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✩ ✩ Buy Nothing Day: Friday, 11/27/09 ✩ ✩
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 [...]
The calm before the storm…
I haven’t been in the kitchen much at all these days. But that will change very, very soon. The holiday marathon of cooking, pot lucks, food shares and Christmas cookies begins this weekend. And for the first time ever, I will be responsible for the entire Thanksgiving meal at my parent’s house. This is a colossal [...]
Vegan Rainbow Cookies
It has been on my list of things to do for quite some time: veganize the ever-loved rainbow cookie! After plans for a weekend in Pittsburgh fell flat and the rain continued to persist in New York City or the umpteenth day, a Freaks and Geeks marathon would be complemented with combating this huge baking [...]
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Ever since Wok Man and I retreated to Western Massachusetts for some rustic living in October of 2008 (blogged here), we’ve wanted to bring a large group to Noble View‘s farmhouse. This past weekend, about 5 months since the initial plan was brought to court, a group of 15 intrepid souls packed it up and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Raw, Day 2
It’s day two and time to step it up a notch. Having a craving for a non-wet nourishing goody en route to class, I treated myself to a package of Raweo! by Blessings Alive & Radiant Food. At $8.69 a bag, they were a When In Rome-ism, a sign of my commitment for this raw [...]
Raw, Day 1
Day 1 of my raw week went well. I was impressed with how satiated I was and how energetic I felt all day. A breakfast of ground almonds, sunflower seeds and pepitas will do that, I guess. But once evening rolled around, however, I was craving bread, pretzels, pancakes and, strangely, Alphabits cereal. Hmmm. Wok [...]
