0olong
vegancooking

• Olive oil
• Cumin
• Sage
• Basil and/or pesto (the pesto I used was very simple, just basil and oil and pine nuts and salt)
• Lemon
• Balsamic
• Soy
• Mushrooms
• Peppers
• Tomatoes
• Peanut butter
• Eddie reckons broccoli would be good too, and he's probably right - I don't end up buying it much, myself. Maybe tofu, maybe other random veg.

julifolo

"Cat owners may have suspected as much, but it seems our feline friends have found a way to manipulate us humans.

Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a "soliciting purr" to overpower their owners and garner attention and food.

Unlike regular purring, this sound incorporates a "cry", with a similar frequency to a human baby's. "

anmorata

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vegaenglit
vegancooking

my oldest kiddo is almost five and currently getting handy at making his own sandwiches - but other than pb&j (which he doesnt really like) and your typical lunchmeat sandwich, im at a loss.

im looking for something easy i could make and keep in the fridge he could easily slap between two slices of bread or some interesting combination of things he could make.

im intrigued by the homemade lunch meat recipe i found in the tags and we do hummus/beans a lot.

serene_at_dw

http://serene.dreamwidth.org/23785.html

bcholmes

Yes, I heard about RaceFail '09 some time after the event, and rather regret not having been there while it was going on. The category of Political Correctness is so nebulous that it's rarely very helpful, particularly because it is often used disgracefully as a stick with which to beat anti-racists or progressives. In the broader sense, I absolutely do think that the implicit politics of our narratives, whether we are consciously "meaning" them or not, matter, and that therefore we should be as thoughtful about them as possible. That doesn't mean we'll always succeed in political perspicacity—which doesn't mean the same thing as tiptoeing —but we should try. So for example: If you have a world in which Orcs are evil, and you depict them as evil, I don't know how that maps onto the question of "political correctness." However, the point is not that you're misrepresenting Orcs (if you invented this world, that's how Orcs are), but that you have replicated the logic of racism, which is that large groups of people are "defined" by an abstract supposedly essential element called "race," whatever else you were doing or intended. And that's not an innocent thing to do. Maybe you have a race of female vampires who destroy men's strength. They really do operate like that in your world. But I think you're kidding yourself if you think that that idea just appeared ex nihilo in your head and has nothing to do with the incredibly strong, and incredibly patriarchal, anxiety about the destructive power of women's sexuality in our very real world. These things are not reducible to our "intent"—we all inherit all kinds of bits and pieces of cultural bumf, plenty of them racist and sexist and homophobic, because that's how our world works, so how could you avoid it?

So I'd suggest that one should be open-eyed about the facts that the categories with which we think and write and read, are not innocent, and that we should do our best not to use them to replicate the worst aspects of the cultural bumf that put them in our heads in the first place. Does that mean being politically correct? If that is deemed to mean being conscious of and careful about the political ramifications of our writing, then surely that's the only decent way to proceed.

— "10 Questions with China Miéville"