Vegan Sandwich

 

Vegan bests Stars to tie series.

 "Vegan bests Stars to tie series" is how I read the title on the back page of the sports section.  

Hope springs eternal.

Of course, Vegan was Vegas.

Daniel M. Lavery and the Terror of Factory Farms

What I was really excited about was the appearance of Judy Tsang, a friend of Jonathan, who was appearing in the cover story of Food + Wine today, Sunday, July 19, 2020 in "Raising the bar:  How an apartment building turned into the best cocktail spot in SF."  But that belongs more in the San Francisco Vistas Blog.  (Coming right up!)

What I didn't expect but was happy to see was a full back page on the Impossible Cookbook,  "Recipes make meatless possible" in today's Food section of the SF Chronicle? 

 I'm not a big fan of simulated meat, so what interested me even more was Soleil Ho's interesting interview with Daniel M. Lavery, who has an advice column and talked about the "terror of factory farms."  He says "When it comes to both workers' rights and the future and climate change, everything about the systems that we have in our foodways is terrifying.  Everything about factory farming is terrifying.  Anybody who tries to think about it for over a minute, I think, often runs into just this absolute sense of terror, like, .'Oh my God we've create hell on Earth.'"  He goes on from there.  

Jace Young, 6 year old victim, wouldn’t eat meat “because it will kill animals”

I was so sad to hear that a six-year-old child was a victim of fire arms over the Fourth of July weekend.

I later learned more about him, including this:

Jace Young, 6 year old victim, wouldn’t eat meat "because it will kill animals."

Delicious Tastes this Sunday--from my own kitchen

I got hungry, so I moved from where I'd just put my father's causes on Facebook for Father's Day and got to using the ingredients I needed to use before another century transpired.

I made the Ala cracked wheat pilaf they have on the back of a very old box.  I didn't have any fresh mushrooms, so I used the canned from a few years ago.  Delicious, and I still haven't keeled over dead.

I also found the edamame I'd defrosted a few days ago--still good!  I made a kale salad with that and added cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds.  I made a tofu dressing (Don't tell; nobody would suspect it's tofu), so now I'm all set for dinner.  Lunch was the tasting along the way.

Dear Abby Hasn't Evolved as Much as I Had Thought

Have you noticed the Dear Abby, the columnist (many different people of course), have become progressive in many ways?  It's true.

But her recipe for Boston Baked Beans hasn't evolved.

It still begins with 6 slices of bacon and a 16-oz can of pork and beans.

Here's the vegan version she didn't introduce:

https://onebitevegan.com/vegan-boston-baked-beans/

#Plant-BasedParty

I spent a good time yesterday at a Plant-Based Party to raise money for food banks and to support restaurants, which are suffering.

I had tried to do this on Saturday because Sunday was over-planned, but my no-contact delivery from Zante Restaurant never came! (True to its name, no contact!)

I wore a mask and walked to Clay Oven on West Portal for this amazing meal, some of which I savored without my mask and while carrying through on the hash tag postings. I already had the Eat for the Planet book in place, backing up my bear-in-the-window and on either side of the posters thanking the frontline workers.