Sarah Kramer

Tuesday night Bridg and I attended a presentation by Sarah Kramer of Garden of Eden, La Dolce Vegan and How It All Vegan cookbook fame. To my everlasting shame, I must admit, I don't have any of these cookbooks, but Bridget does and I have eaten great meals she has cooked from them and I have stolen a few recipes out of them. To my redeeming value though, they are on my 'To Get' list and I will have them one day. Ok, obligatory disclaimer is out of the way. The event was sponsored by SARO (Syracuse Animal Rights Organization) and the Commitee on Women and Art. There was a HUGE crowd. Like I mean HUGE. Easily well over 100 people, maybe even close to 150. Sarah demonstrated a cream of tomato soup cake from one of her cookbooks and then took questions from the audience. She was very relaxed (especially for someone whose luggage was lost by the airlines!), charming, funny and irreverent.

Bridget and Sarah:

Two random thoughts:

1)My pics don't do her justice, but Sarah Kramer is gorgeous! I mean, gorgeous! Small and petite, absolutely beautiful skin. And her hair......her hair.....I have some serious hair envy going on. I felt like a huge, frizzy haired, zitty, behemoth next to her LOL

2)Someone bought some cupcakes made from the same recipe that Sarah demonstrated and those college kids scarfed all them up before we could even make our way to the table!

It was a great night and a great event. Kudos to SARO! It was well worth venturing up to the campus and fighting for a parking space. LOL

Last post for tonight

It has been quite the busy week so there hasn't been much posting. Our weather has stunk - lots of snow, lake effect was pounding us.



The week started very nicely with a great vegan potluck on Sunday night. It was hosted by SARO. I joked to Bridg that we were probably the oldest ones there. It was our first time at an SARO hosted event and they did a great job. We stayed until 8:30, even though the potluck was still going strong. Hey, we are old and we were tired! LOL We had a great time, met some great people - especially Bazu and Daiku! It was great to meet them as I feel like I know them already from her blog :-) Check it out - Where's the Revolution, great writing, great pictures, great people......

Then came Valentine's Day........hmmmm.....I am usually not a fan of the 'holiday'. It is very contrived and commercial. That being said, the husb has done very well last year and this year. Last year, I went to bed only to find an Ipod Nano under my pillow. It was a very very nice and thoughtful present, I love to listen to it while running.

This year.....well, I wasn't expecting anything really. Last year was great, but I didn't think it would be a recurring event - we really aren't big on surprise presents. Or at least I *thought* we weren't.

The husb called me Wednesday afternoon because he left something in my car and needed me to get it. I wasn't happy about having to trudge out in the snow but I did and long story short - my car wasn't in the parking lot where I left it. What was there?




Yeah. A brand new 2007 Tango Red 4wd Honda Element. Some surprise, huh? I gotta say the guy is the master of the grand gesture. LOL He really, really is wonderful :-)