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January 13, 2012
by Diana Guay
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Vegan cooking

I’ve been doing a lot of cooking lately, and I also have had a lot of recipes lying around that I’ve been meaning to try out. Tonight I made chickpea burgers and seitan (which Rob loves.)

Seitan is a vegan “meat” that basically consists of vital wheat gluten, nutritional yeast, soy sauce, garlic and vegetable broth. This forms a kind of dough that you then cut up into a few smaller chunks, which you then cook in a pot of simmering broth and soy sauce for 45 minutes.

It’s sort of a meaty, sort of spongy texture. Once I cooked it, Rob sliced it up and threw it on the skillet, and made a sandwich of it and loved it. I got the recipe off The PPK.
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The chickpea burger was really good, but I don’t remember how I found the recipe but I finally decided to try it. This burger uses spices like cumin and coriander and is meant to be served with tahini sauce in a pita pocket. This recipe was found on The 30-Day Vegan Challenge.

I made a complete mess of the kitchen, but I’m enjoying cooking lately. Especially if it’s from scratch and if it’s vegan. Rob seems to think I’m finding my cooking groove.

January 13, 2012
by Diana Guay
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Recently in Instagram

I’m playing with my WordPress app, seeing how easy I could do a quickfire post after doing an instagram photo, and how good it would look. So far I’m seeing that they don’t look right at full-size, but if I align them right, I might be able to fit a few pics per entry and have it look nice.

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January 5, 2012
by Diana Guay
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Inspiration

While putzing around in my old hard drives, I’ve found some photos I’ve taken that I really liked. I remembered when all I had was my point-and-shoot and I found myself trying to be as creative as I could be with it.

I have an obsession with golden light. This one was taken in my kitchen, likely at dusk in the summer.

Smoke, lit from an outside window in the basement.

When we first moved into our house, I loved taking pictures of the wretched crab apple tree that only looks good about 1 week of the year, when it blooms a beautiful pink blossom. But then I loved taking pictures of the fallen crab apples themselves.

More of that golden light. This is an olive oil bottle in my kitchen. I loved the abstraction of this image.

I took my sunglasses and held it up to my camera, as a diy filter. Took this picture while I waited in the car for Rob.

Another obsession of mine is night skies. I took this picture just outside of the Courant one night.

December 30, 2011
by Diana Guay
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Preview: Thursday farewell tour

In college, I had a mix CD of Thursday, The Used, and Finch that I used to listen to while developing in the darkroom. So it seemed fitting to check out Thursday’s farewell tour, which stopped at Toad’s Place a few nights ago.

Here’s a sneak peek of a few pics I took.

Aficionado

Aficionado

Make Do And Mend

Make Do And Mend

Screaming Females

Screaming Females

mewithoutyou

mewithoutyou

Thursday

Thursday

Check out the full gallery on Verbicide.

December 22, 2011
by Diana Guay
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Concert Pics Tumblr

Bayside In case you haven’t noticed… I have a Tumblr account. I may have posted an entry about it, but in case you haven’t checked it out, you should.

The premise is I troll around Flickr’s Creative Common License pics of concert photos, and I pick inspiring photos to post. It keeps me on my toes and reminds me why I love concert photography.

Here’s a recent image I posted (of my own, I’m not above self-promotion) of the first concert I ever shot at the Webster Theater. This is Bayside, opening for New Found Glory. It was such an incredible experience that I continue to shoot concerts.

Check out my Projects page or my Concert Photography page for example work of concerts I’ve covered over the years.