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[22 Dec 2009|04:29pm] |
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Hey! There's a communist farm in Virginia! They have a 42 hour work week!
I love the "Two Legs Good" caption. And keep an eye out for the 'In Ukraine, flash football with half-naked girls to attract officials' attention to problem of prostitution" crawl. Sounds effective.
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| Weight gain and potatoes |
[22 Dec 2009|01:51am] |
Weight gain foods/recommendations anyone? I'm pretty sure I'm near to hitting underweight for my height and I just haven't been feeling in the mood to stuff myself or anything. So I need some high calorie recommendations.
Also if anyone has any favorite potato or sweet potato recipes that'd be helpful too. I've been doing a lot of just microwave potatoes out of laziness. I also haven't found any decent vegan sour cream recipes. Do they exist?
In return, Spicy Orange Yams (which I've also been making quite a bit lately). They're really easy and healthy. (Off of VegNews)
2 tablespoons non-hydrogenated margarine, melted
Juice of 2 oranges (1/2 to 3/4 cup)
1/3 cup maple syrup
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
5 large sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced 1/4 inch thick
1/2 cup pecans, toasted (garnish)
What You Do:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, combine the first 4 ingredients and stir until well combined. Add the sliced potatoes, stir well, and transfer to a lightly oiled 9x13 baking dish.
2. Cover and bake until the sweet potatoes are just tender, about 40 minutes. Stir once or twice during that time to distribute the liquid over the potatoes. Uncover, and bake until the glaze thickens, about 10 to 15 minutes. Keep warm and sprinkle with pecans before serving.
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| No teeth soup |
[21 Dec 2009|11:31pm] |
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Hey all--
So it looks like I will be ringing in 2010 without wisdom teeth- that's right, extraction time! Long story short, it looks like it'll be minor surgery (impacted!), and I know there are going to be a few days where I'll be depending on soup and smoothies, if I want to eat at all.
Normally, I'd make a big batch or two of soup in advance, freeze it and be good to go. Tricky part? Staying with my mother who tries, but isn't too savvy (you mean you can't just have the broth? even if there isn't any meat in it?)- I know she'd be willing to buy me progresso or something, but I'd rather have homemade...
So, what are some super easy/basic soups/smoothies that are nutrient-rich and with limited chewing? Slurp-ing only type soups? I was thinking of making a miso soup, and I should still have leftovers of the butternut squash soup (pureed) I'm making for XMas appetizer... Maybe a lentil? Or split pea?
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| Best seitan recipe? |
[21 Dec 2009|03:11pm] |
What's the best seitan recipe you've ever used? Or your favourite?
edit:
err. I dont mean how to make it.. I mean how to use it.. like what dishes do you use it in.
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| Replacing orange in bread? |
[21 Dec 2009|10:53am] |
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Hey, I hope someone can help. I am making some baked goods for my family for Christmas and my mom wanted Cranberry Walnut Bread but said she didn’t like the orange flavor that is usually in it. While searching, all I could find were recipes with orange so I was going to stick with the recipe in Veganomicon but it calls for 1/4 c orange juice & 1 Tbs orange zest. Has anyone else made this recipe and can say if it has a distinct orange flavor? Or I was finding that I could possibly use (soy)milk instead of orange juice but does anyone know how that would change the recipe, if at all and would I just omit the zest? Thanks in advance!
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| New Caledonia: only wise policy would lead to independence. |
[21 Dec 2009|06:14pm] |
 This large Pacific island was discovered by James Cook in 1774, and named Caledonia, the ancient name of Scotland, Cook's homeland. Favorable island climatic conditions and fertile soil had attracted the interest of European colonizers - traders, planters and missionaries. In 1853 France announced the island its colony. Then within 30 years the French government had deported many convicted criminals to New Caledonia.
The struggle for independence of the Kanak people, indigenous people of New Caledonia, has a long and glorious history. A new stage of this struggle began in 1985 when “Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front”, led by the outstanding son of the Kanak people Jean-Marie Tjibaou, started its activity. FLNKS had advocated the establishment of an independent Kanak state. The events on the Ouvéa Island in 1988 became culmination of the struggle. FLNKS fighters had taken hostage 27 French gendarmes and judge and demanded immediate independence. The French colonial authorities sent a special commando unit. As a result of bloody clashes, the rebels were forced to let gendarmes off. Jean-Marie Tjibaou was assassinated. But the colonizers realized that they can not longer maintain their dominance in the previous form and made some concessions.
According to the Matignon (1988) and Nouméa (1998) Accord, New Caledonia was granted some minor attributes of independence (such as a local Caledonian citizenship, "national" flag, etc.) and some rights of autonomy. These agreements also set down that the people of New Caledonia will decide at the referendum whether it wants to remain under the authority of France. The holding of the referendum may not be earlier than 2014.
There are pro-independence parties and anti-independence parties at today's New Caledonia political arena. The largest pro-colonial party
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| Help me make tonight's dinner fabulous! |
[21 Dec 2009|08:22am] |
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For dinner tonight I have a couple of cups of quinoa, a block of extra firm tofu that's been frozen and thawed, and a medium sized bag of frozen mixed veggies (carrots, corn, green beans) to work with.... and pretty much every seasoning and condiment readily available in a U.S. grocery store. How can I season/serve this to make it amazing? My brain just isn't working creatively on the food side of things this week.
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| Butterscotch Fudge |
[19 Dec 2009|09:35pm] |
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There was a recipe posted here this week for butterscotch fudge and now I can't find it. Am I really dense or is it no longer posted? I was excited to try it for Christmas and ended up ordering the butterscotch chips for it. Can anybody help or am I s.o.l.?
