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Recipe Giveaway – Just One Day Left!

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Guess who loves the new shrubs that D. and I planted in our yard last weekend?

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Rosie is so adorable – I didn’t have the heart to tell her to move.

The Compassionate Cooks Recipe Giveaway ends tomorrow Friday Sept 11 at noon. Colleen Patrick-Goudreau of Compassionate Cooks is giving away a set of five brand new vegan Italian recipes to our lucky winner who will be randomly selected tomorrow. These recipes haven’t been published in any of the Compassionate Cooks cookbooks (The Joy of Vegan Baking and The Joyful Vegan) so our winner will be one of the first people to have them! All you have to do is leave a comment at the end of yesterday’s post about your favorite vegetarian recipe. You can also increase your chances of winning if you:

  1. Tweet the contest on Twitter and make sure you mention @doubledogyoga.
  2. Post the contest on your blog if you have one – let me know that you’ve done so by emailing me at julia AT doubledogyoga DOT com.

Good luck! I can’t wait to see who wins!

Marty Update

Well good news is that Marty had her second surgery this morning and the surgeon called to let me know that all went well. She should hopefully be coming home later today. Since surgery has a 95% cure rate for fibrosarcoma, I fully expect that we are in the clear for now. Thank you so much for your thoughtful words and hopeful prayers. It really does make all the difference in the world.

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Don’t forget to enter into our Recipe Giveaway!

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Compassionate Cooks Recipe Giveaway!

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I’ve mentioned Compassionate Cooks several times on this blog.  :)

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Compassionate Cooks is an organization founded by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau. Their mission is to empower people to make informed food choices, and to debunk myths about vegetarianism and animal rights. I listen to Colleen’s podcasts regularly, and I love love love her cookbooks The Joy of Vegan Baking and The Vegan Table.

You might say I’m a huge fan! I really admire the work she has done. Her website is chock full of information, as are her podcasts. And whether you are vegetarian, vegan, or omnivore I’m sure you would find many recipes to love in her books and on her website. The Compassionate Cooks’ website also offers recipes in packets of five based on certain themes such as “Thanksgiving,”"Afternoon Tea,” and “High Flavor, Low Calorie,” to name a few.

So….I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to give away a set of Compassionate Cooks’ recipes called “Hearty Italian!”

From the website: These filling dishes will satisfy anyone who thinks eating vegan means eating like a rabbit! These delicious recipes are perfect comfort food. Each recipe includes serving suggestions and variations of the recipe, as well as explanations of ingredients that might be unfamiliar.

And…these are all NEW recipes that will be in Colleen’s third cookbook!

To enter, please leave a comment here on your current favorite vegetarian recipe. I know, it’s so hard to choose just one! Be sure to either provide the recipe if it’s your own (and you want to share!) or let us know where to find it.

Get an additional entry each if you:

  1. Tweet the contest on Twitter and make sure you mention @doubledogyoga.
  2. Post the contest on your blog if you have one – let me know that you’ve done so by emailing me at julia AT doubledogyoga DOT com.

The giveaway closes at noon on Friday September 11. After Friday at noonthe winner will be randomly chosen by me and announced here.

Good luck!

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If We Want to Save Them We Must Eat Them

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I’m outraged.

As I’ve mentioned before, lately I’ve been listening to Colleen Patrick-Gudreau’s Vegetarian Food for Thought podcasts. I really love her clarity and thoroughness in her efforts to educate about food choices and debunk myths about vegetarianism.

In one of her podcasts, Colleen mentions Heritage Foods, USA, an organization that serves as the sales and marketing arms of the Slow Food Movement. In the podcast she read a piece of their “About Us” page and it was so…insane… I just had to look for myself.
Here it is:

The farms and foods that once sustained our forefathers as they settled this great land are now endangered. Farms are going belly up every day and the foods small farms raise are being lost forever because they are ignored by industrial agriculture. Just as the Bald Eagle and Panda Bear are on the brink of extinction in the wild, so are numerous varieties of livestock like Bourbon Red turkeys, Red Wattle pigs, Tunis sheep, Barred-Plymouth Rock chickens and Iroquois corn flour. If we want to save them, we must eat them! And Heritage Foods USA exists to help accomplish this goal by selling foods from small farms to consumers and wholesale accounts.

Huh? If we want to save them, we must eat them???

Ok…if we eat the animals then we increase demand for them and so small farms will continue to manufacture them.
I get it.
But…

  1. Is continuing to torture and slaughter the Bourbon Red turnkeys, Red Wattle pigs, Tunis sheep, and Barred-Plymouth Rock chickens really helping them?
  2. We’ve manipulated domestic animals to the point that they are no longer natural. Should we really continue to treat these living beings as products to be harvested and manufactured?
  3. Does this mean we should start eating Bald Eagles and Panda Bears to help support the efforts to save them from the brink of extinction?
  4. Heritage Foods says they promote “humane production.” How is sitting down to eat the corpse of a defenseless victim “humane?”
  5. Isn’t this just propaganda to sell more “product?”
Ringing the necks of turkeys is considered "acceptable" by the industry

Ringing the necks of turkeys is considered "acceptable" by the industry

We need a paradigm shift.
We need to stop treating animals like commodities.
Animals are living, breathing, feeling, sentient beings.
If you have or have ever had a pet you know this to be true.

Ok. Rant over. I’d love to open up a dialogue about this. I’ve stated my opinion…what’s yours?

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