Edamame Hummus and What I ate today and 5 recipes!

Today I have real bad cramps. It sucks. I woke up at 6 am to bring my two kittens to get neutered. My kittens are 11 months old now! No! Wow I didn't realize I waited so long to get them fixed.

So today I had a weird eating day.

Breakfast was...coffee with sugar. With Back to Nature lemon cookies. I ate about 11 of them.

I ate 3 bananas.

A sandwich with roasted portabello mushrooms and edamame hummus.

For dinner I had a homemade potato soup, a salad with portabello mushrooms, carrots and cucumbers and homemade croutons from old bread. Italian dressing.

Whoa there is at least super easy 3 recipes in here.

For dessert, my mom had some accidentally vegan pillsbury apple cookies and it's my friend's birthday so I whipped them up. They have food coloring in them which is not vegan!! Because it's tested on animals but technically it is not made of animals. I don't feel that bad because my mom didn't buy it she got it from a free store where big box stores donate food. And my mom had had it for a year! And was going to get rid of it. I don't know about how all vegans feel about food coloring because for the longest time I was eating shit tons of swedish fish and skittles when they took the gelatin out. But it's bad for animals and it apparently is bad for us too.

I ate about 7 of those cookies.

Later I'm going to have some sleepy time tea.

 Potato Soup

2-3 medium potatoes
2 tsp garlic powder
2 tsp onion powder
3/4 t salt
1/2 t pepper
2 T veggie bouillon
1 cup carrots
3 cups water

Boil potatoes and carrots until soft. Drain. Add everything to blender and blend. Done.

Edamame Hummus

I got this recipe offline and tweaked it. No olive oil so I subbed vegetable oil.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchen/edamame-hummus-recipe

Ha yup that's it.

Roasted Portabella Mushrooms

Portabello mushrooms
balsamic vinegar
oil of whatever kind

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grab a baking sheet or glass pan and line with baking parchment. Put mushrooms upside down like umbrellas and drizzle with oil and balsamic vinegar then stick in oven for 15-20 minutes.

Homemade Croutons

These are best with breads without all the preservatives and shit. I used white plain french bread with three ingredients.

Old bread
italian seasoning
onion powder
garlic powder

Cut the bread up into little crouton sizes and put in a layer on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Sprinkle with all the spices. Bake in oven for 10-15 minutes or until crispy but not super burnt.

Those some sad-ass recipes, huh. Oh, well. Cooking already takes too long! But I do it anyway because it's way cheaper!!

Got a free cantalope and dollar bunch bananas from the farmer's market! I always get good deals. 

And that's it. Can't wait to see my babies (my cats) tomorrow morning!!

Asian Food Fest in Over the Rhine! Vegan Options!

Asian Food Fest was held at Washington Park this year and at first I wasn't that keen on going but my friend Jess alerted me that there were vegan options and that their menus were posted online. I checked it out and saw that I could get filled up and menu items ranged from $2-6. 

                      This cashew cream sauce was curry flavor and as soon as I got home I cooked it up with some red rice and broccoli. I enjoyed how quick it was to make this as a meal. It was kinda salty and I added some maple syrup for a sweeter curry.

                     My friends Jess and Athena got Mango Sticky Rice with coconut milk sauce. It was really good. Could have used more rice though for $5.

                                        This is Athena and Jess. They do hair. And have great hair.

                                           Music Hall is right on the border of Wash Park where the
                                          Asian Food Fest was. It's under construction right now.

                                           There were long lines everywhere and some booths even ran out of food.
  I didn't take pics of everything I ate but I had a tofu taco at Red Sesame, Pang Rice Balls, Berry Berry bubble tea at Boba Cha, Samosas at Indigo and a Thai Basil popsicle from Streetpops. Indigo also had cabbage dosas that were vegan but they ran out!                                      

Here's where I got my bubble tea! Has everyone had bubble tea? It has giant tapioca pearls at the bottom and I love the gummy texture and huge straws. 

Starting New Post themes: Minimalism (or just getting rid of shit) and Stuff I found on the ground

My apartment is too crowded. I need to get rid of shit. I know it's going around that minimalism is trendy but it's reasonable that after 60+ years of consumerist/factory line lives and our throw-away culture that a minimalism culture would come out of it. Unless we thought the hoarder mentality would become cool.

So I'll be sharing shit that I get rid of in a sustainable way or fixing broken things I own so they are not just taking up space. Today I will decide on some books I don't want and donate them to the library.

Stuff I found on the ground!!

I find stuff on the ground all the time. I find hair ties on campus all the time. Three weeks ago I found a giant black umbrella in the trash that was totally usable. Two days ago I found a cute cardigan laying on trashcan rim in perfectly good condition.

So Delicious Cashew Milk Dipped Salted Caramel Bars!

Ok, wow. This was as good as it sounded. 

On a side note though. I rode my bike to school then drank a bunch of coffee and then rode home from work with drinking only a small amount of water. My hand proceeded to go numb and my vision went all weird. I definitely won't go without adequate amounts of water ever again. After I drank about 3 tall glasses of water it went away. Whew. I got scared there for a minute. 

So I got these scrumptious bars at a Kroger in Clifton, Ohio. I was choosing between these and Ben & Jerry's chunky monkey. They melted in my mouth and I was glad to just have a single serving instead of a whole pint. The caramel flavor was rich. Perfect flavor combo. 

Review of "Mondo Barbie: An Anthologie of Fiction and Poetry"

I got this book years ago at The Ohio Bookstore on Main St. downtown. If you've never been you should go. You get to search 7 floors of books and you're left alone by the staff. The prices are very reasonable too. Everytime I see the book laying around I'm drawn to its pink pages. I bought it for $3.50. It's interspersed with short stories and poems all about Barbie. The themes go from capitalism to classism to feminism to just plain existential and weird to the identity of our toys and how it shapes our identities. Some stories are very sexual or sex body part oriented. It's very provocative and contemporary.

Plain Vegan Cole Slaw with Mayo Recipe

So it's real easy:

Easy Vegan Mayo


1 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup soy milk

Blend. I used a vitamix. Unsure of other blenders.

Add seasonings as you wish. I added salt and pepper.

I makes about a cup and a half.

It will look just like it!

Plain Vegan Cole Slaw

1 white cabbage chopped up
1 small onion diced
2-3 carrots chopped
salt and pepper to taste
3 T vinegar, I used white
3 T turbinado with 2 T water and heated up to melt
3/4 c. vegan mayo store-bought or half above recipe.

Mix everything up.


I'm super tired from today. My bus pass ran out and since school is over I've been stuffing myself with food.

Ok, bye.

Done with School! Happy Chicks Cake!

So that's it, I finally did it. I got my degree. Whew! I still don't feel all the way normal. I had to finish a capstone with a poster, a presentation and a lab report. I ordered cake from the vegan bakery in Northside, Happy Chicks. I love that place. They have amazing  tofu quiche and chickpea nuggets. 

                                          Chocolate-chocolate cake from Happy Chicks Bakery.
                                                                   It was very good.

                                          My friend Robin's birthday was the same night so I celebrated that too.

Me and Danny

Me and Danny Korman. Past Owner of Park+Vine 

(all vegan general store that closed early January 2017)

                                                      My cats: Top- Pema Chodron
                                                      Bottom- Eckhart Tolle

I'm going to write about the cole slaw I made for the Grill Out for Sam Dubose and my homemade vegan mayo tomorrow!