| Because its what we do |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|06:22 pm] |
In joining with Meleth and Avengangle, its still a bad season for grandparents. I mean, I guess she made it 3 days into March but still. Anyway, my grandma died yesterday morning, after being fairly sick for a year; she got pneumonia a year ago and almost died then, but she was tenacious. Much of my family was around when she went though, so that was good.
I'm also not making it back for the memorial mass (that was eventually decided on anyway despite the fact that originally it wasn't going to happen), mostly because there isn't a wake or anything else, just lunch and mass. There will be some ash burial thing in a few months I will try and get to.
:(
ps- in other news I got my hair cut for the first time at a barber. I used to be so scared to go in case they turned me away. But they didn't. Yay short hair. |
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| My key |
[Oct. 23rd, 2008|08:16 pm] |
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Your result for What's your key signature?... C# MinorC Sharp. C sharp run. You'd only know I was reusing this joke from C# Major's headline if you cheated. 
Congratulations, you’re C-Sharp Minor, a tricky little bastard of a key, if I do say so myself. Considering the press time that C# Minor’s relative |
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| Yippee! |
[Oct. 1st, 2008|11:42 am] |
So, I ran into the guy who drove the van to skydiving today, and he said he had my flashdrive. He found it cleaning out the van after the trip and brought it home w/ him.
YAY! Too bad he didn't leave it in a lost-and-found type place that they DO have at the organization he works for, so I would have gotten it back on Monday, before I trekked through most of the stages of grief over the loss of my flashdrive. If I'd not run into him who *knows* how long it would have been before he managed to track me down, since he didn't go through the obvious channel.
But at least, YAY! |
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| A post! I went skydiving! |
[Sep. 28th, 2008|08:48 pm] |
Here are the piccies to prove it!
It was pretty damned awesome! Great way to pre-ring in 30!
WOO! I actually prepaid to go one more time, sometime in the spring. They had a 50% off dealie.
In bad news, I'm freaking because I lost my flashdrive today, and my advisor gave me a due day of Friday for my proposal, which I may very well have to restart now :( Wish me luck that I find it in the van I was riding in today. |
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| Here she is |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|11:11 pm] |
It has come to my attention that it still looks like moss to everyone but me?
Is this true?
is the person who is my new avatar. Does anyone know her? |
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| I'm confused by my avatar! |
[Aug. 26th, 2008|06:22 pm] |
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It just showed up a few days ago. Did I leave my LJ on somewhere and someone put their pic in?
Its, uh, NOT ME! weird. |
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| Sign this petition |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|12:44 am] |
Its so much more important than saving the sea lions or whatever.
MTV is intending on doing a remake of RHPS.
I cringe.
Please, do it for the...teenagers. |
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| Since I never post |
[Feb. 4th, 2008|10:07 pm] |
I thought I'd give you all this. I was inspired by KC's new avatar. |
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| I'll play! |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|09:31 am] |
98% Dennis Kucinich
95% Mike Gravel
79% John Edwards
77% Chris Dodd
77% Joe Biden
75% Barack Obama
72% Hillary Clinton
67% Bill Richardson
28% Rudy Giuliani
26% Ron Paul
20% John McCain
14% Mike Huckabee
13% Mitt Romney
9% Tom Tancredo
4% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Why am I unsuprised?? |
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| So I'm a big fat liar |
[Nov. 17th, 2007|11:20 am] |
And bad at even once a week.
But hey it will at least average out to once a week. I don't aim high.
Ok foods, from last weekend and on:
I cooked some more recipes from Veganomicon. I need new baking powder, its true that its 100% dead. I made pound cake, and it was like fudge, and my almond quinoa muffins didn't get a rise much either. My baking powder gives vegan baking a bad name. At least I suspect thats what happened.
I also made BBQ seitan + Mac Daddy (from Veganomicon) and some of that coleslaw, for a mid summer meal.
