oh, hi!

so i've finally torn myself away from battlestar galactica with my iron will. either that, or jeremy and i finished the entire series. plus razor and the plan. probably best that i wasn't blogging, because there would have been a lot of this:

and this:

 and definitely some of this:

i'm still working out the recipes for those three. nom!

i have been cooking a whole lotta delicious food, thanks to my family and friends loading me up with cookbooks for christmas. the vegan table, vegan brunch, vegan bites, supermarket vegan, the best of vegan cooking, vegan cupcakes take over the world... notice a theme? i've been trying out recipes from all of them, and i have a few favorites i'll post in the next couple of weeks.

along with my vegan cookbooks, i also got the complete book of home preserving. (thanks, bean!) there are a ton of recipes i need to try. i can't wait to get canning this spring and summer, so i can eat delicious fruit and tomatoes this time next year. and pickled everything, all the time. speaking of which, i really need someone at cafe gutenberg to slip me their recipe for those spicy gingery pickled carrots!

i just passed my 3 month veganniversary, and it has been a lot easier than i expected. sometimes i miss sashimi, but then i just read something like this and devour my tofu max. i've discovered that there are a ton of places around richmond that take mighty good care of us vegans. thank the lords of kobol for ellwood thompson's. (despite a really, really, really disappointing meetup with their in-store registered dietician. "spirulina is a fungus which will make you fat"/"you should eat quorn for vegan protein" and so much more misinformation. umm, spirulina is a blue green algae that is up to 77% protein by weight, and quorn is mold and egg. mold. and. egg. maybe more on this later, if i feel like a good rantblog.)

anyway. i want to write up some of the places that have blown me away with their cruelty-free deliciousness - 8 1/2's off-menu vegan pizza, strange matter's tasty tofu scrambles, cafe gutenberg's killer nooch fondue and pecan belgian waffle... mmm, i'm getting hungry just thinking about them.