Brick: Muse on News by Ben S. Pollock
- Clean Beans
The goal for Memorial Day extending to the Fourth of July this year was a recipe for baked beans tasting as I remember Mom opening a can or two and heating them, but also vegan and zero to low oil. The baked beans of yesterday not to mention today had bacon or shreds of regular… Read more: Clean Beans - Ozarkonomiyaki
Japanese-style savory vegan pancake (okonomiyaki) with everyday ingredients Okonomiyaki (Japanese more or less for “grilled to your liking”) is a thick pancake with a lot of regional variations. Most recipes online indicate they’re usually savory, loaded with vegetables but no oil — an ideal 21st-century vegan crossover. As I’ve experimented, I’ve found this to be… Read more: Ozarkonomiyaki - Towels and Clowns
©2024 Ben S. Pollock Jr. She’s a Joan Crawford-Bette Davis balls-to-her-knees kind of woman. My Beloved and I were recently married, so mid-1990s, when Marion Lewenstein contacted me that she and Harry planned to drive from Palo Alto to see their son, teaching at Cornell. Their itinerary put them at spending the night in Little… Read more: Towels and Clowns - Full Casserole on a Sheet
One rule my wife and I have picked up for pot-luck suppers in our whole-food plant-based decade is “bring an entree.” We vegans seem to live on sides and salads, but in a communal room with a table of platters, we look around and ask, “where’s the main dish for us?” We quickly figured out… Read more: Full Casserole on a Sheet - It’s Past Time to Woke Up and Smell the Coffee
Is the Guv Limiting Campus Speech? An Editor’s Note Maybe it’s my middle age or that my decades as an editor have locked in 20th-century grammar, but I have to be overly conscientious to use preferred pronouns in conversation and even email. Confession: I fail at this about 10 percent of the time and have… Read more: It’s Past Time to Woke Up and Smell the Coffee - Reason 542 to Join Local 965 of AEA/NEA
An Editor’s Note Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last spring signed into law Arkansas Act 542 of 2023, the Given Name Act. Its full title is “An Act to Create the Given Name Act; to Protect Faculty Members, Teachers, and Employees of Public Schools and State-supported Institutions of Higher Education from Compelled Speech; to Prohibit Requiring… Read more: Reason 542 to Join Local 965 of AEA/NEA
Food Columns
Candidly, the recipes are posted for my convenience, from which to refer via iPad in the kitchen. All are vegetarian, nearly all vegan, aka plant-based whole-food PBWF and, especially the recent ones, low to no oil. I’m sure you’d like them, too.
- Clean Beans
The goal for Memorial Day extending to the Fourth of July this year was a recipe for baked beans tasting as I remember Mom opening a can or two and heating them, but also vegan and zero to low oil.… Read more: Clean Beans - Ozarkonomiyaki
Japanese-style savory vegan pancake (okonomiyaki) with everyday ingredients Okonomiyaki (Japanese more or less for “grilled to your liking”) is a thick pancake with a lot of regional variations. Most recipes online indicate they’re usually savory, loaded with vegetables but no… Read more: Ozarkonomiyaki - Full Casserole on a Sheet
One rule my wife and I have picked up for pot-luck suppers in our whole-food plant-based decade is “bring an entree.” We vegans seem to live on sides and salads, but in a communal room with a table of platters,… Read more: Full Casserole on a Sheet - Beaver Town Inn Blue-Ribbon Muffins
My Beloved and I were in our early 40s, married almost 5 years in late 1997. We had grown weary of our string of jobs, finance-data-training for her, newspaper editing for me. Let’s buy a bed-and-breakfast, we dreamed. No, let’s… Read more: Beaver Town Inn Blue-Ribbon Muffins
