Category: food inspiration

Food lovers, unite! Here are all the posts about food inspiration posted on Go Eat Your Bread with Joy. Whether you’re interested in a roundup of graphic tees for foodies or a closer look at the beginner sourdough recipes, you’ll find great ideas here. Do you know about a new product, service or other inspiring food-related concept worth covering? Get in touch!

4 of the Best Green Bean Casserole Recipes from Scratch, to Honor the Dish’s Inventor

Just one month before America’s favorite food holiday, the woman who created one of its most signature dishes has passed away. Dorcas Reilly, former manager of Campbell’s Kitchens and inventor of the green bean casserole, died October 15 in Camden, New Jersey, at the age of 92. In her honor, here are four of the Internet’s best green bean casserole recipes from scratch.

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Photo by Neha Deshmukh on Unsplash

In modern America at Thanksgiving, the green bean casserole is now almost as commonplace as turkey–but it wasn’t always this way. The person we have to thank for the side dish’s ubiquity is Dorcas Reilly. Read More

6 Feel-Good Food Flicks to Catch at Home This Fall

The days are darkening, the weather’s cooling and cozy nights at home are just around the corner. So when you find yourself scrolling Netflix or your laptop screen looking for something fun to watch this season, here are six feel-good food flicks to try!

Feel-Good Food Flicks to Watch This Fall

There’s no shortage of food flicks on Netflix today, from heady documentaries to episodes of reality TV. But, sometimes, when you’re cozying up inside for a movie night, you just want a happy story that leaves you feeling hopeful and inspired. Read More

Slowing Down with The New Laurel’s Kitchen Cookbook

In the ’70s and ’80s in America, vegetarianism wasn’t mainstream, but it was growing. In fact, you could make the case that at least part of the reason we have so many wonderful bloggers, books, documentaries and restaurants dedicated to vegetarian food today is because of plant-loving pioneers from that time. Here’s a look at one such resource: The New Laurel’s Kitchen.

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Five years after a group of “spiritual seekers” founded natural, vegetarian community The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee and two years after Mollie Katzen self-published The Moosewood Cookbook, later regarded as one of the most famous vegetarian resources in the world, a trio of California authors got together to create their own meat-free cookbook: the original Laurel’s Kitchen.Read More

Weekly Meal Plan Ideas: A Q + A with Katie Archer

If the post about healthy meal planning caught your eye this week, you’ll love hearing from Katie Archer. Through her business Katie Archer Kitchen, Katie provides weekly meal plan ideas filled with doable, delicious, real-food recipes. After a week of testing out one of her plans myself, I can say they’re approachable, enjoyable and designed to get you cooking at home. Read more in the following interview!

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pictured: chicken sausage and rice bowls, a lunch idea from KAK

Let’s start with the business idea, Katie Archer Kitchen. What is it?

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5 Ideas for Healthy Meal Planning on a Budget

Many home cooks swear by meal planning (about half of you, according to a recent Instagram poll). They say it saves stress, time and money. Could it work for you? Today when you want to do healthy meal planning on a budget, you don’t have to do it alone. Here are five programs and tools that make it more manageable!

Healthy Meal Planning on a Budget

When it comes to meal planning, you can do the legwork yourself. Actually, if you are particular about what you eat, you probably want to do it. You start with recipes–from your head, cookbooks, Pinterest, etc. Then, you write a corresponding shopping list, buy what you need and follow your menu. This is probably the best option when you don’t mind the practice of organizing a plan and a shopping list. In other cases, however, such as if you dread this task, you want someone to make it easier. Enter meal planning programs.Read More