Trashy Valentine
This episode of the podcast is a bit late due to my guest vegan valentine’s day segment on aplayfulday’s podcast along with changing semesters and our school art show. I do come back with a vengeance, Bruce Willis style, with 50 fun filled minutes packed with film festivals, trashy novels, knitting adventures, ebooks, and what it means to be from New Jersey! I mention two additional podcasts, so after you listen to mine, go check Amanda and her CraftLife podcast out, along with Sister Diane’s Craftypod podcast (more about Craftypod below). Falling to Pieces, the Zombie Romantic Comedy filmed for the Project21 Film Festival Summer 2010 will have it’s New Jersey Premiere at the Garden State Film Festival in March. I’ll update this...
Vegan Valentine
When GreenTriangleGirl from the APlayfulDay podcast asked me to do a Vegan Valentine’s Day edition of her “Munch, Burp, Slurp” segment, I immediately thought, “Hey, I have no significant other, don’t want one, how’s this going to work?” However, as she says in the introduction, GreenTriangleGirl recognizes that I can’t resist a challenge! So I cooked and baked, recorded and begged my daughter and her friends for their opinions, and thus, a Vegan Valentine’s Day podcast segment was born. (My son even tried the cake and rated it as “pretty good”.) On the menu? Mushroom Walnut Pate from Veganomicon by Post Punk Kitchen, Orecchiette with Basil-Mint Aioli from Veganize This! by Jenn Shagrin, some...
Kitten Knitting Blues
This episode finds me halfway through 1Q84 as I compare it to Leverage, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Stranger than Fiction, then freezing in New York City this past weekend where I found true (fiber) love at Vogue Knitting Live! I found my true love at Stitchuary and purchased some lovely wool at Green Mountain Spinnery. YarnPop‘s project bags are on my list of items to order once my bank account recovers, and Long Island Livestock Company‘s alpaca covered soap may be an inspiration for a collaborative effort between myself and Michele at Funkychunks. Knittingpodcast.blogspot.com kindly linked to my podcast, and you can find an extensive list of both audio and video podcasts on that site. Also a shout out to Green Triangle Girl over at the...
Birthday Podcast
In this episode, I celebrate my birthday by attempting to make a vegan version of lulu paste, share my top 5 favorite reads in 2011 as well as an excerpt from 1Q84 (while not explicit, definitely a book for adults) that was a gift from my daughter & my current read, hope to start a conceptual knit-a-long with the sky scarf on the new ravelry group, and talk briefly about what I’ll be doing at Vogue Knitting Live! Oh, and there’s a lot of chat about the end of the world. Music by Neema Ntalel provided by Music Alley. Her EP was financed by AfricaUnsigned, a Kickstarter type site for musicians. I played Let’s Talk About Love and Into the Dawn. I also played Ichiro NAKAGAWA’s In Kamakkura as an interlude along with a few Star...
A Call of Duty Christmas
You’ll have to listen to through to the end of the podcast to hear “Call of Duty Christmas” by The Energy Commission courtesy of MusicAlley (my favorite Christmas song this year). In this podcast, I do a taste test with two of my students, Emily and Caiti. Caiti is the phenomenal photographer whose work appears on my blog and lot of other places on the internet – you can find her photos at caitiborruso.com. Emily is one of her many subjects, a vegetarian, and another one of my students. The recipe we test is 10 Minute Brownes from Students Go Vegan Cookbook by Carole Raymond. Here’s the recipe: 1/4 cup canola oil 1 cup semisweet vegan chocolate chips 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce 3/4 cup sugar or natural sweetener 1 teaspoon...
Chicks with Stix & a Crucifix
Podcast #3 is up and here are the show notes as promised! Apology to @HoxtonHandmade: Rogue’s Spruce Gin Gin with a Scent of Christmas – review from The New York TImes Books (and a Play): Top Girls Wikipedia page Pope Joan the book Pope Joan the miniseries Mama Nina’s, Bethlehem, PA Knitting n00b: Hybrid Mittens Kinky Boots Monmouth Hat pattern (I added 10 extra stitches to the CO because I like my hats loose and that addition made it perfect!) Monmouth Hat history with an alternative pattern My Monmouth Hat: Hattitude by Cathy Carron Yarngasm Podcast And here’s a pic of Amanda with her amazing knitting piece of art: Giveaway! Comment on this blog post and enter to win a holiday gift package from Funkychunks!...
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