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Healthy, spiced zucchini flatbreads with yogurt

Spiced Zucchini Flatbreads with Yogurt and Apricot

I love this recipe - I've made it as countless weeknight dinners (where each person gets their own flatbread), as well as for a holiday party appetizer (where they are cut up into small-bite squares. My favorite thing about this recipe is that while it is fresh and light - relying on uplifting elements like yogurt sauce, that are good for the gut - it is very filling! Enjoy, tutti! This recipe is simple and quick to prepare - you chop an onion, slice a zucchini, and...that's

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Jun 27

Vegetarian garlic, cauliflower pasta dinner

Roasted Garlic, Cauliflower Pasta

This easy-peasy pasta features buttery soft cauliflower, fresh greens, sharp parmesan, and a topping of toasted breadcrumbs. This is a perfect weeknight dinner or can be doubled and stuck in the oven for a casserole-style family-style dinner. Enjoy! This recipe is the definition of comfort food - warm, cheesy, but not heavy, this may replace your favorite mac-and-cheese with its gooey, soft cauliflower and crunchy breadcrumb top. For me, the real draw of this recipe is how ea

Nov 10, 2025

Hearty, Tangy Sauteed Veggie Burritos

This recipe is easy-to-make and a health bomb, with proteinaceous beans, vitamin-rich veggies, and gut-loving sauerkraut. It's customizable, too, allowing you to add more or less for a heftier or lighter meal at home or on the go! This recipe is a spicy and hearty take on the classic burrito. Inspired by an article on foods that fight inflammation my mom sent me, the ingredients in this burrito recipe were based on the question: how can you fit as many anti-oxidant rich food

Nov 9, 2025

Fig & Ricotta Salata Bruschetta with Avocado

This recipe tastes as if avocado toast, classic bruschetta, and fig jam had a beautiful bite-sized baby. Sounds pretty good, right? Enjoy...

Sep 27, 2025

Vegetarian loaded tacos with mushrooms, nectarine, avocado - mexican weeknight

Yummy Mushroom & Nectarine Loaded Tacos

These easy tacos are a series of delicious oxymorons: savory and sweet, hot and cold, crunchy and silky - but 100% delectable. Customize...

Sep 27, 2025

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Karl and Mallory have been idea partners for the last decade, and share a passion for our environment.

Karl is a soil biologist and environmental activist. Mallory is a sustainability professional and advocate. Both live and work in New York City and focus on how to live (and cook and eat) sustainably.

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Recipe for Disaster is an homage to ingredients, with a focus on the fact that everything we consume takes a toll on our environments. Eating is a political, an economic, a social, a communal, and a highly personal act that we do three times a day. We provide recipes that reduce the impact of what we eat, beyond surface value, and celebrate the gift of food.

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