Healthy Cooking

Weekday Vegetarian: Using Up Eggplant from the Garden

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soy, vegetarian

Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 11:48 a.m.

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Photo: Kelly Rossiter I wrote last week about how well the eggplant is doing in my garden and the eggplant stack I made, and this week my daughter brought a whole bunch more to the cottage. There are so many things you can do with eggplant and so many different flavours it works with. Although I love Asian-style eggplant dishes with soy sauce and hot chilies, I was feeling like making something more Mediterranean. I had some beaut ...

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Ask Pablo: What Is The Carbon Footprint Of Tofu?

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diet, soy, tofu, vegetarian

Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 7:13 a.m.

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Image Source: Sifu RenkaDear Pablo: I eat a lot of tofu as part of my vegetarian diet but it seems to me that this may conflict with my concerns for the environment. What is the carbon footprint of tofu?Tofu is made from soybeans by curdling soy milk much like cheese is made from cow milk. The soybeans require very little, if any, irrigation and they "fix" about 1 pound of nitrogen in the soil per plant because they are legumes. The nitrogen put into the soil by the soybean plants reduces the

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Factory Farms, Deforestation, Subsidies and Soy: UK Campaign Connects the Dots (Video)

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diet, soy, vegan

Published Nov. 8, 2009 at 9:48 a.m.

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Image credit: FOE From Meatless Mondays to Weekday Vegetarianism to going raw food vegan to adopting the 100-Mile Diet, there are plenty of individual act ...

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Reusable Coffee Cozies: Upcycled, DIY, and Silicone Sleeves Reduce Cardboard

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coffee, fair trade, organic, soy

Published June 23, 2009 at 3:27 p.m.

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Dump the disposable sleeve. Photo via flickr by Mykl Roventine Yeah, its best to bring your own ceramic mug with a handle to the café to fill your cup with coffee or tea, but when it’s left at home and you’re in line waiting for your fair trade organic soy latte, at least BYOC (bring your own cozy) instead of using a cardboard sleeve, even if it is recycled ...

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