Posts Tagged ‘sustainable’

Environmental Group Gives First-Time Nod to Sustainable Salmon-Farming Method

January 19, 2010 New way to farm salmon has received endorsement from Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch. The company, AquaSeed Corp., raises the coho salmon from eggs in closed, fresh water pens, at a 1:1 per pound feed ratio. In the past it has been noted that it took upwards of 4 pounds of fish [...]

Green Green Beans (video)

Follow along as we travel from the field to the factory to learn how some of the best and freshest green beans get picked, processed, and canned all within a few short hours of time. For those of you who have been following, I like to see how things are made, how they work. Take [...]

Earth Day in the Kitchen

For the Two Junes, making our cooking life more sustainable is an on-going process. Simply modifying daily habits can make a big impact.

A Sustainable Kitchen Is a Creative Kitchen

See Related Recipe: Dark Chocolate-Prune Bar Cookies A functioning sustainable kitchen relishes a challenge, be it using up leftovers creatively, finding just one more way to use zucchini, or recycling bones and veggie scraps into stock. In this endeavor, flexibility and creativity are just as essential as cooking knowledge. My spirit of industriousness was daunted, [...]

Dark Chocolate-Prune Bar Cookies

See Related Post: A Sustainable Kitchen Is a Creative Kitchen Ingredients: Prune Filling 1 cup pitted prunes, finely chopped 1 to 2 Tbs. cognac or bourbon Ingredients: Almond-Oat Streusel Mixture 1 C. all-purpose flour 1 C. rolled oats 1 C. packed light brown sugar 1 C. sliced almonds, lightly toasted and chopped ½ tsp. salt [...]

A Fair Artisan Wage: Soldiers in the Sustainable Trenches

Part 1: Portland, Oregon, is a city on the cutting edge of food. We’ve got great restaurants and talented chefs, wine and beer to die for, excellent bakeries, chocolatiers and coffee roasters, and a wealth of natural riches provided by sustainable small farms, year-round farmer’s markets, and locally-owned sustainable grocers. We field an excellent and [...]

My Journey to a More Sustainable Food Lifestyle

Hello everyone and welcome! I feel honored to have the opportunity to share with you my ongoing journey converting my family to a more sustainable lifestyle, and hope that my story will inspire you to make a change in your own life. Believe it or not my decision to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle really [...]

The Vision: A Sustainable Restaurant (video)

Creating a restaurant from the ground up is an ambitious endeavor in itself. To base the theme of such a restaurant around locally produced food, good land stewardship, and preserving social tastes is even more grand. Stu Stein, owner of Terroir (pronounced, tεʀwaʀ, in French) shares his philosophy and vision. I was having coffee not [...]