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I woke up on Sunday to Emmy showing me some pregnancy tests. We started trying in November. This is pretty awesome.
 
Little YCC should be here in October!
 
And I am stoked.

I have the VegWeb app on my phone, which is sick.  It has so many recipes.  Some of them come out great, others, not so much.
 
Regarding the bees - it's really simple.  I'm a vegan, and I try my hardest to live an animal product / byproduct free life style.  Honey is a byproduct of the bees, and therefore it comes from animals.  Yes, it's more natural than milk, no, it's not vegan.
 
Daiya cheese is good, compared to others, but it makes me fart like crazy. There is this new cheese, Trader Joes brand, which melted pretty well but was very plasticky.  When eaten with spinach and a pita and fake chicken strips ( also TJ brand, also really goods ), it wasn't too bad.
 
RECIPES:
 
Pineapple Chili - courtesy of Andy Tabar of CompassionCo // TFT.
this recipe is really cheap if you buy everything canned and still really yummy (literally, you can feed 4-6 people till they are stuffed for 10-12 bucks if you have the spices), or really expensive but also better if fresh.
 
One big can of diced tomatoes OR fresh tomatoes. 4-5 cans of your favorite beans (black, red, pinto, kidney, lentils, doesn't really matter). one can of diced pineapple OR fresh fresh pepper, hot pepper, jalapenos, onion and garlic // optional spices: salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, turmeric, cayenne, chili powder (duh, lots) red pepper flakes, etc.  
Open all the beans and wash them thoroughly with a sieve.  The liquid that comes in the beans causes more gas than the beans themselves!
 
if you have fresh onion or pepper or garlic, saute it first a bit!
 
Grab your biggest pot - mix in all the veggies and beans, but not the pineapple. Stir it and it will slowly get more liquidy.  When the liquid forms throw in your spices.  I just do it randomly and it always, always, always, tastes good.  Don't put too much chilli powder if you're worried about it being too spicy.  Near the end, some liquid will evaporate, and it will taste spicer than it does when there is lots of liquid.
 
~~ 15 minutes later, pour in the pineapples.  I pour the juice in, but it isn't optional.  Big pineapple chunks taste different than little ones, but its, again, up to you.    Let cook for at least 1 hour, but the longer the better.  If it's very liquidy, you can add some flour or even nutritional yeast  to help soak it up and thicken. 
 
serve!!!!!!
 
 
Personal Lasagna Recipe:
this is ridiculously good, serves lots of people, and even my non-vegan friends who hate that I'm vegan will try it and enjoy it.
Fake ground beef ( doesn't matter what brand, but trader joes brand is weak.  ) one block of extra firm or firm tofu bag of mozzarella. daiya cheese box of lasagna noodles your favorite red sauce ( I usually get like a garlic and basil one ) your favorite vegetables I use spinach, broccoli, and mushrooms.  It's up to you. lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper olive oil  
Make the ricotta cheese
one block of tofu, food process lightly or, just do what I do and take a fork and squish it up into crumbles.  Mix lots of lemon juice and some garlic powder and more onion powder and pepper.  As you mix it up, it kind of resembles ricotta cheese.  When mixed in you won't even be able to tell!
 
Cook the ground beef
You can add seasoning if you want, but it's not necessary.  Don't get it crisp or burnt, just warm and soft and crumbled.
 
The Noodles:
I don't cook them cause my mom doesn't cook them.  If you do, it'll probably come out a little bit better than mine haha.  I add water at the end and it cooks in the oven.
 
To layer: use half of your beef and half of your veggies and half the ricotta cheese for the layers, as you layer it twice.  For the sauce, just do thin layers, but you go through an entire can, roughly.  For daiya cheese, just cover it thinly, you want enough for 3 layers with the most on top.
 
