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Archive for August, 2009

iodized, for your pleasure

Posted in crafty, general on August 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »

 I love salt. I was raised to love salt. If I ever have high blood pressure, I’ll probably lie about how much salt I eat, to avoid the finger-wagging. The thing is, I use sea salt and kosher salt, not that stuff hawked by that little girl with the umbrella. Not all salt is evil. [...]

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pasta with pesto & soy curls

Posted in quick fix, recipes, tagged , , on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This is from last week, when we had our mini heatwave. I didn’t want to cook at all, but I’d not really planned ahead with no-cook meals, so this is a little-cook one. And whaddaya know? It’s super good. I made the pesto first (takes all of two minutes), and in this nut-free household, pesto [...]

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oh, peta, you’ve done it again

Posted in general on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve taken issue with PETA before, for their use of sexuality, and I suppose this is along the same lines—just meaner. Way meaner. Does anyone who’s made a donation to PETA want their money used for this? I hadn’t seen the billboard, but through FoodFight! I followed a link to Vegan Hope’s post. She’s a [...]

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kind nugs and mercperks

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

As if I don’t get enough hits from people searching “nugs” (the title of my breaded seitan post), here we go with Hammy’s Vegan Kind Nugs. They’re baked breaded seitan pieces, served with a rather smokey barbecue sauce. How are they? Well, there are two situations in which they’d be awesome: after the witching hour, [...]

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chicago, part 3: the food!

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , , , on August 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Just a word before I get into my dinin’ out over a week in Cheese-n-bratland. I visited a friend’s place on the North Side and saw this on the front door of his building. (OK, it was the wrong building—he lived next door—but we thought it was his building so while we waited for him [...]

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