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Pasta with Vegan Tomato Cream Sauce

The thing that really convinced me to become plant-based (at least the superficial thing) was discovering how I can use cashews to make things creamy. Blending cashews with marinara to make a creamy pasta sauce was the first dish I made that used this trick and I’ve been smitten ever since. Now I throw cashews […]

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Niagara Falls, a Super Swamper & Stop Screwing with our 2nd Amendment

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Niagara Falls, a Super Swamper & Stop Screwing with our 2nd Amendment

Slowly I turned, to watch the spinning rod handle as microns of cork were sanded off a fly rod under construction. The project began a few weeks ago, a 9’ 9 weight St. Croix IV and has been turning on Steve Babcock’s Super Swamper homemade lathe. The SC IV is a beautiful, unfortunately discontinued blank now benefiting from a unique cork handle which fits my hand perfectly in a Full Wells style and should provide real backbone when fighting one of those big stripers on the fly like I have never caught.

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Raspberry Almond Cacao Oatmeal

Last August I committed to starting a plant-based diet. I was vegetarian for years, but struggled with making the leap to going vegan, mostly because I didn’t want to give up my beloved cheese. I did it though, and now I feel better than ever. It’s not that I felt bad before, but I feel […]

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