Bullet Points

This post will be in:

• List format.

Things I am thankful for: 

• My silly boyfriend
• My wonderful family
• My awesome internship at the Center for Environmental Health
• The patter of raindrops on the roof
• Public transportation
• Seahorses and jellies at the Monterey Bay Aquarium

My Thanksgiving menu* (I'll let you know how this goes):

• Green beans sautéed in butter and garlic
• Orange and spice mashed sweet potatoes
• Cranberry parker house rolls (note to self: remember to buy yeast tonight!)
• The Moosewood Cookbook's comprehensively stuffed squash
• Vegan pumpkin cheesecake

*I don't know if I've explicitly stated this on this blog, but I'm vegetarian and lactose-intolerant. This means all the recipes I post will be vegetarian (and often vegan or vegan-izable).

Recipes I will definitely be making soon:

• Alphabet soup (it's soup weather here)
• About 80% of the recipes in the Moosewood Cookbook…
• And a good many of the mouthwatering recipes here
• Nutella ravioli cookies... wow, these look amazing.
• A secret recipe I can't disclose here, as I'm hoping to use it to win the dessert competition at CEH's holiday party...

Awesome (but often terrifying) science in the news:

• BPA in canned food
• Not-so-pretty chemicals in cosmetics
• Ocean acidification wreaking havoc on oysters
• Amphibians croaking at horrifying rate
• The media goes overboard on birth control/prostate cancer study