Please, don't run away scared if you're not vegan! I promise I won't throw beets or snarky judgments at you. This blog is simply about food, and I won't try to "convert" you with my vegan bible. I might, however, try to lure you with tasty vegan treats - ever so sneakily and subliminally.
Most times I just wing it in the kitchen. Sometimes it works, sometimes not so much. But that's OK, I find that there are not too many kitchen disasters that cannot be turned into a sweet truffle or a savory croquette.
On a non-food related note, I am an extreme introvert and an antisocial hermit who would rather stay at home than go out and mingle. The phone is my sworn enemy and I avoid using it as much as possible. I do wish I could be a bit more sociable so I could join other bloggers at those fun vegan meet-ups and potlucks. *sigh*
Staying home is nice though, because we live near a little pond and we have some very cute feathered neighbors. There's Curly the Pekin duck and his mallard friends who are always quacking about something or another, and also some very skeptical geese that don't seem to trust us very much. We also welcome lots of wild birds into our back yard, and you will see them featured here fairly regularly. Mr. Wing-It is in charge of feeding the birds and I am in charge of stalking them with the camera 24/7! :)
Orchestra Conductor Curly says your trombone is off key
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Chris
I never read this page - I didn't know your husband is so into birds! I am getting my phd in biology and I have been studying birds for about 10 years. It is the best research in the world. And the traveling can't be beat!
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool! Bird-nerds of the world unite! What's your favorite species? I love the tiny ones like the hummingbirds, sparrows, finches and wrens, but it would be hard to choose one.
ReplyDeleteI completely identify with your existential crisis. I used to spend a lot of time thinking about religion and the best I can come up with is that if there is some sort of supreme being, it doesn't give a you-know-what what I do with myself. It's up to people to treat each other and other life forms well for the sake of doing so.
ReplyDeleteYes! To treat all living things with respect and consideration out of decency and kindness, not because we want to be rewarded in some sort of afterlife. It sounds simple enough, doesn't it? *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI stumbled upon your blog through another blog doing vegan mofo and I am SO in love with it! Thanks for the amazing inspiration!!!
ReplyDeleteI think I love you. you are a cutie pie and we totally have that introvert/anti-social thing in common. phones are evil, they must be stopped.
ReplyDeletei really dont like talking on the phone either, but it sure is a hard one a hard one to explain away!
ReplyDeleteI love your About Me page and you're so gorgeous, I love your Wing-it apron xox
ReplyDeleteYUM! These look so delicious! I think I will make some for breakfast tomorrow! i am really loving your blog!
ReplyDeleteJust found your site today and want you to know that I love what I've seen so far. Do you want to know something? My hubby and I met at a vegan meet-up!!! Too funny.
ReplyDeleteWe're the same - we have so much in common, it's not funny. I knew this was something special when he found a bug in his apartment and got out a butterfly net to set it free outside. I thought I was the only one who did things like that! Two peas, I tell you, two peas!
Glad to know there are other vegan pods out there!
I don't care what you call yourself.
ReplyDeleteYou rock and I lub you!!!
River, why did I never notice this bit of your blog before? (Don't answer that!) Great to find out more about you and Mr Wing-It! John and I are 'cell-mates' (as we call it!) too! And I love your blog!
ReplyDeleteHi River,
ReplyDeleteFinally found you....I've just copy/pasted your strawberry Santa Hats and Xmas Trees from Erica's Sweet Tooth site.
Went to the links for Crafty Kook she credited it to and well, not that "Shizuoka tombstone" is quite where it should be credited...after I translated said Japanese page to english ;-)
I then followed your link you'd posted in her comments....um, when thet came up "URL Not Found" ....I started to search ....
Anyway...now i've found your site I can credit you correctly!! I wanted to share these with my Mothers of Preschoolers [MOPS] group here in Perth, Western Australia as we'll be doing our Xmas things for the children [and adults] at the church group. These looked fab and easy to adapt for our celiacs [me] and our vegetarians and vegans.
So before I share my find I can now credit you properly!! Thankyou.
Kind Regards
Sarah Glasson
Thank you so much, Sarah! I can't believe you went through all that trouble to give me credit - you have restored my faith in the blogging community! Last year I had some of my content "stolen" and republished without my permission, and it made me want to give up blogging. I started again a couple of weeks ago but I've been skeptical about sharing anything too original because it probably WILL be copied and not credited at some point. But you and your wonderful decency have restored my faith in the blogging community and I thank you so very much for looking me up and crediting me. You rock!!
DeleteThe Crafty Kook was a blog that I had for a few months when I strayed away from this one. It never felt like "home" so I came back to Wing It Vegan and let the other domain name expire. Now I see that I probably should have kept it!
I hope you have fun making the little Santa hats! Please do let me know if you ever blog about them so I can give you a MASSIVE shout out from here!
PS: Did I say that you ROCK?!
:D I'm so glad some of your faith is restored, River! I'm a firm believer in what goes around comes around. I loath it when people "steal" content and the like so blatantly.
DeleteI have no blogs but I'll be sure to send you pics if/when we make these gorgeous treats of yours.
I went back to Erica's Sweet Tooth and posted a comment there with your wingitvegan site link. Hopefully then Erica can update her site in place of Crafty Kook :D
It was no trouble.....luckily you had your name River on Erica's site...so I simply googled your name along with Santa Hats and ...followed the trails.... :D
It only took about 20 mins....but as you can see ... for me, that 20 mins was worth every second for the simple fact it restored your faith :D
.... and now I'm signed up to your emails so won't "lose you" ;-)
Sarah x
It's despicable, illegal, and not to mention so very lame to steal other people's content! This person had taken my whole posts word-by-word including all my pictures. Now I add a watermark to all my pictures as an extra precaution.
DeleteThe fact that you looked me up just to do the right thing makes me so happy! You didn't *have* to do it, but you did it because you're awesome! Sarah for president! :D
I hope you have lots of fun with the Santa Hats if you do make them! And I would love to see pictures if you do!
Thank you so much for subscribing! :)
I love your new photo!
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kittee
Thanks, Kittee! It's been up for a few weeks... let's see how much longer I can keep it there without feeling an urge to take it down...
DeleteHi,
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