Meatless meals to savor on Lenten Fridays 18 Recipes
Feb. 17, 2021
With Lent upon us, now is as good a time as any to add to your repertoire of meatless recipes. Although many Americans eat meat three times a day, any vegetarian or vegan will tell you that you don’t really need meat to eat well. If you want something other than good old fish sticks and tuna casserole for dinner, read on.
Jackfruit carnitas tacos with a spicy chipotle sauce are a quick, easy meaty-feeling vegan option. Another almost effortless option is zesty sizzling ginger scallion sauce with pan-seared tofu. “Blackened” snapper with a salad of crunchy pickles will also light up your taste buds with little effort. Orecchiette, little pasta “ears” with breadcrumbs and broccoli rabe, is a texture fest that leaves you feeling like it was hours rather than minutes in the making.
Suicide deaths in N.J. likely fell in 2020, defying fears amid the coronavirus pandemic
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
Suicides in New Jersey likely fell in 2020, despite widespread fears that the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic would cause more people to take their own lives.
Preliminary state data recorded 636 deaths by suicide last year, down from 757 in 2018 and 723 in 2019. And while 2020′s figures are expected to rise as more suicide investigations are completed, they suggest that the strain of the past year did not translate into a rash of new suicides, as many worried it would.
That deaths would instead decline is counterintuitive, considering the deep impact of COVID-19, which has altered life in countless ways, robbing many youths of their schools, many workers of their livelihoods and many seniors of warm interactions with their children and grandchildren.
Chile crisp and salsa macha are taking over the kitchens of spicy food lovers Listen 9 min MORE Chile crisp in jars. Chile crisp relies on infusing a mixture of chiles and aromatics like onion and garlic, along with proprietary spice in a generous bath of hot oil. Photo by Ken Concepcion.
Evan Kleiman predicts 2021 to be the year of peak chile crisp and its cousin salsa macha. Both chile crisp and salsa macha rely on infusing a mixture of chiles and aromatics like onion and garlic, along with proprietary spice in a generous bath of hot oil. Often nuts and seeds are added. Versions range from truly fiery to a friendly bit of sting, depending on the chiles used.
January 21 marks the fourth anniversary of the LA Women’s March. This year, it’s the first day of a 10-day, virtual and in-person event that involves menu collaborations and panel conversations by and for women.
How to grow veggies at home all you need are seeds, soil, sunlight, and patience Listen 9 min MORE Logan’s Gardens may be the only Black-owned nursery in Southern California. Evan Kleiman recommends buying healthy seedlings there. Photo by Logan Williams of Logan’s Gardens.
Planting seeds or seedlings is always a hopeful endeavor. Evan Kleiman encourages us to try to grow veggies no matter where we live. Of course we can buy vegetables at the grocery store or at a farmers’ market, but gardening is about more than the end game.
The process is about slowing down and paying attention to something outside ourselves. It also gets us outside.