New Event: Boston Tech Games at Microsoft NERD on October 14th

My event planning company Awesome Office Party is hosting a fun board game night for the Boston tech and startup community called Boston Tech Games. It’s happening Thursday, October 14th 6:30-9:30pm at Microsoft NERD (One Memorial Drive, Cambridge — near Kendall Square.) The game night at NERD will be happening every 1-2 months to bring together tech and startups in Boston for something other than the usual networking event. And of course there will be beer and pizza (vegan and vegetarian options, too).

If you’re a company who’d like to connect with the Boston tech and startup community, get in touch about our sponsorship opportunities. We’re working on lining up sponsorships this week so we can include the Boston Tech Games sponsor companies in promotion and outreach activities

RSVP for game night (or purchase a sponsorship!) on the EventBrite page for Boston Tech Games.

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Trying out a recipe: Post Punk Kitchen vegan tofu scramble

I’ve been making a lot of tofu scramble since I became vegan in March; but I hadn’t tried out Post Punk Kitchen’s recipe yet. I finally made it for lunch today. Unfortunately I didn’t have all the ingredients that their vegan tofu scramble recipe called for (including nutritional yeast) but I did have all the spices so I used my variation on the vegetables: brussels sprout, peas and vidalia onions. The resulting scramble was very tasty; but I have a feeling that the nutritional yeast is an important ingredient. I’ll have a legit vegan kitchen when I buy some of that — it’s included in many recipes.

Photo: Post Punk Kitchen vegan tofu scramble

Post Punk Kitchen's vegan tofu scramble

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Photo + Recipe: Vegan Summer Pasta Salad

Recipe: Vegan Summer Pasta Salad



Summary: Quick and easy to make vegan summer salad with a fresh lemon vinaigrette

Pasta Salad

  • one box whole wheat pasta (cooked al dente)
  • green scallions
  • petite peas
  • garbanzo beans
  • dried cranberries
  • powdered ancho chilli pepper (sprinkle on top of salad)

Lemon Vinaigrette

  • 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 2 teaspoons Splenda (or sugar)
  • one clove crushed garlic
  • dash of Bragg’s liquid aminos (or soy sauce)

Instructions

  • This is my recipe for a tasty summer pasta salad that is vegan, too. Adjust quantities of ingredients based on your preferences. I don’t generally measure things other than by the handful, pinch, etc. See more of my food photography at Sooz Photography.

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cooking time (duration): 15 minutes

Diet type: Vegan

Number of servings (yield): 4

Meal type: lunch

Culinary tradition: USA (General)

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New Photo: Tecate Ranch Whole Wheat Bread

My roommate Chris is an avid bread maker and has just about every ingredient you can think of when it comes to making bread. I flipped through his bread machine book: The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook and found Tecate Ranch Whole Wheat Bread. It was smaller than I expected; but still tasty. That’s probably because I started and stopped the machine a few times because I wasn’t sure if it was turned on. (Bread making novice? Perhaps.) And it’s vegan, too — no dairy!

The bread is based on “an ancient bread recipe called Zarathustra Bread based on the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism, which focuses on man’s good deeds. The loaf was a statement of committment to vibrant good health and to a caring philosophy of the interdependence of mind, body and spirit.”

tecate ranch whole wheat bread photo

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New Photo: white cat on the fence

I looked out one of my bedroom windows on Friday afternoon and saw this white cat sleeping on the fence next door. I walked outside to stealthy take its photo but alas, just as I was about to take the photo, Mr. or Ms. Cat woke up. It went back to sleep and two hours later was still napping. Rough life!

white cat on the neighbor's fence

See more of my animal photos at Sooz Photography. Prints are available for sale, too.

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New event photos from TECH cocktail Boston 4 at Microsoft NERD

I did event photography again for another TECH cocktail Boston startup mixer event. This summer it happened on Thursday, July 29th at Microsoft NERD.

More info and photos are on my Sooz Media website.

TECH cocktail Boston attendees are welcomed by co-founder Frank Gruber

event photos of TECH cocktail Boston 4 startup mixer at Microsoft NERD

Awesome Boston skyline view from Microsoft NERD’s 11th floor at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge

Boston skyline from 11th floor of Microsoft NERD

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Open coworking at Design Annex in Union Square on Friday, July 30th

Design AnnexTodd Vanhoosear and I are coworking at Design Annex on Friday and we thought we’d invite others to join us. It’s happening 9am-12noon on Friday, July 30th. If you’d like to join us, post a comment here, send me an email or text message or RSVP on the Facebook invitation. Space is limited so let us know if you’d like to join us. We’ll get lunch somewhere around Union Square at noon. My suggestion is of course Ronnarong; but there are other options, too including Cantina La Mexicana and Precinct. I wish The Independent was open for lunch!

If you can’t make it on Friday, Design Annex hosts a monthly brown bag lunch and coworking afternoon on the third Thursday of every month. For more information and to RSVP, check out the event page. The next coworking afternoon is coming up on Thursday, August 19th.

Photos of two of my cohorts who also work at Design Annex:
(L) Julia Frenkle-Kunelius / Opus Design; (R) Iliana Rabago / Lex Creative

You can see more photos in my portfolio at Sooz Photography.

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New Photos: Around Somerville

I took these photos the other day walking down Dane Street in Somerville to catch the 86 bus to Harvard Square. See more of my photos at Sooz Photography.

lock on fence in front of train tracks

pink flowers on Dane Street, Somerville

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Photo: Cassavettes 5-year anniversary party at The Middle East Downstairs

Boston (via Texas) americana and rock band Cassavettes celebrated their fifth anniversary at The Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, January 17th. Check out their new website and join their email list! See more photos I’ve taken of Cassavettes at Sooz Photography.

Boston americana and rock band Cassavettes

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Photo: purple wisteria in the backyard

I took this photo yesterday of the flowering wisteria vine in the backyard. Purple is of course my favorite color. See more of my plant and flower photos at Sooz Photography.

Information about wisteria on Wikipedia:

Wisteria (also spelled Wistaria) is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae, that includes ten species of woody climbing vines native to the eastern United States and the East Asian states of China, Korea, and Japan. Aquarists refer to the species Hygrophila difformis, in the family Acanthaceae, as Water Wisteria.

Wisteria vines climb by twining their stems either clockwise or counter-clockwise round any available support. They can climb as high as 20 m above ground and spread out 10 m laterally. The world’s largest known Wisteria vine is located in Sierra Madre, California, measuring more than 1 acre (0.40 ha) in size and weighing 250 tons.

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