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To be as responsive as possible to our readers, it's food porn all day here in the dangr.blogspot.com world headquarters!

Clockwise from bottom right: twice stuffed baked potato with Daiya, veganaise with chili-garlic sauce, fried marinated tofu on top. This was leftovers dinner. yay!

TOFU TOFU TOFU! Overnight marinated tofu on the left, same partially baked in our adorable but slow toaster oven. (Confidential to E&K: DON'T JUDGE. The lines were stronger before I turned the pieces over to put them back in the toaster oven. I swear.)

Overnight salt-soaked russet potatoes with garlic and rosemary. Not yet done: finished images MAY follow.

CRITICALLY IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
The food porn will continue until morale improves. That is all.

Facebook

I'm struggling. Most of you know I hate detest despise loathe Facebook. Many a time I've called it the downfall of modern society.

I'm now struggling with the fact that to best do some volunteer work for my beloved college, I might need it.

This is a partial transcript of my conversation with J last night (who, incidentally, does has the FB Word.)

Tofupalooza!

This is grilled tofu. Also have tofu roasting, and frying. Potluck tonight!

Good ol' fashioned FOOD PORN!

Alright, friends: I spent much of today working on stuff for my college (which as many of you know, I love) and don't have a ton of original stuff to post. So how about we do FOOD PORN?!?

Frying tofu and mushrooms on the left, tempeh bourguignon (from the delightful cookbook/graphic novel Dirt Candy Cookbook) on the right.  The bourguignon was amazing: deep, rich, flavorful. I couldn't resist messing with the recipe, of course, and substituted additional (cheap) wine whenever water was called for.

Grilled zucchini, "hot dogs" and "sausage", beer, a great book, bear-sized pepper spray. What more do you possibly need? 

Baking potatoes to make an extremely complicated, and very delicious, "Roasted Potato Soup", also from Dirt Candy.)

Two different iterations of vegetable stock from Dirt Candy, for the Roasted Potato Soup above. Oh, and approximately a metric shitton of garlic.

 LEFTOVERS! Yeah, that's right: this is at least half leftovers. Vegan hot dog, and an arugula salad with roasted portobello mushrooms with a kimchi dressing, and apples (pictured right).

Enough leftovers to make J's lunch! That's the bourguignon on brown rice on the left, and the above-mentioned arugula salad on the right with grilled broccolini.

I don't have any decent images of the appetizer I made for the party we went to last night, but here are the tags. It was... delicious.

A neat kickstarter

Many of you know my of interest in alternative and modular housing. This is a really cool Kickstarter page for a project called AbleNook which I recently backed.

More information and additional images available on the AbleNook website.

Brooklyn toilet repair

Yes, you're seeing that correctly: that's a shower curtain hook.

Sometimes you have to get creative.

It actually works perfectly, and has me thinking about all the cheap, crappy, failure-prone chains and plastic connections in the guts of toilets.

Blossom Cafe vegan BBQ cheeseburger

It was slightly spendy ($14) but fucking delicious. It was, in fairness, the West Village, so $14 with side greens isn't out of line with local prices.

About to go do an hour or so of meeting, then hopefully get the rest of the weekend off. We'll see.

Vegan Manhattan Mediterranean!

Close, easy, delicious.

Ohhhh, New York.

Oh Brooklyn. Oh Williamsburg. Oh Irony.

Our plane

J and I flying to NYC, in the Sky Club, with a nice view of the 738 we're about to board.

More about books

I realized that yesterday's post might make it seem like I have an immense amount of leisure time for reading. In part, I make time to read. But it's really keyed mostly to how much I travel: much (most?) of my reading time is on airplanes, in hotels, and on the occasional train.

Oh, and I did a similar post a few years back about my 2007 reading totals.

2011 and 2012 books, by the numbers. And a strong start.

Total books read in 2011: 11
Total pages read in 2011: 3758 (average of 7.55 pages per day)
2011 book I couldn't even finish: Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen

Total books read in 2012: 16
Total pages read in 2012: 6,880 (average of 18.79 pages per day)

Total books read so far in 2013: 3
Total pages read in 2013: 1083 (average of 154.71 pages per day)

Best books read in 2012:
A Rumor of War, by Philip Caputo
Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
(I wonder what it says about me that the two best I could find on my list are both about war?) 
 Worst books read in 2012:
Song of Susannah (Dark Tower VI), by Stephen King
(and another which I'm too nice to list here. You can email me to ask.)
 2012 longest book: Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Triology, by Ken Follett (985 pages)
2012 shortest book: Down to Earth: People of Appalachia, by Kenneth Murray (125 pages)

2012 book I couldn't even finish:  House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods, by Alexander von Hoffman

Books on deck (as in, already on the to-be-read shelf):
Winter of the World, by Ken Follett
Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies, by Eric Freed
Life Under Glass: The Inside Story of Biosphere 2, by Abigail Alling & Mark Nelson
The Human Experiment: Two Years and Twenty Minutes Inside Biosphere 2, by Jane Poynter
Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

JFK...

Complete with unhappy Delta staff sitting by gate 23. Nice dinner, but now a few hours to go. Might as well do some exploring!

Best vegan food in Queens?

No, of course not. But tragically, the airport vegan pesto noodles with tofu might be the best food I've had this week.

With love and appreciation to the very kind people at the Chinese/Tex-Mex restaurant at Beach 115 in the Rockaways, the steamed vegetables and plain steamed tofu gets old after having it five times in four days.

Sitting at JFK for what should be an ontime flight.

