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I was able to successfully repository something without pestering ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gelydh to tell me what I broke. And for once I managed to remember to make sure CEP was enabled in my file table, so the master mesh is actually recolorable. And the recolor transferred correctly to the slave mesh on the first try. I am the master.
...not really. But I'm proud of myself. So in celebration, WEDDING SPAM.
Lydia and Jack tied the knot last night, to much cheering and demands for pictures from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
pooklet. I haven't taken pictures of any weddings in quite awhile, so I obliged. There's also some other pictures I threw in because they amused me and I forgot to put them on GoS.
Jack proposes. Lydia is pleased.
I built a church, but it's a residential lot and I didn't make a vicar yet, so everyone gets to get married outside. Near a parking lot. Woo.
The honored guests, most of whom wandered off after a minute or two.
Look,pooklet wanted pictures of everything, okay?
And suddenly, night fell.
Nice to see you supporting your friends there, Thalia.
Why yes, the entire wedding was in slowmotion 4.
See? What great friends.
Did I mention I love the AL "Suck Face" animation?
Jack and Lydia: my sims otp.
And now for something completely different.
"You might want to wait more than fifteen minutes before burping in front of me. I can still have this marriage annulled."
Renata: do not want.
Lincoln occasionally finds himself feeling paranoid.
Despite the resounding "Do not want" from her father, Renata's growing up quite pretty, if I do say so myself.
Voyeur.
"So it's settled. I put a dead mouse in his bed, and you fill my bowl to the brim with caviar."
As to sims stuff. My next set of clutter is almost done, and everything (that needs to be) will be repositoried, and it should all be recolorable. Yay. Aside from that, I've been Nouking Rose 65 for a friend, and will probably put it here or on GoS when I'm done. Though I might scrap it and use Liegen's textures instead. I haven't made up my mind yet. I'm good at being indecisive.
gelydh to tell me what I broke. And for once I managed to remember to make sure CEP was enabled in my file table, so the master mesh is actually recolorable. And the recolor transferred correctly to the slave mesh on the first try. I am the master....not really. But I'm proud of myself. So in celebration, WEDDING SPAM.
Lydia and Jack tied the knot last night, to much cheering and demands for pictures from
pooklet. I haven't taken pictures of any weddings in quite awhile, so I obliged. There's also some other pictures I threw in because they amused me and I forgot to put them on GoS. 
Jack proposes. Lydia is pleased.
I built a church, but it's a residential lot and I didn't make a vicar yet, so everyone gets to get married outside. Near a parking lot. Woo.
The honored guests, most of whom wandered off after a minute or two.
Look,
pooklet wanted pictures of everything, okay?
And suddenly, night fell.
Nice to see you supporting your friends there, Thalia.
Why yes, the entire wedding was in slowmotion 4.
See? What great friends.
Did I mention I love the AL "Suck Face" animation?
Jack and Lydia: my sims otp.
And now for something completely different.
"You might want to wait more than fifteen minutes before burping in front of me. I can still have this marriage annulled."
Renata: do not want.
Lincoln occasionally finds himself feeling paranoid.
Despite the resounding "Do not want" from her father, Renata's growing up quite pretty, if I do say so myself.
Voyeur.
"So it's settled. I put a dead mouse in his bed, and you fill my bowl to the brim with caviar."
As to sims stuff. My next set of clutter is almost done, and everything (that needs to be) will be repositoried, and it should all be recolorable. Yay. Aside from that, I've been Nouking Rose 65 for a friend, and will probably put it here or on GoS when I'm done. Though I might scrap it and use Liegen's textures instead. I haven't made up my mind yet. I'm good at being indecisive.
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Jack is so so cute. If I ever restore things in my game, she's gotta move into Rapture. Or at least be one of the academics in the
SENSE? I DON'T MAKE IT.
Btw, if you really want some vegan dessert-y madness, I have an awesome recipe for vegan caramel bars and can probably send a batch after next Friday. But you'd also have to be cool with giving a creepy stranger your mailing address, and I dunno if you wanna do that. But I thought I'd throw that out there, as I was semi-serious about the whole cookie thing. :D
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SENSE? WHAT SENSE IS PLZ?
Jack is pretty hilarious in my game. Any time she's not eating, sleeping, seeing to bodily functions, or boffing Lydia, she is at her computer, doing some FINANCIAL CONSULTING. Which is funny, because my other money sim, Megan, has the same ability but has never once autonomously initiated it. And Jack is very professional about it. Financial consulting through instant messaging.
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do i invst in ira?
lol u take 1/4 salary 2 invest. dun do bonds. their rly dumb.
This is my e-mail: elle.mt (at) gmail (dot) com
Let me know if you have weird food allergies or despise the taste of lemons or something. I don't want to accidentally kill you via cookie, because that's just a sad way to go.
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iunno ask merril lynch
Okay, I'll do that. (Though being killed by cookies is probably preferable to being killed by, say, bees. Or lead pipes. But still sad.)
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I love how wild your sims are, most of mine are prudes (they'd stand there being disapproving judging machines) and that last pic suggests future Shenanigans!
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As to wild, yeah, my sims are all basically nutjobs. Makes it fun.
