I will be one of the speakers at the May 27, 2012 New York City Veggie Pride Parade.
If you are in the NYC area, stop by and say hello :)
Link here for details of this years NYC Veggie Pride Parade.
~ Donna M Beaudoin "Sister Vegetarian"
Sister Vegetarian is a blog of encouragement to take back our health through a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. Stand and be counted in this Healthy Revolution!
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Sister's Readers Sharing Their Stories: Battzi Goes Vegan Shopping
Read Here about Battzi's Shopping Trip for Vegan Meals at Ellwood Thompson's. Ellwood Thompson is located at 4 North Thompson Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23221, 1-804-359-7525, open 7 days a week!
Cabbage...The UnSung Hero and A Traditional Indian Recipe Using Cabbage
Cabbage is one 
of those unsung heroes of Saint Patrick's Day where we only hear about it and see it abundantly in various meals in celebration of Saint Patrick's Day. Even the grocery stores get their part in to honor this unsung hero by reducing the price of cabbage to usually 29 cents per lb around this day. This is more than half it's usual price! You thought that I would do a vegan cabbage recipe for saint Patrick's Day weekend; but, on the contrary, these traditional Irish cabbage recipes are so common around this time, even from a vegetarian and vegan perspective, that I decided to do a different spin on this beautiful, antioxidant vegetable that seems to have it's own celebration and honorary position at the table on Saint Patrick's Day and that weekend! However, please keep in mind that cabbage has long been a staple of the Irish diet; hence, the reason it is associated with Saint Patrick's Day meals. So, cabbage does get its daily due on the dinner table and not just in the spotlight until March 17th. Let's make cabbage a daily hero...a star...an honorary daily...weekly... table guest!
I think of cabbage as my hero..my unsung hero that does not get enough credit! Think of cabbage as my favorite Marvel comics action figures and posters adorning my home, or my favorite marvels comic t-shirt (yes...I am a kid at heart at 45...eat healthy vegan meals...act young...think young...you are endlessly young at heart...smile) that I love to wear on some weekends!
Let's take a look at why cabbage is an unsung hero that seems to get its crowning glory of honor at the dinner table only on Saint Patrick's Day, but should be honored at weekly meals all the time.
of those unsung heroes of Saint Patrick's Day where we only hear about it and see it abundantly in various meals in celebration of Saint Patrick's Day. Even the grocery stores get their part in to honor this unsung hero by reducing the price of cabbage to usually 29 cents per lb around this day. This is more than half it's usual price! You thought that I would do a vegan cabbage recipe for saint Patrick's Day weekend; but, on the contrary, these traditional Irish cabbage recipes are so common around this time, even from a vegetarian and vegan perspective, that I decided to do a different spin on this beautiful, antioxidant vegetable that seems to have it's own celebration and honorary position at the table on Saint Patrick's Day and that weekend! However, please keep in mind that cabbage has long been a staple of the Irish diet; hence, the reason it is associated with Saint Patrick's Day meals. So, cabbage does get its daily due on the dinner table and not just in the spotlight until March 17th. Let's make cabbage a daily hero...a star...an honorary daily...weekly... table guest!I think of cabbage as my hero..my unsung hero that does not get enough credit! Think of cabbage as my favorite Marvel comics action figures and posters adorning my home, or my favorite marvels comic t-shirt (yes...I am a kid at heart at 45...eat healthy vegan meals...act young...think young...you are endlessly young at heart...smile) that I love to wear on some weekends!
Let's take a look at why cabbage is an unsung hero that seems to get its crowning glory of honor at the dinner table only on Saint Patrick's Day, but should be honored at weekly meals all the time.
Benefits of Cabbage (reference and additional information found at WH Foods.com) Cabbage is loaded in a cancer preventive property called sinigrin. Sinigrin has received worldly attention in cancer prevention research as possessing bladder, colon, and prostrate cancer preventive properties. Besides cancer preventing properties, cabbage is great in waste elimination with its high fiber content; as well as, heart disease prevention with its cholesterol-lowering benefits .
So, which cabbage provides the higher cancer fighting and lowering cholesterol properties? Red Cabbage...or as it goes in produce...the darker the produce the more nutrients (i.e. collard greens, kale, mustard greens, beet greens, Swiss Chards, and kale as dark leaf greens provide more nutrients that common lettuce varieties). But, please, purchase the green cabbage too as it does provide just as much prevention properties as red cabbage.
You can see why cabbage is my unsung hero! In celebration of this produce that receives an honor at the dinner table in fancy style on Saint Patrick's Day, I decided to do a quick, light but filling, and all around nutrient-packed meal from green cabbage. It's a traditional Indian recipe called Cabbage Chana Dal Salad where chick peas (aka garbanza beans), cabbage, and mint leaves are the main ingredients and from there you can add as you like. In this recipe, you can also use red cabbage, or a combination of both red and green cabbage. Since I believe that we should eat at least 25% to 50% of our meals raw a week for added nutrition, I did a raw cabbage salad to pack in the vitamins, nutrients, antioxidants, and cancer fighting properties. This salad is loaded with protein from the chick peas; and, fiber, antioxidants, heart health, and cancer fighting properties from the cabbage and tomatoes.
