Winter Salad Hummus Bowls

I witnessed a Hitchcockian moment in my yard yesterday when a swarm of grackles passed through. 

Fantastic Tippi Hedren costume on Halloween a few years ago

But you know what's scarier than "The Birds"? Climate change. Back in 1963 we worried about Tippi Hedren; today we worry about climate tipping points.

One way that individuals can fight climate change is by adopting a primarily plant-based diet, and "Winter Salad Hummus Bowls" (Epicurious) are a superb vegetarian meal choice. You need time to make each element--the eggs, the greens, the seed topping, and the hummus--but they don't all need to be ready at the same time, so you can make some or all of them in advance. It's delicious, healthy, and gorgeous. Even the kale is palatable!

Vegetarian dishes like this are a simple choice to reduce your carbon footprint, given the disproportionate contribution to climate change of diets heavy in animal products, relative to plant-based diets. If you skip the eggs, you'll be doing even more. (It still would not be technically vegan without eggs because it has honey, but honeybees are not contributing to climate change, as far as I know.)

Beehives

Beehive (my adorable mom in the 1960s)