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I use a few dashes when I make tomato sauce.

Pita-pocket falafel sandwiches. There's a great little (vegan) place up here in Montreal called Panthere Verte (or: the Green Panther for the non-French-speaking). It's to die for; I've taken many a meat-eater there and they've raved about it. You can prepare a lot in advance. Their particular recipe is to stuff 4-5 falafel into a thick whole wheat pita with shredded white cabbage, shredded carrots, dill pickles, alfalfa sprouts and dressed with a tahini dressing. It's amazing.

She's not vegan if she eats eggs. That would make her an ovo-vegetarian. (Not a lacto-vegetarian as someone said above.)

That said. Portobello burger. Vegan chili and guacamole. The sweet-potato-lentil shepherd's pie on here is out of this world.

@mbgrimm; I've been sneaky in my cooking for quite some time; common sense will go very far with making a meal more nutritious without making it taste blah. If you're watching you weight-- using this recipe as an example, know firstly that using heavy cream and butter will shoot the fat and calorie content through the roof. I used 1% milk (it's what I have on hand) and olive oil and decided to keep in the cheese rind (knowing full well that the dryer the cheese, the higher the fat content, but it's a compromise). You can in this instance, as someone mentioned above, use nutritional yeast to drive down the calorie and fat content even further without compromising the taste. I have several recipes that people swear I've used cream in but haven't (chayote soup, vegan chocolate pudding).

I made a quick one on the fly tonight that was pretty tasty. I used toasted fennel rye, slathered one slice.with home made roasted beet muttabal (swap out the chickpeas in hummus), the other whole grain mustard, a slice of pickled red pepper, rosemary capiccoli, provolone and spinach. Served with a big Polski-algorki pickle. YUM!!!

Hmmm. Made this for dinner tonight. Something, something was missing. Maybe more of an acid note to brighten the filling and offset the sweet potatoes more.

Post yoga, I always seem to want a riff on Aux Vivres' (it's a great vegan resto in Montreal) dragon bowl-- some brown rice, bright and colourful fresh veggies, a piece of tofu or tempeh and AV's Dragon Sauce (also known as crack in my house).

Pomp and circumstance goes out the window with my friends. Instead of one harried person preparing a meal-- the fun for us is actually working together in the kitchen-- libation in hand. When all's said and done-- we feast!

Two pieces of plexiglass, sized to your poster + 1" all around, Drill holes at the four corners and get some fancy screws to hold it together. DONE!

We're currently having issues with the next-door neighbour. Not over apartment noise, but dog noise. We live in a densely-packed neighborhood, where her living room/kitchen window overlooks our back yard. We recently acquired a dog (a chihuahua, but bear with me) to keep my elderly grandmother company during the day while everyone else is at work. He's presently seven months and (like all dogs) is prone to barking whenever someone with a dog walks through the lane (a bi-hourly occurrence in our neighborhood; as there are quite a large number of dogs in the immediate vicinity). He normally lets off two or three barks before he either stops on his own or we step in. (He generally is an indoor dog, but even indoor dogs need bathroom breaks).

Now, our neighbour has taken extreme offense to this dog (who, for a chihuahua is shockingly quiet). She's complained about the barking, a squeaky toy of his and the small bell he wears (a necessity because grandmother is mostly blind and uses the bell to gauge where he is so she doesn't trip over him). She's broached the subject with us twice (politely), both times we've responded that we are trying to curb the barking, have explained the necessity of the bell and have limited his time with the offending toy.

The issue escalated into her yelling at both grandmother and dog from her third-story window (my grandmother has difficulty communicating in English, something our neighbour is aware of)-- this has caused her to hide out in the house for the duration of the day because she felt bad/was embarrassed.

The most recent escapade has been her reporting us to the city for 'excessive animal noise'-- the inspector loitered around the back yard for 30 minutes (unbeknownst to us) and rang our bell to speak with us (she was surprised that our dog didn't even bark at the sound of the bell). She dismissed the complaint and closed the file; but we still have to deal with this neighbour and it's become quite uncomfortable. No idea what else we can do.