December 26, 2010
Snowflake time. Christmas morning and Santa came! Making quick use of the Electrician‘s new waffle maker and Williams Sonoma waffle tongs. Christmas sugar cookies. All dressed up. Banana everything cookies from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar Santa came again at my folks’. Pancake in her festive collar.
December 23, 2010
For my class holiday party I needed a batch of bright, kid-friendly Christmas cupcakes. Thanks to N.Y. Cake and their bright gel coloring (also used for the World Cupcakes), my cakes were a rich wintery green. Let’s hear it for artificial coloring! When you have a green cake, you need Read more…
December 11, 2010
Burning your own dessert with a butane torch is not only exciting, it is an interactive way to spark up a holiday potluck! After committing to this dessert some time ago and purchasing all the special supplies {10 ramekins, butane torch, butane, arrowroot, fruit sugar, etc}, it was time to Read more…
December 25, 2009
I had to be very selective about who received a holiday cookie care package this year. Next year, when I am through studying to be a master of the universe, you’ll all get them. The chocolate chip cookie is a must in any cookie assortment. Using Vegan Cookies Invade Your Read more…
December 23, 2009
Having a big, fat still-healthy pumpkin leftover from October, I decided against purchasing the easy can of pumpkin puree for my chocolate pumpkin pie for my class’s holiday breakfast. No, no no, I would process the big gourd myself! Sure, I have a whole day to kill. Sure, I love Read more…
December 25, 2008
Sugar Cookies These were certainly the most time consuming. Using this recipe from blogger couple John & Kristie I churned out 36 glorious evergreens, doused them with the sweet almond icing and dipped them into a pool of nonpareils. Sweet sugar overload! And just in time as one of 2009’s food Read more…
December 22, 2008
It’s a cross-stitch Christmas! Below is a gift for my sister who giggled to learn I was stitching Star Wars quotes for presents. I chose one of Darth Vader’s first lines as he boarded Leia’s ship and made it pastel and whimsy to contrast his power and galactic hotness. For Read more…
December 21, 2008
Christmas crafting has taken the place of my school work. So much to do! Here are the lovely little Momma and Dadda owls for my little nieces!
December 19, 2008
The Art/FoodSparrow and her Tim X were the hosts of a delicious holiday vegan potluck. I had been looking forward to the event for months and spent most of the day starving myself for the feast. My additions were from VCOn: Pumpkin Crumb Cake with Pecan Streusel and the tzimmes. Read more…
December 18, 2008
It was a bit ambitious to attempt a vegan version of a gingerbread house, mostly because not much can impersonate the disturbingly hardening power of the egg white “royal icing” cement of tradition. Still, I had to give Vegan Dad‘s recipe a try. A fan of baking, brash haphazard decorating, Read more…
For that special Spiritualized fan in your life: Let It Flow‘s whoa whoa whoa and pill cross stitchInspired by this, I crafted my own Star Wars cross stitch to be presented to lovely Artsparrow and her dapper gent, hosts of a scrumptious vegan holiday potluck. My annual holiday mix was Read more…
December 6, 2008
_________________________________________ Book II of my Thailand travels is now published on Blurb! This second installment of my words and photographs was a long time in the making. Sorting through 586 MB of photos and proofing 17,559 words was a huge task. The book, showing all of my March 2008 travels Read more…
December 28, 2007
Without retail’s aggressive looping reel of holiday music and imagery, the Christmas season is quite a different experience. Without shopping, the holiday was streamlined to a single day with family (champagne and Trivial Pursuit) and not the weeks-long consumer marathon on the shelf since after the Halloween candy. I made Read more…
November 24, 2006
This past Wednesday during my lunch break I had errands to run. Pancake, my canine life partner, was in dire need of a shampoo and, in order to avoid weeks of a clogged tub and no response from the landlord, I set out to buy an assortment of drain Read more…