So, Da-Da...introducing the crowning glory of the weekend but also a crowning glory daily: CABBAGE as Cabbage Chana Dal Salad.
Cabbage Chana Dal Salad (traditional vegetarian Indian dish)
Ingredients:
4 cups of shredded raw cabbage
3 cups of diced tomatoes or 1 28-oz can of organic diced tomatoes
2 cans of chick peas, drained and rinsed
1 medium onion, chopped
4 medium cloves of garlic, diced
3 TBSP fresh mint leaves, chopped
3 TBSP fresh oregano leaves, chopped
3 TBSP lemon juice
ground black pepper to taste
sea salt to taste
Directions: Mix everything in a large mixing bowl with clean hands. Place in the refrigerator for 20 minutes to chill before serving.
Serving suggestions: when served as a meal,..I served chapatti bread (reference Day 28 of Sister Vegetarian's 31 Days of Drama-Free Living Book for the vegan recipe) with vegan sour cream on the side for a traditional Indian Meal
~ Sister Vegetarian
Thursday, March 15, 2012
New Website called "Vegan Cookbook Site" to satisfy your vegan cravings for delicious meals from a variety of authors!
If you are looking for great vegan recipes, try The Vegan Cookbook Site for a cookbook that will satisfy your craving for delicious daily vegan meals. Sister Vegetarian's 31 Days of Drama-Free Living Book has been added to this website (link here for Sister's Book on the website), as well as other great vegan cookbooks! Link below for information on Sister Vegetarian's book on the website and find other great vegan cookbooks.
Here's information about the website from the creator of The Vegan Cookbook Site:
"The Vegan Cookbook Site is a brand new blog, with simple sassy listings
of over 200 vegan recipe books, with regular postings of exciting new
releases! The aim of the site is to help seasoned vegans find their
perfect recipe book (choosing from an extensive list of categories) and
to help people who think vegans live on mung beans and fruit salad, to
think outside the box, and try a vegan recipe or two. Ultimately, a
vegan world is all about the food, and because shops don’t sell
ready-made meals for those who don’t eat animals, cookbook authors are
the frontline of the vegan revolution. Let’s help their books sell well,
send them up the Amazon listings, get them into mainstream stores, and a
few cooks may even get a TV show!
Each post is short and sweet, containing:
A simple summary of the vegan cookbook
A cover picture
Information on the author
A simple link to buy the book online (if you prefer)
A box to leave your comments, recipe reviews and encouragement to
others
The Vegan Cookbook Site also contains an extensive list of
vegan-friendly links and books. And that’s all. It’s simple and sweet.
You can keep up to date with all the latest vegan news at the site’s
Twitter page, or simply visit now and then, to see what’s cookin’!
All the very best,
The Vegan Cookbook Site
thevegancookbooksite.com "
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Sister's Reader's Sharing Their Stories: "Keeping It Simple" by Battzi
I talk about "Keeping It Simple" in my book Sister Vegetarian's 31 Days of Drama-Free Living to focus on a strong mind to handle the "drama" and society's comments from family, friends, co-workers, acquaintainces, or just someone on the street you may strike up a conversation with about your eating and environmental lifestyle as a vegetarian or vegan.
In Day 14 entitled "Keep It Simple" as always I speak from experience of how just by "keeping it simple" and relying on the basics,this vegetarian or vegan lifestyle will become second...NO...FIRST NATURE to you!
I also talk throughout the Sister Vegetarian's 31 Days of Drama-Free Living book of relying on the old calisthenics, just walking, and jumping rope of "old school ways" to keep your body in shape, your mind focus to succeed in this vegetarian or vegan journey, and to eat right to "heal thyself." This week, Battzi, also talks from experience on "keeping it simple" in her vegetarian and ultimately vegan journey. Read on for Battzi's weekly update entitled "I Want It To Become Second Nature to Me...Like Breathing Out and Breathing In! "
Link here for Battzi's post "I Want It To Become Second Nature to Me...Like Breathing Out and Breathing In! "
as well as Battzi's other weekly update posts.
In Day 14 entitled "Keep It Simple" as always I speak from experience of how just by "keeping it simple" and relying on the basics,this vegetarian or vegan lifestyle will become second...NO...FIRST NATURE to you!
I also talk throughout the Sister Vegetarian's 31 Days of Drama-Free Living book of relying on the old calisthenics, just walking, and jumping rope of "old school ways" to keep your body in shape, your mind focus to succeed in this vegetarian or vegan journey, and to eat right to "heal thyself." This week, Battzi, also talks from experience on "keeping it simple" in her vegetarian and ultimately vegan journey. Read on for Battzi's weekly update entitled "I Want It To Become Second Nature to Me...Like Breathing Out and Breathing In! "
Link here for Battzi's post "I Want It To Become Second Nature to Me...Like Breathing Out and Breathing In! "
as well as Battzi's other weekly update posts.
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