Portrait of Loïe Fuller by Frederick Glasier, 1902.
LINK: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Loie_Fuller_-_Vue_Lumi%C3%A8re_No_76_-_Serpentine_Dance_-_1896.ogv

My housemate got given the best present for his birthday, now we get fresh fruit and vegetables delivered to our doorstep from farmers direct every 2 weeks. Amazing.
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I didn't realise that some puff pastry has animal fat in it.... this is a little disturbing. Maybe it's time I started making my own.

Vegan Shepard's Pie

Made this last night. It's got sweet potato and sesame seeds on top and underneath it has tomato/tomato paste, brown lentils, celery, green beans, baby carrots, onion and garlic. It's probably going to be my lunch for the next few days as well (but that's fine by me...)

Trying to be healthy(er)!! The broccolini is from my mum's garden! I made the sauce with sweet chili sauce, peanut butter, peanuts and soy sauce.

Chocolate Chia seed pudding

So I tried making THIS

It turned out pretty good but it was still a little bit crunchy, even after leaving it in the fridge all night and adding extra liquid. Also, next time I'm putting less cocoa powder and more agave syrup for a sweeter taste. Still this is an excellent idea for a healthy dessert and tastes yum.

Extra note: you can do this with any type of milk and any type of sweetener (e.g. honey). It's up to you. I just happened to have a whole lot of health food alternative vegan stuff but next time I'm probably going to use the honey (we have so much of it sitting around from dumsptering) or try some rice milk because that seems to be a lot sweeter.

Maybe I should have a Tumblr...

" Some of you are way too comfortable making “hip-hop is misogynistic” the cornerstone of your comments.

First, hip-hop is a culture that encompasses a variety of different mediums commonly associated with urban culture. Graffiti, urban fashion, rap(both MCing and DJing) and breakdancing were the original forms of expression, but hip-hop has spread into many other forms of expression

Moving on, some rap music is misogynistic. The key word there is “some”, since off the top of my head I can give you a laundry list of rappers who are a credit to the genre. Listen to someone like Lupe Fiasco or Mos Def before dropping some ignorant, off-hand bullshit about hip-hop being misogynistic.

What I find interesting is that it’s so easy to approach hip-hop as being misogynistic which divorces it from the greater truth that music as a whole has a tendency towards misogyny/sexism. Back during the 80’s there were several all-white hair metal bands releasing some of the most aggressively misogynistic/sexist music ever recorded. However, no one ever seems to bring that up or make any attempt to contextualize the erroneous perception that hip-hop is the shining star of misogynistic music. Misogyny/sexism bulldozes its way into every form of expression we have, not just rap.

Just know, the next time you start with some ignorance like “hip-hop is misogynist” you’re insulting an entire culture that has been crucial in publicizing the socioeconomic plight of black and brown people in this country while serving as the unifying culture for many of those same people.

Have some damn class about stuff that isn’t made for white people
Read more: http://jezebel.com/5678519/jay+z-regrets-thug-em-fuck-em-love-em-leave-em#comments#ixzz145gY3mi5 "
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From a commenter on Jezebel with regard to some Jezebel comments on Jay Z’s strong backpedalling on his lyrical misogyny. (via leonineclaire)

one time a (white) friend of mine said I was homophobic for not liking acoustic folk and then said she didn’t like hip-hop cause it was misogynistic
we’re not really friends anymore

via There's our catastrophe

Studystudystudy.

All I've been doing lately is assessment. I don't have time to cook anything really nice or do anything exciting without feeling guilty. I made this pasta for dinner last night and it tasted pretty good. It's just Za'atar (dried thyme and sesame seeds) with olive oil, some fresh spinach, some tomato and some fetta. Pretty simple really.

The portobello mushrooms I'm growing in my cupboard. These mushroom kits are great. I would have gotten over 40 mushrooms. It's definitely worth buying one!

I'm having my favourite breakfast meal for dinner because I can. Oats, buckweat and millet flakes cooked with soymilk and topped with stewed rhubarb (from the abandoned house down the road) and toasted nuts and seeds.

The Fete

We got all these plants from the school fete around the corner. The kids there grew all the pants from seed and they were only 50 cents each!! We got some dill, eggplant, leeks, beans, beetroot, thyme and queen anne's lace. I also picked up some homemade pomegranate, plum and cardamon jam. Fetes are THE BEST!!!! On my way home I saw a sign for another one next week.