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Archive for March, 2009

maybe it’s you, not him

Posted in general, tagged on March 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over the past couple of days I’ve read probably a dozen stories about Santino, the rock-mining chimp. They all seem to stem from this AP article about Mathias Osvath’s report, about how Santino calmly collects rocks from his enclosure, sometimes finding soft parts of his concrete habitat to mine new ones, then much later hurls them at [...]

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success

Posted in general, recipes, tagged on March 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »

After my last attempt at baked BBQ tempeh, I really, really needed this to work. If it didn’t, chances are I would have given up. (Not very good at repeated failure.) Fatalism not necessary, kids. This worked superly and duperly. I’m just not into marinating, even for an hour. When I decide to eat, I want to eat. I figured [...]

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it has risen

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged on March 6, 2009 | 6 Comments »

  I just found out, via Get Sconed!, that Voodoo has expanded its vegan line to include yeasty, risey doughnuts. So guess where I got breakfast today. I went for the dozen, which has its pros and cons: It was only $8.50, the same price as the omni dozen (as opposed to double or thereabouts, [...]

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and i thought i could rant

Posted in general on March 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I saw this yesterday on Taste Better; it’s a video rant/response to rants/responses to other video rants. After watching this video and another on his Youtube channel, I took a good minute to think about how I present myself and my arguments for not consuming or using animals. And before I start to sound like [...]

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snacky treat

Posted in recipes, tagged , on March 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve seen tons of references to spicy crunchy chickpeas and have meant to give ‘em a whirl for a while now. Well, I finally did it. I went with onion powder and salt, to keep it simple. I wasn’t sure how strongly the chickpea flavor would come through, and I know there’s an Asian snack [...]

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