Grab a lasagna dish thing and rub a little oil on the pan and then put a thin layer of sauce.  Start layering with dry noodles on the bottom. Put more sauce on top of them.  Then put the ricotta cheese, then the ground beef, then the veggies, then the daiya cheese.  If you have spinach, fresh, layer it completely so it looks cool and green.  If you want to season it up with garlic and onion powder and whatever you look best, be my guest!
 
then add another layer of noodles in the opposite direction.  you'll have to break them up a bit to fit the pan.  Then sauce, ricotta, beef, veggies, daiya. 
 
For the top, put the noodles in original direction, cover with the rest of your sauce, put the rest of your cheese.  If you want, you can save a little to add near the end of the cooking.   Everything else should be gone.
 
 
Take at least a cup of water and pour in the corners of the pan.  Try not to wash off the sauce on top!
 
Throw in the oven at 350 degrees cover with alumn foil, poke some holes, and cook for 45 minutes.  I don't, but you can take off the cover after 45 minutes if the noodles are cooked.  Usually, the edges of my top layer noodles stay hard, so I often add a little more water.  I've never cooked for more than one hour and 10 minutes.
 
It's important, especially with my method, to let it sit for at least one hour after cooking.  If you precook the noodles, maybe not, and it will probably stay more blocky.  Mine loses some of its form, but it tastes so good it doesn't matter.
 
 
PANCAKES
the BEST, no joke, pancakes, ever.
 
Get any brand of pancake batter but make sure its the one that has you add eggs and milk.  Aunt Jemimas brand is veg.
Soy milk or almond milk.  Tastes better with soy IMO since it cooks better.
Banana - you need one third of a normal sized banana per egg.  More banana makes your pancakes taste more bananey.
 
follow instructions on box.
 
 
 
only important thing about that is ONE third ( at most ) of normal banana per egg. It works for all recipes.
 
I"m making the lasagna tomorrow so I'll post pics if I remember.
 
ill post more recipes another night!

I have the VegWeb app on my phone, which is sick.  It has so many recipes.  Some of them come out great, others, not so much.
 
Regarding the bees - it's really simple.  I'm a vegan, and I try my hardest to live an animal product / byproduct free life style.  Honey is a byproduct of the bees, and therefore it comes from animals.  Yes, it's more natural than milk, no, it's not vegan.
 
Daiya cheese is good, compared to others, but it makes me fart like crazy. There is this new cheese, Trader Joes brand, which melted pretty well but was very plasticky.  When eaten with spinach and a pita and fake chicken strips ( also TJ brand, also really goods ), it wasn't too bad.
 
RECIPES:
 
Pineapple Chili - courtesy of Andy Tabar of CompassionCo // TFT.
this recipe is really cheap if you buy everything canned and still really yummy (literally, you can feed 4-6 people till they are stuffed for 10-12 bucks if you have the spices), or really expensive but also better if fresh.
 
One big can of diced tomatoes OR fresh tomatoes. 4-5 cans of your favorite beans (black, red, pinto, kidney, lentils, doesn't really matter). one can of diced pineapple OR fresh fresh pepper, hot pepper, jalapenos, onion and garlic // optional spices: salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, turmeric, cayenne, chili powder (duh, lots) red pepper flakes, etc.  
Open all the beans and wash them thoroughly with a sieve.  The liquid that comes in the beans causes more gas than the beans themselves!
 
if you have fresh onion or pepper or garlic, saute it first a bit!
 
Grab your biggest pot - mix in all the veggies and beans, but not the pineapple. Stir it and it will slowly get more liquidy.  When the liquid forms throw in your spices.  I just do it randomly and it always, always, always, tastes good.  Don't put too much chilli powder if you're worried about it being too spicy.  Near the end, some liquid will evaporate, and it will taste spicer than it does when there is lots of liquid.
 
~~ 15 minutes later, pour in the pineapples.  I pour the juice in, but it isn't optional.  Big pineapple chunks taste different than little ones, but its, again, up to you.    Let cook for at least 1 hour, but the longer the better.  If it's very liquidy, you can add some flour or even nutritional yeast  to help soak it up and thicken. 
 
serve!!!!!!
 
