Tag Archives: In advance

Slow Cook While You SLEEP!

What is better than sleeping? Sleeping WHILE lunch is being cooked! All this (and more!) is possible with a slow cooker.  Dried beans are a cheap, durable pantry item and they take very well to the slow cooker—With a slow cooker, there’s no need to even pre-soak the beans. Black Bean Soup 3 carrots, chopped [...]
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Making fresh, beautiful bread doing little more than watching and waiting

I have a busy schedule. I would never have thought that I would be capable of baking an artisanal style crusty bread with minimal effort, and minimal ingredients, in the middle of the week,  but that’s exactly what I just did (I actually made two), and you can too.  On Monday night I decided I’d [...]
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Something from Nothing

There wasn’t that much in the fridge, but I was able to wrestle something delicious out of what I found. What I was working with: Napa cabbage Garlic Ginger Red onion Scallions Celery Thai pepper Tempeh A Sustainable Pantry (always) What I did: I sauteed the onion, garlic, ginger and red pepper in olive oil [...]
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Hearty, Healthy Cold-Weather Breaky

Once the cold weather starts creeping in, we like to change breakfast gears and head for the nice comfort of steel-cut oats.  Steel-cut oats in the morning?  Who has time for that (you may be thinking)?  Well we don’t, which is why we make a nice vat of the stuff on Sunday night, and heat [...]
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Sunday Night Dinner pays Monday Lunch Dividends

Tonight’s dinner was a delicious macrobiotic plate of millet, roast squash, steamed collard greens and tofu. We made double the amount so that we would have enough for a lunch portion for tomorrow. You’ll notice this is a consistent trend here at SustainablePantry.com. This is a very easy and effective way to save money, time, [...]
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