What would a vegetarian witch do about spell ingredients? Could you replace eye of newt and crocodile hearts with eye of potato and artichoke hearts? Is it cheating to replace bat wings with vegan tempeh buffalo wings? And do water caltrops count as horns? Google doesn’t turn up any …

Here we are at the start of 2017, with a new week, new month, and new year all starting on the same day. That seems auspicious for whatever reason.

My goal of writing a blog entry every week in 2016 didn’t happen, although I did manage to write almost …

Sometimes you just want spaghetti with meatballs. These are no Swedish meatballs, but they do work nicely with pasta. I haven’t tried it yet, but they seem like they might also work out as a meatball sandwich.

This soup originally came from What’s Cooking America. We didn’t follow the recipe very well and liked our version better, so here it is.

Some nice vegetable soup is just the thing for a chilly day. This version has plenty of vegetables, and you can add anything else you like. Aside from being delicious, it’s a great way to use up vegetables from your fridge to avoid food waste.

These vegan spring rolls are filled with fresh, light ingredients. This recipe serves 2 but is easily scaled up for more people.

This bean salad is based on the original from Vegetarian Times, but we’ve fiddled with it enough to merit a separate recipe. If you have the time to make fresh beans, this salad is amazing, but it’s still tasty with canned beans.

We had a bunch of hard apple cider lying around, and I thought this might be an interesting variation on the typical applesauce recipes you find online. It turned out well, so here it is.

This is a small variation on the original Blendtec recipe that comes out more like a milkshake instead of chocolate milk. It tastes more nutty than a regular chocolate shake, but it’s not bad on a hot day.

I recently had a conversion about how secure a 16-character password really is against a highly-financed attacker (e.g. the NSA). Getting a realistic answer turns out to be more complicated than just dividing passwords by tries/second. Let’s work through some ideas:

First, the choice of alphabet. People …