Take your Easter tradition natural with these quick and easy natural dyes to make your Easter eggs festive without making them toxic with petroleum-based food dyes. Orange dye: 2 cups water, 2 tbsp distilled vinegar, 2 tbsp paprika Blue dye: 2 cups water, 2 tbsp distilled vinegar, 1 cup blueberries Pink dye: 2 cups water, […]
Category: Misc.
The HGTV Green Home comes to my neighborhood!
This year’s HGTV “Green Home” contest is offering a sustainably-built home for sustainable living right here in my neighborhood. My friend, Gail Fenton, HGTV’s “Superfan”, gets the lucky job of filming the special details of the HGTV homes, and caught up with me to talk about how what it is like to live in this […]
It’s Blog Jog Day!
Welcome to Effortless Eating, your resource for healthy recipes, natural health solutions, and general healthy lifestyle advice. Some recent posts that might interest you are: A round-up of my off-the-beaten-path Thanksgiving recipes. Advice for turning picky eaters into adventurous eaters. Are low-fat diets the healthiest way to go? What science has shown since the 1980s. […]
Great Holiday Gift Finds Through Nov. 21 Blog Jog!
Have you ever seen a Blog Jog? It’s a day of pathways through the web leading to new and different thinkers and great gift ideas to kick off your holiday shopping. On November 21, 2010, I will be joining Carol Denbow’s second annual Blog Jog! I will be giving away a prize or two, and […]
Mollie Katzen and the Moosewood cookbooks taught me to cook
It’s not often that you get to meet an author whose work has influenced your life in a deep way. When I was 22, I met Judy Blume and I was tongue-tied. Star-struck at coming face to face with the woman behind the books that I read and re-read so many times… How could I […]
