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Iced Vegan Pumpkin Spice Cookies

While I’m not vegan, I like a good self-imposed food challenge, especially when it comes to baked goods. How to replace eggs and butter, two prominent cookie ingredients, in particular? I was asked to come up with a “pumpkin spice cookie,” but I figured I’d go the extra mile in recipe-developing by finally buying my [...]

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August Re-cap

I have been doing a lot of things/visiting a lot of places that have long been on to-do/to-visit lists, either on paper, in a text file somewhere or just floating around in my mind. Here is an August smattering of such things:
I went to Westport, Connecticut for a long weekend, where my aunts from Pittsburgh [...]

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What’s cookin’…

In an attempt to use my garden harvest fast enough, I have been trying some variations on tomato-and-herb recipes, and getting way too excited about one vegan recipe in particular that I found on the internet, so much so that I have made it previously but haven’t been able to take pictures before devouring it. [...]

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Garden Check-in

Wow, it has been two months since I did a little photo-and-verbal check-in about my garden; I can successfully report however that I am up to 29 grape tomatoes and 4 cucumbers harvested, edible nasturtium flowers, countless palm-fuls of herbs used for pestos and vase displays, and even a simulated mini-lily pad pond I came [...]

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New Victories

I’m bordering on being obsessed with my fire escape garden now that the seedlings are becoming full-fledged plants. As the resident green thumb for Brooklyn Based (well, I’m calling myself that anyway), I got to investigate a kind of new “victory garden” in the form of artist Leah Gauthier’s Sharecropper, a summer-long public-art-meets-farming project [...]

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In Busy-As-A-Bee Mode

Since returning to New York in slightly better spirits, I’ve been keeping busy with various, ahem, domestic arts. Good weather makes me want to flee to beach destinations, pull a Holly Golightly, and plan elaborate bike trips with stops at cupcake shops, bbq joints, nature walks and any curious New York site, but it also [...]

Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage