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An authentic journal of my life in food. Vegan since 2016. foodfordissertating.blogspot.com
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Hello, there! I've joined BlueSky at last! Are you interested in
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? I'm looking for fellow
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folks here. If you want to know why I'm on the internet in general, this should explain it (as well as what dissertating is all about).
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About
So what, exactly, is dissertating? And why did it need special food? Food for Dissertating started when I actually was dissertating--that...
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6 months ago
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I will always love every version of Mexican food I make.
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Dinner Plate #44
I was still feeling lethargic after my vaccine, but I managed to make a pretty great meal! Here we have refried black beans, an improvisat...
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1 day ago
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This was an unusual day. But it really reflects my experience!
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What I Ate in a Day #51
I got a COVID vaccine the day before this and found myself feeling pretty rotten, so this was a weird day. I started things off with a bowl...
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3 days ago
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Here are 10 new-to-me yogurts I tried over the course of recent years (I'm slow getting this to you, sorry)! I definitely found some bad ones, but there are some great ones, too.
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A Review of New Things I've Tried #45 (Non-Dairy Yogurt Edition)
It's been a long time since I did a new things roundup! So long, in fact, that some of this post was languishing in my draft folder for year...
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4 days ago
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Sometimes, you just want Halloween candy.
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Using What I Have Journal Entry #12
For some reason, this October, I've been craving Halloween candy. I had the sense to buy myself another batch of vegan candy corn and mellow...
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8 days ago
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I've branched out from raid-the-fridge soup to raid-the-fridge curry--and I really succeeded!
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Dinner Bowl #97
This was a surprising raid-the-fridge-and-freezer special, that turned out to be utterly amazing. I cooked some jasmine rice to have with ...
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9 days ago
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Meatball sandwiches used to be something I thought of as something to grab on the go, so I had never made one for myself that I can recall--but I am happy to say my
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Dinner Plate #43
Somehow, the weeks I refuse to shop and force myself to figure out what to do at home instead end up looking intentional. So! I have here ...
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10 days ago
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Cooking can be so much easier when I get to use the oven!
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Dinner Bowl #96
Cooking is so much easier when I get to use the oven! Here we have spaghetti with roasted carrot and red pepper sauce (recipe from Eat wit...
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11 days ago
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I don't live a perfect life, but sometimes, I have a pretty great lunch!
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Lunchbots Quad #24
I was utterly exhausted on the morning I packed this, so I basically just assembled some snacks: Plum slices, a chocolate oat bar broken i...
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14 days ago
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It's everybody's favorite series: Random meals, i.e., just the things I made with what I had on hand and usually no plan whatsoever.
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Random Meals #15
We use stuff up around here! Even when it's weird! It's not always weird, of course. Only sometimes. My randomness this time involves more ...
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16 days ago
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I love colorful food.
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Dinner Bowl #95
Here we have red cabbage braised in red wine, green rice, and lentils with butternut squash. The cabbage and rice were recipes from Debora...
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17 days ago
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When life gives you pineapples and sweet rice flour, make savory mochi and sweet and sour meatballs.
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Dinner Bowl #94
This was a fun using-things-I-had meal: Steamed Calrose rice, sweet and sour meatballs, a savory mochi pancake (recipe from Margo Drobi ),...
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18 days ago
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I don't know what it is about ribbon noodles that is just so comforting.
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Dinner Bowl #93
This was a relatively easy meal I made to use up my leftovers. That's part of my pantry utilization journey, I suppose--a ton of just usi...
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21 days ago
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I made some delicious and hideously ugly things that were trying to be muffins recently. Here's another entry in my journal about using the things I have.
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Using What I Have Journal Entry #11
I found a recipe in an old cookbook I was eager to veganize, in part because it used oat bran, and I need to be using oat bran. The recipe...
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22 days ago
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Not everything I make turns out perfectly, but I still usually enjoy my meals. Will I make sweet potato zucchini tots again? Probably not, but I'm not sorry I made them.
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Dinner Plate #42
Having some hot dogs left after making my beans and weenies, I decided to have a traditional hot dog meal--said hot dog, with mustard and ...
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23 days ago
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I am always saving the veggies nobody wants from the catering trays at work. We don't get all that many catered things, so this isn't common. But when it is: Give me all the cauliflower!
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Dinner Plate #41
This is me making the most of my leftovers and some things that were from leftover catering nobody wanted. I took some veggies from a vegg...
