tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-325060502024-03-06T22:02:25.746-08:00Yasmin BlogsOccasional art, comics, food, and other things of less interest to the general public.yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-54428405707358608602012-11-02T16:36:00.000-07:002012-11-02T16:36:03.076-07:00Hierarchy
In the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, here's a tongue-in-cheek poem.
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yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-46006983924213901942012-10-23T17:34:00.001-07:002012-10-23T17:34:39.831-07:00Debate Poem
Ibrahim and Ishmael side by side,
tired eyes and
winning smiles,
100-watt bright.
Each takes his turn, polite as you like.
Balance the budget
restore jobs, borrow from China
or adieu to big bird,
tighten your belts,
recession is here,
we gotta dive in.
I did it for you…
Think of the children!
The best you can hope for,
all we have to offer you.
What of Gitmo?
Let's not talk about that.
yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-24502480455339697362012-10-04T20:17:00.000-07:002012-10-04T20:17:15.377-07:00Hippie Truffles
I wanted to make carob treats because chocolate is supposed to be not-so-great if you have acid reflux (heartburn).
Enter these carob truffles, made with carob powder. Tasty, and pretty decent from a health perspective. They have an unexpected ingredient that makes them the ultimate hippie confection: everyone's favorite wonder grain, quinoa.
Recipe here.
You can learn more about good yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-70353535780584631862012-10-04T11:14:00.002-07:002012-10-04T11:15:52.955-07:00Debate drawings
We went out to watch the debates yesterday. The guy next to me was drawing Mitty and Obam-bam so I followed his lead. His results were more impressive. Romney is all about the hair and the strong jaw. Obama has round protruding ears. Both have 100-watt smiles but tired eyes.
The writing at the top were notes about a poem (unrelated). The bottom is a quote from a Real Change vendor yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-14159512823219836152012-09-23T21:04:00.002-07:002012-09-23T21:04:42.345-07:00Thin Brown Wings
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yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-49820872304697102602012-09-03T16:14:00.000-07:002012-09-03T16:16:22.309-07:00Earrings
Hi friends! At the encouragement of my beautiful sister, I'm going to stick some things back up here for a few days and see if I'm ready to get back into the blog groove. I think it'll be mostly photos of art/craft things I'm working on. Welcome.
These are some earrings I made recently using a wire-weaving technique.
yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-18870944981004241122011-04-11T03:38:00.005-07:002012-09-23T21:12:10.407-07:00Maikel Nabil
Maikel Nabil is an Egyptian blogger who was imprisoned for insulting the army. He's since been released, but this blog post was a mirror of the one he'd written that got him sentenced.
You can read Maikel's original post, or an English translation here.
yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-42070638066416731762011-03-30T15:54:00.007-07:002011-04-11T04:01:32.963-07:00Free Maikel NabilUPDATE: Maikel Nabil was sentenced to three years in prison today, one day earlier than sentencing was scheduled, in the absence of both his lawyer & himself. Maikel Nabil was arrested from his house March 28, 2011 by military police. He faces the charge of offending the army and spreading false news that could threaten public security. Nabil is an activist who wrote a blog post entitled, "The yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-34701973919285256172010-10-13T20:58:00.005-07:002010-10-14T14:50:59.228-07:00The Bus BackIf you've been following for the food, it probably won't be making too many appearances henceforth. In fact, at the risk of shooting myself in the foot from the get-go, let me say that there may not be many posts in general. Okay, on with the post.***It was early afternoon and I was riding the bus home today from my book group. It wasn't my usual bus where I have the route memorized, but what I yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-37264740206552896532009-06-14T06:03:00.002-07:002009-06-14T06:44:16.928-07:00Good night, blogThings have gotten quiet on this blog lately. I’ve been meaning to post an explanation of sorts for a while, and here it is.I started my blog in what felt (to me, at least) like the heyday of blogging. It seemed fun and also exciting – theoretically, people from all over the world could read what I wrote and gaze at pictures I posted.My blog in its early days was rarely about food – more like yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-66270652467539615952009-04-20T10:01:00.006-07:002009-04-20T10:30:19.089-07:00Homemade Ice CreamThe weather is getting hotter (at least sometimes), and ice cream is most definitely called for. Imagine my delight while flipping through old copies of Vegetarian Times* at the library and encountering a feature on homemade vegan ice creams.But homemade ice cream means nothing to me if it requires an ice cream maker, which my kitchen is not outfitted with. Happily, the first recipe I saw, for a yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-51389107494236257502009-02-13T09:34:00.006-08:002009-02-13T23:18:11.371-08:00Yummy persian foodA few weeks ago I took a one-time Persian cooking class at PCC (a natural foods supermarket in Washington state) about Persian cooking. It was my first time trying Persian food and it was wonderful - flavors totally different to anything I'd experienced before. I was mistaken when I thought it would be similar to other middle eastern cuisines (Lebanese, Egyptian, etc).Yesterday I decided to try yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-45022339012155894822009-02-06T16:29:00.003-08:002009-02-06T16:45:02.795-08:00KoshariI've been wanting to post about - and make - koshari for a very long time, and somehow the forces convened about a week ago. Koshari is what hamburgers are in the US - fast, cheap, and ubiquitous, but luckily, vegan. The problem with koshari is that it's made up of about a hundred different things: rice, lentils, macaroni, chickpeas, super-fried crispy brown onions, and a garlicky sauce to go yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-44420464909316655232009-01-22T13:26:00.004-08:002009-01-22T13:31:31.936-08:00VCON