My favorite is a skillet lasagna made with zucchini. Slice up the zukes, saute with garlic and onion until tender. Then layer in the pan with marinara and mozzarella; throw the lid on and heat on...

Leaf through a copy of Extending the Table before you leave. This book has a ton of adapted international recipes, very few of which depend on an oven. It has numerous no-meat or low-meat sauces,...

Eating, therefore, is a sacred act; we desecrate it with our ignorance, chosen or otherwise. Thanks for this.

I'm with insantiy_pepper: cut the collars out of your t-shirts, bring out the tights and channel your inner Flash Dance.

Take out the trash, and make sure you don't have laundry in the washing machine! Blech! And especially if you live in an apartment: please turn off your alarm clock!

Spaghetti with spinach and garbanzos Grilled cheese with ham and sauerkraut Black bean and spinach enchiladas Any vegetarian Indian dish No-bake ...

There is no excuse for American cheese.

Anybody else get queasy at the thought of eating "clotted?" dairy? The pics look delicious, and I know from experience that the cream itself is delicious, but I swear there is a better descriptor ...

My husband, friends and I drove from Northern Wyoming to Sayulita, Mexico, over Christmas break. We packed a big bag of jerky and an oatmeal container of oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies, neither of...

I always try to leave things that can be packed in the lunchbox or warmed up for supper so my husband doesn't have to waste time cooking (he works long hours). But he'll eat the weirdest things co...

Our "first meal there" is always some variation of a tin foil dinner, thrown in the coals as soon as they are ready. We like salmon, steak, sausage or ground venison with potatoes, peppers, carrot...

Pumpkins, butternut and spaghetti squash, zuchinni, two kinds of tomotoes, pole beans, bush beans, two kinds of peas, broccoli, lettuce, spinach, eggplant, three kinds of peppers, watermelon, cante...

We gave up buying commercial meat 2 years ago. All of our red meat comes either from elk or deer. In our experience, it's entirely interchangealbe with beef, except when it is ground (additional ...

I think urban homesteading doesn't have to be a desperate scramble to reinvent your roots. We're self-described urban homesteaders and live without the aforementioned rootlessness. I think urban ...

You dinner looks lovely, and I couldn't agree more that $100 is more than plently for a party of this size. My big qualm is this: why would you blow $140 on decorations that you wouldn't use again...