Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I decided to make something raw to eat today (well, mostly raw, it's on a bed of noodles which are of course cooked). This core sauce for the dish on the left is a vegan walnut paté which tastes disturbingly surprisingly close to a liver paté. It's made up of a purée of walnuts, olive oil, lime, tomato, red onion, garlic, and cumin (no other spices or ingredients). In addition, when served it's garnished with fresh habanero, diced white onion, and radish.

Now the dish on the right. I had some of the purée left over so I used it as the base for a salad dressing. Just added balsamic vinegar to the paté and mixed it up. I know it looks like I just puked mud on a bunch of lettuce, but it was honestly really good.

Other than that I went out with Rafael today and put in the final order for the BMEfest shirts (and went out for lunch). They'll be ready on Monday, so assuming there's no problems, I'll post pictures of them then.

I also have two promos for IAM friends that I'd like to mention now.

	First, Crumbs is writing a book on people who are immune compromised — people who've undergone splenectomies or have other conditions, either ones they're born with or ones they got later in life. One of the chapters discusses people involved in body modification and ritual like suspensions… so if you meet those criteria or know someone who does, drop him a line.
	Second, Ferg is running a marathon to raise funds to raise funds for impoverished students in Angkor Wat (you may remember the pictures I posted of his trip when he was there). Visit his page for more information about that.

Anyway… back to work with me, I want to post about four thousand new pictures tomorrow — although the license plates for my car got delayed until Thursday so I won't be leaving for the road trip until end of the week anyway. But a deal with the internet's still a deal.