There have been some new employees at the office, two of them found out that I am a vegetarian at the exact same time, and they just had a dumbfounded look on their faces when they found out. After a minute or so they had a few questions (I’d been out to lunch with them twice and I guess they never noticed what I ordered).

The only other thing I really have to say is that I have made a decision that my family isn’t going to like. I’m not going to Thanksgiving with them this year. I’d rather be alone then around them at times. Thanksgiving ‘06 I just had a bunch of questions from family members and “taunts” from others. Thanksgiving ‘07 I ended up being stuck right next to the dead turkey, which is no fun. Christmas Eve last year was great though. I think the overall tone/mood of a family gathering is based on where the gathering is taking place. Thanksgiving is at my Aunt and Uncles and Chrismas Eve is at my cousins (who rock by the way,  they let me have my 21st birthday party at their house last year). My cousins don’t make “what’s Josh going to eat” the last thing on the their mind. I mean for Christmas last year, they actually bought and made a Tofurkey.

Hmm, this post is getting pretty long. I made posts on all three of my blogs tonight and they were all pretty long. Guess I need to update more frequently.

Saute finely chopped onions first in enough wine to just cover the onions… Once onions begin to cook down, add cleaned and chopped mushrooms. Stir frequently, allow to cook down.

Meanwhile, thaw boca burgers in microwave for 30 secs to a min, just enough to soften. Then chop into tiny squares. Then place in hot frying pan with some oil. Cover and simmer on med. Stir frequently and carefully. Oil can burn and spatter.

Next boil water and add egg noodles. When the noodles are done, strain and add 2 cans (4 if you double recipe) mushroom soup stir rapidly. Take onion and wine mix off heat. Add Boca to pasta mix. Continue stirring. Slowly add onion and wine mix.

stir thoroughly. and serve warm.

make sure to use alcohol removed wine or else your cream of mushroom can curdle. It is important to NOT heat the mushroom soup other than with contact with the other heated food.

-Hannah

Also within that two minutes, I hear that Häagen-Dazs® is concerned about the bee decline. Their answer, a new flavor of course! “Vanilla Honeybee” is apparently it’s name and they say about 40% of their flavors use honey. Yeah, you know creating a new flavor with Honeybee in the name and using even more honey is definitely the way to go, because to stop using honey wouldn’t help one bit. Sometimes I wonder if people really think.

Dutch “better than chicken” pot pie!

2 packs morning star chikn starter strips (unbreaded)
2 cans vegetable broth
3 cans water
20-30 peppercorns
1 cup vegetable oil
2 packs pa dutch pot pie square noodles
5 cups chopped celery
5 cups chopped carrots
3 cups chopped onions
4 tbsps garlic powder
2 tbsps onion powder
2 tbsps salt

mix onions, carrots, celery, broth, salt, peppercorns- bring to rapid boil until color darkens and vegetables soften.

add remaining ingredients and continue to boil until noodles are flimsy.

Serve hot.
best with some bread for dipping

Ok, second reason. I want to know what you’re thankful for. I am thankful for everything that has happened to me in the past year. Good, bad, or otherwise. I’m also thankful that I have some people who support my decision to go vegetarian. Though right now it doesn’t seem many are in my family.

So my year has been odd, but good. Goals for this next year of veg life are to blog more, and find someone special who is veg*. One last thing regarding the ‘One’ part of this post. If you’ve supported me, thank you.

On to the ‘Three’ part of this post. I’m building my own content management system once again for this site. It’s really cool and simple. So new system and design coming later this weekend.

I’m working on a new design for this site. It’s a burnt red-orange theme. It looks neat. I might make one part of it a Flash animation (it’s a “coming soon” section). The logo looks fucking amazing if I do say so myself. Simple ITC Kabel (Book) in white. I’m going to get back to working on it, but to make things interesting. What do you think of the whole Michael Vick dog fighting?

Ingredients:

• Green Squash
• Yellow Squash
• Green Pepper
• Red Pepper
• 1 Pack White Cap Mushrooms
• Amarillo (yellow) Rice
• Cajun Powder
• Olive Oil

Directions:

1. Chop veggies and sautee in a small amount of olive oil.
2. Sprinkle desired amount of Cajun Powder on veggies.
3. Serve over rice (prepare as you would normally)