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How To Enjoy Spring Produce

Posted in food, vegan, vegetarian, tagged , , , , , , on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been reminded the past few weeks why Spring may be my favorite season, and I need only one word for it: asparagus.
I’ve been pining or asparagus season since, oh, November or so. Granted, this is California, so I could theoretically get asparagus anytime I want, but it’s usually conventionally grown and from Mexico or [...]

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Vegan MoFo: Play With Your Food

Posted in cooking, food, vegan, vegetarian, tagged , , , , , , on October 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Taking Back the Plate: A Manifesto in Favor of Playing With Food
I come to you tonight, my friends, with a proposition: play with your food. There are a number of reasons why I urge you to play with your food, beyond the fact that it is really fun.

It seems as though any kind of conscientious [...]

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Vegan MoFo: Oven-Roasted Vegetables

Posted in cooking, food, vegan, vegetarian, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 24, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Dinner last night was very pretty. Witness:

I decided to roast some vegetables in the oven. What you see is a mix of:
- Brussels sprouts
- Torpedo onion
- Carrots
- Red and gold beets
- Sweet potatoes (white and orange-ish)
Roasting vegetables is so easy and really quick! All you need to know about how to roast vegetables is:
- Cut [...]

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Cooking Delicata Squash for Vegan MoFo

Posted in cooking, food, vegan, vegetarian, tagged , , , , , , on October 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »

The farmstand this week brought some winter squash. You can imagine my excitement! I’ve decided this is the winter I learn to prepare winter squash, so I snatched some of these babies up. First on the chopping block: delicata squash.

First of all, if you’re looking for economical food, winter squash has got to be it. [...]

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Anatomical Knitting and Vegan MoFo Cookbook

Posted in cooking, food, knitting, vegan, vegetarian, tagged , , , , on October 13, 2008 | 7 Comments »

I was wandering outside today, and guess what I found hiding in the rosebushes?

What IS that? Is it trying to camouflage itself, or does it just have a special affinity for flowers and bad metaphors?

…okay, you’ve got me. I knit a uterus.

A friend of mine is having some uterine trouble, so I did the obvious [...]

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Farmers’ Markets Make My Weekends Happy

Posted in food, sustainability, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Alarm clock goes off. 6 AM on a Saturday. Gross. I flop out of bed and manage to grab a hoodie and my keys through the fog of slumber. There are a few cats meandering the streets, but that’s about it. It’s early. It’s dark. I’m tired.
But I’m happy. Or I will be. Early Saturday [...]

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How I Became Vegetarian

Posted in vegetarian, tagged , , , , , on September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’m of the opinion that it’s important to give you, my reader, some kind of history (or genealogy, if you will) of why I’m vegetarian.
I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 13 years old. It started from a pretty typical adolescent headspace, centering around coming into an awareness that eating meat meant actually eating another [...]

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