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New Blog

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:22:53 -0300

For anyone interested, I have created a new blog:

http://craftyveganlibrarian.wordpress.com/

I am going to try to keep this one up-to-date and to keep it going, but I can't make any promises.

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Midweek Munchies: Food Rut

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:47:20 -0400

Midweek Munchies: What Danielle D is contributing this week

I've been in a major food (and everything else) rut lately and I have not felt like getting groceries or cooking. After living on practically nothing for the past couple of weeks, I finally broke down and picked up a few things at the store:

Green Beans
Bok Choy
Romaine Lettuce
Bean Sprouts
Zucchini
Tomato
Bananas
Butternut Squash
Diced Tomatoes
Canned Chickpeas
Canned Kidney Beans
Red Lentils
Crispy Rice Cereal
Taco Kit
Microwave Popcorn
Blackberry Jam
Frozen Edamame
Frozen Berries
Ground "Beef"
Brown Rice Tortillas

I still don't know what I am going to make (other than the tacos that I had for dinner), but at least I have something to work with now.

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3 Bean Chili

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:44:59 -0400

In my opinion, there is nothing better on a cold, rainy night than a nice, hearty bowl of chili. Luckily, like soup, chili is one of my favourite things to make, as it is as easy as simply throwing a few ingredients into a pot and letting it do its thing. While I can make chili without a recipe, I sometimes like to follow one. Last night, I decided to follow a recipe and make the Three Bean Chili from 125 Best Vegan Recipes (which I borrowed from the public library a while back).

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While I was not too impressed with this cookbook (as it uses too many prepackaged products), I really like this chili recipe. Though it's not an especially spicy chili, it has a nice, deep flavour that really hits the spot.

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Shake That Tail...

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:15:35 -0400

In this new t-shirt that I got from Walmart:

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Isn't it cute? It made me giggle, so I had to buy it.

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Spicy Creamy Tomato Soup

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:08:08 -0400

I have to admit that I am not really a big fan of tomato soup. I always liked the Campbell's variety (which I can no longer eat on account of the gluten), but I find that "real" tomato soup is just too tomato-y for my tastes. Nevertheless, I still crave tomato soup at least once a month (weird, huh?). This month's craving came a few days ago when I saw MadeinAlaska's blog post about creamy tomato soup and veganrella quesadillas. Unfortunately, I didn't have the necessary ingredients to make MadeinAlaska's recipe (I didn't have any tomato sauce or cornstarch), so I had to go digging through my cookbooks to find another one.

I ended up finding the Spicy Creamy Tomato Soup (p. 55) recipe in How it all Vegan. Though I didn't really want spicy tomato soup, this recipe looked just about perfect: it had few ingredients, lots of garlic and some soy milk (to make it creamy). I decided to make the soup and to simply minimize the spiciness (I only used 1/4 tsp. of pepper and a pinch of cayenne). The results were fantastic! The soup was creamy and had a nice deep, warm taste to it (likely from all of the garlic).

Here's a picture of the finished soup in the pot:

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And here's a close-up of it (still in the pot):

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And here it is all ready for lunch:

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I will definitely be making this soup again. I think that next time, though, I will use a little less garlic - as much as I love garlic, six cloves was a little too much for three small servings of soup (which is what this recipe makes).

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Book Meme: Page 123

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:55:36 -0300

From Bookmole:

Instructions:
Grab the nearest book. *
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog along with these instructions
* 'nearest' means you can't rummage around for a 'cool' or 'intellectual' book. Really, whatever your hand falls on first. Let's hope it's not porn. (Or should we hope it is?)

Okay, so I dug under my coffee table and the first book that I found was (the yet unread) Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

Slaughterhouse-Five

On page 123, the fifth, sixth and seventh sentences read:

"Did he say anything?"
"No."
"Was he scared?

What's on your page 123?

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Peanut Butter Solution

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:09:10 -0300

Earlier today, Nava Atlas posed the following question to her blog readers: "What's Your Favorite Food Movie?" Though I had never considered this question before, the answer came to me almost immediately. My favourite food movie (broadly defined as a movie that has something to do with a type of food) would have to be the Peanut Butter Solution (1985).

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Did anyone else watch this as a kid? No?! Are you sure? Maybe this summary will jog your memory:

Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two 'friendly' ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael looses all of his hair when he gets a 'fright' and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit 'hairy'.

As you might have guessed, it really is a bizarre movie. I recommend it to anyone who likes weird, kid's movies from the eighties.

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Yoso Soy Yogurt

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:38:34 -0300

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I thought that I would talk about yet another Canadian product that I enjoy: Yoso Soy Yogurt. Though still not as good as dairy yogurt, this is the best soy yogurt that I have tried. It is creamy and flavourful, without being overwhelmingly sweet or beany. And best of all, it is reasonably priced: it is only $3.99 Cdn. for six single sized cups; whereas So Nice Soy Yogurt (the only other soy yogurt available around here) is $1.49 Cdn for one single sized cup. Oh, and let's not forget that it contains 5 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of Omega 3, 3 grams of Omega 6, 20% of the RDA for calcium (!), and 6% of the RDA for Iron. My only complaint with this product is that I wish that it came in more flavours (I would really like it to come in peach) and that it had chunks of fruit (rather than pureed fruit).

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Dream: Broken Eyeglasses

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:45:24 -0300

I'll be the first to admit that I have boring dreams. Like my life, my dreams are often filled with mundane tasks and ordinary occurrences. Last night's dreams were no exception. For the most part, they focused on work and what had happened throughout the day. There was one dream, however, that stuck out from the rest - not because it was interesting but because it was completely uninteresting and seemingly unnecessary. In this dream, I put on my eyeglasses and realised that they were broken (the pin was missing out of one of the arms). So, I took the glasses off. After examining them for a few minutes, the dream was over. Sounds exciting, huh?

According to this dream dictionary,

To see broken eyeglasses in your dream, indicates that your vision and perception is impaired. You are not seeing the facts correctly.

I can't imagine how this could apply to me. I'm more inclined to believe that this dream was simply meaningless and came about because I saw some eyeglass repair kits at Shoppers Drug Mart last night.

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New Words: Dick Lit and Manorexia

nobody@vox.com(Danielle D.) — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:10:00 -0300

While these might not be new "words", they were definitely new to me. Note: I put words in quotations because I can't for the life of me figure out why either of these terms needs to exist.

Dick Lit (or Lad Lit)
Manorexia (or Manorexic)

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