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Foodgawker | feed your eyes. Vegan Thai Vegetable Soup. Vegan Thai Vegetable Soup In my garden I have several Thai basil plants. I haven’t used the herb all that often lately but my bee friends absolutely love those tall stems of purple flowers and so I keep it around for them. Anybody who has picked up a pint of Haagen-Dazs (or newspaper) lately knows that there’s something of a bee crisis going on and so I’m happy to do my part to help the honeybees. Maybe I should my consider my Haagen-Dazs habit as purely altruistic since they donate some of their profit to honeybee research?

But anyways, I was thrilled to finally use some of my Thai basil and even more thrilled with the result I got from this healthy, vegan soup. It’s chock full of healthy veggies, has a moderate amount of heat tempered slightly by the large dose of cilantro and Thai basil. Thai Vegetable Soup Ingredients: Directions: Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 5-10 minutes, or until the zucchini has softened. One Hundred Percent EDIBLE Googly Eyes! After more than a year of painstaking directed research by our Experimental Foods Division, we have finally achieved one of our most important longstanding goals: the production of edible googly eyes. Like many other great inventions, it seems almost simple in retrospect, but in this write up we walk through the process and show you how to make your own.

To begin with, we need a food-grade rigid transparent dome that will form the outer visual shell of the googly eyes. Empty gelatin capsules like these slide apart easily and come with one such dome on each end. You can get capsules like these in bulk at all kinds of “natural” and “health food” stores– or even at many grocery stores in the section where dietary supplements are sold. There is of course a huge selection online– you can even get them in different colors and flavors. Capsules come in range of sizes; we suggest starting with size 00 or so to get a good dome. Note: Vegetarians will observe that gelatin is an animal product.