Your Long Awaited Update

Yeah, the slow cooked food was okay but there was this SMELL coming from the crockpot. I'm not kidding. The next day my roommate complained about a foul odor in the hallway and the bathroom (hm... both next to my room.) That was rather embarrassing, especially because I liked the food. I thought it was the broccoli. (I like broccoli a lot. By the way, that's very good because I've found it's really nutritious. It has lots of calcium, vitamin C, and other jazz and it's easy for your body to assimilate the vitamins and minerals too.)

But the odor -- it was not the broccoli.

I know this because the broccoli did not smell. Well, bad. It smelled good and tasted yummy.

My roommate thought it was cabbage, but there was no cabbage.

No, it was the crockpot. I noticed an odor right off the bat, when I first turned it on and was adding food. I guess the food covered it up later on. But now, days later, having already cleaned the crockpot and left it in my room, I am still smelling this faint cabbage-like odor in my room.

It just so happens that on one of the forums I read the issue of crockpot smells came up, and the suggestion is to cook water with baking soda in it. So I'm trying that tonight, and hopefully that will end the reek. Er, slight odor.

Too bad I already threw away the receipt and recycled the box it came in. Did not think ahead.

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Other than that, vegan life is cheery. I'm really liking this salad dressing I made up -- red wine vinegar and dijon mustard. It's kinda strong, sort of biting, so I have it with an apple and beets in the salad.

I'm going to try to eat more yams, sweet potatoes, and potatoes. They're cheap and healthy. Frankly I need to watch my money.

I've also begun running. I think I overdid it on Sunday. I'm still sore 2 days later. I went through Golden Gate Park and there was a large crowd doing Lindy dancing by the De Young. It's free and I never do this! I'm sure if I went and hung around I could get some guy to start dancing with me. They teach you there too, I think. I already know a lot of ballroom-type dances. Maybe I'm rusty but if the guy knows what he's doing then I'm fine. I love GG Park.

I forgot to mention the quinoa is great! Tasty and good on salads too.