Sweet Potato Enchiladas for Meatless Monday

When it comes to comfort food, several dishes come to my mind; Tuna Casserole , Fried Chicken , Macaroni and Cheese or “Mom’s Lasagna” to name a few. Comfort food is what we eat when we miss home, when we have had a hard day or simply because it’s pouring outside. They say you won’t need food in heaven, but it’s ironic to think the closest thing I can equate that to  is a gooey chocolate chip cookie just out of the oven- pure bliss! For today’s Meatless Monday post, I wanted something comforting, soulful and satisfying

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Sweet Potato Enchiladas for Meatless Monday

 Cookbooks We’re Devouring

Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen by Amy Pennington Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager by Langdon Cook The Butcher and the Vegetarian: One Woman’s Romp through a World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis by Tara Austen Weaver Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories by Grace Young The Newlywed Kitchen: Delicious Meals for Couples Cooking Together by Lorna Yee and Ali Basye Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals by Jamie Oliver Gourmet Game Night: Bite-Sized, Mess-Free Eating for Board-Game Parties, Bridge Clubs, Book Groups, and More by Cynthia Nims Mastering the Grill: The Owner’s Manual for Outdoor Cooking by Andrew Schloss, David Joachim, Alison Miksch Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes from a Modern Kitchen Garden by Jeanne Kelley Fat: An Appreciation for a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan Possibly Related Posts: Cast Your Vote! Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes a Day Cookie Swap, Creative Treats to Share Throughout the Year Announcing The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook! Tonight Chef and Mixologist Kathy Casey at Nightschool

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 Cochon 555 in Seattle this Weekend!

Last year we attended Cochon 555 , a pig-centered culinary event, here in Seattle. It was pork-tastic! The event showcases 5 heritage breeds of pig, 5 chefs, and 5 wineries with a handful of “official” culinarians to judge which chef mastered the pig. This year, Cochon 555 Seattle is this Sunday, May 23 and tickets are still available! Though a bit on the spendy side (around $125 per ticket) we can attest that it is well worth the coin! Indeed, an event you shouldn’t miss.  Check out our experience last year where we porked out in piggy heaven (sorry, couldn’t resist)

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Cochon 555 in Seattle this Weekend!

 Chemical structure drawing poll

Yesterday’s blog feature quoted my various contacts on Twitter, LinkedIn and elsewhere on what program they use to draw chemical structures . There were some interesting answers, including mentions of sites like ChemSpider and PubChem that are no drawing packages per se but do allow you to retrieve a vast array of molecular structures

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 The Wine to Enjoy on This Deck: Chilean Sauvignon Blanc

I was invited by Wines of Chile to take part in a blogger Sauvignon Blanc tasting. The hardest part was sitting on the bottles they sent me via FedEx for a couple weeks. They were very tempting.

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The Wine to Enjoy on This Deck: Chilean Sauvignon Blanc

 Draw chemical structures

The phrase chemical structure drawing is one of the most consistently popular search terms on Sciencebase, so it seemed worth revisiting the topic from a slightly different perspective than before. Of course, with the likes of PubChem and ChemSpider now available one might wonder whether there is any need to draw one’s own structures from scratch, but plenty of chemists and others still do. Sciencebase polled a few contacts via Twitter and LinkedIn to find out what chemical structure packages people are using, what are the pros and cons

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 Moleskine Passed Down Recipes Contest Winner!

We’re happy to announce Nancy White – and her young son’s wonderful story about his great-grandmother’s ravioli – as the winner of our Moleskine “Passed Down Recipes” contest! Nancy will receive a beautiful suite of journals from Moleskine’s new Passions line, such as their fabulous Recipe journal (I have one and LOVE it!). For more on Nancy visit her blog, Nancy’s Full Circle

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 Tellura, angiogenesis, favourites

Tellurium steroids, angiogenesis against cancer, favourite chemical things and more… My name is tellura – Drugs based on tellurium catch the eye of Derek Lowe Antiangiogenic “anticancer” foods – Can eating these foods help prevent pin-head sized cancers that grow in people from gaining the blood vessels they need to grow into something malignant? In other words, can we eat to starve cancer?

