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May 2009

You know that teacher that changed your life?

Many teachers are just amazing beings.  That’s all there is to it.  The Omnivore, yeah, one of those amazing beings.  Although he’s out of the classroom now and actually teaching the teachers, when he was teaching the kids he touched so many lives in meaningful ways.  Former students are incessantly tracking him down to thank [...]

I may have been late to the party,

but I still had a good time! A long, long time ago, there was a bit of a trend in the blogging world.  It was back in 2007 perhaps, when this recipe was first posted on the internet.  Its creator?  A chef in Australia.  Image that.  Those outback folk cook.  But we probably wouldn’t even [...]

Move over pork

THIS is the other white meat.  And that’s all I have to say about that. Chik’n patties – Way better than quorn or Morningstar (6 breasts) 1 cup chickpeas 1/2 cup vegetable broth 1/4 cup onion, minced 1 tsp rosemary + garlic 1/2 tsp majoram 2/3 cup Vital Wheat Gluten Puree chickpeas with broth, onion, [...]

Channeling my southern roots

I was born in the South, where “can’t” rhymes with “ain’t” and all the fences are covered in whitewash paint. Where summer days are filled with muscadines, and fingers are greasy from all those pork rinds. Summer nights are spent catchin’ fireflies, and you betta believe it, everyone is Baptized. Crab legs are King and [...]

I did the hard math for you

I am constantly trying to make a decent chocolate chip cookie for the Omnivore.  And he is constantly hinting in the *best possible way* that I’ve not quite hit the mark. Me: *groaning as a I lift the insanely heavy mixer out of storage to get baking* Omnivore: What are you making? Me: Chocolate*did I [...]