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t i found to be rapidly quite addictive this is what they look like apologies for the unfortunately placed price sticker add about 1 4 to 1 3 cup of these to the cucumbers and continue cooking for approximately 5 minutes or until the stock is mostly absorbed as it s cooking down the mix should look like this 8 spread the gorgeous cucumber spicy black beany delight on your unbaked pizza crust cover liberally with daiya cheese mozzarella and pop unto the oven for approximately 20 minutes or according to the package instructions if using a store bought crust as you are waiting for the crust to bake the cheese to melt and the whole kit and kaboodle to be ready the smell emanating from your oven will drive you insane so it s best to avail yourself of a nice glass of wine and resist checking the progress of your pie every 2 minutes however once it is bubbly and golden hang fire for just a couple more minutes once you ve removed it from the oven otherwise you will end up with a burned mouth and that is no one s idea of a party while you re waiting for it to cool a little you can admire it up close go on try it i dare you d stay vegan friends posted by amanda at 4 00 pm 4 comments labels cucumber daiya fermented black beans mozzarella vegan pizza monday february 27 2012 cackleberry in california there is simply no excuse good bad or indifferent for neglecting cackleberry for so long so here s one more attempt to get back on track and bring you the great recipes vegan musings updates on the animal rights movement and all the other good stuff i used to put out at least semi regularly the news is that i moved with my beloved and our two rescue pups from new england to california finally fulfilling a dream that we d shared for several years but never been able to act upon however when opportunity suddenly knocked we leapt at the chance to make the transition from plucky new englanders to carefree californians we quit our jobs put the house on the market and high tailed it west the road has been long and not a little challenging and you can read all about the actual journey at our travel blog theteapottourist blogspot com which we updated each day as we drove coast to coast from westfield massachusetts to concord california we rented an rv a singular experience in and of itself and having loaded all of our stuff into a pod and shipped the cars via transporter we spent 10 days living on the road why did we not just fly yes i can hear you asking the obvious question well the truth of it was that darwin the beagle our senior pup was undergoing a second course of chemo for lymphoma and he was too sick to fly besides which neither my beloved nor i were confident that either of the pups would be looked after by the airlines as well as we would want so driving seemed like the only option to us we gave him his chemo on the road and each state that we passed through offered a dog friendly campsite that was happy to welcome a slightly shaky senior to its community and having settled in and felt the california sun on his back darwin is now doing well as are the rest of us west coast living suits us and i am finding new interests and new meaning in my life no things have not worked out exactly as i had hoped and there have been a number of disappointments and frustrations but overall the change is refreshing and inspiring i passionately want to get back to writing cackleberry to playing with new recipes sharing new photos and spotlighting issues within the vegan world in terms of my commitment to veganism and to the animals nothing has changed in the slightest i do not expect that the kind folks who used to follow this blog will flock back in droves but i do hope the word might get out that cackleberry is back bigger better still uncompromising and packed with news updates recipes restaurant reviews photos gossip and all things vegan and animal i hope to see you soon in the meantime stay vegan friends posted using blogpress from my ipad posted by amanda at 6 51 pm 0 comments labels beagle blog cackleberry california coast to coast vegan wednesday september 1 2010 riddle me a riddle question for you what connects literature animals and the ipad give up ok well the answer is simple animal writes the new book club just announced by the vegan dynamo colleen patrick goudreau yes not content with producing her fortnightly podcast working on 3 upcoming books guest lecturing all over creation publishing everywhere good words are read and guest column ing can we just pretend that s a word at vegnews now she s starting a book club too word has it that she s focusing on the kind of texts she occasionally reads on the podcast books that examine the relationship we have with animals but which are not necessarily hard core animal rights treatise the first meeting is going to highlight don lepan s novel animals which is set in a dystopian reality in which some species have become so scarce that other sources of flesh must be