Despite its odd tone, this NY Times Magazine article was encouraging because food pieces in mainstream (some might say highbrow) publications rarely discuss leftovers.
OK, so it’s lobster leftovers, but the author does advocate boiling the shell and assorted remnants to flavor a risotto. So that’s neat.
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Jamaicans have stopped bobsledding long enough to taken up the cause of reducing food waste. Here’s an editorial in the appropriately named Jamaica Gleaner.
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Here’s one woman’s honest summary of trying not to waste food. Avoiding food waste isn’t all fun and games…
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If you have some milk that’s starting to turn, why not fry it?!
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You can share your thrift and craftiness in this “Nice Saves” thread on frugal village. The title refers to food you’ve used presumably just before it became unusable.
I really like that term ‘saves.’ Although I’ll have a hockey announcer’s voice running through my head the next time I put those “last legs veggies” into an omelet–“What a save!”
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Last week, a dairy farmer at the Farmers’ Market had short dated whole milk in quart bottles selling for 50 cents. Couldn’t let that go to waste 🙂 While the fried milk recipe looks interesting, I have to admit that our response to cheap good milk was homemade chocolate pudding. If you’ve only ever had pudding made from a box, you gotta try this.
Hey Commenter, Kerry – are you out there?
Tell me more about this carnivorous plant that eats your fruit flies! I need help! What are some species? Where can I get them? What kind of climate do they survive in?
Just posted on the Strangers on a Drain thread. However, the carnivorous plant I have is Sarracenia purpurea (the most commonly available).
http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5520.html
http://www.pitcherplant.com/sarracen.html
It is a bog plant so you want to keep water in its dish. I keep mine on my kitchen windowsill right near the compost bucket and it does a great job of attracting all the little kitchen insects.