Everyday Vegan: Restaurant Plan B
Birthday parties can go either way, either fun and festive or dark and maudlin. As we get older, the chance of the latter grows and the former may become forced or fueled more by drink than food. When one of my favorite people and good friends, JVV, announced the date of her birthday fete this year, we all knew we’d go to Asbury. Asbury’s become our first choice destination whether the night is planned or impromptu. With more and more venues to choose from, how do you select the perfect place for large group of friends to spend a few hours relaxing and celebrating? Some restaurants in the area have a specialized menu, others great locale, and a few entice with cheap drinks and bar fare. When JVV ran into trouble finding a place that could...
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I discovered letter.ly through @gwenbell. I don’t subscribe to her letter.ly; this teacher can’t affort New York Times home delivery, so sadly Gwen’s posts aren’t in my budget. Intrigued, however, I investigated what exactly this service provided and pondered the benefits of my own account. Writing is a passion, and I’ve come to accept that a subscription blog service in addition to this blog will meet the needs of both my readers and myself. With an easy signup interface for readers, letter.ly allows them to opt in for more in depth content. One click publishing makes it easy for me to get my posts to a specific group of readers. letter.ly also gives me the opportunity to see who reads my posts, the discussions they promote,...
Everyday Vegan: Veganomicon
It’s been almost 2 years since Twitter made me Vegan. Most summers, I choose a cookbook or two and make the recipes that appeal to me because summer is when a teacher has the time to test and tweak recipes. Two summers ago in the Barnes and Noble in Plano, TX, I found my vegan bible, Veganomicon and rediscovered an old vegetarian favorite, The Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Cookbook, one in a series I’ve loved every since I bought The Enchanted Broccoli Forest in college that I still use. The cover of Veganomicon is kind of crusty (always a good sign with a cookbook) and it’s littered with page flags marking my favorites. As Rachel Ray would say, these are many of my “go to” recipes, and I’ve decided to share 2 of them on...
Teacher of the Year
I remember 2 things about the first time I saw Steel Magnolias: My dad didn’t like the movie because the few men in it were bossed around by all the women (after all, this is the Grandmama of all chick flicks), and I had to leave the room during the scene at the gravesite. Not because I was a daughter, or thought that Julia Roberts’ character dying was all that traumatic – it was melodramatic, sure, but I never believed she was Sally’s daughter, and young Julia Roberts always annoyed me. I left because Sally Field at that moment in that film is my mother. They look so much alike, and I know what the screenwriter wrote for Sally to say would be just what my mother would say if that happened to her, and she would say it just like...
Scarf Giveaway!
Post a comment on any blog post during the month of March and win a scarf in my blog’s colors knitted by, well, me! Below are two pics, one complete with Fiestaware and 1960s vintage...
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