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And yes, I do repost comments when I spot grammatical errors, why do you ask? D:
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Also, I bought liquid smoke JUST to make smokey miso tofu and it was totally worth it. I use the tofu to make sandwiches whenever I feel peckish. For cheese, I usually just end up using tofu and nutritional yeast as yes, 95% of cheese replacements are pretty damn terrible. They lack entirely in fat, so they melt like chewy bricks. I've been okay with tofutti better than cream cheese though, it makes for more yummy sandwiches with tomatoes and fresh basil or roasted eggplant & roasted bellpepper.
CAN YOU TELL I LOVE FOOD?
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and then give me the recipe or else.I admit, I'm not normally a fan of Things Vegans Do to Make Their Food Taste Like It Isn't Vegan, but I was pleasantly surprised by liquid smoke. Normally I'd just use paprika (the not-Hungarian kind) to achieve the same effect, but after trying both on that particular miso tofu recipe, I'd definitely go for the liquid smoke.
My first few weeks of veganism I tried fake bacon (though not tempeh) and thought it was o-kayish. Much better in a sandwich (I like putting things between two pieces of sourdough, sue me) than with a side of breakfast potatoes and scrambled tofu though. Tempeh, especially since I started making it at home but it HAS TO HAVE A SAUCE/MARINADE or be in a dish with a decent amount of oil/flavoring. It's a little dry otherwise. You can boil it beforehand to rid it of some of the bitterness but if you don't like it, don't feel bad at all.
For most of my meat-replacement cooking, I go with seitan. Yummy yummy seitan. Makes delicious faux-meatballs, fried cutlets, filling for dumplings, whatever. It's just awesome. Tempeh is more nutritious or whatever, but seitan definitely tastes better to me. I've yet to make it for myself at home (it's a decent amount of work) but I really want to.
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I'm also sorry for cluttering up your livejournal, Ravenna!
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Also oh, yes, I need to learn to make seitan, because one of the non-vegan best friends has managed and I have not and that is just not right, yo. These days I just turn to texturized tofu for everything. I'm probably one of the most fail vegans ever when it comes to making your own versus just eating pre-packaged stuff. NOT HEALTHY. But I love the Morningstar Farms tofu strippy things that are meant to imitate chicken and steak strips, although some of the chicken strips do too good a job of imitating and it really does have the texture of chicken and EWWWWW. But if I can learn to make seitan or just not revile tempeh so much that would probably be good and yoooou can send me recipes oh man, awesome. Although I feel a little bit terrible because I only have so many exciting recipes that did not come from a cookbook that you probably already own. Actually, I think I just have one. For vegan lasagna. Mmmm.
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...carry on.
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I used to eat the Morningstar stuff but it was somewhat expensive, especially compared to just making seitan. It was damn tasty though, especially the TVP-like (or was it TVP?) taco filling stuff. I found out some pretty Not-So-Cool food producers make a lot of organic foods (Kellogg's makes Morningstar Farms which isn't so terrible, but ConAgra is behind LightLife & Alexia Foods) so I became determined to make as much of my own stuff as possible and to not consume processed foods. It can be time consuming though, and I know when I start going to school it's going to be downright prickly.
Do you bake any of your own bread? :D I have a recipe for a very quick and easy vegan bread that got me into vegan baking which I will probably force upon you.
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I dooooo bake, yes and oh my god BREAD RECIPE YES PLEASE. I wish I could reciprocate but I basically live and breathe by Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World, and such, which I am going to go ahead and assume you are already familiar with. 8D
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Ingredients
5 tsps. dry active yeast
3/4 c. warm water
1 1/4 c. soy milk
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
4 1/2 c. bread flour
2 tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. salt
Mix yeast and warm water in a bowl and allot the micture to sit for a few minutes. Make sure the water isn't hot, otherwise you kill the yeast. Meanwhile mix soy milk and applecider vinegar in measuring cup. Add the apple cider vinegar first then fill the rest up with the soy milk to 1 and 1/4 cup. Faux buttermilk!
In large bowl take 2 and 1/2 cups of the flour and mix in the yeast mixture, soy milk, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Mix well. Dough will be very sticky. If you're using an electric stand mixer, make sure it's set to about 4. Add the rest of the flour and continue to mix until the dough is well-formed. Transfer the dough to your work surface (make sure it's sprinkled with flour first!) and cover your hands in flour. Knead the dough for 5-7 minutes until smooth. You'll know it's ready to rise when you stick your finger in the dough and the indentation doesn't disappear.
Divide dough into 3 equal pieces and roll these out like long snakes. Take all three ends and smoosh them together. Then braid the dough and smoosh ends together as well. Transfer braid to a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and a sprinkling of corn meal. Spray the top with olive oil spray and cover loosely with plastic wrap (or if you're a bum like me, a cloth kitchen towel). Allow the braid to rise in a warm place for one hour. You can also add herbs like rosemary and thyme, or poppy or sesame seeds to the surface of the oiled dough for flavoring.
Pre-heat your oven to 375 degrees before the hour is up. Once it's pre-heated and the dough is done rising, bake the loaf for about 25-35 minutes, until golden brown.
And omg, I love the PPK! I really want the Veganomicon because I am a spaz and read cookbooks for fun but I am also a poor spaz. I keep a food diary with me to write recipes in. Not like a lolWeight Watchers food diary, but just something I write in regarding what I ate, what I'd like to eat or try cooking, recipes I want to remember, little watercolor food illustrations, etc. There's an entire 5 pages dedicated to "Drawings & Ideas for Delicious Sandwiches", I kid you not.