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Crackers and Sickness

Im sick. Headache, achy body, runny nose, stuffy nose, sinus pain and the whole works. I think it may be the flu but i don't have a high temperature. I don't know what i have. I am in the front portion of the book Kidnapped  by Dee Henderson. It's such a good book and it just pulls you in and asks you to read it! So well written! The classload this quarter is pretty light so i have time for things like reading. I'll savor the reading and free times while i can. Anyway....
I decided to play around and see if i could make some saltines. Didn't really work out but i made some nice crackers. Super easy to make and nice with salsa on top.

1/2 c. wheat bran
1/2. c. wheat flour (white or whole wheat, either is fine)
1/2 t. salt
water
preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
So mix the first three ingredients, then add the water, to make a ball that sticks together. Then you want to roll it out to about 1/8th of an inch. Spray some oil onto the cooking sheet and place the rolled out dough on there. Cut lightly into sections. Get some water and a brush and brush water over the tops and then take a saltshaker and salt lightly. Bake for about 10-15 minutes. I suggest that you set the timer at 10 and then after 10, check it quite often, because after 10 it'll be more likely to burn. Take them off and put them on a cooling rack. Break into pieces when cooled and enjoy!

Bees and Vegans

I thought I'd touch on the subject of bees and vegans, or me in peticular. The reason why i became a vegan is because  first i am lactose intolerant and eggs cause some digestive problems, so eating either dairy or eggs wern't a fun experience for me. I was like since i don't eat meat in the first place, why not just cut it all out? So I was like I am going to challenge myself not to eat dairy, eggs, meat (wasn't really a challenge) and chocolate (oh i can't have chocolate because i am also allergic to it. I can eat carob though. It has to do with the fat content. It makes me have super super bad acne). So I didn't really set how many days i would do this for just to see how long i could last. So far i haven't eaten any dairy, eggs, meat or chocolate. I also don't like eating dairy or eggs because of the ways that they treat the animals making our dairy and eggs. It's really cruel and i don't htink that we should be encouraging? not really the right word, but fudning that business with our money jut to have animals abused. There are so many articles out there about the cruelty to animals when in the slaughter or dairy houses and it's really terrible. With honey, I like to buy local honey because i know where it came from and i don't have to worry about any big plants cranking it out by the thousands of pounds. It just gives me a better feeling to be getting it local and i think it might be cheaper or the same. So that's why i still eat honey and i do believe that honey does have medicinal properties that other syrups don't have like brown rice, maple or agave. I thought I'd put this out here since the previous post had a cough suppressant made with honey and lemon.

Fall + homemade cough suppresant

Hey! Sorry to be leaving in long periods of time like, a week at a time. I know during the summer it was more often but i am really working on recipes! :D I swear i am! Okay, so i just made a recipe for pumpkin pancakes and they were truely amazing and i really enjoyed them. I can't wait to be able to get some of the big pumpkins, not just the ones from cans for cooking. Carving pumpkins are so much fun and you can even use the seeds from the pumpkin as great snaking things! I thought I'd take some pictures from the internet and show you some extreme and awesome pumpkin carvings. :D Thought this one was pretty good. If you take off the outside skin of the pumpkin, that's the lighter part of it. Some people i think have way too much time on their hands, but then again, it's super cool so i can't complain i guess. lol 

Cute idea for people like me who can't do crazy cool stuff. :Dwow? that's really all ican say about this one. Amazing texture and even the whiskers!

I actually think this one is quite beautiful. The differnt colours makes it really nice.

Oh! and it's also getting cold season! so i am sort of sick at the moment. Really isn't fun at all, and my throat is sore. I made some lemon honey stuff and it soothes the throat and also can stop coughing.
You take equal parts of lemon and honey (if you want to, you can stick them in the microwave so they bind together easier) and mix together. then you take it in spoonfulls at a time. I usually make 2 T. lemon and then 2T. honey. Really easy and i think it really helps.
But I hope that you guys can stay out of any bugs going around!
Oh, and i know this isn't vegan but it really does work! I'll post about bees in the next post... 

Overrun by Tomateos

So we have about 8 bushes of tomatoes in our garden and it's been freezing pretty hard like in the morning around 6 it'll be 28 degrees. We've been covering up the tomato plants with tarps hoping that it will help since there are still quite a bit of green ones on the vine.
I decided to make some soup out of the tomatoes that we have.

3/4 c. chopped onion
2 c. garbanzo beans cooked
3-4 c fresh chopped tomateos, peeled
2/3 c. tomato juice
seasonings of choice

Sautee the onion in a sauce pan, add the garbanzo beans, tomatoes, tomato juice and the seasonings. Boil for abotu 15 min on medium and serve hot. Goes really well with cornbread.