 
Personal Lasagna Recipe:
this is ridiculously good, serves lots of people, and even my non-vegan friends who hate that I'm vegan will try it and enjoy it.
Fake ground beef ( doesn't matter what brand, but trader joes brand is weak.  ) one block of extra firm or firm tofu bag of mozzarella. daiya cheese box of lasagna noodles your favorite red sauce ( I usually get like a garlic and basil one ) your favorite vegetables I use spinach, broccoli, and mushrooms.  It's up to you. lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper olive oil  
Make the ricotta cheese
one block of tofu, food process lightly or, just do what I do and take a fork and squish it up into crumbles.  Mix lots of lemon juice and some garlic powder and more onion powder and pepper.  As you mix it up, it kind of resembles ricotta cheese.  When mixed in you won't even be able to tell!
 
Cook the ground beef
You can add seasoning if you want, but it's not necessary.  Don't get it crisp or burnt, just warm and soft and crumbled.
 
The Noodles:
I don't cook them cause my mom doesn't cook them.  If you do, it'll probably come out a little bit better than mine haha.  I add water at the end and it cooks in the oven.
 
To layer: use half of your beef and half of your veggies and half the ricotta cheese for the layers, as you layer it twice.  For the sauce, just do thin layers, but you go through an entire can, roughly.  For daiya cheese, just cover it thinly, you want enough for 3 layers with the most on top.
 
Grab a lasagna dish thing and rub a little oil on the pan and then put a thin layer of sauce.  Start layering with dry noodles on the bottom. Put more sauce on top of them.  Then put the ricotta cheese, then the ground beef, then the veggies, then the daiya cheese.  If you have spinach, fresh, layer it completely so it looks cool and green.  If you want to season it up with garlic and onion powder and whatever you look best, be my guest!
 
then add another layer of noodles in the opposite direction.  you'll have to break them up a bit to fit the pan.  Then sauce, ricotta, beef, veggies, daiya. 
 
For the top, put the noodles in original direction, cover with the rest of your sauce, put the rest of your cheese.  If you want, you can save a little to add near the end of the cooking.   Everything else should be gone.
 
 
Take at least a cup of water and pour in the corners of the pan.  Try not to wash off the sauce on top!
 
Throw in the oven at 350 degrees cover with alumn foil, poke some holes, and cook for 45 minutes.  I don't, but you can take off the cover after 45 minutes if the noodles are cooked.  Usually, the edges of my top layer noodles stay hard, so I often add a little more water.  I've never cooked for more than one hour and 10 minutes.
 
It's important, especially with my method, to let it sit for at least one hour after cooking.  If you precook the noodles, maybe not, and it will probably stay more blocky.  Mine loses some of its form, but it tastes so good it doesn't matter.
 
 
PANCAKES
the BEST, no joke, pancakes, ever.
 
Get any brand of pancake batter but make sure its the one that has you add eggs and milk.  Aunt Jemimas brand is veg.
Soy milk or almond milk.  Tastes better with soy IMO since it cooks better.
Banana - you need one third of a normal sized banana per egg.  More banana makes your pancakes taste more bananey.
 
follow instructions on box.
 
 
 
only important thing about that is ONE third ( at most ) of normal banana per egg. It works for all recipes.
 
I"m making the lasagna tomorrow so I'll post pics if I remember.
 
ill post more recipes another night!

I have the VegWeb app on my phone, which is sick.  It has so many recipes.  Some of them come out great, others, not so much.
 
Regarding the bees - it's really simple.  I'm a vegan, and I try my hardest to live an animal product / byproduct free life style.  Honey is a byproduct of the bees, and therefore it comes from animals.  Yes, it's more natural than milk, no, it's not vegan.
 
