Drunk on Recycling

Can you ask guests to bring their own cups?

Ginger Orange Pickled Beets

pudding in a number of flavors. Concept is similar to the place in NYC with cute, brightly coloured containers (reuseable and stackable) and spoons. I had the maple flavour and she the “d'Antan” (old fashioned with...

You should be able to clean out the spongy material in the seed cups and use them with your own seeds. The plastic cup base is completely reuseable. If you don’t want to go through the trouble of cleaning the sponge, I...

, remove ribs too) 1½ cups cider vinegar (5% acidity) 6½ cups sugar 6 ounces bottled liquid pectin Using a food processor or food chopper, finely chop bell peppers and jalapenos (I did it by hand). Turn chopped peppers and chiles into...

the chef lets the soup COOL OFF so it’s warm, not hot, before pouring it into the styrofoam cup, because the cup gets all pitted and rough on the inside and the lid often splits and falls apart – indicating we are...

indian food reheats wonderfully. put some basmati rice in one of those single-serving, microwaveable, reuseable containers and top with some kind of saucy vegetable. it doesn’t even have to be indian. thai and chinese also...

1. The amazing air conditioning. 2. The bathrooms. Clean and free. 3. They make a single cup reuseable coffee filter/strainer thingy that I bought in a Starbucks in Japan.

invested in an 8 cup capacity Bodum french press ($31) and a Breville conical burr coffee grinder ($80). I have done my research, but the coffee I have produced over the past few days has been terribly sour and bitter. Here’s...

with sweet foods. Greek yoghurt tends to be much, much thicker than the old American yoghurt, but you can thin it with a tablespoonful of milk per cup yoghurt and it’ll work fine. You can make “old-style” fruit...

If you buy the silicone bake ware get the good stuff that goes to 500 °F. Generaly you are not baking anything above 500 °F. And I love the muffin cups becuase they are re-useable!

AMEN! Here’s my kitchen system. I LOVE it! And the trash can liners are washable, reuseable ripstop nylon I made to fit my cans. http://www.flickr.com/photos/75667634@N00/2683172503/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/75667634@N00

lock pliers and pulled off the collar, not easy but it can be done. Then I took a sharp utility knife and cut a thin sliver of plastic of the inside lip. NowI have an inexpensive, reuseable grinder.

reduce my stock to a glaze, let it gel in the fridge and then cut it into chunks that will reconstitute in one cup of water. Put the chunks into the freezer bag, then get them out and reseal as needed. I have used it several...

I don’t usually put ice in wine to dilute it, but sometimes I do like my wine colder than it is at the moment. I bought some of those plastic cubes with water in them - basically, reuseable ice cubes. They’re great...