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I love kale. As much as I enjoy its flavor in potato soups and in dishes that need a strong green that won’t easily wilt, I normally don’t find the time to cook time-consuming meals, especially during the weekday. Unfortunately, my kale usually goes limp and soggy before I actually can use it. [...]

Started a new job last Monday, have been attempting to adjust to my new schedule. As a result, lapse in posting. :(
I have to get to bed soon, but I wanted to post this quick dish I made two weeks ago. It’s a pasta with chickpeas, kale, and mushrooms; very simple, no additional [...]

I assure you — it was tasty! ;)
I’ve been craving some pasta, and I had some kale on hand. After doing a quick Google search, I decided to make a tomato, kale, and mushroom pasta modified from this recipe on VegWeb. :)
Ingredients
Makes about 3-4 servings.

3 medium-sized tomatoes roughly chopped
One small head of kale, stems [...]

So much for updating with a bit more frequency…
Work has been exhausting as usual, but hopefully things won’t be so hectic and crazy for the rest of the month.
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been on a pizza making kick. I loooove pizzas! Funny thing is, before I was veg, I was [...]

I made these cupcakes for the fiesta lunch I had at work on Saturday!
They’re the Brooklyn vs. Boston Cream Cupcakes from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World. They are delicious! According to my aunt, they taste like the donut. My co-workers loved how they taste as did Nectar’s adorable kid Andrew. :D [...]

I had today off, so I spent it cooking!
A few things I learned about myself in regards to cooking:

I tend to cook when I’m hungry. This doesn’t work when I want to eat now, and the recipes I have take at least 30 minutes to prepare…
I absolutely loathe going to the grocery store to [...]

This post I previously made gave a little preview of the fabrics I bought. Here’s the rest of it! :D

I’ll take closeups of the fabric later. These are all cottons, yay!
Aside from the multitude of colors used to print the fabric, The quality is astounding. I would say that all the fabrics [...]

I cooked a lot this past week! :D
I was pretty hungry one night, so I decided to make myself a pizza. A variation on this. Isa has an amaaaazing pizza crust recipe in Vegan with a Vengeance, and it’s very easy to make. I made the crust, let it rise a second [...]

I can never remember the name of these, but they are sooooo good. My brother and I did some baking last night, and we made these coffee cupcakes. The filling is made with agar agar. It’s sweet but not too sweet and tastes like fancy coffee ice cream! :D The cake [...]

Yesterday at work, we had a potluck to bid farewell to one of our co-workers, LeAnna. LeAnna is one of my closest friends at work, and I will seriously miss her. :( I do wish her the best as she’s moving to a better city, will be with her boyfriend, and will be [...]