Daiya cheese is good, compared to others, but it makes me fart like crazy. There is this new cheese, Trader Joes brand, which melted pretty well but was very plasticky.  When eaten with spinach and a pita and fake chicken strips ( also TJ brand, also really goods ), it wasn't too bad.
 
RECIPES:
 
Pineapple Chili - courtesy of Andy Tabar of CompassionCo // TFT.
this recipe is really cheap if you buy everything canned and still really yummy (literally, you can feed 4-6 people till they are stuffed for 10-12 bucks if you have the spices), or really expensive but also better if fresh.
 
One big can of diced tomatoes OR fresh tomatoes. 4-5 cans of your favorite beans (black, red, pinto, kidney, lentils, doesn't really matter). one can of diced pineapple OR fresh fresh pepper, hot pepper, jalapenos, onion and garlic // optional spices: salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, turmeric, cayenne, chili powder (duh, lots) red pepper flakes, etc.  
Open all the beans and wash them thoroughly with a sieve.  The liquid that comes in the beans causes more gas than the beans themselves!
 
if you have fresh onion or pepper or garlic, saute it first a bit!
 
Grab your biggest pot - mix in all the veggies and beans, but not the pineapple. Stir it and it will slowly get more liquidy.  When the liquid forms throw in your spices.  I just do it randomly and it always, always, always, tastes good.  Don't put too much chilli powder if you're worried about it being too spicy.  Near the end, some liquid will evaporate, and it will taste spicer than it does when there is lots of liquid.
 
~~ 15 minutes later, pour in the pineapples.  I pour the juice in, but it isn't optional.  Big pineapple chunks taste different than little ones, but its, again, up to you.    Let cook for at least 1 hour, but the longer the better.  If it's very liquidy, you can add some flour or even nutritional yeast  to help soak it up and thicken. 
 
serve!!!!!!
 
 
Personal Lasagna Recipe:
this is ridiculously good, serves lots of people, and even my non-vegan friends who hate that I'm vegan will try it and enjoy it.
Fake ground beef ( doesn't matter what brand, but trader joes brand is weak.  ) one block of extra firm or firm tofu bag of mozzarella. daiya cheese box of lasagna noodles your favorite red sauce ( I usually get like a garlic and basil one ) your favorite vegetables I use spinach, broccoli, and mushrooms.  It's up to you. lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder, pepper olive oil  
Make the ricotta cheese
one block of tofu, food process lightly or, just do what I do and take a fork and squish it up into crumbles.  Mix lots of lemon juice and some garlic powder and more onion powder and pepper.  As you mix it up, it kind of resembles ricotta cheese.  When mixed in you won't even be able to tell!
 
Cook the ground beef
You can add seasoning if you want, but it's not necessary.  Don't get it crisp or burnt, just warm and soft and crumbled.
 
The Noodles:
I don't cook them cause my mom doesn't cook them.  If you do, it'll probably come out a little bit better than mine haha.  I add water at the end and it cooks in the oven.
 
To layer: use half of your beef and half of your veggies and half the ricotta cheese for the layers, as you layer it twice.  For the sauce, just do thin layers, but you go through an entire can, roughly.  For daiya cheese, just cover it thinly, you want enough for 3 layers with the most on top.
 
Grab a lasagna dish thing and rub a little oil on the pan and then put a thin layer of sauce.  Start layering with dry noodles on the bottom. Put more sauce on top of them.  Then put the ricotta cheese, then the ground beef, then the veggies, then the daiya cheese.  If you have spinach, fresh, layer it completely so it looks cool and green.  If you want to season it up with garlic and onion powder and whatever you look best, be my guest!
 
then add another layer of noodles in the opposite direction.  you'll have to break them up a bit to fit the pan.  Then sauce, ricotta, beef, veggies, daiya. 
 
For the top, put the noodles in original direction, cover with the rest of your sauce, put the rest of your cheese.  If you want, you can save a little to add near the end of the cooking.   Everything else should be gone.
 
