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I love lemons. Love them love them love them. Here’s the recipe I said I’d post. It’s so good, but it’s for lemon lovers only. Alex thought it was much too lemony, but what does he know. Sucker. I’m not a pasta person, really, but this rocks my boat. It’s lovely, lemony and delish. Try it!

Lemony Risoni Serves 4

• 1 lb risoni pasta
• 1 small lemon, peel and juice
• 1/3 cup parsley
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 tbsps olive oil
• 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
• salt and pepper

Cook the risoni in a large pot of well salted boiling water. Depending on the size of your risoni (there are bigger and smaller ones) they’ll have to cook for between 5 - 10 minutes. Check your packet. Drain them and rinse in cold water to stop the cooking. Put back in the pot and toss with half of the olive oil.

While the pasta is cooking, grate the lemon with a microplane grater (or a normal small grater) and juice the lemon. Mince the garlic and chop your parsley finely. Add the rest of the olive oil to a medium size pot and heat. Add lemon zest and garlic and cook over medium heat for a minute or two, don’t let it brown. Add in the parsley, risoni, lemon juice and nutritional yeast. Salt and pepper to taste. Heat for about a minute more, not longer or the fresh lemon flavour will go away. Enjoy!

Recept på svenska: Risoni med citron och persilja 

Wow, this veganmofo thing is making me post even LESS than I used to do. Whowuddahthunk? I have an awesome recipe to share with you all, but I’m at work and my camera is at home and.. well I don’t have the necessary equipment. Trust me though, it’s soo good.

To make up for that I will offer a list of random facts about me.

1. My real name is Emmie, could you have guessed? It means universal or whole.
2. I used to be a veggies-hater. Until I decided to go veg at which point I had to start trying different vegetables.
3. I sometimes eat fake meats, but I don’t love them or even like them much. Except for veggie bacon.
4. Broccoli is my all time favourite vegetable, which is weird to think as it’s one of the ones I used to hate sooo much.
5. I work as a carer for disabled people. It’s great except for the lack of richness I get.
6. Although my dream job would be a vegan super chef.
7. When I was 5 and lost my first tooth the tooth fairy wrote me a letter telling me to take care of my teeth and that I wasn’t allowed to buy sweets for my money. I bought a comic book for my money.
8. I wish I still believed in the tooth fairy. And santa.
9. I’m a feminist.
10. I’m also teetotal. If you don’t know what that is, google it.
11. I love baking, but not sweet stuff so much, I’m more of a bread person.
12. I’m 22 awesome years old.
13. I want to move to England when I grow up. My partner has no say in this!
14. I can’t wait until xmas, I’m super excited!
15. I met my partner on an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game). Isn’t that kind of cute?

And tomorrow, a recipe I promise!

The whole ‘it’s veganmofo I should be posting every day’-thing isn’t going well. The truth is I’m pretty busy these days. There’s work that’s taking time (and lately I’ve been so exhausted once I’m home from work) and then there’s the upcoming veggie fair that i need to prepare things for. We’re still pretty much only planning things, although I’m working on a few small things.

Two days ago we went to one of the biggest shopping places of Sweden. It was quite an adventure that took us all day. I got out of bed at five in the morning and at 6 we were on the road. On the way there we were almost hit by a truck, that idiot was busy texting or talking on his mobile phone and was about to ram us. On the way back home (several hours later and very poor) mum’s car broke down and we had to be towed back home. Bleh!

I’m also feeling incredibly uninspired when it comes to food and food photography. We’ve mostly been eating pizza, sandwiches and fast food lately. It’ll be back soon I’m sure. I haven’t even tried anything from my new cookbooks yet, I got Eat, Drink and be Vegan not long ago and this week Veganomicon arrived. What’s wrong with me!?

And to not make this a useless post,

Veganmofo : I was once a tempeh virgin!

This country has a big problem. Huge! It’s very difficult to find tempeh. So difficult in fact that last week was the first time I ever tried it. We tried looking for tempeh when we went to England this summer but I couldn’t find any. I’ve been looking for it for so long now that I actually had started giving up. And then there it was, right before my eyes in all it’s glory. I figured I needed a really good recipe for my first ever tempeh encounter so I made Katie’s Tempeh Wingz (buy her new zine!). Everyone’s been going crazy over them and the definitely didn’t disappoint. I made 4 portions and had one myself. The other three portions Alex devoured. I swear, that man could eat an entire fridge full of food. Now I wish I could have tempeh everyday. I can’t remember the first time I had tofu, but the first time I had tempeh was definitely one to remember.

Veganmofo: I have never tried vegan cheese. Or; We’re cheap vegans here.