Chickpea Noodle SoupOn a chilly day, after a not-quite fight with the bus driver, come home to Veganomicon's Chickpea Noodle Soup (follow link for recipe). Miso gives it a vaguely chickeny (not in a bad way) savory taste. Adding extra leafy greens (I used collard greens) is a good idea. Oh, and I used rice instead of noodles to use up leftover rice, throwing it in about 5 minutes before the soup was done.yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-59047331183285389982009-01-17T16:30:00.005-08:002009-01-17T16:48:38.196-08:00Vegan YumYum's Roll-up LasagnaI've been in a bit of a kitchen slump recently. We have all these fruits and vegetables in the fridge and I'm at a loss as to how to combine them successfully.Happily, one of the vegetables was a gigantic eggplant, so I got to try out Vegan YumYum's eggplant and pine nut rolled lasagna. It was a bit labor-intensive since I had to fry eggplant slices, but turned out delicious and totally worth it.yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-32692961505597390282009-01-16T20:42:00.003-08:002009-01-16T21:03:33.827-08:00kitchen flops: semolina puddingA semolina pudding recipe I came across in Bittman's How to Cook Everything Vegetarian sounded too intruiging to pass up. Semolina (usually used to make pasta) in a dessert?I made a few adaptions to the recipe, the worst being subbing yogurt with tofu cream cheese, which killed it, and resulted in a funky dessert (bad funky). In taste tests throughout the process (read: licking spoons), it was yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-19181941849815695272009-01-15T08:59:00.004-08:002009-01-15T09:32:09.945-08:00Tiramisu & Pasta Della CaliforniaThings have been busy. I went to Boston really briefly, for a few days, to visit my cousin who was also visiting.Before I left I made some note-worthy things: the Pasta Della California from Veganomicon (recipe here) and the tiramisu from the Candle Cafe cookbook. The pasta was incredible, and highly recommended - who knew lots of garlic, broccoli and avocados would taste so incredible together?yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-68809018140150796632009-01-01T10:02:00.004-08:002009-01-01T10:12:05.430-08:00PancakesPancakes make things better. I really wanted to make these after I saw them on Bethany's blog (scroll down). They're from the Candle Cafe Cookbook, so it was an added bonus since I haven't made much out of it yet. The texture is really spot-on, and of course with maple syrup and margarine, they were worthy of being the first breakfast of the new year.yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-56014350190017876362008-12-31T06:13:00.006-08:002008-12-31T06:49:51.290-08:00Cooking tipsHere are five random cooking ideas I've learnt in my brief cooking obsession thus far.1. The internet. It's totally underrated as a cooking tool (or simply not considered) by way too many people. Google is already answering all your other pressing queries, so why not try asking it what to cook? Try putting ingredients you have in your fridge in as your search terms, e.g. "carrot and tomato yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-7834562094290505412008-12-30T12:20:00.008-08:002008-12-30T23:34:20.136-08:00Great food books I read in 2008Since I like lists, I thought it would be fun to do a few year-end type lists. Since it's already December 30, this will probably spill over into January. Oops. Let's be postmodern about this and acknowledge that the new year is just an arbitrary calendar date. This list is of food books (not cooking) I read and recommend this year.Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Barbara yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-47190496465002859002008-12-27T20:09:00.004-08:002008-12-27T20:41:00.246-08:00Chow.comIf you're looking for a way to while away yet more hours on the great internets with food-related stuff, check out chow.com. It has stories, weekly top ten lists, recipes (some of them are even vegan), really useful forums, and video tips. When I was up all last night jet-lagged, I went through their review of the year in food. Lots of interesting stuff in there, from California's proposition 2 yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-526932485419845512008-12-26T03:19:00.005-08:002008-12-27T07:59:20.370-08:00Baby it's cold outsideI got in from Cairo two days ago. It was a good trip, although it feels now a little too brief. I left Seattle cold, but unfrozen, and return to find it transformed - my first experience with snow. Walking outside yesterday morning - carefully armored in thermal, wool, boots, and a duvet-like coat - felt like an acid trip.My plans to glean cooking tips while away mostly fell flat, but I did yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-50823840547657353052008-12-08T16:42:00.003-08:002008-12-08T16:54:47.076-08:00Not-Tella RollsA few days ago I made the not-tella from Veganomicon - and it turned out great! Since I didn't have the hazelnut extract, I consulted the internets, which revealed by way of this recipe at Su Good Sweets (linked from the Bittersweet blog) that increasing the vanilla extract would do it (I upped it to half a teaspoon). I wanted to experiment with the nutella (i.e. find a new way to eat it, it's yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-9857361579450194672008-12-06T07:43:00.002-08:002008-12-06T07:58:08.104-08:00What happened to the pumpkin?At the end of my last post I mentioned I had a never-ending pumpkin and was considering my options. Feeling energetic, I went ahead and tried pumpkin ravioli. There seemed to be two problems: the dough too dry and stiff and my lack of a rolling pin. In retrospect it's very easy to say, "don't go there," regarding ravioli if you don't have a rolling pin, but at the time, I thought it was at least yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32506050.post-69532546581101379742008-12-03T11:59:00.003-08:002008-12-03T12:20:58.649-08:00Fried OatmealStumbling across the internets a while back, this idea of frying oatmeal at a blog called Fuss Free Flavours presented itself. You have to soak the oatmeal with a little milk and flour the night before, which is not a big deal but requires a little forethought. Last night there was a long bout of insomnia, so mixed it up. Used some carrots and green onions for the vegetable portion. It turned yasminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02347386322304198631noreply@blogger.com3