June 28th, 2009

Soap is great. It makes you feel clean and smell better, which I find to be one of the simplest pleasures in life. However, the difference between a mundane experience and a refreshing one comes down to something as simple as soap.
And Tracy over at strawberryhedgehog makes great soap, which is, not coincidentally, vegan-friendly. I [...]
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June 9th, 2009

The most difficult part of being vegan in Japan is that even the most innocent, vegan things you can think of are topping with, friend in, or souped (for lack of a better word) in something that is not vegan.
However, when you are cooking for yourself you have the option of putting your udon or [...]
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May 9th, 2009

This is the best stuff ever. If there were ever a flavor of Purely Decadent that was going to make me fat, it was the regular old cookie dough variety. But now that I’ve discovered it also comes in a coconut milk variety, I am even more susceptible to fattening from this stuff.
The coconut milk [...]
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April 21st, 2009

Recently, I’ve been trying to work my way through a small batch of POM Wonderful pomegranate juice. I don’t have that much of it, but it’s lasted longer than any juice that’s every been in my fridge. Why?
POM is really strong stuff. It doesn’t look very intimidating sitting on the shelf in a little 8 [...]
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December 4th, 2008

The other day I talked about having to get some new cookware to use with the induction cooker, and finally I’ve gotten around to talking about the induction cooker! I won’t blab on and on about it here in these pages, but if you want to know more you can pop on over to my [...]
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