Current accommodations

Rockaway, NY. Might seek to upgrade tonight. Or not.

And a lovely window view

As i explained to J earlier this month after our visit to the (awesome) Pima Air and Space Museum, and while standing at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, I'm not a *true* plane geek, in the sense that I can't tell a plane by its jet trails. But i do enjoy some plane-spotting.

Didn't get the standby, but:

an empty airport lounge, Sweetwater 420, the NYT, and schmancy olives isn't such a bad way to pass a couple hours.

Vegan day after xmas

Ohhhh, yeah. Potatoes and ONIONS and garlic and stuff.

YUM.

Vegan xmas leftovers!

That's: veggies (squash, onions, red and green bell peppers), hazelnut stuffing, tofurky, and gravy (which my phone keeps wanting to auto-correct to "heavy". Indeed.)

Moving the last big items out of the condo today. [insert huge sigh of relief here.]

Vegan xmas veggie skewers

Done!

Vegan xmas

Veggie skewers! Yay!

Vegan xmas, part... oops.

That's what happens when you leave your fun vegan sour cream too long.

Vegan xmas, part deux!

Stuffing. Still. Yay!

Vegan xmas, part four in a series!

Finished fried vegetables, starting stuffing!

Strong lines, baby. Strong lines.

Third in a series of vegan xmas realtime blogging.

Can you believe that "realtime" wasn't in my phone's spellcheck dictionary?

Spellcheck wasn't either. Made short work of that!

Blow by blow vegan xmas!

These are the extra veggies that we didn't have skewers for.

More to come, friends! DON'T TURN THAT DIAL!

Vegan Xmas!

Overnight marinated veggies for grilling for the in-laws!

Broken unbreakable lexan fork?

No problem!

A nice project from the first of two nights on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. J and i are hiking down to Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the canyon tomorrow. Overnight temp supposed to be 6 degrees above zero. Whee! Vacation!

The downside of first class:

The downside of first class: a toddler in front, a snorer behind, an asshat to the left.

But an upgrade means i get "free" fruit for breakfast. Yum!

Ithaca is Gorges

some images of my last few days...

about 2% of what I did for two days: teaching people how to parse statutes. 

Moosewood Restaurant: I could never forgive myself if I didn't go there. And it was WOW: deeply unimpressive! I mean, everything was fine, edible, bordering on tasty. But nothing, nothing stood out. Clockwise from left:

• the salad had a somewhat tasty lemon tahini dressing, but the composition of green lettuce, carrots, shredded carrots, and a few (hidden) plum tomatoes. 
• the wheat bread was thickly sliced, but very basic, very uninteresting, and the olive oil I asked for was way too little (though the server gladly brought out the pourer and left it when I asked for more olive oil.) 
• the Caribbean black bean soup was bland and boring. It needed salt, more vegetables, more depth, some acid, and something besides black beans and boring fine chopped veggies. 

Yes, I know: I got the $8 daily special, which is a good buy. But the two vegan-available nightly specials were lame, full of boring vegetables, no meaningful vegan protein, and at $15, I didn't care to risk either.

Fun graffiti and official signage in downtown Ithaca. 

Solid food at Viva Taqueria, a tofu mole burrito, chips, and the house-made hot sauces. At $6.98 total, the best buy of the weekend. Except all of the food other people bought. But still perhaps the tastiest.

Sitting in the tiny cute Ithaca airport now, waiting to fly back to DTW, then ATL.

A few down days, then J and I go to Arizona for vacation. Whee!

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More food porn

Based on the earlier mise en place post, broccoli, tofu, red jalapenos, ginger, garlic.

It smells AMAZING. we'll see how much is left for wraps tomorrow.

Mise en place

For tomorrow's wraps, for flying to Ithaca. Red jalapenos, broccoli, ginger, tomato, garlic, beer!

Food porn, also NOW.

Yeah. Baby potatoes, roasted toaster oven style, with olive oil and salt. Yum!

Food porn

Pre-grilling. Yum.

Charlie Brown Xmas Tree, take 2

The other one was crapping out, and the pickings on the ground were solid when J and i were at Whole Paycheck earlier. 

It only fell out of my bike grocery bag panniers once on the ride home.

Happy Charlie Brown Alcoholic Christmas!

Take note: that's 151, yo.

Thanks to the scraps laying around from the free range vegetarian feed humanely killed xmas trees at Whole Paycheck!

Berkeley!

Triple Rock: hot sauce and beer for second lunch!

Vegan hotel lounge complimentary

Napa style. Livin' large!

Happy hour at the San Juan airport

$4 caipirinhas make up for crappy overpriced sandwiches.

Vegan San Juan, Puerto Rico airport

Yep: eating Subway for the second time in 16 hours. Puerto Rico is tough for vegans.

Fortunately it's also fucking gorgeous.

Lies the City of a Hundred Hills

This references an earlier post, with a point I might already have made, but: waking through the Atlanta airport underground walkway this morning, i again saw one of my favorite quotes. unfortunately omitting (at the ellipsis) "City of a hundred hills"

Huh. Go figure.

Okay, fine, it's not actually a surprise.

I'd love to see George Bush Sr. take this, since he'd almost certainly end up more liberal than Obama. Or Reagan, or Ford, or Nixon, or Eisenhower, or... okay, you get my point, right?

Wednesday morning, must be Sacramento

Finally got all of the doors replace closet doors in in the door project from hell.

A Halloween flight now back to ATL, then headed to Puerto Rico tomorrow. Big times!

Vegan Caribbean inn Atlanta!

At Healthful Essence.

Delicious!