VEGAN potluck in Boulder Creek

Another wonderful celebration of VEGAN food at the monthly potluck in Boulder Creek.
I created VEGI burgers from onion red and white, broccoli, and potatoes bound together in a tempura batter and pan fried crispy and hot, then topped with lettuce, cabbage, tomato sauce with garlic and basil, oregano.
Hamburger buns and bagels, as well as corn tortillas crisp from the stove top pans provided assortment of buns and rolls.
, Mushrooms sauteed in sesame seed oil, added toppings,
Acorn squash with maple syrup and walnuts were the desert.
Hibiscus iced tea to drink.
Guests brought sliced watermelon and cantaloupe.
Life celebrates the living!

I will have a few images to share shortly.

VEGAN and Vegetarian Potluck on Last Fridays

VEGAN and Vegetarian Potluck on Last Fridays

The sun is shining and so is my solar oven! I created Sweet Potato chips, Cream of Mushroom soup, and Portabella garlic bread. It is exquisite VEGAN food!

For those of you who think i am avoiding animal products because of cruelty issues, health issues, those are good enough reasons, but what is making me turn the tide is environmental. We are now loosing 200 species a day due to almost 8 billion humans, a population exploding along with the animals we raise to kill. The web of life is collapsing due to animal based diets which translate into deforestation to create cow pastures - we've now lost half to 3/4 of our forests.

That's the reason for C02 in the atmosphere and loss of oxygen production, the loss of biodiversity and habitat.

80 percent of our agriculture resources are going to feed animals instead of us. We can feed 100 people for the price of one hamburger, and the environmental harm is not being calculated.

These animals are using up the dwindling oxygen supply and are responsible for the biggest share of METHANE gas - deadliest of the greenhouse gases. One or two more degrees of ocean warming and our Oxygen supply from the seas, the phytoplankton, will be wiped out, as they cannot handle temperature change.

This scenario of ocean warming has occurred before, due to volcanoes, and 95% of everything alive perished. Now it's entirely human created.

For those who are religious, re-visit Genesis. We were instructed to eat plant foods. The ten commandments instruct us not to kill.

No one wants to hear, or notice, or see, or connect the dots of what we are causing because few want to change anything about what they are and do. For those with eyes to see, the signs of the times are all around us.

I am only one person, but all change comes from right where you are. Every bite makes a difference. That is why I am focusing on plant based foods, host a VEGAN potluck every month in Boulder Creek on the last Friday for lunch at Saint Michael's Community Center.

RSVP at GreatGourmets@gmail.com, GreatGourmets@blogspot.com holds images and recipes.

It is also why I am posting articles and science notes on social media, to raise awareness. Do you care enough to do what you can to reverse global warming and the 6th mass extinction wave currently accelerating?

Unless we re-green our world with food bearing trees, and loose our addictions to flesh, life is doomed to extinction at a rapidly accelerated rate 10,000 times normal extinction rates, and all the wars, global weather intensities, famines, and ills that are coming with it.

Tamara Lynn Scott Scott Com http://TamaraLynnScottBroadcasts.blogspot.com Broadcast Cable Series: Cable 27 - Santa Cruz, California Tuesday and Friday evenings, 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:30 p.m. Nationwide on Public Access Cable

Go VEGAN! Help save all life on Earth! - Chocolate Tofu Pie recipe

GoVegan! Help save all life on earth!

http://veganoutreach.org/recipe-chocolate-tofu-pie/

Ingredients

12 oz bag of non-dairy semisweet chocolate chips

One 14 oz package soft silken tofu, drained

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 vegan graham cracker crust

Directions

Melt chocolate chips in the microwave for 45 seconds (or until melted) and mix until smooth.

Put tofu in a blender and blend until creamy.

Add melted chocolate and vanilla to tofu, mix thoroughly.

Add tofu chocolate mixture to the pie crust and place in freezer for about an hour and a half.

Last Fridays for VEGAN and Vegetarian Potluck

I am switching my VEGAN and VEGETARIAN Potluck to Last Fridays instead of First Fridays, to accommodate the artists. This Friday, the 26th in Boulder Creek, Saint Michael's church at 11 a.m arrival. Bring food ready for the table, and your own place setting. RSVP at GreratGourmets@gmail.com The only diet able to slow global warming and the 6th wave of mass extinctions we are causing with 8 billion and animal based diets.

GreatGourmets.blogspot.com is where I am posting images and recipes.

Bring you most exquisite plant foods! I'll be photographing and sharing the recipes with the world!

All leftovers are being distributed back out to the homeless community!

