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Dinner tonight was very yummy. We started with Carrot Bisque from VWAV, then we also had Dolmades (stuffed grape leaves) and we followed that with Grape-Lime Sorbet. This is the Carrot Bisque (page 56) from Vegan with a Vengeance. The only thing I did different to the recipe was use plain soy milk in place of the coconut milk. I halved the recipe so I didn't feel like opening a can of coconut milk when I have soy milk to use up. I really liked it. Mark did not like it much. He thought it was too sweet. There is only a little bit of maple syrup in it. I suppose the sweetness comes naturally from the carrots. I liked it. For some odd reason this photo is coming out sideways. It's not sideways when I view it in PSP so I have no idea why it's like this. But they were good. Mark thought they tasted like "wieners" of all things - I have no idea why. He says it's because the leaf is like the skin of wieners and that the taste inside was spicy. Got the recipe from th...

Vegan with a Vengeance food photos and more recipe reviews. Mango-Ginger Tofu (page 153) See review in previous post Chocolate Chocolate Chip Pancakes (page 35) See review in previous post Coconut Pancakes with Pineapple Sauce (page 32-33) My review of coconut pancakes... First off, this is the first vegan pancake recipe I've made where the pancakes where really thick like typical American pancakes. I liked that. However, Mark thought the nutmeg gave it too much of a "grown up" taste as he described it. And you really couldn't taste the coconut. I was thinking if I make these again that I would either omit the nutmeg or reduce it by half. And that I would first toast the shredded coconut because that really helps bring out the flavor. We had leftover pancakes and I finished some off today and I found that the coconut flavor is more noticeable the second day... but usually when you serve pancakes it's the first day they get eaten so the flavor really needs to...

Vegan with a vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz Opinion: I haven't tried that many recipes in the book yet that's why I haven't put any official reviews of it on Amazon.com - where I bought the book. But here are my reviews of the few recipes I have tried. Mango-ginger Tofu (page 153) Good. We gave it two thumbs up. Isa uses peanut oil in a lot of her recipes - I don't know why - maybe it's cheap in the U.S. I have never even seen it over here. I used sesame oil in its place. I also wasn't sure about the ground allspice - what that is exactly in the Netherlands - so I used garam masala. I didn't have fresh ginger so I used half the amount called for with ground ginger. Other than that I followed the recipe exactly. We served it over rice with steam broccoli. but we ended up mixing it all together and it resembled something like what you'd get at Eazies in Eindhoven. Very tasty. Sweet - with a slight spicy aftertaste. It was a long preparation but if you ...

Opinion: iPhone In my humble opinion - i say humble because I don't own one... the iPhone is not really necessary. Sure you have all these gadgets in one - but it can't replace the real thing. For example, it has iTunes on it and you can buy separate speakers to play your music on. But get this, suppose you are having a get together with your friends - board game night or something and you are playing some music from your iPhone and then a phone call comes in - you have to stop the music.... I think that's annoying... or maybe you miss the call... again... annoying! As Mark put it - it truly is a personal computer - don't go getting rid of your other iPod, camera, etc... I'm sure you will still need those things - the iPhone cannot replace them - yet.

I've been working on a quilt/afgan from a pattern I got from the Lion brand yarn company. (see lionbrand.com - zen spiral afgan pattern no. 70629AD) It's turning out really nice. It wasn't at first b/c I misunderstood the instructions and started to increase too much too fast. I had to undo the entire thing. And I had been working on this for about 2 weeks already. Well I've been re-working it all morning and I'm almost back to the round/row I was on when I let out all that yarn. Mark was right though - it's better to start over than to try and correct it half way through b/c you will use less yarn and you will get back to where you were supposed to be much faster. The thing that makes me mad is that this is supposed to be a pattern for beginners. So I think it would have been better if the instructions where also aimed at beginners. You have to do math to figure out just how much to increase and when. It would have been easier if in the pattern they tell you on...

I knew friends in college that were vegetarian. I thought that was cool and that I could never do it. In my third year of marriage I was definitely doing all the cooking by then. I wanted to start having a vegetarian day once a week. My favorite website became vegweb.com. I know that site really caters more to vegans but I like the way the site was set up. I also used recipes from allrecipes.com and those were good too. Some time later sitting in Sunday school we were discussing Section 89 of the Doctrine & Covenants. Someone pointed out that in verse 3 - it says that this principle was adapted to the weak and the weakest of all the Saints. We had really been discussing other things like the amount of sugar most of us consume. I've struggled to reduce my sugar intake over the years - and have tried to give it up all together but have backed out on that one as you can read from previous posts. Well, I really thought about that verse a lot over time. Then in January 2007 I wanted...

http://www.ldsveg.org/ http://www.kcpw.org/article/6372 and if you google mormon and vegan you can find many more articles on blogs etc - i'm not the only one :-) happy happy joy joy