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29 Dates in One Night
So what if my boyfriend is still in Milwaukee visiting his family and friends? I can still have 29 dates in one night! But it turns out all of them were total drupes. Food puns aside: I couldn’t wait to use the dates Sophia sent my way in our vegan care package swap. I found [...]
This is How I Roll
Things to Accomplish Before 2009 ❑ Sort out Obama Inauguration travel plans ❑ Complete my Thailand books II and III at Blurb ❑ Complete all Christmas crafts in time to send ❑ Do a raw food week followed by a 2 day fast ❑ Convert old home videos to DVD, edit and burn copies ❑ Get [...]
Thanksgiving Pumpkin Baked Ziti with Caramelized Onion and Sage Bread Crumb Topping
Sometime around May this year I’ve noticed that time had entered some hyper drive speed, much to the horizontal stripes slicing the universe Millennium Falcon-style. I’ve been saying, “Before you know it, it will be Thanksgiving, then Christmas and then 2009!” Bidding farewell to the kids at early dismissal yesterday it hit me: what in [...]
✩ ✩ Buy Nothing Day: Friday, 11/28/08 ✩ ✩
1. Break a comfort zone. For the most part, we exist safely in the parameters of our comfort zones. By design, they don’t challenge us. Year after passing year, growing boundaries can keep us comfortable– but should that be the goal of our time here? Today I’ll have a meaningful conversation with a stranger, parallel park a car until [...]
Vegan Swap-o-Rama!
Lindsay from Cooking for a Vegan Lover hooked me up with Sophia of the Carnal Vegan for a vegan care package swap! I received a box full of awesome vegan nibbles and munches at my door yesterday: homemade candies (sesame candy, mocha truffles and caramel brittle with warning label of crunchiness on it!), bay leaves picked [...]
Getting Out of the Kitchen
I’ll be the first to admit that the end of the semester crunch has taken me out of the kitchen. I haven’t chopped more than a potato in weeks! I rationalize this lack of D.I.Y. by talking of the importance of supporting local joints offering vegan choices, lest we forget Mighty Diamond… To end a fabulous [...]
ThanksLiving in Woodstock, NY
This past Sunday was Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary‘s Annual Thanksliving Feast! It was a wonderful few hours filled with amazing eats, good peeps, numb toes and some extraordinary guests of honor: the turkeys. Besides those feathered friends, there was much to see at the farm.Hi there! this goat seemed to beam.The goat who mistook a finger [...]
I’ve been thinking about…
Sailors. Probably because I’m reading Thomas Pynchon’s V. (After two weeks I am on page 38, which means in about 28 more weeks I should be finished. But I don’t want to finish it really. I kind of want to stay there. Each paragraph merits more research: sailor dialect, slang, acronyms, Yiddish, French; tracking themes, [...]
Where in the world…
Only in New York City can you pass a cluster of housing projects followed by the largest Cathedral and Anglican church/fourth largest Christian church in the world (source). The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on Amsterdam & Cathedral Parkway was a breathtaking discovery on my way to class and the perfect foreground for a grey [...]
When I was one-and-twenty…
When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,‘Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away;Give pearls away and rubiesBut keep your fancy free.’But I was one-and-twenty,No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,‘The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;‘Tis paid with sighs a [...]
OVER THE LINE!! D.I.Y. Lebowski Fest
On the same eve the official New York Lebowski Fest was starting off, a group of motley misfits celebrated D.I.Y. style in Long Island City’s unsuspecting Maric Lanes. Far cheaper than the official fest’s bowling party in Times Square, sponsored, fittingly, by Kahlua, Maric gave us 5+ hours of bowling for the discounted rate of [...]
Intestine Scraper Muffins (Parental Advisory: Potty Talk)
The quicker your food…er… exits the better. With that and a few days of unhealthy eating in mind, I concocted a batch of intestine scraper muffins! These delicious darlings are packed with psyllium seed husk, oat fiber, wheat bran, flaxseed meal along with blueberries and uber-ripened banana. The psyllium expands to scrape your intestines clean, the Scrubbing [...]