Saving All Life On Earth

Recent letter to the Editors of several local newspapers:

I have response to the recent article on Global Warming. Co2 is not the major cause. Co2 is needed by plants to create Oxygen and we can replant our forests, now decimated by 1/2 , made into cow pastures, to help ease the imbalance.

Methane Gas is the most deadly and destructive of all the greenhouse gases, created by 8 billion humans and their livestock, most notably cows. It accounts for 28 percent currently and outweighs all the Co2 sources combined.

This is the inconvenient truth Al Gore does not mention because his family is living off cattle ranching, and your article writer, Gamble, missed this as well.

Methane is something each of us must do something about. We need no government to curtail what we choose to eat.

Unless we can return to Eden, remember the Fruits of the Trees, and all growing, plant based foods as our intended "Meat", all life is being destroyed for our ignorance and violence. There is every good reason to stop the practice of eating flesh.

To those who argue that the bible gives them the right to kill, and site practices from 1 A.D,overlooking Genesis,

What do you think God would say to the current extinctions of all life being driven by out of control population numbers of humans and animals raised to kill for their flesh?

Can you sacrifice your desire for flesh and return to the Garden of Eden, where no violence was committed, where we were instructed to eat the fruits of the trees?

We are in Biblical times of Armageddon and Revelations where 60% of everything living is currently dying.

We have become the beast.

Unless we enlighten and rethink our destruction and violence on earth, all life is currently collapsing.

Only we can stop the killing, the destruction, and pray we can do it in time to avert the current collapse.

To the scientists of the world, who weep for the current path of destruction, do not give up on your outreach. The entire cycle of life is crying out to us to enlighten.

I am hosting VEGAN potlucks every first Friday in Boulder Creek, CA. at Saint Michael's community hall as a means of drawing media attention to this most serious problem of our times.

You can reach me at GreatGourmets@gmail.com, or TamaraLynnScott@gmail.com to RSVP at least 1 week in advance.

We are trying to showcase the most exquisite foods on our planet, the only ones capable of healing us and our world.

I am photographing the most interesting foods brought, along with recipes at my broadcast website: " http://GreatGourmets.blogspot.com

All who come are asked to participate by bringing their favorite dishes and are being asked to speak about how they created them.

Post your recipes to the email addresses listed for RSVP. I'll be posting them at my website and Facebook, and other appropriate outlets.

All are being asked to bring their own tablesettings, and assist with clean up, sweeping the halls, getting the dishes washed and the kitchen clean.

If you are a talented VEGAN chef you are most especially welcome, as this is intended as educational outreach and shifting thinking.

We sacrifice nothing by embracing a non-violent, plant based diet, and have all life to gain.

Tamara Lynn Scott Scott Com http://TamaraLynnScottBroadcasts.blogspot.com Broadcast Cable Series: Cable 27 - Santa Cruz, California Tuesday and Friday evenings, 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:30 p.m. Nationwide on Public Access Cable

VEGAN potluck - Press article in Connection Magazine - August - Page 28: " Return to Eden"

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

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Connection Magazine August2015 Issue #ClippedOnIssuu

VEGAN!

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

2 cups bulgur or cracked wheat 2 cups very hot water 1 cucumber, chopped 2 small tomatoes, chopped 1 bunch green onions, (8) sliced 1/4 - 1/2 cup fresh chopped mint, to taste 2 cups fresh chopped parsley 1 clove garlic, minced (optional) Dressing: 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon pepper 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste Soak the cracked wheat in the hot water until the water is absorbed, about 30 minutes. When it's ready, drain any excess water, if necessary, and squeeze dry. Meantime, prepare the vegetables for the salad and mix the dressing ingredients together. Set aside. Stir the prepared bulghur, other salad ingredients, and dressing together in a medium bowl. Serve chilled or at room temperature. Makes about 8 cups, 12 to 16 servings.

VEGAN Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream with Raspberries Ingredients for VEGAN Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream 1 can(~1 3/4 cups) full fat quality coconut milk (organic when possible) 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk 1/2 tsp xanthan gum 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp raw sugar ground in a coffee grinder (or sub honey) 3-4 vegan gluten free black bean brownies Instructions Place coconut and almond milk, xanthan gum, cocoa powder, vanilla and sugar in a blender and blend until well combined. Transfer to a mixing bowl, cover and refridgerate until chilled through - at least a couple hours. Once chilled, pour into pre-chilled ice cream maker and use according to directions. (Alternatively, pour into a freezer-safe container, cover and freezer, taking out to stir every couple hours to aerate.) