8 posts tagged “bloghercon”
- Peanut noodles (a little too salty for my taste, frankly)
- Tofu cutlets
- Grilled vegetables, including portabella mushrooms
- A lettuce wrap
- Some yummy cake with a cream cheese-like frosting
- Fruit salad
We launched a bunch of new features on BlogHer recently, designed to improve everyone's ability to find and connect with one another. We're talking enhanced profile capabilities and member search, friending, favoriting, following...plus two other really cool features:
I don't have a lot to say about this post from BlogHer about a new Florida law banning bestiality. Suffice to say this ain't stuff I want to think about too much or too often.
Rich, a child's rights advocate, said that those who abuse animals (sexually and otherwise) are likely to do the same to kids and the National Humane Society vehemently backs that up. Fact is, sexual abuse of animals often happens concurrently with sexual assaults on people. The NHS website cites numerous studies and statistics illustrating this disturbing connection, including this one:
"Of juveniles who engage in sex with animals, 96 percent also admit to sex offenses against humans and reported more offenses against humans than other sex offenders their same age and race."
--Fleming, William M., Jory, Brian and Burton, David L. (2002). Characteristics of Juvenile Offenders Admitting to Sexual Activity with Nonhuman Animals. Society and Animals
I'm probably late to the blogging party on this, but did you hear the one about Chicago City Health Commissioner's plan to help Chicagoans get healthy in 2009? He wants them to go veg for the month of January.
Delicious Living Magazine posted some nice vegetarian recipes for Thanksgiving, and Kalyn from BlogHer put out a call for everyone's favorite Thanksgiving recipes, so I felt inspired to dig out my favorite Thanksgiving recipe. This was originally included in a PETA mailing as a little perforated attached recipe index card. This recipe is how I discovered nutritional yeast, so I am forever in its debt! I may not cook the entire thing very often, but I can tell you I cook the gravy recipe just about every week.
Tofu Pot Pie, Serves 8 people
Pie Crust
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
½ c. margarine
1 tsp. salt
½ c. water
Directions:
- Mix flour, margarine & salt together, adding water as needed. Separate dough into two balls. Roll one ball into a 9-inch pie shell. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 400° for a half-baked pie shell. Roll other ball into top crust.
Golden Gravy
Ingredients:
¼ c. flour
½ c. nutritional yeast flakes (available at Whole Foods.)
1/3 c. oil or margarine (oil works better.)
1 ½ c. water
2 to 3 TB soy sauce or tamari
salt and pepper to taste
Directions:
- Toast the flour and nutritional yeast flakes in a pan, until the mixture gives off a nutty aroma. Add oil and stir until bubbly. Add water and cook until mixture begins to thicken, stirring constantly. Add soy sauce, salt and pepper. Makes approx. 2 c. of gravy.
Pie
Ingredients:
1 half-baked 9-inch pie crust (see above)
¼ c. flour
1 TB nutritional yeast flakes
1 tsp salt
¾ tsp. garlic powder
3 c. firm tofu, chopped to bite size
2 TB oil
1 c. finely chopped celery
1 c. sliced carrots
Other vegetables as desired (I use corn kernels and green peas, for example.)
2 c. Golden Gravy (see above)
Preheat oven to 375°
Directions:
- Have ready the cooked pie crust, and the dough for the top crust.
- Combine flour, yeast flakes, salt, garlic powder and tofu in a paper bag and shake. Saute tofu mixture in oil until lightly browned. Add onions, celery and carrots. When onions are soft, add any other vegetables.
- Pour Golden gravy over mixture and serve. Pour mixture into half-baked pie shell. Top with pie crust and bake at 375° for 30 minutes.
- Alternate: You can also simply pour mixture into a casserole dish and top with crushed corn flakes.
Yesterday my BlogHer events manager and I were scoping out a potential site for next year's annual conference. As part of our site survey, and knowing I was a vegan, they created an entire vegan breakfast feast for me and Kristy that was absolutely incredible:
BlogHer's new Animals & Pets editor ClizBiz launched her editorship with an article about Gwynyth Paltro posing for an ad wearing a fur collar. As a prominent veg and eco-mom, it has raised some notable protest, particularly from PETA, and ClizBiz wrote a long thoughtful post with plenty of links to various folks talking about how they draw the lines.
If there are, say, 200 steps to being the perfectly humane person, I think it's safe to say that no one takes all 200 steps. Is it better to take 150 steps than 10 steps? Yes, undoubtedly. But it is better to take any of the steps than none of the steps.
I did what I could, until I could do better.
So, BlogHer is next week. Which tempts me to simply say:
"Move along, nothing to see here, come back the week of July 21st...or even the week of the 28th."
But in true obsessive blogger fashion I can't resist trying to keep up!!
So, I have a question for you. I've been thinking about this since the weekend.
I find that typically I have one day during the weekend where I lounge about and don't do much. (By which I mean I sit with my laptop and probably try to catch up on email for a while, but I don't catch up on other chores.) And then I have one day filled with chores. Grocery shopping, laundry, taking out the recyclables, tidying up a bit...that sort of thing.
I have typically made chore day on Sunday, thinking it's better to relax more on Saturday. But this week I started thinking that maybe it would be better to move chores to Saturday, so it didn't feel like I was going back to work right on top of a day filled with chores.
What do you do? Thoughts?
As for eating this past Sunday-Thursday? nothing new and interesting to report. one night at dinner I ate some celery and I ate some grapes. And I thought, it would be so nice if I had actually chopped these up and mad some kind of fancy salad with them...that would be great to report on Veggie Goes Vegan.
But no.
I just ate some celery stalks. And ate some grapes.
I've also been enjoying the nectarines and plums that are in season. I discovered that one of my friends, who has a plum tree, actually does canning, when she brought me some plum conserves. Complete in Ball Jar. I looked at her as though she was a stranger. Who is this woman who cans? Or jars.
Plum conserves, by the way? Quite yummy. especially on Vanilla Soy Ice Cream.
That is all.
We'll see when I can post again...conference crazy time is upon us!!!
