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on the cheap

Posted in general on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I discovered a new little something that has already saved me money. While I try to do most of my shopping locally, I do end up ordering some stuff online—and I live in Portland, where we are lucky enough to have veg-friendly stores (where else are you going to find a vegan mini-mall?). Most of [...]

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for the kitties

Posted in general, tagged , on March 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Just an excuse to post a picture of Mädchen using my wrist-rest as a pillow. (If I don’t offer a pillow she ends up falling asleep on the Tab or Caps Lock key.)
Actually, there’s a pretty big fight going on over at Huffington Post, over a story on whether it’s safe to feed dogs and cats [...]

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making strides

Posted in general on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Please excuse the nonvegan interruption. It’s for a good cause, I assure you. I’m walking for Making Strides to help fight breast cancer…which means I’m raising funds for Making Strides to help fight breast cancer.
$5 goes a long way when it’s got a bunch of $5 brothers and sisters. And if your company has a [...]

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thanks, boca

Posted in general, tagged , on March 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I saw on Compassion Over Killing that the latest egg-ridding campaign has coaxed Boca into making all their products egg-free by the end of the year. Now if they could figure out how to get rid of that pesky whey…
And LightLife and Morningstar Farms have agreed to further reduce their egg use in 2009. For LightLife that means five new [...]

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zucchini bread and other fruity news

Posted in recipes on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Last week I picked up two pounds of zucchini and had planned this grand scheme of a recipe a day, to rock the zucchini 5 ways to Sunday. You read about one of my flops, then the next (simply roasted) just didn’t photograph well in the artificial light, so I scrapped the idea and went [...]

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happy equinox

Posted in general, tagged , on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Having just come back from Chicago, where they’re still in recovery from winter, Tom had to photograph his way home from work yesterday. This is Portland in spring:

How can this be the saddest/most depressed/whatever-that-poll-said-we-were city in the country?
In a couple of weeks we’ve got a friend (with his new ladyfriend) coming in for a visit, and he [...]

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happy birthday

Posted in general on March 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Yeah, um, I didn’t have a candle, so I made one out of an old chopstick.
Not only is it my sister-in-law’s birthday today (Happy birthday, Brenda), but it is also the first birthday or anniversary or whatever for Vegtastic Voyage. I don’t know anything about the specific day I went vegan—I’m pretty sure it was [...]

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tastes like chicken…i think

Posted in general, tagged on March 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I realized the other day that I don’t really remember what chicken tastes or even smells like. Sometimes I’ll be eating a chick-alike and be blown away by how like chicken it tastes. Or using chick-alike bullion in broth, I’ll think it smells like chicken. Then I walk down the hall in my apartment building [...]

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happy accident

Posted in general, tagged on March 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Can you tell what these two powders are? If they were in identical bottles and it was very early and you were distracted because it was an emergency travel day, you could easily mix up cinnamon and cayenne. Tom sure did.
Fortunately, he realized his error just after pouring the cayenne on top of the coffee grounds (we [...]

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muruku you

Posted in general on March 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Muruku! Say it—do it, it’s fun! These are the snacky treats I based the flavoring of my roasted chickpeas on (yeah, I’ll end a sentence with a preposition—I’m just reckless like that). The onion flavor comes in little strings, and the original and spicy ones are in little piped-out circles. Onion’s all I eat. Tom digs ‘em [...]

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