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		<title>Éphémère, ephemeral: BBQ tofu, vegan beer, and Alice in Wonderland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a lovely dinner of barbequed oven-baked tofu, Nate I are settling in to watch Disney&#8217;s Alice in Wonderland in protest of the Burton abomination presently sweeping the nation. (Has anyone I know actually seen it yet? What did you think? Or, if not, why are you avoiding?)
One of my favorite scenes.
These days I drink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>food porn Friday: Chicago&#8217;s Arya Bhavan review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dear friend Jacquie over at Constant Conversion has been doing Photo Friday posts recently. This week she channels Cookie (&#8220;&#8216;C&#8217; is for..&#8221;) &#38; the rest of the Sesame Street gang with a focus on the letter T &#38; what it stands for in her life right now: tea, teamwork, &#38; treasures. And what a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crumbly dough woe: Isa&#8217;s Chocolate Chip Cookies from Vegan with a Vengeance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first several times I made the chocolate chip cookies from Isa&#8217;s Vegan With a Vengeance I was thoroughly perplexed. Despite the fact that I followed the recipe precisely&#8211;er, at least after that first disaster of guesswork &#38; overconfidence&#8211;the dough was maddeningly crumbly! So crumbly, in fact, that I had to Hulk Smash it between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cracktheplates.com/2010/02/crumbly-dough-woe-isas-chocolate-chip-cookies-from-vegan-with-a-vengeance/</link>
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		<title>Love your neighbor, build beloved community: give directly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you probably already know, I hosted a successful free sale about a month ago. (For more details and DIY suggestions, check out my earlier write-up). Over thirty &#8220;shopped&#8221; and about half of the attendees also brought items for sharing. While this was a wonderful surprise, it also meant that at the end of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unix&#8217;s first birthday celebration (and catnip binge)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One year ago today Nate &#38; I emerged from a late-night study sesh in Dennis Hall to discover the world&#8217;s most adorable creature crouched under my car, worrying herself to pieces over the in-progress ice storm. Because she seemed house-trained/people-friendly and desperate, I swept her up into my arms and, shortly thereafter, our lives. (BAAAWW) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>snowpocalyptic scenes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some photos from this morning:
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		<title>okra showdown: fresh vs. frozen in vegan bhindi masala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bhindi (okra) is one of my most-loved vegetables, but it is a seasonal favorite whose availability further varies by location. In the southern US, I&#8217;ve mentioned before, you can find it fresh in grocery stores mostly year-round, but dismal demand in the midwest renders its delivery spotty even in summertime&#8211;and impossible during winter. I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your friendly neighborhood Mount Doom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geeks do geeky things. Usually they&#8217;re rather harmless, even mundane, like quoting Star Wars, debating the relative merits of window managers, and chortling over xkcd comics. But sometimes they&#8217;re extraordinary, as when we gave up on making a snowperson (&#8220;too hard&#8221;) today to instead craft a mini-Mount Doom of snow:

For an eco-friendly lava, I mashed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>food for a snow day: mattar tofu, chocolate peanut butter pillows, snowcreme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brunch: Mattar tofu:

It was my first attempt at Bryanna Clark Grogan&#8217;s recipe from Twenty Minutes to Dinner and it came out beautifully. Running on only a chocolate peanut-butter pillow (see below) and with something painfully stuck in my eye, I kept her honest: even making a separate pot of rice, it took less than 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowcreme: Tales from Childhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a week or so of mild temperatures, Richmond is once again covered in a thin blanket of snow. Looking through some old pictures today I happened upon a few from this time 2009&#8211;and a day, in particular, when I introduced my northeastern-Pennsylvania-housemate and my upstate-New-York-bred-boyfriend to a recipe direct from some of my fondest [...]]]></description>
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