Food

Nothing tastes better than a homemade meal made with love and created with fresh, high quality ingredients, and the meal tastes even better if you use produce from your own vegetable garden. While this is the ideal option, a close…Read More

If we could turn back the hands on time and revise our 2012 trends, we would make just one change! Well, we wouldn’t because that’s cheating, but you get the idea. We identified that Green Buildings and LEED certification are…Read More

This versatile vegetable dish is great with fish, chicken and lamb, or on it’s own! So simple to make and it looks very colorful on the table. Serves 2: 1 large zucchini washed and patted dry then cut into 1/4″…Read More

Orange is such a happy, vibrant spring color—it makes me smile! Orange food has the same effect. It looks great on the plate as well as delivering some tremendous health benefits. As I was shopping for this past weekend, I…Read More

When we received a basket full of goodies from Cascadian Farm®, the Eco18 team immediately thought – picnic!! Well, lots of work and cold weather did not allow for us to have a grand adventure. We did, however, have an…Read More

I really love quiche. So easy and so versatile, you can use all kinds of different fillings depending on what you have in the fridge, or what takes your fancy. A really good friend of mine in England use to…Read More

More and more these days you hear about “gluten free” diets. I hear about it, read about it sometimes…but never really gave it much thought. One day, I was searching for a black bean soup recipe online, and in the…Read More

My daughter said to me the other day “mom, will you make me some banana cake?” Banana cake??  I wracked my brain trying to think of when I made banana cake. I couldn’t remember ever making it, though in my…Read More

This is such an easy dish to prepare, it freezes well and is simply delicious—one of my favorite winter dishes. I like to serve it with pork loin and roasted Brussels sprouts. Perfect served with a nice red wine. Yumm!…Read More

Have you ever stopped to think about how boring food would be if it weren’t for condiments? That burger without ketchup would be very dry and your favorite hot dog wouldn’t be the same without the mustard on it. However,…Read More