Vegan Thanksgiving

Every tradition should be compassionate,
You don't need to kill birds :(
Please be kind to all animals #VeganThanksgiving
Julian vegan apple pie
Gardein turkey-less cuts
fingerling potatoes and tomatoes with herbs
cranberry sauce.

Thanksgiving murder

Time to evolve and ditch cruelty.
Most Americans complain about Trump and his heartless cronies, yet we support massive murder: Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner, a young bird is murdered for pleasure, a cruel and heartless tradition, time to change and be compassionate. And do you care about climate change? Do you know all the resources used to grow one innocent animal and the horrible conditions they live in? According to the USDA, 236,000,000 Turkeys are murdered every year in the USA. 36,000,000 for "Thanksgiving".
 Please evolve, we are on the 21st century, mass murder of innocent animals should not be happening.

 

A funny video to mouthwash all the pain...

Thanksgiving

To all my friends who might eat an animal today ‪#‎Thanksgiving‬ was a turning point for me, it was the handling of a dead turkey for Thanksgiving that make made the connection, while I was handling his dead body, I saw my cat, same weight same color, walking alive around the house. I did some research on how turkeys lived and died... By December I have quit eating chickens and any birds, by April on my b-day, I was a vegan. Let reason and compassion enter your heart ‪#‎GoVegan‬

Turkeys and Thanksgiving

#Turkeys are wonderful birds millions of them die for #Thanksgiving
We must evolve and learn to celebrate
without murdering animals!

My friend Ellen and I went leafleting the past days
creating awareness on the suffering of turkeys
and all the resources we use to feed them & kill them.

California is on the worst drought recorded in history
and a raising a turkey alone takes over 8,000 gallons of water
That is crazy! When you can have a compassionate Thanksgiving
Eating a vegan meal and not having a dead body
at your table...

Please consider saving a life this Thanksgiving,
helping your planet, the animals, and your health!

A Vegan Thanksgiving
A Plant-based Thanksgiving

my friend Ellen and I leafleting with my handmade poster

We leaflet at any chance, during the week on the evening and on Sat and Sundays

Thanksgiving 2014

Have a compassionate Thanksgiving
No animals on my wonderful meal today
Be Thankful, Be Cruelty-free, Be Vegan!

stuffing, organic pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce, Turkey-less Roast from Trader Joe's, ALL vegan & delicious!

These lovely and fortunate turkeys are on a friend's farm, free from harm!

Turkeys alive on Thanksgiving

Please learn the truth about turkeys and spare them for the holiday
they are wonderful birds!
Turkeys are so abused, millions die for this holiday, take a look, is horrific
http://www.butterballabuse.com/?lang=en

Have a compassionate Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

this year, as always, more things to be thankful for

just the fact of being alive is the biggest gift i got

and then a new home

and my mom's company

and the clouds, and the moon, and the stars

and the sun... i sound like a John Lennon song

happy Thanksgiving!

i hope you had a good Thanksgiving
mine was little, but nice

i planned to celebrate with friends on Wednesday
instead of Thursday this year, but i got sick
on Tuesday and wasn't able to go to our celebration
yet, i made the cranberry sauce and send it
they send back turkey left-overs and other goodies
also my best friend Perro baked a delicious assortment
of breads, focaccia, and this wonderful russian rye bread
and today we had some naan brad he baked too
with some of his home-made hummus



today i ate left-overs of turkey, oaxacan stuffing,
and gravy made by the conners
sweet potatoes by mione, perro's assortment of breads
some Gato Negro Chardonnay, and of course
some of my cranberry sauce...

this morning, i cooked another batch of cranberry sauce
that i plan to eat over the weekend with more turkey
on sandwiches with that russian rye bread
here a close up



this sauce is so easy to make!
you need:
-1 cup of water
-1 cup of sugar, i use the regular brown mexican sugar
-1 bag of cranberries, one of those that you see in every supermarket in the US these days, i think is 12oz. of cranberries

boil the water, add the sugar, bring to a boil again, add the cranberries and cook at medium height for about 20 minutes... more or less, let them cool, and then refrigerate until ready to serve... even with some cold turkey breast and not fresh baked turkey, you can make a pretty decent sandwich, if you like ham (which i don't much at all...) then you can try... also as jam for your toast in the morning

ah love the fall, even when in San Diego feels like the summer
80°F today? good thing that the nights are colder
after 6pm does feel like the Autumn
optimal time to write on the blog
while sipping on 2-day-old Merlot
French Market from Trader Joe's, still $2.99
the bottle and ah! so good...

Thanksgiving 2009

on a rainy with beautiful sunny patches day



we celebrated a lovely and delicious
Thanksgiving dinner this past Thursday
in San Diego



here some of the delights we shared
we had all the traditional trimmings too
mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans
sweet potatoes, my friend Jena
tried a recipe of sweet potatoes with apples
raisins and pecans, i really liked it!
the apples gave the sweet potatoes a milder
softer texture, great combo!

but surely the star of the night
was my friend perro's roasted cranberry sauce
an original twist on the traditional cranberry sauce
that is made just with sugar and cranberries
he added roasted cardamom pods, cinnamon,
and jalapeños, and not sure what else
but it was surprisingly good treat

also his Russian bread with caraway seeds
that we ate before dinner, with this delicious
fondue of Gruyère cheese and Brandy...
it was exquisite!
all this accompanied by a couple of glasses
of chardonnay and other blanc wines

my job was the same as the past couple of years
in charge of pumpkin pie



worth mentioning that our hosts, apart from trimming
and turkey, baked a delicious sweet potato pie
with pecans on top, home-made crust...





this American holiday has become not only sharing
this traditional menu with the goods of the Autumn,
but a warm celebration of thankfulness for the good things
we have in our life

as surely i am thankful, for those wonderful fluffy clouds on the skies
for the fortunate fragrances and tastes of not just the delicious meal above
but the meals i get every day, as i never go hungry or cold
and i am thankful to be able to see the smiles of friends
and families and too the ones online!
thankful for being happy of being alive

pre-thanksgiving: pumpkin pies

another Thanksgiving dinner
again i join the same friends
that have invited me the past 2 years
they home-made everything
and this year
my contribution to the dinner here
2 pumpkin pies
(the big ones)
the smalls ones
1 for my neighbor and the rest
mit Kaffee ah! für das Wochenende
Frühstück is such a nice Deutsch word!

i baked the whole evening
and even getting the pumpkin
already cooked
i hope next year i can make it from fresher pumpkin
but need to add a couple of hours to the recipe

happy Thanksgiving, an American holiday
i adapted very well, wonder why?
nothing to do with the turkey, nor the mashed potatoes
nor the green beans and pumpkin pie
not at all...


the ingredients as seen this morning
i use always the recipe on the back of the can of
Libby's pumpkin
the recipe is from 1950 and still works so fine!


beating & beating eggs


step 3 of the recipe
mixing all the ingredients


ready to bake
{on the already-baked photo, der Wein glass is gone... hi hi}



finally! here
some whipped cream and café
ah! can't wait...
hope they survive for tomorrow
i have a history of sleeping-walking-eating...