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Pumpkin baked ziti

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Pumpkin baked ziti out of the Veganomicon cookbook. I ran out of panko for the topping so I ground up some toasted no-knead bread. It was, uh, chewy but not totally unpleasant since it still did the job of adding texture to the dish.

Rebooting the Journal

Obviously we neglected the blog for 2.5 years here, but we're in the mood to start posting things again, for no real reason other than we felt like it. This post was written in February 2021 but placed in January to kick off the journal reboot. The biggest food change since the last 2018 post was that we began eating a more plant based diet in late 2019. Initially we were pretty strict, but if we went out to eat, we would eat fish and occasionally other meats, like chicken or pork. We ate a lot of tofu and cooked a lot of dishes from Veganomicon. They would have made for some great posts. Samosas, lasagna, baked pastas, sandwiches, seitan, dumplings... the list goes on and on. For the most part they were great, but there were some disasters too. One time I forgot to add enough liquid to the mac and cheese and it came out dry and sticky and barely edible, though I did try to serve it... After a few months of a mostly vegan diet, we eventually loosened up, maybe because the pande