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Let Sleeping Dogs Die

Sometimes reality hits you in the face whether you’re ready for it or not. I didn’t take a picture and that’s probably a good thing. I’ll cut to the chase and then flesh out the detail. People eat animals. Sometimes those animals might be what we would consider to be pets. Here’s what happened. I […]

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Kumasi Poor Little Vegans Shopping

Banner Day

The holy grail, after weeks of opening canned tomatoes with a Swiss Army knife, was a can opener, spotted on a table of wares in downtown Kumasi.

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Poor Little Vegans

Another Mashed Potato Meal

Pretty much every Sunday we eat some version of this meal for dinner. Mashed potatoes, golden gravy, a fresh vegetable and some kind of protein. It’s been awhile since we’ve made tempeh or seitan cutlets so we’ve been cheating with processed foods. Mostly because Bob has been working 50 hours a week between his full […]

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Christmas Dinner

Another Vegan meal of twigs and berries. This time, in honor of Christmas and shared with Jason and Haruka: Roasted tofurky and root vegetables, mashed potatoes, golden gravy and the ubiquitous greens. This time of year we eat greens at every meal.

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The Usual Fare

Poor Little Vegetarians! Here’s what we had to eat tonight: twigs and berries. Jason and Haruka’s incredibly sweet and nutty Koshihikari rice, freshly harvested greens with radicchio from Matt and Jenn’s Dickinson College Farm, pan-fried quorm “chicken” patties topped with Mae Ploy sweet chili sauce. The only things keeping this meal from being vegan is […]