Topics: favorites,vegan,vegetarian,writing
Have a favorite vegetarian restaurant? Website? Vegan Cheese? Vegan Ice Cream? Blog? Then vote in VegNew’s 2008 Veggie Awards. You can skip items you don’t have a preference on and you can add entries if your favorite isn’t listed. Please add doliferight.com for your favorite vegan friendly blog! The survey is quick and easy and [...]
Topics: Arizona,Tucson,cookbook,food,how to,lowfat,photographs,prickly pear,saguaro,vegan,vegan recipe,vegetarian
Prickly Pear Jelly I haven’t had the greatest luck in the world preparing jelly, so here is my “What to do when the recipes don’t work” directions. Prepare syrup as pectin package indicates. Basically you need a lot of sugar, the fruit itself, and pectin. With this made, you supposedly just need to add more [...]
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Vegan Prickly Pear Ice Cream 2 cups vanilla soymilk 1 cup prickly pear syrup Stir into a Stainless Steel Midas Non-Motorized Ice Cream Maker. Stir (or whisk) after 15 minutes. Stir after another 10-15 minutes and serve. This handy bowl makes perfect ice cream, sorbet, gelato, or Italian ice every single time. We absolute love [...]
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Prickly Pear Syrup Prickly Pear Juice (approximate how much you have) Fruit Pectin Florida Crystals Natural Sugar To learn how to make prickly pear juice, check out PART THREE. The pectin will have recipes inside the box. Honestly, you have to just experiment with the amounts. Every time I’ve made syrup and jelly, it hasn’t [...]
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Prickly Pear Margaritas 1 cup prickly pear juice (or syrup) 1 1/2 trays ice 1 1/2 cup margarita mix (this is the easy way out) – lime juice from scratch is even better 1 cup tequila, optional if you want yours alcoholic Blend all ingredients except ice. Slowly add in ice until perfect. Delicious!
Topics: Arizona,Tucson,cookbook,food,how to,photographs,prickly pear,saguaro,vegan,vegan recipe,vegetarian
Now that we’ve made the prickly pear juice in PART THREE, we’re ready to have some yummy fun with prickly pear fruit. Click here for PART ONE. Click here for PART TWO. In PART THREE, I explained how to get the juice out of prickly pear fruits. Boiling the way I showed works really well. [...]
Topics: Webkinz,games,pets,photographs
Due to popular demand from my Webkinz Solar Suit (a.k.a. Astronaut Suit) and Webkinz Underwater Rooms posts, here are some screen captures of a Webkinz underwater room with my grey wolf dressed as an astronaut in his solar suit (won one clothing part at a time by catching comets in Alyssa’s Star Challenge). As you [...]
Topics: Webkinz,pets
Whoo-Hoo! With Alyssa’s Star Challenge in Webkinz world, we’ve just found a comet with the last part of the Solar Suit. So, we now have a decked out astronaut. Isn’t she cute?
Topics: Webkinz,games,pets,photographs,vegan,vegetarian
As I’ve made it clear on this blog, I’m a big fan of Webkinz. I like to look over all the new products that Ganz comes out with on the Webkinz line. So far, I’ve liked everything except the beauty line (not a single product in the line is vegetarian friendly, let alone vegan friendly). [...]
Topics: Arizona,Tucson,cookbook,food,how to,photographs,prickly pear,saguaro,vegan,vegan recipe,vegetarian
Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART ONE”. Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART TWO”. Now that you’ve picked the fruit from the prickly pear, it is time to prepare it. We prefer a “no touch” method, which doesn’t involve any knives or accidental touching. Click here for a great [...]