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Should We Use Microwaves? 19 Dec 2010 | 04:58 pm
Are Microwaves Safe? By Kate Heyhoe A Reader’s Question… Hi Kate, I admire you so much, and use many, many of your recipes and ideas. I have a question and do not mean to be disrespectful, b...
Shrink Your Cookprint 26 May 2010 | 01:58 am
40 Ways to Shrink Your Cookprint By Kate Heyhoe Reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose, and rethink how you cook, shop, and eat. Learn all about cookprints here. To shrink > think: 1. Energy-efficie...
Hold Onto Your Heat 26 May 2010 | 01:57 am
Quicktip by Kate Hehyoe Hold Onto Your Heat: Want to keep a cooked dish warm until serving? Use your microwave oven as a warming oven but don’t fire it up. A microwave oven’s insulation is good enou...
Gruyere-Toasted French Bread 26 May 2010 | 01:56 am
Quicktip by Kate Hehyoe Broiler Quickies: Gruyere-Toasted French Bread Another Recipe to Cook While the Broiler’s Hot Pop this goosed-up version of a cheese melt under a hot broiler, right after y...
Barley-Brie Risotto 10 Mar 2010 | 09:08 am
New Grain Cooking: Barley-Brie Risotto By Kate Heyhoe A One-Pot, Fast and Fabulous Meal This is one of my favorite pressure cooker recipes, and was intended to be part of Cooking Green, but we ran ...
About Induction Burners 3 Nov 2009 | 02:52 am
Excerpted from Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen—the New Green Basics Way by Kate Heyhoe These make me jump for joy. Electromagnetic energy drives these burners, though ...
Less Meat 21 Sep 2009 | 10:21 am
Trendwatch: Less Meat is Hip By Kate Heyhoe Get ready: a new wave of cookbooks geared at cutting back (or cutting out) meat will soon hit the shelves. Hurrah! The reduced-meat diet is seriously c...
Double Up Roasting 21 Sep 2009 | 10:19 am
Quicktip by Kate Hehyoe Double Up: Roasting two chickens uses about the same amount of energy as one. So roast two at the same time, enjoy one for dinner and save the other for sandwiches, tacos, or...
More Double Up 21 Sep 2009 | 10:16 am
Quicktip by Kate Hehyoe More Double Up: Two smaller, shallower baking dishes and pans cook quicker than one large one. A lasagna recipe, for instance, can be cooked in two baking dishes, and shave o...
Big Green Companion 22 Jul 2009 | 03:56 am
by Kate Heyhoe Yippee! My book Cooking Green has gone back for a second printing—which in this era of ailing publishing is a major event. Reviewers have praised the book for its solid, well-researche...