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Author Archives: Brianna

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William’s birthday party

at the Austin Zoo The train ride at the zoo, with its psychedelic mushroom people peeking out of the ashe juniper trees, the satellite dish UFO and aliens, never fails to crack me up, no matter how many times I’ve been on it before.

riding trikes

Roasted chickpeas

Continuing what seems to be legume month here at Sunrise Ruby, here’s a snack recipe adapted from one published in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Vegetarian Times. Roasted Chickpeas 2 15-oz cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1/4 C olive oil 5-6 cloves garlic, minced (about 2 Tbs) salt and pepper to taste space Preheat oven [...]

Red lentil hummus

Red Lentil Hummus Serve this dip with fresh bread or raw veggies, or serve as a sandwich spread with fresh tomato, spinach, carrot and thinly sliced red onion.  Adapted from a recipe in La Dolce Vegan: 1 C red lentils 1 1/2 C water 2 Tbs olive oil 3 Tbs flax oil juice of 1 [...]

Yellow split pea chowder

This embarrassingly easy soup is vegan and gluten-free, but it somehow manages to taste like chicken.  Ben ate it, and that’s no easy seal of approval for a legume soup to earn.  Without further ado, the ingredients: 2 small onions (or 1 large onion), chopped 4 medium carrots, chopped 4 celery stalks, chopped 2 Tbs [...]

New Year’s Eve at Inks Lake

Prickly pear Some kind of sotol? or yucca? Deer track in our campsite Great Blue Heron, on the lake near Devil’s Waterhole Camp kitchen Cooking pouches of camp fire apples on New Year’s Eve! Playing “sink or float?” in small pools of water in the gneiss rock After dinner Pencil cactus White-tailed deer Playing in [...]

Decorating gingerbread

Ben’s preschool classmate Torin and his mom Erica hosted a gingerbread decorating party last weekend.  Ben and his pals dressed their gingerbread cakes with white frosting, marshmallows, sprinkles, red hots and red and green gumdrops: Here’s Ben’s finished creation: And here are some of his friends’ gingerbread people. I don’t remember who made this one: [...]

Hot and sour soup

Adapted from La Dolce Vegan Hot and Sour Soup 4 C veggie broth 2 C water 3 Tbs tamari 2-in piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced 2 tsp sugar 1-2 tsp garlic Asian chili sauce 2 small-med carrots, grated 3 oz oyster mushrooms, chopped 1/4 C rice vinegar [...]

trimming the tree

We decorated our Christmas tree this afternoon, just the four of us.  Then we went out for dinner at a new Indian restaurant near our house.  Then we drove around looking at Christmas lights, while the children enjoyed the dum dums that the owner of the Indian restaurant kindly gave them when we left. If [...]