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 Meatless Monday’s Vegetable Bibimbap

Many of us still find ourselves teetering on the edge of winter and spring. In Seattle, one day we’re outside grilling, the other we’re inside yet again pulling out the slow cooker we thought we’d packed away for its long slumber

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 Avocado Toast for Meatless Monday

Here’s a toast to another Meatless Monday ! Back in high school, I was introduced to “avocado toast” for breakfast. At the time it sounded kind of strange; to smash avocado on toasted bread and sprinkle it with salt and garlic powder, but after one bite , I was sold on the salty, creamy and crunchy gorgeousness that is avocado toast

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 My favourite chemistry things

Sceptical Chymist tells me (via Twitter) that they were enjoying the favourite things about chemistry meme started by ChemJobber and continued by Azmanam (known to Sciencebase readers for his chemical spelling dictionary and the C+EN team . As is the wont of meme creators, you pay it forward and have to come up with your own “list” or whatever. Skeptical Chymist had, “The smell of ethyl acetate (in the morning)”, Peter Atkins’ textbooks, the elements song, and freaky glassware and the prowess of glassblowers on their list of ten favourite things about chemistry

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 Submarine eruptions, hybrids, and quarks

The first three links are to my latest column on Intute, which is now online: Scrubbing up knowledge of submarine volcanoes – Consider the simple pumice stone next time you're having a bathtime scrub… Metallic liquid crystals – A new class of materials formed by combining liquid crystals and metal clusters glow intensely red and in the infra-red region of the electromagnetic spectrum when irradiated over a broad range of wavelengths Quark, strangeness, and charm – US researchers have calculated, with a tiny margin of error, the mass of the three lightest and, therefore, most elusive quarks Neanderthal genome sequenced – Did your great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grand-dad get it on with a Neanderthal?

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 Eat Animals? As If! Our Interview With Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone, best known for her role as the airheaded matchmaker in the 1995 comedy Clueless, is gaining a green following outside the multiplex thanks to her devotion to Earth-friendly causes. She developed the EcoTools line of beauty products, emplaced solar panels and water-conservation measures at home, and became a vegan

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 Build Your Own Birdhouse Kit

Before trying to build your own house, use this lightweight DIY set to build your own birdhouse. With simple, easy-to-follow instructions, your home will be popular with our feathered friends in no time. $10 @ Urban Outfitters

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 Book Roundup Wednesday: Books About Species Threatened by the Oil Spill

Every Wednesday, we review a selection of new and upcoming books addressing a specific aspect of environmentalism. This week we're recommending books about animals threatened by the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

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 Heart Shaped Umbrella

Whether you love rainy days or are just a romantic at heart, this umbrella is a great way to show your personality when the weather is gray. Available in green, blue, black, white, ivory, and yellow, but not red! Oh well… $60 @ Art Lebedev

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 Daily Roundup: May 4, 2010

Quick Death for Slow Creatures: At least 23 sea turtles have washed up dead on Mississippi’s shores since the oil spill, and more carcasses have been found in Texas. It’s unclear whether the endangered animals’ deaths are related to the disaster. However, the number is more than twice what’s normal

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 How to Incorporate Marine Awareness Into Your Cinco de Mayo

The tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico makes it harder to muster a celebratory mood for Cinco de Mayo , but gatherings can provide much-needed support during a time of environmental crisis and offer opportunities to reinforce and spread planet-friendly behavior.

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 In the Oil Spill’s Wake, the Green Jobs Conference Commences

With the oil spill claiming countless career casualties in industries including fishing and tourism, there will be more people looking for jobs in the near future. And they'd do well to look for ones in the burgeoning realm of sustainability.

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 Metal, quantum dots, and life on earth

Latest science news with a spectral twist from my column on SpectroscopyNOW.com and more… X-ray fuel – X-ray absorption spectroscopy, XAS, has been used to probe the metal centre of an important enzyme that can oxidise methane, natural gas, to methanol. Turns out the metal is copper not iron as previously thought and the discovery could open up a route to novel catalysts for converting “waste” methane (either from landfill or oil well flare-off) into useful liquid methanol for processing into fuel or other more valuable products.

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