I'm setting myself a goal this year to have 3 more simple and fast recipes with more veggies in my repertoire so I reach for them (and feel confident buying ingredients for) when I need to pack a lunch or have low energy. This is more for health reasons, but it'll be at least vegetarian.
In reading some of your descriptions I recognize how much I know just from recent years being partnered to a vegetarian. Before then I hadn't blended cashews or done much with tofu, and now it's familiar and more comfortable. And I try to carry that forward in my life and for those I'm around, too.
That sounds like a great goal to me! I hope you find some recipes that will feel good. And I didn’t realize that your partner is vegetarian but it’s really cool that you’ve let it rub off on you (instead of seeing it as an inconvenience).
I've long appreciated the climate change arguments for eating less meat and dairy, and our livestock farming is hard to stomach if you look for too long. Ashley (being technically pescatarian) was just the encouragement and proximity I needed to make simple switches to my lifestyle. I'm currently in a place where I prioritize veggie options or substitutions basically always when eating out, and I recently turned the corner on always going for the dairy substitutes at coffee shops. Props to the vegans in my life who just quietly live by example and influence folks. (And I mean props to the ones who go to protests, too!)
I look at it as having a Christian element. We have, “all the seed bearing plants” to use to create a genesis of mankind. We literally have to create a metamorphosis or genesis of humankind to lift us out of the apocalypse on earth we are creating out of our constant consumption and need for more and more material things. Westerners are deluded if we think environmentalism will save us from a doomed future. Do what you can but right behind us is a whole third world who for the majority wants to adopt our lifestyle. To me going vegan is a step on the chain of becoming godly humans who eventually will reverse original sin and not eat or take from an environment that we make our perfect Eden thru mind over matter. We can eat our way thru dark times ahead till we can find nourishment together and become the light nature needs. We need to feed more with less and part of this is eating light not death. More herbivores in 2025 please!
This was really really great. Thanks for this.
Thanks so much Richard! I’m a big fan of your work
I'm setting myself a goal this year to have 3 more simple and fast recipes with more veggies in my repertoire so I reach for them (and feel confident buying ingredients for) when I need to pack a lunch or have low energy. This is more for health reasons, but it'll be at least vegetarian.
In reading some of your descriptions I recognize how much I know just from recent years being partnered to a vegetarian. Before then I hadn't blended cashews or done much with tofu, and now it's familiar and more comfortable. And I try to carry that forward in my life and for those I'm around, too.
That sounds like a great goal to me! I hope you find some recipes that will feel good. And I didn’t realize that your partner is vegetarian but it’s really cool that you’ve let it rub off on you (instead of seeing it as an inconvenience).
I've long appreciated the climate change arguments for eating less meat and dairy, and our livestock farming is hard to stomach if you look for too long. Ashley (being technically pescatarian) was just the encouragement and proximity I needed to make simple switches to my lifestyle. I'm currently in a place where I prioritize veggie options or substitutions basically always when eating out, and I recently turned the corner on always going for the dairy substitutes at coffee shops. Props to the vegans in my life who just quietly live by example and influence folks. (And I mean props to the ones who go to protests, too!)
I look at it as having a Christian element. We have, “all the seed bearing plants” to use to create a genesis of mankind. We literally have to create a metamorphosis or genesis of humankind to lift us out of the apocalypse on earth we are creating out of our constant consumption and need for more and more material things. Westerners are deluded if we think environmentalism will save us from a doomed future. Do what you can but right behind us is a whole third world who for the majority wants to adopt our lifestyle. To me going vegan is a step on the chain of becoming godly humans who eventually will reverse original sin and not eat or take from an environment that we make our perfect Eden thru mind over matter. We can eat our way thru dark times ahead till we can find nourishment together and become the light nature needs. We need to feed more with less and part of this is eating light not death. More herbivores in 2025 please!