XtremeEnglish loves your arteries....

...So she is very excited to include Fat-Free Vegan Kitchen on her list of favorite blogs alongside this page. This is a great new blog that she stumbled on earlier this week when she wanted to make kale soup without the Portuguese sossidge!!

No, she has not been driven totally around the bend by what's going on in the media recently. (Boss Limbaugh? Genug, already....he doesn't need any more promotion.)

But dear, darling Safeway, which by supreme good fortune lives right in her back yard, had a free "check your cholesterol" day last week (or was it the week before? goddess...XE's memory is no longer photographic). And of course, not only was the old b.p. up even with her NO TV NEWS rule, but also XE's cholesterol was "off the charts." This is a family trait, one well described in just those words by XE's Aunt Mary, who died at age 95 with all her marbles intact.

Anyway, it was bad enough (all-time high for XE) that she decided to pull the cork and not eat ANY animal products. No meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy...what else? That's pretty much it. No other stuff, either, like white flour & sugar as in *cough* Girl Scout cookies....

XE's personal liberry has lots of vegetarian-type cookbooks that she consults from time to time because the FOOD RESULTING FROM THE RECIPES IS SO GOOD. So, she browsed through Pitchford and also...whoa...somebody borrowed the other one--Michio Kushi's Diet for a Strong Heart.

So she has been armed with lots of good nutritional advice, techniques, counsel, etc., but she had NO RECIPES for this kinda stuff other than the rice and beans she learned to love in one of her former lives.

This Fat-Free Vegan Kitchen blog has the goods on low fat vegetarian recipes!

XE knows that 'Murricans don't do as well as the Japanese on the macrobiotic diet. And she can live without all the seaweed, thanks. And she is more or less allergic to soy milk, but SOUP has always been one of her favorite favorites. "Soup, soup, beautiful soup...soup of the hour, soup of the day....." Who sang that? Was it the walrus? (ha...that's fitting!)