Frying onions in a pan.
Making a quesadilla with daiya, onions, and sauteed cremini mushrooms on a chipotle-lime tortilla.
Two quesadillas, about to be wolfed down. Delicious, they were, yes!
Back in March, I once again enjoyed walking out of the Eugene airport, and back in at the end of my trip.
Here's a view looking north, as you're about to actually get into the airport proper. As you can see, there is plenty of shoulder to walk on. (Go back to that linked post for explicit instructions on walking out of Eugene, and for more discussion of walking out of airports generally.)
And a little food porn: I've gotten really in to sandwiches lately. This is tofurky, fresh tomatoes, dijon, and ONIONS!
This is my mountain bike after 28 miles of some of the most challenging cycling I've ever done, up in the wilds of Chamblee and Dunwoody, GA (ugly big box suburbs northeast of Atlanta that have some incredible off-road riding in the woods.) At various points my front wheel was over halfway submerged in muddy water (and remember that this bike is a 29er.) I got some moderately bad poison ivy:
Doesn't look that bad, I know: but this is almost two weeks old.
This is just shaving off the mustache which, while it might work when I'm rocking my singlespeed through local hipster strongholds L5P or EAV, is also the part that, as you can see above, looks the most 9th-graderish.
This is sort of a half-assed combination of chin puff plus soul patch.
Just soul patch (which I actually once wore back when I used to appear in court several times a week. But I also had hair down to my shoulder blades then, so it was, ahem, a different time.)
And what is probably my favorite, but also the most work: clean shaven.it's true... as an a bona fide, backwoods born Alaskan I can channel the spirit of the Devil's Club and mythic powers of the elusive Nagoonberry to produce this any time I take a particularly gruntworthy shit in the forest!and attached this image of, ohhh, overnight growth:
"live with intention. walk to the edge. listen hard. laugh. practice wellness. play with abandon. continue to learn. appreciate your friends. choose with no regret. do what you love. live as if this is all there is."So true, since this is, indeed, all there is. Every day.
-Mary Anne Radmacher
in as many weeks. Dental insurance benefit for 2011 already maxed out. Coming out of pocket. Boo.
Moral of the story: don't use Squirt as combination toothpaste and mouthwash when you're 15.
Staying with a bunch of wonderful people, and did some cooking, and some prep. Here are a bunch of delicious dumpstered onions.
How about another gratuitous shot of ONIONS?
Turnip greens, kale (I think that was kale anyway), and mushrooms. 
And these were soup ingredients: dumpstered corn, mushrooms, fresh jalapenos, and bell peppers.
We didn't just cook: we also drove a bunch around rural WV. This trailer sign kind of says it all. yeah, the Big Coal River runs right behind it, but it's not called the "Big Coal River Detachment", is it?
And surprisingly good vegan Mexican food was had in Logan, WV.
This is the incredibly greasy, yet still delicious, "Twice Cooked Soy Slices" from Lotus Garden in Eugene, Oregon. At the bottom center, you can see the standing pool of oil that covered the bottom of the plate. With a name like that, though, I suppose you know what you're in for: *Twice Cooked Soy Slices………………………………...................9.50
( Veggie pork, cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, broccoli, bamboo shoots)
Back at home now, that's a Whole Lotta Tofu!
And who doesn't love some ONIONS!?!? These got caramelized, and were just damned delicious.
Some artichokes hearts and sun-dried tomatoes, about to get flash fried.
And the completed cast, clockwise from top: fried tofu, caramelized ONIONS, organic whole wheat penne pasta, and the flash-fried sun-dried tomatoes and artichoke hearts.
pizza fixins
and more pizza fixins.
and, uhhhh, more pizza fixins.
Onion ring prep -- DAMN, those ONIONS smell good!
Making the already delicious onions EVEN BETTER!
Much hot oil and many minor scalds later, we had a big pile of delicious ONION RINGS! (and since wo/man cannot live on onions alone, even though I'm willing to try, some tofu snuck its way in.)
Raw materials = not cheap. The fruit alone cost around $20.
After much slicing and peeling.
And with the liquid love added.
Wait -- you don't have a file named "graffiti and bikes"? Well quit wasting time on this scintillating blog, and go create one!
Here is what your socks sometimes look like when riding off-road on the BeltLine.
I'm not sure if this is part of a public education/cleanup project, or witty hipster snark. Probably a little of Column A, and a little of Column B.
vegan risotto (including sun-dried tomatoes and spinach)
self-evident (right? no? okay, fried polenta cakes)
baked tofu = YUM.
and here are the final fixins: clockwise from top right, that's fried tofu with red pepper flakes, fried zucchini (with random seasonings that I forget), fried ONIONS with dill, and fried asparagus with a whole pile of garlic.
Here is a roll ready to, well, get rolled, with some avocado (did I mention how much I love avocado?) in there, as well as some 
And here's the little camera that just won't die: it's been on nearly every trip and outdoor activity I have in the last five or so years, including many thousands of miles on my bike, usually just banging around in my pocket or bag. It recently was fully submerged in running water, several times, while I was out running in the woods in the dark and crossing through running streams (yes, on purpose.) A couple days to dry out, and bang: it's rockin' again! (And still taking better photos than my much newer, higher resolution phone.)
(that's the vegan tofu scramble on the left, and vegan breakfast on the right, with a pinto bean cake, collard greens, and fried sweet potatoes on the right.)