I’m a cheap vegan. Our food budget is very limited and doesn’t allow for extravagances and neither does our non food budget. Need a haircut? Maybe next month. A new pair of jeans? It can wait! With that said, I can finally confess that I’ve never tried any store bought vegan cheese. And that I don’t think I’ve ever bought any pate for our sandwiches. We try to buy organic produce when it’s possible but I just can’t justify paying buttloads for something I can make myself. I make un-cheese at home on a regular basis, we think it’s tasty and it’s relatively cheap. My sister who’s been a vegan for years was visiting recently and I made some un-cheese for her too. She disliked it intensely because it tasted nothing like normal vegan cheese. I wouldn’t know and gladly gobble it down every day we have it.

Living cheap can actually be very fulfilling, it might sound weird but every month we make it seems like such an accomplishment. While we try to eat good food we often fall back to a cheap favourite, soup. You can put pretty much anything into hot broth and it’s delicious. I know us vegans are supposed to have rice and beans all the time, but I just don’t like that, ok? I like hot soups with some bread on the side! Or a big stew packed with vegetables.

They key to living cheap is to not let things go to waste. Even if you bought those potatoes for such a low price it’s almost silly your still wasting every bit of that when you have to throw them. Throwing money away is always a waste whether it’s just pocket change or big notes. We often freeze left over food for me to take to work. And if my soymilk is going to go off soon and we have plenty left, what’s better than baking some scones to have for breakfast? You’re not wasting the milk AND it’s a luxury.

I also try to bake our bread as often as I can, we pay four times the price for a loaf in the store. I don’t have time all that often but every time I bake a loaf instaed of buying a loaf I’m saving some money.

Do you have any good tips for living cheap? I need every piece of advice I can get (maybe one day I’ll have saved up enough to buy that vegan cheese people are talking about!).

And, I have a spamiversary! 1000 spam commens bisches, keep em coming!

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Vegan month of food is here! I’m joining in, I might not post every single day, because I’m lazy like that and sometimes I feel like I’ll just scream and shout if I have to think about food one more time. It passes quickly though, food is such a passion of mine. Anyway, joining late, might not post every day but still, it’s great. The logo is made by Katie over at Don’t Eat Off the Sidewalk (and buy her new zine when you’re there!) A list of participating blogs can be found at Isa’s (of the PPK) blog. A bunch of people over at the PPK forums thought it would be a good idea to have VeganMoFo instead of joining in the American NaNoWriMo. I like it!

Veganmofo: How I went vegetarian, and then turned omni then vegetarian and now vegan! 

I first went vegetarian when I was 14. I was in school and I figured vegetarianism was cool (I didn’t know then how right I was, being a vegetarian is one of the coolest most compassionate things you can ever do). For a couple of weeks I had only vegetarian food and I thought it was great. Not only was I cool, I was also fed great stuff at school and didn’t have to eat the same junk every one else had. It also made me feel like I was special and ‘alternative’. It only lasted about a month and a half though. I got severe bacon cravings and figured that since bacon is so good it can’t be wrong. My little sister who went vegetarian at the same time as me stayed vegetarian and eventually turned vegan. I still think bacon is one of the best things ever, but I never eat it unless it’s the tofu kind.

Two years ago I started on the path to vegetarianism again. It took time and effort, my partner at the time didn’t seem to like the idea much and I wasn’t that into cooking so we mostly just replaced our hot dogs with soy dogs. That relationship went to pieces just before xmas that year and I moved in with my mother again. Some time in February last year I decided to go vegetarian. To be quite honest, I think I just needed som change. I was tired of who I was and needed change to move on. My solution was vegetarianism and a lip ring. The piercing didn’t last but being vegetarian stuck. Now, I’m not saying vegetarianism is something people do because it’s cool or because they want to be rebels. My decision was based on compassion and lots of thinking. It’s just that the time for change was right so I finally took the step and went vegetarian. I’ve been vegetarian since and there truly is no going back now. A couple of months ago I went vegan and so did my partner Alex. It’s a wonderful choice we’ve made.

Being vegetarian/vegan IS cool, but not in the way I thought when I was 14. It’s not fun always being the odd one out and it’s certainly not fun or cool being hungry in town and not finding anything to eat. It is cool however to be in a movement that’s radical, fun, tasty and compassionate. Veganism is the way of the future, foo shoo. Now, go bake some vegan brownies (because I SAY SO!) and be happy and cheerful!

Den 8e december är det vegomässa i Malmö! Jag kommer vara där och bjuda på något gott (men jag har inte bestämt mig för vad än). Ni kan prata med mig, ställa frågor och gå runt och se allt det fantastiska vegetariska som kommer vara på mässan. Ni kommer väl dit? Det kommer bli fantatsikt roligt!

All info finns på Vegomässans hemsida . Vi ses där!

And for those of you that don’t speak Swedish: On the 8th of December there’s going to be a veggie fair in Malmö, Sweden. I’ll be there along with many other talented people, to have people sample some tasty vegan food. If you happen to be in Malmö on the 8th you’d better show up. I’m really excited about this. Be there! More information can be found at their homepage.