Carla Ramsdell
Oct 1, 2020
Carla Ramsdell
Sep 9, 2020
The Kitchen gadget under $10 that will improve your cooking efficiency… Double-Decker cooking!
“Single-Pot Cooking” usually involves dumping a bunch of ingredients together into the same pot like a stew or rice mixture. This...
Carla Ramsdell
Aug 21, 2020
Skip the cereal box – make super easy, low cost, environmentally friendly slow cooker SUMMER GRANOLA
My morning “go to” breakfast is a bowl of homemade granola with some nuts, fruits and yogurt or milk! But, during the summer, turning on...
Carla Ramsdell
Apr 11, 2020
What’s the most sustainable skillet?
Many years ago, when I began my work as a food physicist, I became intrigued with the range of choices available when buying a new...
Carla Ramsdell
Feb 2, 2020
The Instant Pot is a Super Hero of the Energy Efficient kitchen!
OK, so now that you got an Instant Pot for the holidays, what, exactly, do you DO with it? First of all, you should take a minute to...
Carla Ramsdell
Dec 18, 2019
The physics of the Instant Pot – Cheap food, energy efficient, healthy, easy and YUMMY!
With the holiday season upon us, I get a lot of questions about electric pressure cookers such as the Instant Pot. These cooking...
Carla Ramsdell
Nov 17, 2019
Travel Mug Pasta! Fun, easy, fast food cooked “passively”!
If you own an insulated travel coffee mug, you have a powerful pasta cooking tool at your fingertips that can cut cooking and cleaning...
Carla Ramsdell
May 22, 2019
Lessons on a sustainable food system from Florence, Italy!
I had the pleasure of spending the past week in Florence, Italy to study the food system there. I took a group of 12 students to observe...
Carla Ramsdell
May 11, 2019
Skillet Pizza - Skip the freezer AND oven and make quick pizza with minimal energy!
It's Friday night and I'm ready for some bubbly pizza! But...I'm also pooped from the work week and looking for a simple kitchen prep. ...
Carla Ramsdell
Apr 8, 2019
Humanity-Saving (Beef Reducing) Lentil Taco Recipe
There is almost unanimous agreement that in order to realize a sustainable food future AND dramatically reduce atmospheric concentrations...
