@eclecta.bsky.social
Nerd. Arsenal supporter. COVID-avoider. Writing about issues and books is a way I try to reinforce/challenge my learning. Too enthusiastic and curious to be cool. She/her. Toronto
Deep exhale. This is wonderful news!!!
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(Another lesson is to reserve enough sauce to better weigh down the top layer of gluten-free noodles that I used for the larger dish ... sheesh!)
Now ... what to do with all the leftovers ... lol
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(I'm also CERTAIN that you can make and freeze the sauce in advance, having made a very similar pumpkin-based vegan cheese sauce many times.)
The other lesson from this whole experiment is LAYERING of complimentary flavours.
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Overall: incredibly delicious! The work is manageable by preparing the different parts on different days; I made the sauce and the mushroom/kale filling earlier in the week and did the rest today, but I also could have made the tofu ricotta and vegan parm in advance.
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Finally, instead of the Minimalist Baker's vegan parmesan cheese recipe, I used this one from The First Mess, which had garlic AND onion powder and more nooch. thefirstmess.com/2019/11/20/v...
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I think I added a quarter- or a half-teaspoon of sage to this mix as well.
I was generous with every opportunity to add onion and garlic. I added a tofu ricotta for richness and added some fresh parsley to the food processor when making this recipe: simple-veganista.com/tofu-ricotta/.
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Maybe a year or more ago, I'd converted some dried porcini mushrooms into a powder in my blender and stored it in an airtight jar, so I added a couple of spoons of this powder to the mushroom/kale mix to bump up the umami flavour for that layer.
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I was generous with the nooch and roasted garlic, and added a fair amount of water for the pasta to absorb in the oven (the sauce wasn't runny by any means, but it wasn't super-thick).
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I used a very large butternut squash (they are cheap this time of year!) to get lots of sauce, which you will want in particular if you are using oven-ready lasagna noodles (guilty!). FYI, with the nutritional yeast ("nooch") and garlic and miso, the sauce tastes more cheesy than squash-y.
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Allow me to introduce you to vegan butternut squash lasagna from the FABULOUS Minimalist Baker: minimalistbaker.com/butternut-sq.... I read through the comments/feedback carefully and figured this recipe could be delicious but I'd need to use every opportunity to add flavour.
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Sometimes I just see a recipe, and something in me (not the part that worries about how much work it's going to take, alas) says YESSSSS. This recipe intuition has yet to be wrong (I have also yet to overestimate how much work it will take).
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Canadian Thanksgiving is next weekend, and if you have vegans in your life you want to please while making something everyone will enjoy, this might be the post for you! Or if you enjoy a good culinary project and expanding your range of dishes, read on ...
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They largely want the studios & sports and donβt care about the news org. In fact, they would love it gone. Why? Because rich men, especially tech men, think they deserve no criticism and also need constant fluffing. They value a mirrortocracy over a meritocracy and welcome a mediocrity.
05.10.2025 05:04 β π 2480 π 607 π¬ 77 π 22We often call better city-building ideas bold and visionary when theyβre really just common sense given the real-life crises that cities are facing. But true common sense isnβt particularly common these days, so itβs considered bold.
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"God will ask us if we have cultivated and cared for the world that he created for the benefit of all and for future generations, and if we have taken care of our brothers and sisters - what will be our answer, my dear friends?"
02.10.2025 21:58 β π 1110 π 335 π¬ 25 π 30That's what reactionaries want: not some alternative moral system, but a release from morality, from conscience, from the difficult work of being good. They want permission to indulge their darkest instincts.
They don't want to be good, they want permission to be bad. Thus, whataboutism.
This is the key thing to notice about whataboutism: it is not actually a moral argument at all. It's not saying, "the thing you accuse us of is actually good," or "we didn't do it."
It just says, "everyone does this bad thing, so you're not allowed to hold us responsible." It's permission.
Book review: In the novel "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin, the design and playing of video games serves as both context and metaphor for a story about partnership, creativity/failure, and the stories we make up that separate us from those we love.
This book is *art*. π€©
We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.
30.09.2025 20:33 β π 4354 π 1346 π¬ 146 π 130The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries.
He said this out loud.
... to understanding that our environments and therefore our survival depend on learning lessons from the very cultures colonialism has tried - and continues to try - to destroy.
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My last year of reading has moved me beyond mere empathy for what Indigenous people have suffered and wanting to make it right ...
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We need to know other realities are possible and superior to what we just assume is the way things are.
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When settlers arrived, they didn't see farming that they recognized and so they claimed no one was using these lands so they took them over.
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They built up the soil (several feet thick in places), used controlled burns to keep the meadows from being overgrown by scrub and trees, and grew crops there in a way that was balanced and non-extractive while supporting hundreds if not thousands of people.
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Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC's South Coast (Maleea Acker) - A lovely short book of reflections on this very specific location/ecosystem on Vancouver Island that was tended by Indigenous Peoples for centuries.
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Indigenous peoples understood this, and we could learn from them still. This is a modern work of philosophy that may require more work than most people are willing to put in, but I found the effort worthwhile.
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Being Salmon, Being Human (Martin Lee Mueller) - What if we could see the world from the perspective of a salmon? What if we understood that they and their rivers too have rights, or if we grasped the web of mutual interdependence that makes all life possible?
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(One of the big takeaways for me is that there is no throwing something "away" - because the earth is our home, including the land, water, and air that we all share.)
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