My aunt got me the Great Chefs Cook Vegan cookbook. It looks cool, but all of these recipes are way more complicated than anything I could hope to make without a sous-chef, I think. Also, without a ton of equipment. I just opened to a random page, and got Chilled Apple Consomme with Celery Root Remoulade. The consomme requires, among other things, vitamin C powder, apple pectin, and a juicer. The remoulade doesn't look too difficult, though it does require julienning the celery root, which seems like it would be an enormous pain. There are eight ingredients in the "garnish" section.

Several other recipes require a dehydrator. And pretty much all of them require much better knife skills than I have.

Ok. Now I'm dying to talk to Aims, and *she's* disappeared. Goof.

Ok, seriously, people are using live goldfish as centerpieces at events like weddings? [link] The hell?

One of my teeth just broke, a chunk right down to the gum. It doesn't hurt.

Eep! Glad it doesn't hurt, but, that can't be good.

We had brunch -- it started at 11 -- the last guest left around 530/600. Success food and house were complimented. Dh was confused because it was very mellow. He didn't realizes that there was a constant level of food coma/prosecco coma going on.

yay for Erin's second date!

Do you have Vegan with a vengeance , Hil? I like it - it has a bunch of simple stuff.

epp! That's one of my nightmares Windsparrow.

Do you have Vegan with a vengeance , Hil? I like it - it has a bunch of simple stuff.

Yep. That and Veganomicon are two of my most-used cookbooks. (Both authors have new cookbooks coming out soon -- one of vegan brunch food, and one of vegan Latino food.)

Is it a good sign that cold water in my mouth is extremely jangly-feeling? It means the nerve's not completely dead, right?

Andi, that means the nerve is sitting up and hollering "What the hell are you doing, host body???"

I literally feel your pain.

It's been 2+ weeks since I got 4 fillings (all on the left side bottom), and they're still horribly sensitive to cold as well as causing a significant jaw ache. Ibuprofen ameliorates both the cold sensitivity as well as the jaw pain -- but after about 6 hours, when the ibuprofen wears off, the pain comes back.

I think it's possibly just that a filling sits too high, and biting on it makes my jaw out of whack. I hope.

So I'm calling them first thing tomorrow morning, because while I can accept that 2 weeks is normal to still be cold-sensitive (the fillings are the "metal" amalgam, and were filled pretty deep, so they conduct temperature very well, and very far down), but I can't accept that I should still be having jaw pain.