3 Ultra-Satisfying Vegetarian Fall Soup Recipes Image via: Sneakerdog Every year, when it starts getting cold, I crave soups and stews packed with greens and garlic. To me, it’s the ultimate comfort food: hot, healthy, and vegetarian. I love to experiment with seasonal ingredients like apples and butternut squash, and add in favorites like spinach and hot spices. Here are three filling, unbelievably delicious meat-free soup recipes that will be in rotation in my soup pot this season. Garlic, Chickpea and Spinach Soup By Sneakerdog 2 tablespoons olive oil 4 garlic cloves, crushed 1 onion, chopped 2 teaspoons ground cumin 2 teaspoons ground coriander 5 cups vegetable stock 12 ounces potatoes, diced More after the jump! 15 ounces can chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2/3 cup Silk(tm) cream (or other non-dairy cream) 2 tablespoons light tahini 7 ounces spinach, shredded cayenne pepper salt and pepper, to taste Heat the oil in a saucepan and cook the garlic and onions until soft and golden. Makes 4 cups Serves 6 to 8
99 Life Hacks That Could Make Your Life Easier A Giant Gallery of Unique Staircase Designs Jul 26, 2012 Some you’ll love, some you’ll detest and others you can only hope nobody has ever slipped and hurt themselves! Below is a gallery of unique and creative staircase designs. Not necessarily the most beautiful or functional, just a collection of interesting concepts that push the boundaries of staircase design into bold and often handrail-less territories. Enjoy! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. Sources - If you enjoyed this post, the Sifter highly recommends:
50 Things You Should Stop Buying & Start Making As a society, we have become over-reliant on “ready made” products. We have lost the ability to make things from scratch. Rather than blend up some peanuts to make delicious, tasty and fresh peanut butter, we’ll spend many dollars on a jar from the store that contains artificial preservatives, unnecessary packaging and that simply lines the pockets of huge, unethical multinational corporations. Aside from foods, you can also make your own personal care products, beauty and make up products, cleaning products and home accessories that taste, work or look better than store bought, without the harmful chemicals and toxins and free from excessive, earth damaging packaging. Foods Homemade Ketchup – This ketchup won’t brake the bank, tastes better than the real deal and contains no added sugar – so it’s nutritionally good for the whole family. Peanut Butter – It is so simple to make this pantry staple it would be silly to buy it. Want to learn more about making your own foods? Next Page >>>
Wisdom of Great Writers By Maria Popova By popular demand, I’ve put together a periodically updated reading list of all the famous advice on writing presented here over the years, featuring words of wisdom from such masters of the craft as Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Henry Miller, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Orlean, Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, and more. Please enjoy. Jennifer Egan on Writing, the Trap of Approval, and the Most Important Discipline for Aspiring Writers “You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.”
How to make a mini rocket stove Rocket stoves have become a part of our lives at Milkwood Farm. They’re hyper energy efficient, can be built out of rubbish and result in more usable heat that any other wood-burning system we’ve come across. Big love. It doesn’t take long to be besotted – everyone who needs a wash at our farm heats the water for their showers using our fabulous rocket-powered shower water heater, which works a treat. Mini rocket stove - the basic plan Following on from the rocket powered shower (our rocket stove hot water system), we’ve been aching to try other types of rocket stoves. This is our mark 1 model of a mini rocket stove, constructed by Milkwood interns Kade, Amelie, Bel and Chris. Now all we needed was some tin cans, something to snip them with, and some ash to insulate the riser, to make our very own. Mini rocket stove – the basic plan Mini rocket stove ingredients. Amelie and Kade make the first incision cutting a hole for the burn chamber can Checking that the burn chamber can fits in the hole
Recipe for Mujadarra (Middle Eastern Lentils and Rice with Caramelized Onions) Mujadarra (pronounced moo-jha-druh and also spelled Mujadara, Mujaddara, Mujadarah, and Mujadarrah) is a humble middle eastern dish of lentils, rice, and caramelized onions. This is a recipe where the flavor becomes much more than you'd expect from the simple ingredients used. Years ago I started ordering Mujadarra at a now-closed Salt Lake restaurant which served it with Middle Eastern Tomato Salad around the the plate, the perfect way to eat it if you have tomatoes and fresh herbs on hand. Rinse lentils, then add water and cook at a low simmer 20-30 minutes, until lentils are soft. Start cooking 3/4 cup long grain rice, either following the directions on the package or using a rice cooker like I did. Peel onions, then cut into quarter-slices to make 3 cups sliced onions. Heat olive oil in large heavy pan, then add onions and start to brown over medium-low heat, stirring every few minutes. Here are my onions after ten minutes, just starting to get brown. Printer Friendly Recipe
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Best Superfoods - New Health Foods To Try Jul 7, 2014 Jun 6, 2014 May 4, 2014 Feb 26, 2014 Once upon a time, food as medicine wasn't such a strange idea—Hippocrates himself vouched for it. Dec 10, 2013 How much does it really cost to eat well? Oct 25, 2013 Aug 26, 2013 Aug 22, 2013 Jan 23, 2013 Sep 4, 2012 A couple months back, we ran a story on superfoods. Jul 11, 2012 Every day, it seems there’s a newly crowned miracle food that claims to aid in everything that’s ailing you.
10 Reasons I love Monsanto Did I say Monsanto ? I meant President Obama . Here’s 10 Reasons I don’t love Monsanto, since we’re on the subject. Monsanto is guilty of… ~ click above for source ~ “How can one contaminate the global food chain with GMOs, when they actually help millions of people from starvation?” Because you’re incorrect about that. Before I get into details, just start from first principles and follow the chain of logical reasoning. Corporations want to crops pesticides, so they can: A) Make money by raising the price of food and controlling who can grow it; or B) Give it away for free, to feed millions of starving people with no money Which one would you guess? Now for the details. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The success of Borlaug’s selectively-bred (not genetically engineered) crops depended hugely on the abundance of rich, untapped topsoils. “Since when are pesticides ‘evil’” It is a certainty that the type of IP laws that will be passed to enforce food patents will be draconian, like SOPA for food.
Spicy Crispy Roasted Chickpeas - Give Recipe Healthy snacks are always welcomed in our home and these Spicy Crispy Roasted Chickpeas are one of those snacks we love to munch on! If you love to devour something when watching a movie or the game of your favorite team, pop corn is not the only option you have. Open a bottle of cold beer and enjoy these spicy chickpeas with it! These oven-roasted chickpeas are amazingly crispy especially when they are warm and they will become a favorite of your family once they taste it. You will be amazed when you see how easy it is to make these crispy roasted chickpeas. These are best when served warm, and they start to lose that crispiness as they get cold. You can keep these in an airtight container up to one week, but believe me they don’t stay that long! If you don’t have time for any of these, but still would love to have a chickpeas snack, go with these Spicy Boiled Chickpeas, which are sold as a street food in my hometown. Spicy Crispy Roasted Chickpeas Ingredients Instructions
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