Problem #43: Make one new vegan recipe, blah blah. And some other things.

January 23rd, 2008

Before I get to the action-packed, heart-pounding, rock em’ sock em’ ride that is this weeks recipe problem, I’d like to say a couple of quick things that will warm your cold Chicago heart. (And mother-effer it’s cold here.)

See, told you. Cold.

Sixteen years ago today, January 22, 1992, my littlest brother Jacob was born, and I have such a clear memory of it. My grandfather picked me up from the 6th grade early, which I thought was pretty sweet. Little brother or not, I was getting out of school before all the other suckers.

I was wearing my favorite pink V-neck sweater with an evergreen turtleneck underneath, the sweater that got me invited to all the sleepovers where there were no boys. We drove to the hospital and met baby Jake, and here’s where it gets fuzzy - I mostly remember looking at my mom and thinking she was about to die, since she was white as a sheet and talked in a whisper. I guess at this time I had no real idea what child birth was like, and you know, with zero kids and all now it’s much more clear.

So with the fear of God in my 11-year-old self that my mother was dying, onward we went, my grandparents and my otha’ brotha’ Zak, to Brown’s Chicken, where we consumed our weight in fried yard-bird and other delicacies.

He is so cute I can hardly take it. Also, nice costume mom.

To my baby brother: Happy Birthday Jacob! And, ha-ha, you still can’t drive for two more years because you live in Canada! (Did I mention to you that I could drive with an adult when I was 15? I could.)

Also off topic, I want to wish the best of luck to Amy and Simon as the head to Venezuela today for Adventures in PHd Research! Amy is 1/6th of the girl bike gang I belong to, which is now without direction and entering a deep depression.

Enough with the mushy stuff, on to the problems. For this weeks vegan recipe, I chose another one from Veganomicon, Red Lentil Cauliflower Curry. It turned out pretty well, but I admit it was a bit of a cop-out, as I’ve made a few other curries before and there’s not much to it. I was feeling a bit lazy a the time, and since it was 1 degree F out, I wanted something warm and toasty… overall, it gets an “Eh”.

On a positive note, I did get to buy Parsnip for the first time, which I had to Wikipedia first to even see what it was. I was really proud, I bought Parsnip.

I know, I’m bored too.

As always, til next time…

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