I’m a bookish kind of girl. So that I today spent 50 GBP (quids? I have a lousy lapotop keyboard without the pound sign) on books.

• Alternative Vegan by Dino Sarma I allready own a copy of this, this is a gift. I love this book.
• The joy of vegan baking by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau For my sweetie. He’s started baking a lot after we vent vegan. And I really want to encourage him at that. I love his baked goods.
• Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz for me…
• Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog by Gary Francione because I’ve listened to the interviews with Francione over at VeganFreak Radio and wanted a bit more. I’ll get the rest of his books later.
• EAT, DRINK & BE VEGAN by Dreena Burton this is also the VeganFreak Radio’s fault, they had her on in the most recent show (nr 81), and I started lusting after the book. That was what started the book binge in the first place.

I’m turning into a cookbook whore! The problem is just that I find that vegan cooking is so much fun! I enjoy it, I never used to enjoy cooking before and now I love doing it. And being an obsessive researcher I get books on the subject

Tags: animal rights, Books, cooking, podcast, Vegan

This is last weeks questions, just because. Here is where the meme comes from.

Questions
1. Did you need braces when you were younger?
2. If you had to choose between being bitten by a vampire or a werewolf, which would it be?
3. When was the last time you bit off more than you could chew?
4. Have you ever chipped a tooth?
5. If your smile had a name, what would it be?

Replies
1. Yup, I had them for about two years.
2. Vampire, much more glamour involved. I’ve read enough vampire stories to want to go there, but not enough werewolf stuff that is as good.
3. In litteral sense or figuratively speaking? In both cases I think too often, too recently. Altought, in a litteral sense of the question, mostly it’s just too warm to eat, I have problems restraining myself from nibbling on the food I’m cooking.
4. No, thankfully, I have knocked one out of position though.
5. Illena. I have a thing for strange names.

Tags: cooking, meme

We had company over today, vegan dinner for 4, lots of small dishes Almost entirely made from scratch (I didn’t make the loaf for the garlic bread from scratch but that was about it).

1. Roast potatoes and cauliflower, in curry
2. Spinach and mushrooms
3. Onion, tomato and pepper stew
4. A bean thing my sweetie made
5. Garlic bread
6. Salad

And muffins for desert.
It was fun cooking, no pictures were taken off the food as we ate it before I remembered the camera.
Now, a couple of hours later, I’m completely stuffed still, I might just watch a few episodes of a TV show or something before going to bed.

It always feels strange to have visitors over for food, because the food we eat is different from what most people do, we use fresh vegetables, and usually there’s no “main” dish. About a month ago we had my family over for something similar, but pasta as well. They reacted strangely to the food, not like they didn’t like it, but more like they didn’t really know how to eat like that.
Most dishes in Norwegian cooking is centered around one piece of meat, or with my family, fish. Suddenly there were lots of small things. People get confused and… well, it’s strange to watch, they act as if they were in a foreign land, trying out the native cuisine for the first time.
They ask what kind of “tradition” our food is made in, and we laugh, it’s just food, an experiment we pulled out of a cookbook and changed stuff on, it’s the kind of food we eat every day.
When it comes to food I feel like a foreigner in my own land, with a differently culture than most. I like it this way, the typical Norwegian way of eating never appealed to me in the first place.

Tags: cooking