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Spicy Bean
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[They/Them, She/Her] Veggie guy, showing the world how I get my protein.

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I made spiced pumpkin sauce & made my own pumpkin spice blended espresso drink. For the sauce, I did a 1 to 1 to 1 ratio of water, light brown sugar, and pumpkin puree. added the seasoning based on my heart (from most to least: cinnamon, ginger, allspice, clove, nutmeg).
November 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Plant based crockpot chili :^) Plant based ground beef, garlic powder and onion powder. Bell pepper. Chili powder, cumin, paprika, oregano, s&p. Honey, homemade maple syrup. Tomato sauce, veggie broth. Diced tomato. Kidney beans, black beans, a banana pepper, a cayenne pepper, and a serrano pepper.
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Chicken of the Woods picatta that I made last night. I loosely followed a recipe from Very Vegan Val, w a few subs: used regular butter instead of vegan butter, real parmigiano reggiano instead of a vegan alt; & I didn't have white wine, so I subbed in white wine vinegar diluted in vegetable broth.
August 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Ur telling me a vegetable fried this rice?? 🤪
Chives are from my gardennnnn. 😏
Matthew grilled the tofu for me. I just lazy marinated it in a mix of the Japanese BBQ sauce, soy sauce, garlic, ginger, and water. Basically a half-assed lazy man's teriyaki, really (just slightly less sweet). 🤣
June 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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PRIDE CLAWS PRIDE CLAWS PRIDE CLAWS. #nails #NailArtist #NailArt #MnArtist #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #DisabledArtist #QueerNails #TransArtist #Pride #ProgressPride #bisexual #pansexual #nonbinary #trans #transgender #PrideFlags #PrideNails #StilettoNails #Stiletto #claws #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #queer
June 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Is it weird to add corn to au gratin potatoes? Maybe, but idc. 😂 I came across a crockpot au gratin potato recipe & one thing about me is that I love a crockpot recipe. They only listed salt, pepper, and garlic powder for seasoning, but I also added onion powder, rosemary, time, & basil.
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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BBQ smoked tofu. Coated in olive oil & bbq dry rub, marinated. Went on the smoker, then I added bbq sauce & maple syrup. Back on the smoker, covered. Turned out great. Matthew said he saw a vid of someone making this & he does "plant based smoking." I said, "I also do plant based smoking." 🤣
March 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Yesterday, I pulled somewhere between 2.5 & 3 gallons of sap from my maples & boiled it down. I got about 1.5 cups of syrup this time. It's interesting how dark this batch came out compared to the first.
#SuburbanSapCollecting #SapSeason #MapleTrees #MapleSyrup #MakingSyrupInTheSuburbs
Photo taken in a kitchen, closeup of three air-tight flip-top bottles lined up in a row, on a cutting board. The bottle on the far left is filled with an amber colored liquid, afixed with a black label that has the words "maple syrup" written in gold marker. The jar in the middle is full of a darker espresso colored maple syrup, while the jar on the right is just under a third full of the same color as the middle jar. The middle and right jars do not have labels yet. Photo overlooking a pot of boiling sap, sitting on a grate fixed in place by landscaping bricks. Below it, you can see a wood burning fire, surrounded by ashes of previous fires. Closeup photo of a pan filled with sap being cooked into syrup, it is a rich amber color, and it is just barely starting to come to a boil. Closeup photo of an old-school Pyrex glass measuring cup filled just about to the 1.5 cup mark with a rich dark maple syrup. The background is just a blurry shot of the rest of the kitchen.
March 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I built a makeshift brick oven out of some landscaping stones that were leftover from previous homeowner that I haven't used for garden beds yet. The pot is thrifted. I finished off the last hour in the house. We ended up with exactly 1 cup of syrup from 2 gallons of sap, lol. ~ 5.5ish hrs cooking.
March 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Cooking sap in the suburbs ✨️
March 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I pulled a half gallon of sap from my sugar maple. That gives me a total of two gallons of sap at the moment, which will probably give me about two cups of syrup once it's cooked down. 🤣
A photo of a gallon water jug filled halfway with tree sap. The background is a blurry kitchen background, a cutting board, some black cabinets, a sliver of a window.
March 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I transferred the sap from the bucket under my red maple. I got about 1.5 gallons. This might be the only good sap I get from this tree this year bc it's budding already??? 😭 I just noticed the yesterday... I haven't pulled the sugar maple yet, but that tree doesn't have any buds yet.
Photo of a downward angle looking onto a kitchen island. On it is a gallon water hug filled with tree sap, and a kitchen kettle filled partway with sap. Photo of tree branches from below with a clear blue sky as the background. The branches are bare, aside from spring buds.
March 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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My strawberry cheong is complete and strained out! 🥰 It's so beautiful and delish, and I'm so glad it ended up fitting perfectly in this bottle!