 
Take at least a cup of water and pour in the corners of the pan.  Try not to wash off the sauce on top!
 
Throw in the oven at 350 degrees cover with alumn foil, poke some holes, and cook for 45 minutes.  I don't, but you can take off the cover after 45 minutes if the noodles are cooked.  Usually, the edges of my top layer noodles stay hard, so I often add a little more water.  I've never cooked for more than one hour and 10 minutes.
 
It's important, especially with my method, to let it sit for at least one hour after cooking.  If you precook the noodles, maybe not, and it will probably stay more blocky.  Mine loses some of its form, but it tastes so good it doesn't matter.
 
 
PANCAKES
the BEST, no joke, pancakes, ever.
 
Get any brand of pancake batter but make sure its the one that has you add eggs and milk.  Aunt Jemimas brand is veg.
Soy milk or almond milk.  Tastes better with soy IMO since it cooks better.
Banana - you need one third of a normal sized banana per egg.  More banana makes your pancakes taste more bananey.
 
follow instructions on box.
 
 
 
only important thing about that is ONE third ( at most ) of normal banana per egg. It works for all recipes.
 
I"m making the lasagna tomorrow so I'll post pics if I remember.
 
ill post more recipes another night!

you could of given an example of this; it would of made more sense.

congrats!!!!!!!!!

DID ANY OF YOU TRYING SEARCHING FOR VINYL? IT WORK!

that guy has the whole galaxy sitting on a shelf

I'm most likely coming up to this from DC.  Being from CT and all this is really awesome and glad it's for such a good cause.  I haven't seen Hostage Calm in a hall show since they played with Title Fight in 2010, which rules, and well, last time I saw MHTJ was their last show.
 
I have a house in CT so if anyone was interested in traveling to the show, I'd be willing to house friendly people!

Okay, someone do this. And by do this I mean fucking press it. Die-cut cover and all. Coke bottle clear, transparent pink, black, I don't give  a shit. Just get it on my turntable.

what the fuck is a cache?
 
coming from a guy who can't clear browsing history and having his wife ask who gianna micheals is.

If anything, I hope a meteor crashes where the mayans lived.  so it was the end of their world.  ( but I also hope no one gets hurt )

I feel like $150 is the cheapest it's going to go for.  If I don't buy food for the next 7 days I might be able to afford it!

My order came in from Hot Topic but the record won't play. Any ideas?

Mean is possibly the best song ever!

totally had sex last night and I didn't feel nervous but I totally was. and it was awkward but she still stayed over so....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Title-Fight-Floral-Green-Record-Release-39-150-OOP/251171927531?ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1&ih=015&category=176985&cmd=ViewItem
enjoy

Every girl is into the bhole stuff, if they say they aren't they just haven't been comfortable enough to try it yet

I definitely agree with the 'mentality' part - so I also rescind my statement. I actually think this is important in general to the understanding of genres - a band's genre shouldn't just be based on their sound, but on who they play shows with and who influences their music.
OH I wanted to say that because they are B9 they have to be hardcore. but you beat me to it.

Selling peanutbutter. I love this board hahahaha

that's rough. It sounds kind of like she's got multiple options and trying to see which is going to work out the best for her. Which I suppose is smart, and kind of rude at the same time. Then again, you're almost doing the same thing. Hopefully she is thinking about you as much as you are her!

I think that the only other possibility is that for most of your life, the TT has actually been running at about 31 RPMs. Because it's the only thing you've ever known, your perceived reality has always been slightly slow music.
However, the other day - while your mom was cleaning your room - she accidentally bumped the table on which the turntable sat, knocking loose some jammed-up camshaft balls that operate the Steuerpimpel mechanism, thusly freeing the the spindle assembly / platter to spin at the appropriate 33 1/3 RPMs.
So now you're basically listening to records at the correct speed. Do nothing, sit back and enjoy!