found in order to satisfy man s craving for meat anyways the really neat thing about this book club is that it ll meet in the flesh pardon the pun if you happen to live in the san francisco area and also online for those of us not yet so fortunate as to find ourselves in the bay area more details are available at the website compassionate cooks book club animal writes so without wanting to sound like a complete cliche go check it out yes literature and animals not a bad way to spend an evening perhaps i ll see you there virtually anyhow oh and if you re wondering how the ipad plays into this lepan s book is available in e format through ibooks just saying stay vegan friends posted by amanda at 3 03 pm 4 comments labels animal writes animals book club colleen patrick goudreau don lepan online podcast thursday august 19 2010 a beagle s battles update on darwin sometimes it s easy to feel overwhelmed but all of the bad news there is about animals especially in relation to the way we treat them whether it s through other blogs my facebook community the forums i subscribe to twitter or any of the other myriad ways in which i get to hear vegan and animal rights abolitionist news it s usually linked to the dark side of the human spirit so today i realised it was time to redress the balance a little and albeit indulgent i m posting an update about darwin my beagle as you may know darwin is the first animal companion to come to live with my beloved and i he was rescued almost 10 years ago from a municipal shelter and has been our constant and faithful companion ever since don t misunderstand he is not loyal because he owes us a debt of gratitude no it s more that he knows which house has the biggest cookie jar equally he s not faithful because he adores us he just hasn t figured out how to unlock the front door and escape be that as it may loyal and faithful he is despite his motivations and physical limitations front door locks tend to require a degree of dexterity afforded only by the use of thumbs and from our side we totally adore him so it was quite a shock when we took him for a routine teeth cleaning several months ago and learned he had cancer they didn t immediately use the c word they said lymphoma which i misheard as lipoma well he s had several of those i replied confidently and they re always benign when the full reality sank in and i came to understand the situation my beloved and i reviewed our options although we live in a somewhat progressive and alternate area we did not feel sufficiently confident to eshew conventional therapies altogether so opted for a middle path of chemo combined with a program of acupuncture nutritional therapy and chinese herbals and it does seem to be working well he s following a 25 week chemo protocol and has been officially in remission since week 6 what s more his quality of life is almost completely uncompromised he does not suffer nausea or vomiting and retains full control of his bodily functions he has boundless energy and a wolf like appetite and generally does not show any outward signs of illness ok the food regime requires a little care but it s a tiny price to pay for terrific benefits now let me say up front that i am not a medical doctor i do not have veterinary skills and i am not an expert in nutrition i am just someone who s experimented and observed what works with my particular dog and i m also someone who refuses to accept a paltry 6 month prolongation of life expectancy or the idea that we are helpless in the face of illness so with that caveat out of the way here s what we ve been doing with darwin to achieve the results so far as said the whole treatment regime includes conventional chemotherapy twice monthly acupuncture chinese herbal treatments nutritional therapy a multi vitamin and mushroom extract although that sounds like a lot it s actually really easy we changed his one meal per day routine to two smaller meals per day to help him have sustained energy and minimize the blood sugar lows every morning he has a half portion of his dry kibble natural balance vegetarian formula which actually is vegan plus about 3 4 cup of cooked red lentils the idea with these lentils is to boost his easily digestible proteins and skew the balance of his food towards the protein and fat and away from the carbs he also has his first dose of the chinese herbals one capsule hidden in a ball of peanut butter in the evening he has the second half of his dry kibble again with the lentils but we also add in a good tablespoon of organic flaxseed oil for omegas a teaspoon of liquid multi vitamins and the powdered contents of a maitake mushroom supplement capsule we had experimented with mashed beans instead of the lentils but he doesn t seem to appreciate the texture as much the cannellini beans were deemed acceptable but the red kidney beans were apparently something of an affront to his delicate palate perhaps had we blitzed them in the food processor that would have been ok but as it was hand mashing