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Welcome to the Peaceful Table Podcast, Episode Three, the Vegan Gardening Episode.  Here are some of the things we discussed:

Natural Landscaping by Sally Roth.   Peterson First Guides Caterpillars.
The Audubon Backyard Birdwatcher.   Bluestone Perennials.
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply.  Vegan Mix fertilizer.    PVFS Premium Soil Builder Mix cool weather cover crop seeds  with Garden Combination Mix Inoculant powder.  Documentary film Vanishing Of The Bees.  The children’s book Stellaluna.
We wondered if Bee Movie is a good film for vegan kids.
Bat Rehabilitators.  Bat Boxes.
The bat guano section of the book 1493  by  Charles C. Mann.
Request For Exemption From Adult Mosquito Control Services form.
Pesticide Sensitive Individual Notification Program form.
Youtube:  The Beauty of Pollination.
Youtube:  Lil’ Drac baby vampire bat who rocks himself to sleep every night.
The Tumbleweed Compost Tumbler.
A cancer study that shows that vegan blood fights cancer 8 times better than the blood of non-vegans.  The classic cookbook Veganomicon and various recipes I’ve made from it.   Here’s a link to photos of my garden and some of the plants we talked about.

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Welcome to Episode 002 of the Peaceful Table Podcast, the Vegan Travel Show.  We discuss our recent road trip from Maryland to New Hampshire, to visit my family, strategies for vegan travel, recipes that travel well, and traveling with dog(s).  Commentary on the iconic vegan restaurants, bakeries and cafes along the way.  Other topics include getting organized in the pantry, the reality film Forks Over Knives, Pinterest, one of my new favorite cookbooks, Beyond Meat vegan chicken, a little bit of fiction, and some upcoming vegfests in Delaware.  As promised, here’s a photo of Ipo on the hotel sofa.

  Quart size canning jar with homemade label just under screw ring.  It helps to have a wide-mouth funnel for pouring flour, etc.

  Ball Blue Canning Jars with Zinc Lids.

Reality film/documentary:  Forks Over Knives.   Pinterest as a vegan recipe and information resource.   Talbot Humane.   The Dog Whisperer TV show with Cesar Milan.   Easy Walk Harness.  These harnesses can be found at pet stores and on amazon.com.   I recommended NOT buying greeting cards with photos of animals on them, to avoid animal exploitation.   Happy Cow as a travel tool.   Use the word “vegan” in searches or reviews on Trip Advisor.   Things to bring on a road  trip include:  dish soap in a small travel bottle, a small paring knife, cooler(s), icy bottles, jugs of drinking water, BPA-free water bottles, pre-measured laundry soap, dryer sheets, Trader Joe’s Go Raw Trek Mix, Twinings Oolong Tea, chamomile tea, your own pillows, granola bars, granola, and plant milks.   Our stops included Vegan Treats Bakery,  Veggie Heaven, X’s to O’s Vegan Bakery,  and Cafe Indigo.  Other places we like to go are Mapletree Farm, and Susty’s Vegan Cafe.

We used a GPS to locate rest stops.  On our old Garmin GPS, the commands are Where To, Points of Interest, Auto Services, and Rest Area or Tourist Info.

The highlighted recipe is a vegan chicken salad, using Beyond Meat vegan chicken, and here is a photo.

We discussed various vegan travel recipes, which are recipes with only a few ingredients, and/or recipes where you can throw all the dry ingredients in a container (don’t forget to bring the recipe itself) and pack it in your suitcase, and then just obtain one or two common/additional ingredients when you get to your destination.  We also discussed some recipes for Spring.

Upcoming events include Rehoboth Beach VegFest,  and  VegFest 2013 in Newark, Delaware.  Our highlighted cookbook this month is The 30-Minutes Vegan’s Taste of The East  by  Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray.  My fiction recommendation is Ten White Geese  by  Gerbrand Bakker.  Here’s a youtube video to cure BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo).  And here’s Alexander The Flirtatious Cow.

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Welcome to Episode One of the Peaceful Table Podcast.
In this episode we discuss:
products to ease the transition to a vegan diet;
fast vegan meals to get on the table;
creating a sense of vegan community;
tuning out negative propaganda;
reference web sites;
Trader Joe’s;
my favorite podcasts;
one of my vegan cookbooks;
and recipes on the Peaceful Table blog.

LINK LIST:

Boca Crumbles.  To replace ground meat in any dish. West Soy Unsweetened Organic Plain Soy Milk. Pacific Organic Unsweetened Almond Milk. Earth Balance Organic Whipped Buttery Spread.  Vegan butter that tastes just like cow butter. Earth Balance Buttery Sticks.  For baking. Spectrum Shortening.  Non-hydrogenated, organic and free of trans fats! Vegenaise.  Delicious vegan mayonnaise. Butler Soy Curls.  Replaces chicken in any dish. Beyond Meat.  This is becoming more available all the time.  If you don’t see it in the chiller, ask at the deli counter of stores like Whole Foods. Gardein Beefless Burgers. Daiya Cheese.  My new favorite is the Jack cheese for slicing and adding to sandwiches. Tofutti Cream Cheese.  Make sure to ask for the non-hydrogenated plain one. Tofutti Sour Cream.   Make sure to ask for the non-hydrogenated one in the blue container. Trader Joe’s.  Here’s the category of Trader Joe’s items on Peaceful Table.  Also, Trader Joe’s has an online list, and a PDF list too. Get to know the Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen.  Here’s a newer list from a second source that would be easy to cut out and put in your wallet. Realize the old Food Pyramid is corrupt, funded by meat and dairy industries, and look to a better Food Pyramid. Answer your health concerns on objective sites like Nutrition Facts, and click on topics such as Calcium and Protein and hundreds of other topics!.  Watch one a day, or one a week, but get there, get the truth and get informed. Here’s another great resource for any health and diet questions:  Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Accidentally Vegan Food List.  A list of many store-bought, accidentally-vegan products. Check out the Kids Category on Peaceful Table. Listen to vegan podcasts, such as Vegetarian Food For Thought,  Our Hen House,  Red Radio,  Big Fat Vegan Radio, etc. Get a subscription to VegNews magazine, or read it through your library. Get vegan cookbooks through your library. For eating out, use web sites like Happy Cow,  and  Vegan Eating Out. Make some vegan treats, like Oatmeal Cookies or Peanut Butter Quinoa Cookies. Use the Ultimate Vegan Baking Cheat Sheet to veganize your old favorite recipes. Learn about egg substitutes such as bananas, flax meal, and Ener-G Egg Replacer. Check out recipe sites like VegWeb and remember that there are almost 1600 vegan recipes on Epicurious.com.  Even sites like allrecipes.com have over 1200 vegan recipes, including videos! Check out vegan cooking videos on itunes and youtube, such as Everyday Dish TV, and Delicious TV VegEZ. Eventually tune out negative media that glorifies violence against animals and pushes food that makes people and the planet sick.  This would include things like the Martha Stewart show and magazines, the Splendid Table podcast, and shows like Top Chef, etc. The highlighted cookbook is Skinny Bitch: Ultimate Everyday Cookbook. The highlighted recipes were Curried Chickpea Cakes  and  the Skinny Bitch Macaroni and Cheese. I also recommended reading Skinny Bitch (for women) and Skinny Bastard (for Men).

Please stay tuned for the Peaceful Table Podcast, coming in March 2013.  In the meantime, please visit the Peaceful Table blog Recipes section also on this site.  Thank you for visiting, I really appreciate it!