I liked the mac daddy, but not as much as other cheeze sauces, I must say. I did do tricks with the leftovers I enjoyed though, like adding peas and seaweed for a fauxtuna noodle casserole of sorts, and even better, mixed sriracha and capers.
I also made my own invention of peanut buttery sweet potato black eyed peas west african inspired dish. I had intended on making OneChubbyVegan's tester recipe for a potato and peanutbutter black bean thing, but I bought sweet potatoes thinking thats what it was. I was wrong, it turns out once I got to look at the recipe. So I had to make my own thing. It was good, but actually (is this possible?) too peanut buttery. Maybe 3 TBS was a bit too much. Tasted good but was a bit sticky. Id upload it for you to see, but my camera isn't staying open long enough for me to get the picture off, which is kind of worrying me really. I also made some yummy candy cane hot chocolate latte/cappuccino like drinks multiple times. SO GOOD.
Finally, I made a new favorite from Vegan Planet, sweet potato and blackbean enchiladas. I wanted to make something new, but couldn't spare the time to figure out what that would be. Finally, maybe on Sunday I will make the original plan for blackbeans, One Chubby Vegan's tester recipe. I did make Mexican Millet from V-Con though, and that was good, though I like my Mexican rice less tomatoey so I'd think it would be tastier for me with like one less TBS of tomato paste. But it was also undercooked, even though I kept adding more and more water, I eventually just decided to eat it crunchy. It doesn't seem the amount of water added at the beginning was quite enough, Oh well.
I'll actually write about food and not just talk about what I've cooked next week because it will be thanksgiving break and I may just have some time to figure it out!
Also, does anyone else out there like Malta Goya or am I the only one (besides Meli who gave my my first one back in HS some time)? |
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| Food times |
[Nov. 4th, 2007|05:47 pm] |
So, I apparently don't follow recipes as well as I should. I left out the bread crumbs in the chickpea cutlets I made so I didn't bother with a pic today, cuz they didn't look right. My batts were dead on my camera yesterday anyway. The beans were good though, and better the second day.
I today also made Seitan O' Greatness, plus a "salami" flavored vers of said seitan. I also made a white bean pate that is waterier then I like my bean spreads (Bryanna's white bean pate), so I may mix half of it back into the blender and more white beans, so I can thicken it up. I even used almost half of the water listed for blending. The onions added a LOT of water obviously. Either way, it will run off bread and I don't like that about a bean spread.
Also made today sweet and sour coleslaw. I always buy pre shredded coleslaw stuff whenever its lowered in price for quick sale because I love coleslaw, but hate cutting up cabbage (though I do sometimes).
The dressing was good:
1 TBS oil
3-4 TBS vinegar
1 tsp relish
1 tsp mustard (I used horseradish mustard)
3 tsp sugar
1 tsp horseradish
1 tsp salt
some pepper
I used this much on about 4 fluffy cups of coleslaw, though it was maybe a little too little dressing. Coulda used more sugar for the sweet too.
No sit down dinner today, just picked at the stuff I made, so I didn't really take any pictures, maybe I'll take a shot at the cooled seitan.
bah boring indeed. Can't wait for the seitan to cool! |
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| Whoa! BUZZED! |
[Nov. 3rd, 2007|01:00 pm] |
Nothing terribly interesting to enter yet for food today. Just had some toast with smart balance light.
And a homemade capuccino, I used 1c soymilk, 1 serving of espresso homemade on the stove with a cute little stovetop maker I finally got to use (Abby made me some stovetop espresso and I was intrigued and found a 1 serving sized espresso maker for $7 at Marshalls so...I bought it), plus 1 tsp of hot cocoa mix. I didn't heat the soymilk up quite enough, and it needed a bit more sugar, but it was tasty; after a whizz in the blender to give it a little foamyness, it was very capuccino like.
However, its my first caffeine dose since the cleanse and I feel shaky horrible. UGH! Serioulsy wondering if one can make decaf espresso with dark roast decaf. Sacreligious, yes, but possible I suspect. I think I can give up caffeine pretty well now. The cleanse may be questionable for its detox effects, but its *perfect* for someone ditching caffeine. After 2 days, caffeine headaches were gone and I felt very alert in the morning, more then when I was off the cleanse and drinking grapefruit juice. I'm gonna drink some detox tea to see if that helps me a bit.
