Ride bikes.

Here's to the spring time.

DIB Hot cocoa

What you need to do

• Get a small saucepan
• Fill your mug 3/4 full with plain soy milk and pour it into the saucepan
• Add 3 heaping spoonfuls of quality hot cocoa
• Cinnamon it to taste
• Heat over medium heat until piping hot but not boiling, and don't stop stirring it until the cocoa's all dissolved
• Pour it back in your mug
• Do it big

Fierce cats take fierce naps

Accidental vegan brownie cake

Why's it accidental? Because doubling a vegan brownie recipe to fit a lasagna pan doesn't give you a large tray of vegan brownies. It gives you heaven.

Brownie cake

• 3 cups flour
• 1 1/2 cups dry sweetener
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 3 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup chopped walnut or other nut
• 3 cups soy milk
• 1 cup olive oil

Turn the knob on your stove to 350 and preheat it. Sift together all the dry ingredients so it's an even blend. Now add the wet ingredients and gently mix it just enough to become a paste. Pour into a lasagna pan. If your pan isn't non-stick, I hope you greased it first. And none of that 8x8 jazz either. We're talkin 9x13. That's where it's at. Now put it in the oven for about 35-40 minutes, or until a toothpick from the center comes out clean. Then let it be for another 30 minutes. Now's a good time for kitchen smells.

Mmmmmm icing

• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 2 tbsp soy margarine
• 1/4 cup soymilk
• 1 1/2 tbsp vanilla extract

Melt it all down in a double boiler until it starts to get thick, but not burnt. Refrigerate for about 45 minutes to 1 hr while the cake is cooking and then cooling. Then lather it on just like you want it.

PSA: Be a friend!

Fuck, y'all. This is it. That time of the year when things get shitty. You see friends less, you feel worse, you eat more, whatever it is that makes you realize things are shitty happens. February is close, and that's always a drag.

I'm committed as ever not to let it happen. I'm gonna keep asking what's up or what's going on, even if nothing is, because submitting to it is like drinking pink medicine. Let's get together and cook a dinner. Let's bake cookies or maybe a cake. Let's put pot in them. Let's brew hot chocolate or heat up some cider. Fuck, guys. I'll play board games. I'll go to the museum. I don't care. I just don't want to spend the next six weeks holed up, hugging the radiator, wishing I could hibernate.

Spread the warmth! You've got no excuses not to.