Merry Veganistmas

Huffpo has some vegan recopies.

Vegan Thanksgiving

a repost from the Huffpo,but it's a good one.

Be a vegiteriman and save the planet

If you remember your high school biology, you might remember the 10% rule. It says a cow must eat one hundred pounds of grass to gain ten pounds of flesh, the other ninety percent is given off as heat, carbon dioxide and waste. So it makes good accounting sense to eat the plants instead of the cow. Now there is more data on this. Nature has a new paper out on this issue. Here is a write up by RDF. Go for the lowest point on the food web to save the world.
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Recipes to follow

I've been cooking and photographing like crazy, and as I am processing the data for the blog, here are two Hufpost articles to whet your appetite. grains and seeds;
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The Spiralizer

Well I've been doing this with a standard peeler, but this looks ok, but the acid test wasn't all that great. But for the money I might try it.

Food Misconceptions from Mentalfloss

I heartily endorse the first one on MSG, a very tiny percent of the population may have an allergy to it, but far less than people that have peanut allergies. And the one on washing your chicken....my chicken pecked the heck out of me for trying that.....
Here is the link

Meatless day ending in Y

I don't usually get all a quiver over many of the nutrition stuff posted on the net, but this one sings out to me on reasons to cut back on buying or eating meat farmed on a large scale. When meat becomes less of a focus for our meals and at best a seasoning, we will leave the world much better for it.

Miracle vegan noodles.

I hope these catch on, but I'm not a fan of the price. Whole wheat for me still.

HufPo says eat these and live forever

I on the other hand say eat these and love the goodness inside and the taste outside.

Foods that you can freeze

Here is a quick vid on freezing foods. Vegiteriman! likes to add ascorbic acid (vitamin C). You can grind up vitamin tablets in a morter and sprinkle the fruit or veggie with it to cut down on browning,

Foods not fit to eat

I have also heard that the cashew pickers experience severe damage to their fingers,so I try not to eat them. As for the others...way ahead of you.

Eat more grains from HufPo

18 ways whole grains make you healthier

Huffpo on 10 fad foods

A good article on some fad foods, some are great ways to increase your pallet of veggie foods, and others are not so great. Try and buy local or near local to lower the carbon cost of shipping some foods, and enjoy.
Huffington post

a great article on the carbon tax we pay when we eat. in short, beans good, lamb bad
http://www.weather.com/health/best-and-worst-meats-environment-20140721?pageno=1

Diet Soda Problems

It's been documented that those who regularly drink diet soda have problems maintaining weight; the idea is that your sweet detectors in your bowels are turned on by the artificial sweetener, but don't get the calories associated with that, so they keep a person hungry for sweets until they are fed. Now HufPo has an article here that shows older women may have a higher risk for certain cancers. As always more info and research is needed, but really, just stay a bit more natural and drink tea or water, and use honey or sugar for sweetening. If you do have weight concerns, the act of sweetening with sugar will make you more aware of what you put into your body.
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I have a few problems with this.

7 Foods Science Proves will help you live longer on HuffPo has some right things and wrong things. First science doesn't prove anything, proofs are for math geeks, science only accumulates data and makes and inference based on the best data they have; and it can change if newer data becomes available, and that is what makes science so powerful. So to to prove say blueberries make you live longer, we'd have to feed you and your identical twin identical diets, but one of you gets blueberries and the other doesn't. So no go on prove.
Second, Omega-3 Fatty Acids are found in many things other than salmon. Anchovies, sardines and other benthic organisms all contain them. But so do many grains and plants flax seed and chia seeds being the best for us Vegitarimen/women! So, like all studies and things posted on the web, take it with a grain of salt!
Go forth and Vegitate!

new grains from Huffpo

I haven't tried all of these, but will soon. Anyone tried some of these? let us know.
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Perils of Vegetarian Fast Foods

more to follow on this but according to the best science, watch those expiration dates.

Sid Ceasar

With the passing of one of the inventors of TV comedy, I had to post this. Sometimes we VegitariMan/Women! take ourselves a little too seriously.

Quick Facts About Gluten Free from HuffPost

Less than one percent have gluten issues like Celiac's, and some have issues called non-Celiac gluten sensitivity. Here is a quick fluff piece by the Huffington Post
Enjoy
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Maple Glazed Roasted Root Vegetables

This is a great lo cal vegan dish that can use up some older potatoes and introduce you and your family to some old style veggies. Root vegetables used to be a staple in the winter because they could be kept in a cool root cellar and eaten through out the winter. In some places this was the only food source during that time, and if it had problems, then many people could starve,the Irish Great Famine forever changed the world, and it was a good lesson in varying your crops just in case one failed.

Tubers are not just potatoes, parsnips, yams, sweet potatoes, carrots, rutabagas, and even some more exotic foods all work well in this dish.  I like a savory combination of as many as I can mix in as well as an onion or two.  

The recipe follows select any combination up to about 4 pounds

One sweet potato

One yam

One to three potatoes, any type

One to two Parsnips

One or two carrots, any type

One or two onions

Rutabagas and turnips as well.

1/3 (80 ml) cup real maple syrup

1/4 (60 ml) grape-seed or walnut oil

3 cloves garlic or 1 tbls (15ml) granulated garlic

1 tbl (15 ml) salt

black pepper or red pepper flakes to taste

1tbl sesame oil

Peel all and cube in similar sized chunks, except the onion, peel it and cut the opposite end of the flower off, then cut the onion in half. The flower will hold the onion layers together allowing you to turn it and keeping them from burning. This is also important to cube the veggies about the same size, smaller ones may burn and larger ones won't cook through. Also if you get carried away you can freeze the chopped bits, but if it fits into a gallon ziplock your find, and any extra should be saved and used for other things, or make a double batch, it's that good!

Put all the chunks into a large bowl or a gallon ziplock bag; pour all the liquid ingredients including pepper and garlic and mix and coat all the pieces.  Lay them out in one layer on a cookie sheet and bake for about 45 minutes at 400 degrees (205C)

Serve at once or refrigerate for later. Enjoy and experiment with some new tubers.

It's not a tuber!