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    Reply #1:

    drinking a beer, but going to make my own pizza shortly, with store bought spelt dough.

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    I have started baking cookies a lot lately. My second batch were lovely and soft, this weeks batch were crunchy and hard.

    1: I think my butter was too cold, the butter has to be at the right consistency to make the best cookies. Not oily soft, but soft so that when you pick it up you leave finger marks.

    2: I used different eggs. I usually use brown organic eggs, but this time I used white eggs.

    So for me it could have been a bit of both of those things, but I would definitely tell you to make sure your butter is right.

    http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/dining/17bake.html&OQ=_rQ3D2Q26em&OP=41dd8ee1Q2Ff(@Q2Bf53PtQ7C33vmfmZZQ7BfRmfRFf5Q2AQ3DQ2AQ3DefRFQ2BCc@ahvQ5B,

    this is a good story, but you have to log in now to read it.

    They say to chop your butter into chunks before you cream it.

    Good luck with the cookies Happy

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    Some bread toasted with butter and rhubarb jam Happy

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    Oh man I am craving naan and curry now Happy

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    Fjöruborðið at Stokkseyri, lobster soup was so yummy!

    Shalimar, Reykjavík. Indian/Pakistani food, so very spicy and delicious!

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    They aren't a tradition in my family really. We would buy various biscuits.

    Now in Iceland though, we buy piparkokur Happy spice cookies and I will make some this year I think Happy

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    Oh yeh granola bars would keep in storage too. And they can be sweet too Happy

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    You could bake cookies, but you just have make sure you store them properly. In an airtight container.

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    Well at least you know you can do it when you have your own place Happy

    My parents hated me being a veg when I was a teen, my mam was always pushing fish at me! hehe

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    Well I don't think animals have souls, as I don't think humans do, but I do agree they feel pain, of course they do. You just have to lessen it for them.(when they are being slaughtered)

    I'm sorry you ate the chicken today! That must have sucked when you realised.

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    Well of course you are free to have your own reasons for not eating something, or wearing something.
    We had 2 vegans stay with us a while ago from Australia, they found it pretty expensive to eat here, so they just ate veggies i think and a couple of soy yoghurt things. I was shocked to find out vegans don't eat honey, I mean it does make sense, but it's just not something I ever thought about!
    I read somewhere that men who eat tofu have lower sperm counts, http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12792&feedId=online-news_rss20

    Well you could eat everything and use most of the animal, but in the western world we stopped doing that and now we get grossed out by it all.
    I am of the opinion, that if you eat meat, you should be able to watch the animal being slaughtered, or handle the raw meat yourself. You can't be dumb to the fact it was a live cuddly animal at one point.

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    Are you going to give up honey too? I would love ideally to be a vegan, but I couldn't afford to here in Iceland, alternative lifestyles are not really catered for here, and what you can buy is very expensive.
    I read a vegan girls blog, it's very good. She has even written a book and I think she is the same age as you Roma.
    http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/

    Good luck to you Happy

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    Any bread, then lots of butter(salt free if poss) then a lot of cheese and onion crisps and coleslaw

    potato salad and chorizo

    toasted cheddar cheese sprinkled with Worcestershire sauce before grilling mmm

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    I thought chimichangas were deep fried? I could be wrong this was in Iceland, although he was Mexican, the chef.. so yummy!

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    I baked my cheesecake, it's from a Nigella Lawson recipe, that I got on someone's food blog,
    http://www.insanitytheory.net/kitchenwench/wp-comments-post.php
    We had to wait until 10pm to test it, which is why the lighting is so bad. It was well worth the wait, it was bloody delicious! It is a basic cheesecake, with a sour cream layer at the top. mmm

    <div class="thumbnail"><a href="http://skitch.com/northern-star/x34f/delicious-cheesecake"><img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080714-r3644x44nk32c7cs6arewwydqk.preview.jpg" alt="delicious cheesecake" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Trebuchet, sans-serif, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 10px; color: #808080">Uploaded with <a href="http://plasq.com/">plasq</a>'s <a href="http://skitch.com">Skitch</a>!</span></div>

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