Month: September 2015

roasted squash black bean quesadillas
Vegetarian

Roasted Squash Black Bean Quesadillas

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Roasted winter squash is delicious paired with black beans, spinach and sharp cheese in these vegetable filled black bean quesadillas.   A vegetarian quesadilla with substance As a child I couldn’t stand squash. Mom always served it mashed and just the thought of it made me gag. I missed dessert […]

 
Green Living

How to Reduce your BPA exposure

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It was back in 2009 that the government banned BPA plastic from baby bottles because of health concerns. Also known as bisphenol A, BPA is a synthetic estrogen that can leach into foods and babies are especially susceptible to its hormone-disrupting effects. However, after that promising beginning, BPA remains part […]

 
Green Living

The Environmental Footprint of Wine

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Buying boxed wine is one way to reduce the carbon footprint of your wine.  How do you Fit Wine into your Green Living Lifestyle? For 20 years I have struggled with balancing a love of Old World wine (wine from Europe) with a commitment to a more ecofriendly lifestyle.  […]

 
Desserts

Pecan Praline No-Churn Ice Cream Recipe

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Sometime ice cream is an acceptable supper At least once each summer we’d drive to Montreal to visit my brother Erik. It was a long drive and finding good things to eat along the way was always a challenge. One year when we stopped in rural Maine to pick up […]