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is there anything you can’t do?

Posted in general, tagged , on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Oh, nutritional yeast, you fabulous fungus, you couldn’t possibly comprehend how much I love you. You brighten up my popcorn, my tater tots, my tofu. I have to fight off the cat so I can lick my own fingers clean. And you give my body good stuff to soak up and turn into a better [...]

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uh-oh

Posted in eatin' out/in, general, tagged on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »

See this here? This is what trouble looks like from your bedroom window. This is the new location of Voodoo Doughnut. They think they’re keepin’ it all secret, but I see all! I’ve managed to keep away from the one just west of the bridge since I got here, but this is pretty much in my [...]

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gettin’ sarah on oprah

Posted in general on May 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »

(Photoshoppery courtesy of Sarah Kramer’s blog) I was catching up on my blogroll when I saw Sarah How it All Vegan Kramer’s pitch to get herself on Oprah. Oprah’s apparently doing a 21-day vegan cleanse (also gluten-free, caffeine-free, sugar-free). Don’t know if she’s not wearing or using animal-derived products for those 21 days or if this is dietary [...]

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doin’ portland with the in-laws

Posted in eatin' out/in, general, tagged , , on May 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Running around with your SO’s parents means lots of winging it at omni restaurants and packing lunches for longer trips. When playing ambassador of the lifestyle, I feel like I’m doing two things: explaining that it’s easy and healthy while at the same time not sounding “born-again.” This is not the extremist way of life some [...]

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croutons

Posted in general on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Whatever. Boring salad—wait! Take a look at those croutons! Wherever did I get such gorgeous, tasty-looking croutons? All right, they’re pretty average-looking, I know. But I made ‘em and I was just trying to build some excitement about little spiced-up cubes of old bread.  Of the things you can do with old bread, maybe the easiest [...]

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you catch more me with sugar

Posted in general, tagged on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

And in sugar news today: Back when I was trying to build a better muffin, I needed brown sugar. Knowing that brown sugar is often regular ol’ refined white sugar with molasses added back in, I went for the most wholesome, organic, do-gooder-looking brand on the shelves at the grocery store. That was Hain. Not 100% [...]

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more dining out…and my camera craps out

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , on May 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Wanna see something cool? Oh wait—that’s super uncool. My camera started doing this every once in a while, throwing crazy color bands through the image, which it refuses to focus. Sometimes this actually looks interesting, if you’re not trying to read words. What I was attempting to show you here was the drink menu on [...]

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night and day

Posted in general, tagged , , , on May 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Friday night was pretty sweet. We’d gotten a check for some freelance work on the same day as Tom’s first paycheck…and I found out that our Federal Consolation Compensation Check won’t be in the mail until June, meaning it’s not lost in the mail due to our change of address (yet). So margaritas were in [...]

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fish fry

Posted in general, tagged , , on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Nope, it’s not just a Big Black song (got a clip right here). We had ourselves a tofufish fry. I picked up a cajun cornmeal fish coating, which the guy at the fish counter promised would be good even if it wasn’t going on an animal, and dipped some frozen-then-thawed-n-pressed firm tofu in soymilk (with [...]

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the parents are coming! the parents are coming!

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve been in town less than three months—and until last week our only income was from a few freelance gigs—so we’ve been trying to avoid going out too much. But with my in-laws coming in for Memorial Day, we need to find some veg-friendly omni joints. Between the dining and shopping guide we scored from Vegfest [...]

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