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葱油饼; Sourdough Chinese Scallion Pancake

Vegan Okonomiyaki

grilled chimichurri portobellos with goat cheese mashed potatoes

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Shokupan 食パン; Vegan Japanese Milk Bread 

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Vegan frozen yogurt bars🥥🌱!

They're super delicious, easy to make, and guilt-free💕

Ingredients:

☆ 7 oz. Graham crackers (make sure they are vegan! I used Nabisco!)

☆ 1/2 heaping cup oats

☆ 1/2 cup melted coconut oil

☆ 1 1/2 cups non-dairy yogurt (I used coconut milk yogurt, I suggest that for this recipe if possible!)

☆ Raspberries, blueberries, and lavender flowers to taste. (You can use whatever smaller fruits you'd like and any edible flowers! You may also omit flowers.)

☆ 1 tbsp agave syrup

Instructions:

1) Crush the Graham crackers and oats in a ziploc bag together until a fine flour-like powder (you can use a rolling pin, make sure you bag is tightly sealed!). Once crushed combine the flour mixture with your melted coconut oil in a medium bowl and mix until well saturated. Then pack this tightly and evenly in a shallow baking pan lined with parchment paper or oiled with vegetable oil. Put it in the freezer to solidify as you work on the next step(at least 5 mins).

2) Combine the yogurt and agave syrup together in a bowl. Set aside and wash your fruit and drain so they are still damp but not drenched.

3) Take the base out of the freezer and pour your yogurt mix onto the base evenly and gently spread with a baking spatula. Once evenly distributed, place your fruits on top of the yogurt gently and to your desire. Then sprinkle the lavender or other edible flower for added taste and beauty!

4) Place in the freezer for about 3 hours.

5) Once frozen, you can cut them into bars and I suggest letting them sit for 3-5 minutes out of the freezer to soften a bit before consumption. Enjoy!

🌻🌕🔮Keely Kitsune🔮🌕🌻

Donnie Yen is Cool, But His Mother is MUCH Cooler

Born in Guangzhou, China, Bow-sim Mark started seriously training in Wushu during high school, specializing in Tai Chi and Northern Shaolin. At the time, women who studied martial arts were almost unheard of. However, her talents caught the attention of the Great Grandmaster Fu Wing Way, one of the most decorated martial artists in China and founder of Fu Style Tai Chi. He ended up taking her in as his private student.

In 1984, Mark won a gold medal at the first International Tournament of T’ai chi ch’uan in Wuhan City. In 1995, she was named Black Belt magazine’s Kung-Fu artist of the year. Before Mark immigrated to the U.S., she was already famous all over China not just because she was a talented female martial artist, but because she was also better than most men in her craft.

“Everything is harder for a woman,” Mark told NextShark with some help in translating from her daughter Chris Yen.  “If a man has to work at 100% to excel, a woman must work at 150%! Not just in martial arts but in any field in order to be taken seriously.”

Mark with Donnie Yen and his sister, Chris Yen.

After teaching at her master’s school for 10 years, she emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1975 where she became one of the first people to introduce Wushu to the West.

“There were only a few Chinese kung-fu schools in Chinatown and mostly karate schools around the suburbs,” Mark said. “My school was the first Chinese ‘Wushu’ school and at the time, Wushu was not known yet in the West.”

As a successful martial arts master who’s had students open up schools themselves, Sifu Mark broke down what makes a good teacher. She notes that while there are many styles of Tai Chi, all tai chi can be judged by six characteristics and six requirements:

“The characteristics are that the movement should be circular, relaxed, calm, continuous, and done with intent and energy. The requirements are that the spine is naturally straight, the shoulders and elbows are sunk, the chest is empty, the movement originates in the waist, the pelvis is at a natural angle, and yin and yang are clear.”

Watch an interview with Bow-sim Mark here.

squash and stretch.  :p such rough. much practice. so simple. 

#FallforCostume Day 6: Ruffles

I haven't made any ruffly cosplays, so instead I thought I'd share this 18th century Robe a la française draping project I did in college! It's based on an extant yellow gown from the MET museum. I referenced period drafting plates to make sure my base had accurate seam placement and silhouette, and then mocked up all the ruffle trim and pinned it on for size and placement reference. The Watteau pleats in the back were especially challenging to drape 😅

Except for a few sewn seams, everything is just pinned onto the dress form. This was really an exercise in creating a very clean and finished draping to show, for example, a costume designer.

I still have the pattern from this since I figured I could eventually use it for a historically accurate Rose of Versailles cosplay gown for a few different characters.