#cheong #StrawberryCheong #EasyRecipes #fruit #syrup #FruitSyrup #JuiceConcentrate #StrawberrySyrup
Photo of a hand holding a flip-top air tight glass bottle against a black curtain background. The bottle is filled with a red syrup, which is strawberry cheong. Photo of a hand holding a Mason jar against a black curtain background. The jar is filled with a red syrup, which is strawberry cheong, before straining out the chunks of cut-up starberries.
March 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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We're rounding the end of our first winter in our house, and my mom gave me a couple of her taps and buckets so I could tap the two maple trees that we have! One is a sugar maple & the other is a red maple.

#maple #sap #TreeTapping #MapleTrees #MapleSyrup #SuburbanSapCollecting #RealMapleSyrup
Photo of a suburban yard in late winter, a wide sugar maple tree is prominent in the foreground. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection. Photo of a wide sugar maple tree at a downward angle, surrounded by the remnants of a late winter's snow. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection. Photo of a suburban yard in late winter, a red maple tree is prominent in the foreground. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection. Photo of a red maple tree at a downward angle, surrounded by the remnants of a late winter's snow. In the trunk is a sap tap, with tubing that connects down to a white bucket for collection.
February 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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She's so beautiful. I started making strawberry cheong. It's been going for about 4 days now, and there's still a very thin layer of sugar left on the bottom needing to dissolve.
February 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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We got vegan Ethiopian food for Valentine's dinner at Lulu EthioVegan Cuisine in Minneapolis! 😊 Started with sambusa to share, and I got ginger tea and a spiced pasta.
February 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Finished this dead tree back in Dec of 2020. Lower half (trunk & roots) is healed, upper half with the branches is fresh in these photos. Tbh, the roots on the hand could use some touchups, but that's the gamble you play sometimes with hands when your client does manual labor. 😅 #tattoos #TreeTattoo
Photo of a forearm over a solid black background. Along the full length of the forearm is a gray wash tattoo of a realistically styled dead tree, with bare branches spanning the upper half, and roots flowing down onto the hand. Photo of a forearm over a solid black background. Along the full length of the forearm is a gray wash tattoo of a realistically styled dead tree, with bare branches spanning the upper half, and roots flowing down onto the hand. Photo of a forearm over a solid black background. Along the full length of the forearm is a gray wash tattoo of a realistically styled dead tree, with bare branches spanning the upper half, and roots flowing down onto the hand.
February 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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Here's a lil custom flash piece I did back in Nov 2020. I did a series of flowers with obscene & goofy sayings in the stem. #tattoos #BodyArt #QueerArtist #MnArtist #LGBT #TheTattooedLady #NikkiFirestarter #NonbinaryArtist #dandelion #flower #FlowerTattoo #FlashTattoo #FloralTattoo #DandelionTattoo
Forearm on black background. On the forearm is a tattoo of a seeded dandelion, with three seeds floating away in the breeze. Cursive writing, incorporated in the stem reads, "blow me." The tattoo is in grayscale with a pop of color in the head of the dandelion.
January 24, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Some spider nails that I did last fall! #nails #NailArtist #NailArt #MnArtist #QueerArtist #NonbinaryArtist #DisabledArtist #QueerNails #SpiderNails #FallNails #AutumnNails #SpookyNails #webs #BlackAndRed #ShortNails #HalloweenNails #ShortStilettos #StilettoNails #manicure #RealNails
A hand in a clawing position, to show off the design on the fingernails, over a background of a garden table. The nails are spider themed. The thumb and ring finger are red glitter background with a spider drawn on each, using black gems and a gold ring around one gem to create the body. The index, middle, and pinkie fingers are all solid black with white spider web details drawn on. The middle finger also has an iridescent glitter over top of the spider webbing, with a few small chunky glitter pieces to mimic dew drops on the web. A hand in a folded position, four fingers down, to show off the design on the fingernails, over a background of tree bark. The nails are spider themed. The thumb and ring finger are red glitter background with a spider drawn on each, using black gems and a gold ring around one gem to create the body. The index, middle, and pinkie fingers are all solid black with white spider web details drawn on. The middle finger also has an iridescent glitter over top of the spider webbing, with a few small chunky glitter pieces to mimic dew drops on the web. A hand curled in a way to show off the nail design on the thumb, while obscuring the rest of the nails, with the background of tree bark. The nails are spider themed. The thumb and ring finger are red glitter background with a spider drawn on each, using black gems and a gold ring around one gem to create the body. The index, middle, and pinkie fingers are all solid black with white spider web details drawn on. The middle finger also has an iridescent glitter over top of the spider webbing, with a few small chunky glitter pieces to mimic dew drops on the web. A hand placed open over a tree trunk, showing off the design of the nails. The nails are spider themed. The thumb and ring finger are red glitter background with a spider drawn on each, using black gems and a gold ring around one gem to create the body. The index, middle, and pinkie fingers are all solid black with white spider web details drawn on. The middle finger also has an iridescent glitter over top of the spider webbing, with a few small chunky glitter pieces to mimic dew drops on the web.
January 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Girl Dinner™ at Fitger's in Duluth, Friday night. Vegetarian chili and a hummus platter. 🤣
January 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM