I Was A Teenage Vegan CookBlog

It’s been an eventful period of lost time here at I Was A Teenage Vegan Headquarters (which, for those of you keeping track at home, is in fact a giant orbitital culinary battlestation, beaming these transmissions down to earth from the immensely dark quietude of space): the class at the BCAE that I mentioned in my last post (that I co-taught with Homefries and the head chef at Veggie Planet) went swimmingly, except for the somewhat unreliable ovens, the mathematical impossibility of producing four desserts in three hours, and the overabundance of delicious sugar consumed by all. The following weekend I provided the food for a music and art party hosted by my friend Chris in Stony Creek, Connecticut, from the menu for which the title of this post and accompanying artwork (deftly crafted by my roommate Eric) are taken. This was my first attempt at catering experience and it involved more sleep-deprived evenings spent slaving over the stove than I’d care to shake a stick at, as well as my first semi-successful attempts at molecular gastronomy. Things went swimmingly there as well - especially for those hardy party-goers who actually went swimming - except that the salt-water air turned all of my food fairly lukewarm and somewhat soggy about 15 minutes after I had set the table, and that the smoke detector in Chris’ kitchen went off at least 10 times  before his boyfriend quite helpfully removed it from the ceiling and put it on the porch. Aside from all this general busy-ness business, some other things that have conspired to keep me from the blogosphere have been my life’s continued entropic tendencies, which recently resulted in both my bicycle and my teeth falling partially apart - necessitating emergency trips to Bikes Not Bombs and the dentist, respectively - and my outrageously expensive new computer’s complete inability to perform seemingly simple graphic tasks like taking large photos and making them smaller, which my old computer (with its completely not-illegally downloaded photo-editing software) did with aplomb. Also, a couple of zine distributors have ordered my cookbooks recently, so I’ve been scrambling to get them printed, assembled, and mailed like the consummate businessman that I am. I’m working on putting all of these things into some semblance of order, and hope to post pictures and recipes from the party for your consumption presently. Stay tuned.