Several weeks ago I wrote about how Eddy and I throw away trash once every 6 weeks. I’ve had so many people ask how we do it. Well, one of the ways we reduce trash is by cooking from scratch. We make tomato sauce from scratch, using local tomatoes that we froze. We make mozzarella, ricotta, and yogurt from scratch, eliminating plastic containers. We don’t buy bread; we bake bread, thus no packaging.
Baking bread is so easy with the New York Times’ No-Knead Bread recipe. I uploaded the recipe to the Recipes section, so check it out! You may find it hard to raise dough during the winter. If this is the case, place the dough in a warmer spot such as the top of your refrigerator. After we experienced difficulty raising dough, we put it on top of the water heater, and it rose wonderfully.
So, this Thanksgiving, how about baking a bread and eliminating packaging?
GreenAR by the Day 