VEGAN potluck - Press article in Connection Magazine - August - Page 28: " Return to Eden"
Recent Connection Magazine August2015 Issue #ClippedOnIssuu article on VEGAN potlucks on First Fridays in Boulder Creek, CA.
Hosted by Tamara Lynn Scott
Connection Magazine August2015 Issue #ClippedOnIssuu
You must click on this link to open August edition, page 28.
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Sample Plate of VEGAN Food: Portabella Pizza, 6 mushroom/roasted potato/onion/brussel sprout/asparagus, sweet peppers, celery, watermelon.
I am now hosting the only VEGAN potluck in the Santa Cruz Mountains every First Friday of the month at 11:30 a.m. in the Saint Michael's Community Hall on Pine Street.
All are invited to participate, which means bringing your favorite VEGAN foods and drinks to share. I'll be photographing these foods. Post your recipes and any images you have of them at this website, or send to my email address at GreatGourmets@gmail.com. Let me know if you are planning to come and what you'll be bringing, and if you want to be added to the email list.
All must RSVP and all must participate in clean up of the hall.
Bring your own picnic basket with non-disposable table settings. We do this to eliminate clean up, breakage, and paper plates or plastic forks.
I'll be posting the best foods here at this website, along with other posting locations, and may invite some to be featured in the Broadcast Series: " Great Gourmets".
I am doing this because we are now loosing 200 species a DAY due to 8 billion humans on animal based diets killing everything that lives. This is an unprecedented loss of life caused by humans and only we can help turn this around by getting back to the garden, a " RETURN to EDEN."
I am now focused on presenting the best choices of diet, namely VEGAN, the only sustainable, environmentally friendly diet, as recommended to us in Genesis. Perhaps God knew something about what is happening now.
Here are a few of the foods being brought to the table.
Bring your own tuperware to take the left overs back home with you, and back out into the community for those who need it.
Everyone who comes is taking home more than they are bringing.
VEGAN mayonnaise, recipe included in this post, and other VEGAN gourmet foods.
Yield 3 1/2 cups. Units US 2 1⁄4 cups safflower oil 1 cup soymilk 1 tablespoon maple syrup or 1 tablespoon agave nectar 3⁄4 teaspoon sea salt (to taste) 3⁄4 teaspoon sea salt (to taste) 2 -2 1⁄2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar, raw or 2 -2 1⁄2 teaspoons lemon juice, fresh squeezed
combine all ingredients except vinegar or lemon juice in blender, blending until smooth. Slowly add vinegar or lemon juice until liquid thickens.
Greek tomato Fritters from Santorini:
5 roma tomatoes, diced ¾ onion, finely diced* V1 garlic clove, pressed 1 tablespoon fresh parsley ½ teaspoon thyme 1 teaspoon oregano Salt and pepper 1 1/2 cups flour 1 tablespoon bread crumbs (optional) ½ cup olive oil, for frying
Tabouli
You may not believe in eternity,
in love that never dies
but lives on from life to life,
but in my case, I know this to be.
I have dreams that cover many lives and times and experiences,
and I have recognized my true husband from many threads and many times.
It is not that important the time we have to spend with each other,
because we are never parted.
There is important work we have come into each incarnation to accomplish,
and there have been many years of being apart in each of these.
It does not diminish the love, but increases it, as we each know each other,
communicate over all time and space,
and know there is no end.
We are always in each others heart and mind
and our thoughts cross over all time.
The greatest love of all, serves all, and does not impede.
So today, as all days, I send my love, my heart, my understanding,
that in times of greatest need,
the needs of all are served by each of us,
doing what we most need to do and be,
joined in the eternal heart beat,
the eternal be.
( Written for the one who knows,
the one who hears and sees,
the one whose whisper is in a thousand dreams.
Over all time we will always be
in love that is greater than we.)
the 10th annual " Taste of Santa Cruz " , a fundraiser for low income real estate purchase, offsetting some of the closing costs to make purchase more affordable, was once again, held at the Coconut Grove in Santa Cruz on Thursday, November13th, 2014 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Proceeds benefit The Santa Cruz County Association of REALTORS Housing Foundation.
Each Real Estate Office partnered up with a local restaurant or food provider for tastes of their food and beverages.
The following is an assortment:
Animal based diets predominated, and I would suggest setting up a special area for Vegan and Vegetarian foods to make them easier to locate, and to expand the audience with environmentally sustainable and friendly foods for next year.
Endangered Species of the World
Montages by Tamara Lynn Scott,
These were created for the VEGAN potlucks I am now hosting to encourage a return to Plant Based Diets as the best hope we have in halting Global Warming and Mass Extinctions.
Ending Hunger and Food Waste Segment 502 filmed in Santa Cruz on VEGAN meals served every weekend by the group, Food not Bombs is being aired.
Tuesday, April 29th, will be the first VEGAN potluck held in Felton and Felton Presbyterian Church at 12 noon, where all are invited to bring a plant based food item to share.
It is important that we attempt to save the world with every bite of food we take, and to this purpose I'll be orchestrating the event.
I participate in feeding the community every Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday in Felton, and Fridays in Boulder Creek at Saint Michaels Church. Vegetarian meals are created on Fridays.
7 billion humans will be exploding into 52 billion people in the next 40 years, and half the species of life on earth are predicted to be extinct by then. We can help turn this around by what we choose to eat. The Garden of Eden diet, namely Vegan, is the most healthy diet for both us and our world.
Make a difference with every bite you take!
I say I love you,
with every thought,
every word,
every day.
It is there when I am sleeping,
and awake,
aware,
over all time and distance,
never away.
You can see it, feel it, hear it, breathe it,
in every move you make.
There is no separate.
We are,
and always will be,
the love our hearts create.
Happy Valentines Day
Tamara
