huffington Post on 4/13/2015 Ready for spring cleaning of the most delicious kind? Pledge to go veg for US Veg Week. From small things, big things one day come. Take Esther the Wonder Pig. She was a wee 4 pounds when she found her way into the hearts…
Hold the Egg Salad aka Vegan Eggless Salad
Meatless Monday: Reclaiming the Kitchen Originally posted on 08/24/2015 for Huffington Post. We’re not getting fatter. That’s the good news. Considering adult obesity rates have doubled and childhood obesity tripled in the past generation, the CDC’s evidence we’ve started to stabilize deserves a victory lap. No doubt we need the exercise. Exercise doesn’t seem to…
Whole Grain Pancakes
On March 30 The Whole Grains Council proclaims to be Whole Grains Sampling Day. Celebrate with this recipe for whole grain pancakes from my book, Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith and What to Eat for Dinner. Yum Whole Grain Pancakes Yield: Makes about one dozen 3-inch pancakes We all benefit by rest, include pancake…
Vegan of the month – Gene Baur
Last week, I got to hear Farm Sanctuary founder Gene Bauer at Miami Book Fair International. He’s an ardent and compassionate animal activist — and November’s Vegan of the Month. Small Steps, Big Changes — Gene Baur and ‘Living the Farm Sanctuary Life’ Originally posted on 04/27/2015 for Huffington Post: There was no plan, there…
Steel Cut Oats for high cholesterol
In addition to being Whole Grains Month it is September is Better Breakfast Month. Who makes up these things, anyway? But why fight it? Make yourself some steel cut oats and enjoy Meatless Monday: Rolling the High (Cholesterol) Numbers Originally posted on 04/29/2013 for Huffington Post I went meatless at 13 because I love animals and…
TOFU SCRAMBLE & FIG WALNUT BREAD
By Ellen Kanner Posted originally on 05/16/2011 for Huffington Post Life, Death and What to Eat for Breakfast I recently gave a public talk on Living Green, Eating Green, which I fashioned to be a sort of meatlessness’ greatest hits — how being meatless is cool — Bill Clinton and Oprah are doing it, and it’s…
Cupid, Psyche and Homemade Granola
Cooking is easy, blogs are hard, at least for me. Not the writing part, the making pretty part, the layout part, the getting text and images to work within the confines of the stupidass template part. A blog muddle yesterday put me into meltdown. Undoing the mess seemed impossible and not even worth trying. And…
