From the monthly archives:

January 2010

“It’s uterUS, Marge, not uterYOU.”

January 28, 2010 by hollie Endometriosis

Hey folks! Sorry I’ve been gone for a week or so, it’s been a little stressful around here dealing with all the questions surrounding the endometriosis, cysts, and possible surgery. The above quote is a line from The Simpsons, in which Homer wants to have another child and Marge doesn’t want to, and Homer intones, [...]

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I’ve been diagnosed with endometriosis

January 11, 2010 by hollie Endometriosis

I haven’t posted in the past week because I’ve been busy freaking the heck out. About a month ago, I went to the ER with pelvic pain so bad I was sure I’d ruptured a bowel, or been fed cheese in my sleep, or maybe implanted with a gut-bursting alien. An ultrasound revealed that I [...]

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Dr. Oz suggests raw food

January 5, 2010 by hollie In The News

The Dr. Oz website has a whole section on raw foods, called The Raw Food Challenge, designed to help you transition to a raw foods diet. I’m floored. After the last few years of listening to mainstream news talk about how crazy those raw foodists are (It’s all an eating disorder! Enzymes aren’t necessary!), here’s [...]

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Tofu tastes good! When you fry it, of course.

January 4, 2010 by hollie Recipes I Try From Books:

As we all know, everything is made better by frying, especially vegetables. Well, now I’ve discovered that it works on tofu, too. I just went into the kitchen hungry, and thought I’d try another Kind Diet recipe: Crispy Tofu Slices with Orange Dipping Sauce.
It’s delicious! Basically you dredge slices of marinated tofu in a [...]

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Morningstar Farms has yummy sausage

January 4, 2010 by hollie Food and Recipe Reviews

I’m not a sausage fan in general. Even before I stopped eating meat I avoided any meat that you could put quotation marks around – as in, sausage contains “meat”, and by “meat” we really mean: entrails. However, Greg just made some Morningstar Farms Veggie Sausage Patties, and while I usually think fake meat is terrifying, these little [...]

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Barley eludes me

January 4, 2010 by hollie Recipes I Try From Books:

For the last couple weeks I’ve been trying to make Barley Casserole, from Alicia Silverstone’s yummy new book, The Kind Diet. I finally had to post on her website’s forums today:
I’ve tried this three times, but I can’t get past the barley. Each time the barley gets either burnt or turns to mush.
The directions say:
“Bring [...]

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21-Day Vegan Kickstart

January 4, 2010 by hollie Going Vegan

Feel like going vegan for the New Year? If you head over to 21daykickstart.org, you can try a vegan diet for 21 days and see how it feels, in a program designed by the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine. I’m not sure I can go from vegetarian to vegan in 21 days, but I do [...]

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Hollie’s Hummus

January 3, 2010 by hollie Recipes

This is one of my favorite vegan snacks which can easily become a meal if paired with some fruit and/or veg. I put some white beans (that I soaked the night before and then cooked that day) into the Cuisinart. Maybe about two cups or so. I don’t measure, because I don’t believe in measuring. [...]

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Bringing in the new year with some kale, yo!

January 1, 2010 by hollie Posts with Photos

Greg took this a couple minutes before the clock struck midnight. I made sure to be drinking right at the moment the new year arrived (at least for Seattle’s clocks), and then had to give kale-flavored kisses (it could have been worse – I know how to make garlic soup).
I’m really really really looking forward [...]

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