Otherwise, today I'm intending on eating Loubie, which was my #1 craving while on the cleanse. For some reason, a dinner I ordered *once* at Aladdins in Cleveland was tempting me throughout the cleanse. Its just tomatoes, onions and green beans with oil and spices. I think they used those wide flat green beans (not really flat like snow peas though), and chickpea cutlets. These are the favoritest of the new recipes from Veganomicon and I very must try it NOW! Unfortunately I wont have a picture because my camera batteries are recharging. I'll take photos of leftovers tomorrow. I'll also have some leftover Gomiaso popcorn I made last night.
One of these days I'll write on one of the food topics, but for now I want to go grocery shopping so I can make this stuff! |
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| I totally forgot to tell you what the month is called! VegMoFo! |
[Nov. 2nd, 2007|07:35 pm] |
Or VeganMoFo. Whatever you want. Its a little freeform.
Anyway, today's dinner was simple, because its the last day of specified eating for the cleanse. He just said to eat veggies. So I sauteed up some kale with a leetle bit of garlic flavored oil, added 2 more cloves of garlic, some soysauce (a little too much even though it seemed like so little, probably like 3-4 shakes, overpowered the other flavors a bit), some powdered ginger, because my fresh stuff is squooshy and should be composted, some hot pepper flakes, tsp of sugar, splash of sherry, rice vinegar and sesame oil. Then with Isa's suggestion from Veganomicon, I put some gomiaso on. I can't believe I've never made this toasted sesame and seaweed concoction before! I now want to make popcorn with a little garlic and chili oil for popping, and sprinkle this stuff on and I think it would be awesome.
So, new recipe count:
Gomaiso (combination of 2 recipes, one from How It All Vegan, and one from somewhere online)
Sweet and Salty Sesame Kale (my simple invation)
And the badly focused food pic. One good thing about this is that I may finally take some pride in presenation, because I've never bothered with presentation unless other people were eating over. Also, my camera really sucks. Its a digital camera from the 90's. Sorry! Not gonna be pretty food porn. Don't even know if it has macro setting. |
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| Sooo, I may be posting with a bit more frequency! |
[Nov. 1st, 2007|09:44 pm] |
A vegan bulletin board I frequent, The Post Punk Kitchen is having its own version of NaNoWriMo, for those of the less verbal and more uh...hungry. Anyway, they've given us freedom in what we exactly want to do. So, I'm hoping on updating once or twice a week, posting some food porn (if I can find my crappy digital cam) and writing about the process or something. I'm aiming for making at least 20 new things this month, whether by my own design or new recipes (I have some cookbooks so I'll be using those)
For the beginning, I have no picture for today's dinner, but its soup which is never all that pretty anyway. But its soup, and that is very exciting for me because I've pretty much not eaten since the 20th of October. I've been doing the Master Cleanse, which I tried in January but gave up after like 2 or 3 days. I drank spicy lemonade for 10 days, and a day and a half of grapefruit juice, finally eating some soup today. I'm not sure I'm excited about the spice mix I made (Middle Eastern Mix, Ibzar), in a soup. I could see it being good on seitan, or beans or something, but not in a soupysoup. Its not bad, but I think the cinnamon in it is throwing me off. Its also a random assemblage of veggies but thats just because I was shopping whilst being a little hungry and a little more hungry for variety.
For eating, finally I was allowed to eat. I was supposed to only eat a few bits of vegs and a lot more broth, plus a few little rye crisps. I had some rye pretzels, soup, probably too many vegs, but I don't feel sick, plus a little rye bread, and (oops) some chips. Oh and a little soy yogurt, to help the digestion along. FOOD is exciting!
Finally, after my digestion has hit levels safe for eating whatever I want, I can have some fun! |
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