Eat Dance Live

Today, I took the first real breath that I have in months. I've got three papers down and one more to go, but one of the completed ones was my Master's Project (aka. the equivalent of my MA thesis). I'm quite pleased with it. I got to rant about GMOs, and because someone has to review and grade it, I have a captive readership whether they like it or not! With my two years of being a grad student coming to a close, I was left with the strangest feeling. I haven't actually had what I would call a 'real' vacation in about 4 years now. I've been either working or interning every summer since second year of undergrad. With my PhD lined up in the Fall, and my Research Assistant-ship finishing up at the end of the month, I feel free in a way I haven't in so long. It's both frightening and exciting. What to do with so much time? Andrew's Reiki mentor was over and told me that this was the opportunity to just "Be." And while he's so right, ...

First off, please check out my review of Manitoba Hemp products on Jae Steele's blog, Domestic Affair . For those of you who don't know, Jae is the author of the amazing Get it Ripe! , a cookbook staple to any healthy vegan kitchen, and the upcoming Ripe From Around Here . On a different note, today is more than just Groundhog's Day , between the Midwinter Solstice and Spring Equinox, tucked away between the ends of winter and the tiniest hints of spring, is Imbolc . It is the first of three fertility Sabbats of the Wheel of the Year, usually dedicated to the Celtic Goddess Brigid. Anticipating the upcoming spring, the festival literally translates from the Old Irish as 'in the belly', referring to the lactation of ewes in preparation for their newborn lambs. In many ways Imbolc celebrates life, birth, growth, a new season, and the end of the harshest and darkest months. Imbolc is the seed that will grow into the rest of the year. It is a time to let go of the mant...

I 've only been back in classes for two days now and already I've missed a blog post and feel as though life is spiraling out of control... okay, maybe a slight exaggeration, but I'm sleepy, and I guess it's not just school, but that and finishing applications, and planning an upcoming conference, and finding the time to workout and generally have a life! So in the meantime, and as I usually do, here is a pretty picture of one of my raw tofu pies as food distraction while I pull myself back together: Since Andrew still eats a very unprocessed version of tofu we get at MOM's (it only has filtered water, organic soybeans, and nigari) for protein, I've been doing lots of strange experiments keeping his tofu recipes as raw as possible... my favourite is a wide variety of my spur-of-the-moment raw tofu pies. But did you know that when you dehydrate tofu, it comes out tasting kind of like cheese curds? (or what a raw vegan remembers cheese curds tasting like anywa...