Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Whatever Wednesday: Oil Cleansing Method
About a year ago, after a lot of reading about it, I thought I’d try this “oil cleansing” thing that the internet was chittering on about. Honestly, it seemed a little counter-intuitive, smearing oil over the grease on my face to clean it off. I have had oily skin since I was about 11, which…
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Year of the Snake Stir Fry
For the many years where the only allergen I needed to avoid was dairy, Asian restaurants of most types were a saving grace. With the exception of Indian cuisine, which uses cream and butter, most cuisines of the Asian continent use little to no dairy. Now that there are more allergens in my arsenal, it’s…
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Whatever Wednesday: Bacon with Brown Sugar and Sriracha
Before I start my rhapsody on the glories of bacon and Sriracha, let me just confess that this wasn’t my idea and isn’t my recipe, which is why we’re posting it on Whatever Wednesday. For that we can thank Scott Hutcheson, whose recipe was provided in his blog, and then was picked up and discussed…
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Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Pancakes
Welcome to another segment of our Hangover Breakfast series! Again, I used the method that the Gluten Free Girl and the Chef have provided on their blog to make an all-purpose flour mix, to choose flours with waffles and pancakes in mind, which I posted previously (see link below). Waffles are great, but then you have…
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Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Buttermilk Waffles
Welcome to another segment of our Hangover Breakfast series! Again, I used the method that the Gluten Free Girl and the Chef have provided on their blog to make an all-purpose flour mix, to choose flours with waffles and pancakes in mind, which I posted previously (see link below). Waffles were one of my favorite go…
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WW: Learn Something New: Maple Syrup
The very first known instance of the word maple (though, at the time it was “mapul”) was in Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale in Canterbury Tales where it is just part of a list of all the trees in the woods. Maple trees (genus: Acer, Latin for sharp, as in the points of the leaves —…
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Gluten Free Flour Mix for Waffles and Pancakes
Using method that the Gluten Free Girl and the Chef have provided on their blog to make an all-purpose flour mix, I made up the following flour mix to make the waffles and pancake recipes that will be posted for our Hangover Breakfast series. (These recipes will be posted on April 1st, keep your eyes out…
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Sriracha Oven Roasted Potatoes
For the second post in our Hangover Breakfast series, what breakfast is complete without home fries? But on the morning after (or pretty much all the time if I’m honest about it), I’m going to be pretty lazy about what I actually cook on the stove top that requires constant attention. Therefore, I like my…
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