This post is part of the Food Matters Project, a cooking collaboration among participating bloggers. Each week, we will cook a recipe from Mark Bittman’s Food Matters Cookbook, which places an emphasis on mindful and sustainable eating. Follow along with us!

This week’s post was chosen by yours truly, Small Kitchen College. I personally chose it for two reasons: 1. Crispy. 2. Brown. I’m always looking for foods coated in that brown, crispy layer of fry but are slightly more okay to eat health-wise. Humans like fried foods. The rest is just damage control. These are facts….

SWEET: Open-Faced Peach-Maple-Mascarpone Sandwich for One
MAIN INGREDIENT: Peach, Maple Syrup, Mascarpone, Bread
GOOD FOR: Mid-afternoon snack or late night cravings

Today I bring you the exciting notion of dessert for one: a solitary dessert journey that you share with no one, because frankly it’s none of their business. I’m probably not the first one to bring you this notion, but I am in fact the first one to do so in this particular post. Like this small accomplishment, dessert for one is a small victory over apathy in your life.

If you’ve heard all this talk about eating unprocessed …

I’m a mix-all-the-food-together person, as are I believe exactly 50 percent of us, which is why there can never be peace on earth. This salad mixes together everything at the summer barbecue all in a light dressing for colors, textures and flavors galore. Potato salad, corn on the cob, green beans and barbecue are all here, and yes they are all vegan.

As an omnivore who recently tried tofu via the BBQ tofu recipe below, I decided to include it here cause I enjoyed it very much! Omnivores eating a strictly omnivorous diet for the day can use …

Sometimes you just want to put green beans in everything, you know?

This here is a little ditty to whip up around lunch time cause it’s quick and substantial. It has a nice crunch from green beans and almonds and a slightly different feel with cream cheese as the stick-together ingredient instead of mayo. Scallions or chives add an extra freshness, and salt and pepper finish the deal up simple and right. You can probably even find all these treasures in the dining hall!

I put this delightful mixture on a croissant because that’s my personal moral stance on chicken …

This post is part of the Food Matters Project, a cooking collaboration among participating bloggers. Each week, we will cook a recipe from Mark Bittman’s Food Matters Cookbook, which places an emphasis on mindful and sustainable eating. Follow along with us!

Jennifer of Simple & Amazing chose this week’s recipe, Raspberry Cabernet Sorbet, likely because it is, in fact, simple and amazing. Bittman’s original recipe calls for only frozen raspberries, plain yogurt (or silken tofu), a few tablespoons of sugar and a bit of Cabernet. It offers possibilities galore for anyone who ever has any type …

You know, I get that you like The Office-I do too. It’s a funny show. But I swear to you, the next time I hear the words “that’s what she said” follow any vague mention of the color white or the texture known as “creamy,” even ironically, I will lose my shizzles, friends. So old. Got my head in my hands, people.

Instead of chocking it up to the proverbially “she,” take control of your life and engineer your own innuendos. Be the she. Suggestive culinary innuendos pull double duty by clearly expressing your interest in an individual while testing their level of culinary comprehension. You want your children to have the foodie gene, don’t you?

Geese fly south for the winter, but snuggle bunnies have nowhere to turn when climbing temperatures render their soft, fuzzy warmth useless, even burdensome. Under these conditions, acting upon the innate desire to snuggle causes excessive sweat secretion and extreme discomfort in both the snuggle bunny and her mate. As they languish in the oppressive heat, the year-round desire for pseudo-sexual physical contact persists without satisfactory outlet. It is with this concern for the species that I present summer alternatives that fulfill the role of fun, flirty physical closeness without heat-related side effects.

Impulse Buy: Nû Lait Limon Bleu All Natural Fruit Spread
Store: Milk & Honey, Philadelphia, Pa.
Aisle: At the checkout counter trying to get rid of it because it would expire in two weeks as I later discovered
Cost: $2 on sale; retail price unknown

On behalf of SKC, I’d like to acknowledge something about society: 75% of all culinary impulse buys are various flavors of butters and jams. To date, nine out of twelve of our writers’ documented impulse purchases have been spreadable foods including chestnut spread, white truffle butter and sweet potato butter…

Bread pudding is pretty awesome and pretty underrated. The UK is doing their thing basically calling everything pudding and livin’ the life, while the US proudly sticks with those little Jell-O brand guys. Besides in the south, of course, where they know their stuff with banana pudding. Bread pudding is pudding because the bread absorbs the “pudding,” the custard of milk, eggs and sugar. The result is like 12 or so pieces of French toast cozily nestled together conveniently baked all at the same time. Amazing-tasting, easy and cheap since the main ingredient is bread.

This post is part of the Food Matters Project, a cooking collaboration among participating bloggers. Each week, we will cook a recipe from Mark Bittman’s Food Matters Cookbook, which places an emphasis on mindful and sustainable eating. Follow along with us!

Nowadays, in the U.S. at least, we still drink tea, but we don’t really have tea. Without tea as its own event of sorts so disappears the tea sandwich. This week’s recipe was chosen by Aura of Dinner with Aura who, along with Bittman, reminds us that sandwiches do not have to be gigantic meaty affairs and can …