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Sad Songs Say So Much
My father used to blast sad songs from his basement office where he hunched over elaborate schooners and Fokker triplanes model kits. Many of these songs, later referred to as “dad songs” by my siblings, were holiday-themed and infused with regret and loneliness. Looking at the songs that I keep returning to in my own [...]
The Vegan in Dairy Land, U.S.A.
Joining Wok Man for a post-Christmas extended family dinner, the Wok-mother strove to satiate my cheese-free appetite. For protein, lentil patties drenched in portobello gravy alongside a vegan version of her “party time potatoes” made with Follow Your Heart cheddar. Yummy. Once again, food accommodation is a high compliment!For dessert, a beautiful vegan mini-chocolate cake [...]
Christmas Vegan Cookie Bake-a-thon
Sugar Cookies These were certainly the most time consuming. Using this recipe from blogger couple John & Kristie I churned out 36 glorious evergreens, doused them with the sweet almond icing and dipped them into a pool of nonpareils. Sweet sugar overload! And just in time as one of 2009′s food goals focuses on the sweet [...]
Making Christmas Stuff, Part III
It’s a cross-stitch Christmas! Below is a gift for my sister who giggled to learn I was stitching Star Wars quotes for presents. I chose one of Darth Vader’s first lines as he boarded Leia’s ship and made it pastel and whimsy to contrast his power and galactic hotness.For my brother, a little bit of [...]
Making Christmas Stuff, Part II
Christmas crafting has taken the place of my school work. So much to do! Here are the lovely little Momma and Dadda owls for my little nieces!
Vegan Holiday Potluck
The Art/FoodSparrow and her Tim X were the hosts of a delicious holiday vegan potluck. I had been looking forward to the event for months and spent most of the day starving myself for the feast. My additions were from VCOn: Pumpkin Crumb Cake with Pecan Streusel and the tzimmes.At the Sparrow home, a spinach [...]
Vegan Gingerbread House {Foreclosure}
It was a bit ambitious to attempt a vegan version of a gingerbread house, mostly because not much can impersonate the disturbingly hardening power of the egg white “royal icing” cement of tradition. Still, I had to give Vegan Dad‘s recipe a try. A fan of baking, brash haphazard decorating, planning and crafting, the challenge [...]
Making Christmas Stuff, Part I
For that special Spiritualized fan in your life: Let It Flow‘s whoa whoa whoa and pill cross stitchInspired by this, I crafted my own Star Wars cross stitch to be presented to lovely Artsparrow and her dapper gent, hosts of a scrumptious vegan holiday potluck.My annual holiday mix was winter themed this year. Besides the [...]
Who’s scruffy looking?
I was 5 hours away from a full day of juice fasting when the celebrations on Endor ended. After Episodes IV, V and VI, Darth Vader’s pyre alight and stormtrooper helmets now percussion instruments, the Star Wars Juice Fasting Marathon was over. We had come so far. But the morning’s enthusiasm had waned mid-day. Christmas crafting [...]
Raw, Day 5
After an uneventful day 4, highlighted only by our gradually diminished appetites and growing weariness of food choices, Day 5 was here. Wok Man and I had an evening out at Quintessence to congratulate ourselves on our milestone. Having lost the taste for our alfalfa and beet patties, the evening found us ravenously hungry. We had completed [...]
Raw, Day 3
Day 3 with no cooked food… (I accidentally typed “cookie” at first- Freudian type?)… besides some evening pangs, I got this. Wok Man, who challenged my will with the offer of a dinner out at an Indian restaurant if we both caved, has got it too. And much to my surprise! The man who had [...]
