Nikoma

About Me

My rating system - Very simple

5 stars - LOVE it! Extraordinary.

4 stars - Like it a lot, will probably make it again, may have tweaked a LITTLE!

3 stars - It's good, might or might not make again. Would change some things.

2 stars - Didn't care for it, but the recipe works.

1 star - Something wrong with the recipe.

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Hi All!

Welcome to my page. The picture I have up is from last Halloween when I visited Sleepy Hollow! It was taken on  Washington Irving's back porch at his Sunnyside estate. Many people don't know that Irving actually resided in Sleepy Hollow, or that the tale of the Headless Horseman was a "real" local legend. As you can already tell I LOVE Halloween!

Most recent news. I'm engaged to a wonderful man who puts up with all my craziness! (and believe me, there's a lot of craziness) August 13th! Cross your fingers for me/us!

I love to cook (obviously) Or I wouldn't be on Zaar! I could eat something new and different every night of the week, and very often we do. But sometimes you just need those homey "go to" recipes. Thanks to this site I have a few of those too ;)

I'm a vegetarian for 5 1/2 years about. I love it! I would never go back. I have now made the switch to vegan, and have never been more content with myself. Fiance is still an omnivour, so we have the task of finding dishes that we both enjoy. I'm thankful he's very open minded!

My passions in life are definitely animals and the outdoors. I'm working toward getting my wildlife rehabilitation license right now, and would also like to work more with horses at some point soon. To work with both wild animals and horses would be nothing less then a true fairy tale for me.

  I really live for changes and adventures (even if they are piddily, few and far between these days) But there's nothing I won't try and not many things I'm not interested in learning! I've always loved cryptozoology, archeology and anthropology and I have a slight obsession with the past (in particular Ancient Greece. I HOPE to visit there one day).Different cultures and religions are very interesting to me as well. I'm a very proud Pagan and have always been, but I have great respect for all religions and people of religion.

 I spend most of my free time in the summer wandering around the mountains, hiking, backpacking, camping, foraging for wild plants, swimming (I'm a water child, I will find water ANYWHERE), looking for old ruins (which there are plenty of here from the old rail lines and mines etc) Or hidden treasures (whether they be waterfalls, hidden paths or geocaches) I have an overactive imagination and can make pretty much anything into an epic journey. My friends would tell you I can take a 30 minute hike and turn it into a 3 hour escapade and they never know where the time goes, or what went wrong! lol What can I say? I'm part Fae or something lol In fact if I didn't have my wonderful BF or my best friend to drag me home I'd probably just disappear into the wild never to return! (Especially considering my abhorable since of direction. You'd think with all the time I spend in the woods I'd be a perfect navigator, but far far from it!)

 My list of interests is really endless, but some of my other favorite things to do are dance (I'm aweful, who cares!) Go to fairs and festivals or all kinds, take any classes and lectures I can find/get to, pow wows, crafts, paintball, lazer tag. I love making costumes, and attending historical reanactments,  and I LOVE Halloween and May Day. Summer and Fall are tied for my favorite time of year, but I HATE winter because the cold makes me physically ill and I become pretty useless (chronic fatigue or so they say)

 I read alot, I love books and the decline of interest in reading really troubles me. One of my MAJOR pet peeves is when people THROW OUT BOOKS!

  The other would have to be when people say they don't like something before they even try it!

 Ok I've rambled enough!

If I know you from zaar feel free to send me a friend request on facebook!