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24 days ago
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I really only make my own recipes when I can't find what I'm looking for. This recipe is an example of that. Please try this upside down plum oatmeal!
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Recipe: Plum Upside Down Baked Oats (Vegan, Gluten Free, Nut Free, Soy Free Option)
As you may know, I rarely make my own recipes. If one exists, I'd rather use someone else's, as opposed to making my own. But sometimes, o...
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25 days ago
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This meal was to use up some random things I had on hand--but that doesn't mean it wasn't amazing!
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Dinner Plate #40
I had forgotten I had some canned tomatoes in the fridge, so I had to use them right away. I also needed to finish off my soy curls. The r...
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27 days ago
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This roasted garlic gravy is such a game changer. It may well be the best--and easiest--gravy I've ever made.
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Dinner Plate #39
This was an unusual but quite good meal: Steamed carrots, sauteed spinach with caramelized onions, mashed potatoes, chickpea millet loaf, ...
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29 days ago
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My favorite childhood meal is something I can reliably make
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these days--so long as I have the right beans!
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Dinner Bowl #92
One of the things in my pantry, bought in the aftermath of my distress over Kraft discontinuing the American version of Heinz vegetarian b...
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30 days ago
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Something about avoiding the store gets me making the best meals!
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Small Bowl #17
This is not much to look at, but it was pretty great: Buldak TVP, Korean-style beet salad, and broccoli stalk namul over rice. I found the...
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about 1 month ago
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Shepherd's pie and salad. Fall is in the air!
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Small Bowl #16
Here we have a salad of romaine, tomato, red onion, cucumber, kalamata olives, and homemade focaccia croutons in a poppy seed dressing I i...
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about 1 month ago
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Have you ever put crunchy ramen in a salad?
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Little Dishes #8
Here is an unexpected combination borne of my commitment to use what I have: A romaine-broccoli-walnuts-ramen salad (veganized from an omn...
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about 1 month ago
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What do you pack for lunch?
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Lunchopolis #100
Simple bento lunches are the best sometimes! Here we have a veggie salad (you've seen something very similar recently--the dressing is veg...
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about 1 month ago
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As I say in this blog post, I think I'm in a phase of Advanced Shopping Avoidance.
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Little Dishes #7
Here we have a surprisingly good combination: A savory muffin with zucchini and sun-dried tomato (recipe from Lazy Cat Kitchen ), made in ...
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about 1 month ago
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You know what comes with oven weather? BROWNIES. And when I'm trying to use what I have, that means mochi brownies. Here's my latest journal entry about this quest.
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about 1 month ago
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Summer was full of red fruit for me, but I found some other things to enjoy for breakfast, too. Here's my latest combination of
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10 Vegan Breakfast Ideas (Compilation #71)
Summer is sometimes torturous. I guess that's to be expected. But it's almost over! And it came with lots of delicious, red fruit. (It was a...
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about 1 month ago
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I adore beets. And this is an amazing way to have them.
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Dinner Plate #38
I finally got to make something I've wanted to make for ages and it did not disappoint! Here we have a few wedges of beet roesti with some...
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about 1 month ago
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The return of my oven weather means renewed energy for my pantry utilization quest!
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Dinner Bowl #91
The weather cooled enough for me to decide to turn my oven on for the first time in four months. And that gets me going on my true pantry ...
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about 1 month ago
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This meal really exceeded my expectations! Have you ever put beet stems in hummus? (Not beets--just the stems?)
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Dinner Bowl #90
Here we have a meal with some shortcuts, that went far beyond my expectations: a version of the Mediterranean lentil grain bowl from T his...
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about 1 month ago
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No matter how many times I have one, I can never get over how amazing chickpea flour scrambles are. This is another entry in my series tracking my efforts to make the most of what I have.
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Using What I Have Journal Entry #9
One of the things I'm learning as I've been focusing on what I have is that it is truly not necessary for me to visit a grocery store for ...
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about 1 month ago
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Soup is sometimes needed, not to keep warm, but to find something comforting in these challenging times.
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Dinner Plate #37
This is a very basic meal: A Tofurky sandwich with homemade vegetable soup. The soup is the kind I usually make, the raid-the-fridge varie...
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about 2 months ago
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Here's your periodic reminder that beets make everything more exciting.