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| cooking in paris |
[20 Dec 2009|04:56pm] |
This coming Saturday I am going to fly to Paris to visit with my dad for a week and a half (he's over there for work for a few months). He's pretty much a vegetarian, so he won't mind eating vegan for dinner, but I am going to be making it. His wife will also be there, and I am assuming that there will be plenty of underhanded snipes about my choice of diet.
So, I need some recipes or cookbooks that will be easy to make in Paristhat will just knock their socks off. So basically just whole foods that I will be able to easily find in a city that doesn't care too much for vegans. He has a stove and an oven and a fridge, but he doesn't want leftovers.
Any help?
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| flax seed oil |
[20 Dec 2009|06:36pm] |
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I've started taking flax seed oil daily, 1 tablespoon as the bottle suggest. I take it straight, and it tastes awful. Is there anything i can do with/to it to make it taste better?
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| "Millennium Falcon" Indian-spiced lentils |
[20 Dec 2009|10:24pm] |
So, the story:
Yesterday I worked a hideous, supposed to be 8-hour shift that expanded into an 11-hour behemoth. Today, between work and volunteer commitments, my day went from 6AM to 9PM. By the time I got home, I was a wreck, especially since I hadn't cooked at all in the last two days and was living pretty much off nuts and whatever fresh fruit I had in the pantry. Which, while tasty, probably did not supply everything I needed over the last two days. I got home with a strong need for sleep, no patience, a gnawing hunger, and a nearly empty fridge except for a mess of tomatoes on their last day and some random canned items.
BUT! Using my best scrounging abilities, I made lentils. They were ugly as sin, but, man, did they ever hit the spot. I ate three bowlfuls. hence the moniker: just like the "Millennium Falcon" they may not look like much, but they've got it where it counts.
Recipe:
1 can lentils (or 1 and 1/2 cup lentils)
onion, chopped
cooking oil
1 package frozen spinach (or a biiig heap of fresh)
about 4-5 tomatoes, blanched and roughly chopped
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1 heaping teaspoon garam marsala
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 tablespoon coriander leaves
salt and pepper to taste*
Method:
If using fresh lentils, cook until *almost* done. If using fresh spinach, wash, stem, and roughly tear into medium sized pieces.
Heat oil over medium-high heat in a large wok or frying pan. When hot, add onion and turmeric. Cook until onion is translucent. Add lentils and rest of the spices, except salt and pepper. Cook for about five minutes, stirring frequently. Add spinach and, if needed, a little bit of water. Stir, then cover and cook ~10 minutes.
While it is cooking, blanch the tomatoes in boiling water by dipping them in for about 30 seconds and then removing them. Roughly chop toms, retaining as much juice as possible. Add tomatoes, juice, salt and pepper to lentil mix, stirring until warm and consistent.
Serve piping hot. Would probably go extremely well with brown rice, but I didn't have the patience to make it.
*Note: all measurements are best guesses, and your results may vary.
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| Favourite Vegan Hors D'Oeuvres? |
[20 Dec 2009|10:09am] |
I am going to a potluck for new year's eve this year, and volunteered to contribute finger foods. I'd like something fairly low maintenance. Having to warm it up in the oven is alright, but I'd like to be able to do all the prep work beforehand. I'd also prefer not to do any kind of dips because there are some other people contributing those kinds of things. Any suggestions...even better, any favourite recipes/links to recipes?
Thanks!
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| black garlic |
[19 Dec 2009|10:12pm] |
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Has anyone ever had it? I bought some today because it's suppose to have a balsamic like taste (YUM) but I don't exactly know how to use it. I don't really want to waste it since it was sort of expensive.. So if you've ever had it, what have you done with it?
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| vegan pizza rolls! |
[19 Dec 2009|09:08pm] |
I decided to see if I could make vegan pizza rolls tonight, and it worked! Here's the recipe:
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| Japanese curry recipe? |
[19 Dec 2009|03:18pm] |
I make curry all the time, but I have only made it using the packaged powder or flavor cubes. I'd really love to be able to make it from scratch! I have been unable to find any recipes and a lot of times if you search for curry recipes "from scratch" they still include using the flavor cubes :(
So.. does anyone have a recipe for making Japanese curry?
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| Bye Bye Billy |
[19 Dec 2009|11:38am] |
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Racist threats could mean 35 years in prison for the Roanoke neo-Nazi
Done in by his own words, Internet hatemonger William A. White was convicted this afternoon of threatening people from Virginia Beach to Canada.
http://bit.ly/6unCD4
Not happy the state is in charge of imprisoning this tw@t, but nice to see this nonetheless.
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| Reheating polenta |
[19 Dec 2009|12:28am] |
I'm thinking about making polenta for X-mas dinner. It's something I make all the time but I want to jazz it up a bit for the relatives. I'm thinking about roasting some veggies (broccoli, brussel sprouts, and carrots) and serving them with the polenta and some arrabiata sauce, but am open to other ideas.
My question is: I usually fry my polenta and eat it immediately, but I'll need to take this to my grandmother's house later in the day. Will it taste just as yummy reheated in an oven? I use the Trader Joe's kind so if anyone has tried this let me know.
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| Kuchari |
[18 Dec 2009|07:18pm] |
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An Iraqi version of mujadra (a lentil and rice stew) which tastes yum yum yum. This redipe is for 6 courses.
( under the cut )
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| Vegetable juice + pineapple = ? |
[17 Dec 2009|07:13pm] |
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Hi everyone! My Secret Santa this year has been awesome — someone told him or her I was vegan so they've been getting me all this lovely vegan stuff. Today I got a quart of vegetable juice. I'm not a big fan of vegetable juice, so I was wondering if anyone had some neat cooking ideas for it.
Also, my SS got me a pineapple. I ate a quarter of it. Any ideas for that?
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