Recipes
Vegan Panang Curry Soup
Panang curry paste does the heavy lifting in this vegan Panang curry soup recipe. It’s a sweet, salty, spicy, rich curry soup you’ll love for a busy weeknight. This recipe will also give you tips on how to cook with curry paste so you can throw together a quick curry soup any time you want using whatever you have in your pantry. I wrote about common Thai curry pastes in my recipe for Green Curry Chicken Meatballs. The post touched on the three major pastes–red, yellow, and green–but I didn’t go too much into Panang curry paste (or the myriad...
Dungeon Master Puzzled When New Vegan Player Starts Prodding For A “Cruelty-Free” World, Asks For Help Online
Whenever you hear of the iconic table-top role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons, you probably think of things like knights in shining armor or wizards atop towers shooting lightning from the skies, all set in medieval times. But, you know what, it can be even weirder if you really want it to be: you can role-play a turtle-person who knows karate and moves like lightning because, get it? Turtles aren’t all that fast, yet… I’ll stop here. Well, it only gets weirder from here (and the sky’s the limit) because Dungeons and Dragons allows for a lot of unorthodox decisions (all...
A Losing Battle #SOL23
Today, I lost a battle. Again. A battle with the Tupperware cabinet. I am not even sure why we still call it Tupperware because I am sure I haven’t owned a piece of Tupperware in the last 25 years. But the Rubbermaid cabinet just doesn’t have the same ring to it.When I open the door of the cabinet, I have my hands up, ready to fight. I open the door carefully because I know the lids and containers are strewn every which way, and I anticipate them striking first.My family members are traitors; they help the enemy by throwing the...
The Biggest Improvement to My Camp Kitchen Is a Mini Pizza Oven (But Not for Pizza)
It goes without question that pizza is one of the greatest foods on the planet. And after a long day on the trail or the slopes, nothing quite satisfies hunger cravings like salty, cheesy, saucy pizza. I have tried to make pizza while camping before (Exhibit A), however, it was extremely tedious and came nothing close to what you would get at outdoor mainstays like Miguel’s (for climbers) or Hot Tomato (for mountain bikers). And then it hit me: What if I take a pizza oven camping? Is such a thing even possible? Indeed it is — the Ooni Koda 12....
Motley Crue and Def Leppard Meet the Mexican Metal Monster Known as CDMX
Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe Add Short U.S. Run to 2023 World Tour Walking through Mexico City means listening to music everywhere. Here you can go down the street and hear a cumbia in a puesto de tortas callejeras, a street sandwich stand. Pirate record vendors carry 12-inch speakers on their backs that blast the latest hit from Bad Bunny as they navigate the bowels of the Metro, and rise to the streets. Thus, you could go up in one of the tallest skyscrapers in the city and sit in a pretentious restaurant and suddenly be joined by Bad Bunny:More...