them clearly didn t cut it the bean skins were carefully isolated and spat out disdainfully onto the floor around his bowl and we were rewarded only by the most half hearted tail thump you ve ever seen with the lentils however the bowl of food is inhaled more than eaten and he always graces us with a big beagle y smile last thing at night as a little treat he gets his second dose of the wei qi booster wrapped either in a peanut butter ball or stuffed into a strawberry yeah taking pills has never been so easy a couple of folks have asked me how the treatment is going so i guess this post is an answer to that question so far the combination of allopathic and complementary medicines excellent nutrition lots of tlc and darwin s own indomitable spirit seem to be just what the doctor ordered he s doing great if you d like to see what he s up to click here enjoy and stay vegan friends posted by amanda at 3 26 pm 9 comments labels acupuncture beagle cancer chinese herbal darwin diet lymphoma vegan saturday august 14 2010 restaurant review karma northampton ma this evening my beloved and i managed to follow through with our plan to check out karma the new vegan restaurant which opened in northampton last week when we learned that its specialty was raw food i have to confess that i was a little disappointed as i feel rightly or wrongly that the raw niche is such a small segment of the vegan community and if we are to have one dedicated vegan restaurant i would have preferred it to be one which serves both raw and cooked options however i will admit that i was very very pleasantly surprised karma is a cross between a restaurant and a cafe casual yet elegant friendly yet impressive the decor is quite formal with blown glass pendant lighting and button vases of fresh flowers on each table my beloved and i arrived early in the evening around 7pm and there were only a couple of other tables occupied oh dear we thought our trepidation vanished very rapidly though when we saw the menu it is surprisingly extensive with appetizers soups entrees sandwiches and noodles albeit the sandwiches are available only for the lunch menu to begin we selected the veggie nori wrap and the nut cheese and cracker platter both of which turned out to be superb the home made dehydrated crackers were a touch spicy and peppery and the soft heapings of nut cheese were tangy and fresh a real winner likewise the nori wraps were beautiful in presentation and very tasty too for our entrees i chose the butternut squash fettucini noodles with cashew cream sauce which looked delightful on the plate ribbons of curled shavings of golden orange squash enrobed in a pale silken cream sauce my one criticism of the dish might be that the fettuccini noodles were perhaps just that fraction too thick which made eating them harder work than their non raw conventional equivalent would be but that is a very minor point i m sure and one born of my unfamiliarity with the raw scene the cashew cream sauce on the other hand was very good and plentiful and the wide noodles proved an excellent vehicle for sauce delivery my beloved opted wisely for the zucchini and summer squash angel hair noodles with a pesto sauce which was the clear winner although we both found the pesto is a little thin in consistency and hence not as bold a flavor as it could have been this was easily remedied with a sprinkling of salt making for a really delicious dish and so to dessert we had a hard time choosing between the raspberry coconut cheesecake dark chocolate cherry brownie a la mode and pineapple carrot cake personally i wanted to try them all but was persuaded that we really ought to save something for the next visit so plumped for the first two as the brownie came with vanilla bean ice cream thus we got to try three items anyways and they were the highlight of the meal absolutely excellent both plates had beautiful presentation with very enjoyable attention to detail each bite of the cheesecake was smooth and creamy and the swirl of sweet raspberry in the main body of the cheesecake accented the mild coconut flavour the sweet almond crust was wafer thin yet held together nicely our second selection the cherry brownie had a gorgeous chewy texture and was studded with cherry pieces not too sweet it sported a crown of coconut milk based ice cream with a creamy luscious consistency although we did not leave room for an after dinner tea karma does offer a lengthy list of artisanal brews in all shades black green white red they also have a line in herbal blends from camomile to fairytale to chai to persephone s tea dandelion root burdock root oregon grape root yellow dock root eleuthero root and milk thistle seed the service was excellent too casual but very friendly and comfortable and our server was very quick to point out clearly that this was a raw vegan restaurant so no one could claim ignorance which we really appreciated because we like to know what we re getting 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