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Easy vegetarian Pad Thai with pantry staples
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Easy Vegetarian Pad Thai with Pantry Staples

 

  Easy vegetarian Pad Thai can be a speedy weeknight staple when you have a straight forward recipe that uses mostly pantry staples.  It’s easy to find family favourite cookbooks on a bookshelf. They’re the dog-eared ones on with cracked spines, corners of pages folded over and notes in the […]

roasted squash black bean quesadillas
Vegetarian

Roasted Squash Black Bean Quesadillas

 

  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 […]

Green Living

How to Reduce your BPA exposure

 

  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 […]

Green Living

The Environmental Footprint of Wine

 

  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 […]