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Last night I watched the documentary Taste the Waste and it was very good. I have always heard that 40-50% of food gets thrown away but this movie shows how and why.

This is the one thing I feel really passionate about.  The whole reason I want to study further is so I can get a job finding solutions to world food problems.  Today is World Food Day, so if you have a few minutes go to FAO.org to learn more about the current world food situation.

When I cook, I like to make things with ingredients I already have. I wanted pumpkin pancakes, so I searched the internet through dozens of completely different recipes for the same thing. I still had to buy mix though.

1.5 cups Bisquick (apparently it's vegan. They put animal fat in Jiffy mix.)
3 T sugar
1/4 t spices? Pumpkin pie spices. I only had cinnamon and nutmeg, but add clover and the others if you have them. I did 1/4 t of each plus some. I'm soooo precise in my cooking.
1 1/4 cups soy milk
1/3 cup canned pumpkin
1 T vegetable oil

and you cook them.

Really delicious!

I am living through the summer of perpetual disappointment.

http://www.kiva.org/

It is hard to know, sometimes, which organizations are the best to donate money to. But I really liked the idea of this site. Plus, it's not donating, it's loaning the money.

so... I have a boatload of money and if you have a favorite organization/cause/whatever, comment and maybe I will donate money to it.


p.s. Merry Christmas! My family got me socks, shoes, sweaters, a giraffe necklace, and learn Chinese CDs.
For my birthday I also got shoes and a sweater, and a turtle necklace.

I am a horrible person.

What was your favorite cartoon as a child?

This was mine:



It'd be cool if you watched it for me.

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