Yes, so grateful to be part of a vegan food swap! A what? Cat from http://www.theverdantlife.com/ has organized any willing vegan blogger to swap a package of food with other vegan bloggers. It’s a great idea, and of course the food is even better.
So when my packaged arrived it felt a bit like my birthday! In fact, more…
Posted by malloneek on April 29, 2012
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Surrounded by animal lovers in an animal communication workshop (aka – pet psychic), I thought the students would know all animals share thoughts and feelings like their beloved horses and dogs. After a cow being referred to as a ‘big mound of flesh” I discovered ..more..
Posted by malloneek on February 2, 2012
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My life is taking a turn with a new purpose, to rescue and serve animals and help end their needles suffering..more..
Posted by malloneek on January 27, 2012
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I contracted a small head cold the other day, at least that’s what I thought I had. I’m fortunate to have a chiropractor that’s not a back-cracker but holistic healer. When I asked if he’d work on my cold I was just developing he instead tested me for allergens. Most people don’t really have viral colds, they told me, but allergic reactions. Very quickly they found I was having a reaction to milk.
Milk? But I’m a vegan!
Posted by malloneek on November 16, 2011
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Before my veg days one of my favorite dishes to make was Rice-a-Roni (chicken) with frozen green peas and often mixed with ground beef. I don’t use too many packaged foods anymore and have never tried to recreate this before, I usually make risotto when havng a creamy rice craving but today I was short on time.
Don’t get me wrong, this is really nothing like Rice-a-Roni – it’s much better! Better tasting, better for you, better for the animals!
Here is my new rice dish, it’s very easy and few ingredients:
Ingredients:
1 3/4 c white rice
1/3 c tvp
4 cups vegetarian “chicken” stock (or just vegetable)
1 c diced carrots (or less)
1 c frozen green peas
Field Roast Apple Sage Sausage
Heat veg stock to boiling, add rice, tvp and carrots. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. During the last 3 minutes add green peas.
While rice is cooking, saute Field Roast in lighlty oiled pan over medium-low heat until lightly browned.
Serve sausage whole with rice or cut an mix in the rice casserole style. I like tthis as the apple sage adds an extra tang to the rice!
Rice with Field Roas and broccoli
Posted by malloneek on October 22, 2011
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On a rainy day in Seattle it’s hard to imagine there is any kind of water crisis anywhere. Not so far away in California or Nevada the residents might have a small feel of it. But it gets much worse than that.
While over 70% of the earth is water, only 1% of it might be fit for human consumption. Sure, there are treatments for some of this water but they aren’t cheap or readily available to those most affected by the water crisis. Bad water kills more than 3.5 million people annually – that’s roughly the population of the USA ! Imagine the entire US population being wiped out every year.
Posted by malloneek on October 21, 2011
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I was raised on coupons. If there was an exceptionally good coupon we would make multiple trips through the checkout line if necessary to fully use every “one coupon per customer” discount we found.
This has carried through to my adult life, I won’t get into the extremes some members of my family and I go through to save a buck or two or ten.
However when I started eating a vegan diet I sort of assumed my coupon days were dead. Even at Whole Foods, having their big BBQ event with all meat and seafood discounted, “Is there a vegetarian option?” I asked the cashier. Nope, dead animals only.
So imagine my delight when I stumbled onto this particular edition of extreme couponing! A vegan extreme couponer, yes!
The ad states:
“Meet Perry, a Virginia wife and mother who is raising her family on a vegan diet. Couponing to buy Vegan food? It is possible. Follow Perry as she defies the latest couponing stereotypes by clipping and snipping her way towards a new tattoo.”
Go Perry!
See the preview here:
Posted by malloneek on October 20, 2011
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I just can’t let this one go by. Anthony Bourdain of No Reservations on the Travel Channel and other misc shows and books, said this in Playboy:
On his loathing feelings toward vegans: “I don’t have any understanding of it. Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.”
Self Indulgent? How ignorant is this? I’m trying to not get riled up over what some ignorant loud-mouth has to say – but someone needs to talk to him!
While it’s true not all vegans are vegan for the animals, and not all vegans are vegan for the environment, and not all vegans are vegan because of the world food supply situation – but an awful lot of us are! And how are we being self-indulgent by caring about animals, earth and other people?
Those of us that are vegan for our own health, yes, okay – we’re so dang self- indulgent – but how does it affect him exactly? Someday I predict he’ll need to retract this statement as he becomes educated on the ways and reasons behind veganism, I hope so anyway.
Until then, Anthony, go sit on a sand dune and smoke your hash, you’re no role model for us anyway.
Posted by malloneek on October 15, 2011
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Le code a change (Change of Plans), while not directly about food, had the most spectacular food ending. Well technically it was spectacular after the film ended, during the credits.
Centered on the lives of M.L. and her friends , the movie focus is on her dinner party featuring the dish Bigos. Her husband spends hours preparing a food no one is particularly thrilled to try. I wouldn’t be thrilled either, as it contains Boeuf, veau, porc ou agneau – or beef, veal, pork or lamb, but that’s not the point!
The point is, the dish was featured prominently in the movie, and what was one of the first listings in the credits? (Yes, I watch till the very end). La recette du bigos de roman Polanski! Yes…The recipe for Bigos from Roman Polanski!
What a fabulous idea, right? So I thought of many other great food-centered movies:
Eat drink Man woman and it’s two remakes Tortilla soup and Soul food; Babettes Feast; Big Night; Like Water for Chocolat and I’m sure there are many more, but none of these give us a recipe!
So now I’m looking for great vegan food movies – and I don’t mean the fabulous documentaries I’ve seen. I mean fiction: fun story line, great actors – something no one would be afraid to see, in fact a movie that people don’t even realize has no animal products in it unless they are a little enlightened in that way,if you know what I mean. And then, at the end or on the website or in some movie-related media, there are recipes from the film.
Am I giving away my million-dollar idea for free here? Lets make a movie! Or if you know of a movie like this, let me know. I think it’s time that Hollywood – in front of the camera – goes vegan.
I’ve got my film ideas – who wants to help on this project?
In the meantime, enjoy this trailer for Bigos – I mean Le Code a Change
Posted by malloneek on October 9, 2011
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Fall is here – the days are getting shorter, air is crisp, the furnace is kicking on. What better time to go…camping?? Okay maybe not for most of us. It might appear the timing on this post is askew. But lets look at it another way. What better time to make a fire in the fireplace!
If you have fireplace, or even an oven, you can still make this fall dessert – after all, the apples are just ripe. A quick word about baking apples. Apples come in so many places on the sweet or sour scale, so the apple you use will affect the taste of the dessert. I recommend using a less sweet apple for this, just like a pie, no honeycrisp or ginger golds.
For those of us looking..
Posted by malloneek on October 5, 2011
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Vegan jobs
