Posts published during November, 2006

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November 30, 2006

Stuff I cooked this week

Soba with Hijiki and Stir-Fried Vegetables from Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone

Oven-Roasted Tom Tofu from Vegan Vittles: Recipes Inspired by the Critters of Farm Sanctuary, Roasted Turnip Puree from The Everyday Vegan and steamed brussels sprouts

Coconut Spiced Vegetables from The Garden of Vegan: How It All Vegan Again! over jasmine rice

Soba with Hijiki and Stir-Fried Vegetables

Oven-Roasted Tom Tofu, Roasted Turnip Puree and steamed brussels sprouts

Coconut Spiced Vegetables

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November 29, 2006

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November 27, 2006

An Interesting Radio Format

As I was driving through North Carolina entering the home stretch of my drive to my mom’s, I found an interesting radio station out of Greensboro. It’s called 98.7 Simon and their shtick is “we play anything.” And while I didn’t hear any gothic or industrial, I did hear anything from Salt & Pepa to Johnny Cash to Prince to Carol King to Queen and so on. It seems to be heavy on the 80s with a sprinkling of just about everything else. It’s almost like my ipod. You can listen online at their site apparently, but they make you register before they let you do that. It’s not THAT important to me. Besides, I have an ipod. But it was interesting to hear different format and it let me conserve ipod battery for a while so I could make it the rest of the way.

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November 26, 2006

Thanksgiving Week Food

I landed at my mom’s Sunday with a list of dishes to cook for the week and for Thanksgiving. It’s a lot easier when I have a few days before Thanksgiving to prepare rather than flying in Wednesday as I do sometimes. So here’s what I cooked this week:

Spaghetti with Tomatoes, Olives & Capers from Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone

Hummus from Food For The Vegetarian – Traditional Lebanese Recipes

Italian Marinated Tofu from Vegan With A Vengeance (VWAV)

Chickpea Hijiki Salad from VWAV

For T-Day

Vegetable Pot Pie from The Candle Cafe Cookbook

Orange Glazed Beets from VWAV

Raspberry Chocolate Chip Blondies from VWAV

Cabbage Apple Strudel from Olive Trees and Honey

Sorry, I’m an idiot and took no pictures. Between these dishes, leftovers and added in veggies like brussels sprouts or broccoli, that was about the perfect amount of food to make. My mom and I shared some of the dishes during the week and other people dug into the strudel, beets, pot pie and blondies on T-Day. I failed to tell people that there was seitan in the pot pie, but no one noticed. Can’t wait to tell them I made them eat wheat gluten. Ha Ha! /Nelson

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November 25, 2006

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November 24, 2006

Buy Nothing Day

Don’t forget, today is Buy Nothing Day!

2006 Buy Nothing Day is November 24

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November 23, 2006

awkward thanksgiving moment

So. Family friend to mom’s relatively new boyfriend “does Laura remind you of her mother when she was in high school?” “Well, Sue always had short hair.” Er, not to mention Laura is twice the age of a high school senior. But you know, whatever. At least he pretended to be shocked that I was my brother’s older, not younger sister. Oh, and this was the drunkest t-day ever so please forgive spelling errors, etc.

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November 22, 2006

GM foods brought to you by the makers of Agent Orange, DDT and rBGH

  • More than 90% of world’s genetically engineered seeds were developed and sold by the Monsanto Corporation (planted predominantly with Monsanto’s genetically modified corn, cotton, soyabean and canola seeds).
  • Monsanto’s GE seed sales alone brought the company over $4 billion last year. Outside of GE seeds, Monsanto’s past and present product-line has included Agent Orange, DDT, PCBs, rBGH and aspartame.
  • Notable historic quote: “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the FDA’s job.” – Phil Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications. “Playing God in the Garden” New York Times Magazine, October 25, 1998.

From the Organic Consumers Association newsletter.

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November 20, 2006

Harrison Street Coffee Shop

It seems like Richmond has sprouted up a few veggie restaurants since I was in the area, or at least since I bothered to notice. My mom didn’t seem enthusiastic about Panda Veg so I decided to drag her to Harrison Street Coffee Shop instead. It’s basically a coffee shop that also has about a dozen sandwiches. And apparently they do breakfast as well. I think everything is vegetarian and can be made vegan. I had the Tempeh Ruben and my mom had the Black Bean Hummus Wrap. We both enjoyed them. The Ruben was overflowing with sauerkraut and extremely filling. Looked like all of the sandwiches were under $6 and came with a side of potato chips. I also picked up a vegan chocolate chip scone and eyeballed the vegan peanut butter cups, but didn’t get one. I ate the scone later and it reminded me of how the scones come out from…Garden of Vegan, I think. Good, a touch salty.

I loved the atmosphere of the place. Cozy booths downstairs, and kind of a loft area upstairs with seating. Steady traffic in and out for coffee. Seems like a viable combination the veg items plus the coffee. All in all, if I were to start a veg restaurant this seems like a pretty good idea.

Back in the day I used to hang out in that area a bit. The day being 1984-85. The Village has moved out of their really cool space into an okay one across the street. Used to go to the sub shop right there across the street from Harrison Street Coffee Shop. Weird that it took place 20 years ago.

Harrison Street Coffee Shop outside

Harrison Street Coffee Shop outside

Harrison Street Coffee Shop outside

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