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about 2 months ago
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Flashback to the end of August 2023, when I had an amazing late summer
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ECO Lunch Box Three-in-One #100
Here we have a use-it-up lunch: Cucumber wedges and the remainder of the cream cheese/sour cream/mayo/chives/red bell pepper mix that I ha...
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about 2 months ago
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Sometimes, you just need tacos.
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Dinner Plate #36
In a total rebellion against the pantry utilization quest (and in recognition that I need oven weather to make much real progress there), ...
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about 2 months ago
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Here's another successful "It was in the fridge so I used it"
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Dinner Bowl #89
To use up things, I made this meal of creamy mushroom quinoa (recipe from Simply Quinoa ), tofu broccoli skillet (recipe from Healthier St...
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about 2 months ago
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I found wontons easier to make than ravioli--but even though they were delicious, I also think the ready made stuff is worth it!
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Little Dishes #6
Here's something different (for me) but quite fun: Miso tahini green beans (recipe from Sift & Simmer ), steamed rice with Everything Bage...
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about 2 months ago
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Do you get in snack ruts? Me, too. Fortunately, I have my blog to keep me trying new things.
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Interlude: Snacktime #5
It has been at least three years since I did one of these snack roundup posts, and some of these snacks are from quite some time ago, but he...
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about 2 months ago
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I made my own ravioli. It was better than any ravioli I have ever had, but even so, I now believe buying ravioli in the freezer section is WORTH IT.
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Dinner Plate #35
This is different, but good! I have here some steamed green beans, zucchini with tomatoes, and homemade mushroom tofu ricotta ravioli in a...
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about 2 months ago
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Can confirm; cooked radishes are amazing. And so pretty!
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about 2 months ago
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Sometimes, I like cooking elaborate meals. Sometimes, I prefer an English muffin pizza.
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Dinner Plate #34
I still had some of the pizza sauce and TVP sausage I made, so here are some English muffin pizzas (another toaster oven special) and a sa...
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about 2 months ago
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In another life, I didn't eat nearly so many lentils. I was missing out.
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Dinner Bowl #88
Jasmine rice, Marry Me lentils (recipe from Jackfruitful ), carrots, and sauteed beet greens. My reason for the beet greens is that I boug...
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about 2 months ago
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I finally tried that
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chocolate mousse cake!
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Interlude: Chocolate Mousse Cake with Raspberries
After 4 weeks, I went to the store. I find grocery shopping quite an ordeal, usually, and I've been trying different ways of making it bet...
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about 2 months ago
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Sometimes, my "something from nothing" meals are the best things I make!
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ECO Lunchbox Three-in-One #109
Still challenging myself on this no spend week, here I have a remarkably successful lunch: Peanut butter and apple slices, a no-bake quino...
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2 months ago
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This meal reflects one of my proudest moments in using-what-I-have efforts.
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Dinner Bowl #87
I'm more proud of this than I've been of anything I've cooked in a long time! I had a yellow potato on hand--just one, though. But I also ...
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2 months ago
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Have you ever made a pita pizza? They're toaster oven sized, so having one in August was just fine for me!
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Dinner Plate #33
Pita pizza! I had leftover pocketless pita, and I had some canned tomatoes left from the red lentil stew I made. So I made some pizza sauc...
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2 months ago
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I haven't checked in with you in a while about how the quest to focus on using what I have on hand is going. Here's my latest journal entry.
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Using What I Have Journal Entry #8
It's been a long time since I wrote anything at length about how the using what I have quest is going, and usually I've been writing about...
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2 months ago
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It's time for another full day of eating!
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What I Ate in a Day #50
One of the things I like about summer--one of the only things--is that I can easily photograph food throughout my day and have it look okay....
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2 months ago
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Soup in August? Sure. So long as I don't have to turn on the oven, I'm good. And this was delicious!
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Dinner Bowl #86
Time for soup? In August? Yes. This is creamy mushroom barley soup with lentils and dill from the recipe at The First Mess . I made a few...
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2 months ago
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I'm doing my best to keep myself satisfied with the joy of summer produce, but I'm absolutely OVER all this hot weather. I want coziness. I want casseroles. I want enchiladas. I want cake. What about you?
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2 months ago
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Not everything is a resounding success, but sometimes it tastes good anyway.
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Dinner Bowl #85
My pantry utilization quest had only quasi-success here, but I managed to use up my amaranth, so I'll call it a win. This was chickpea ama...
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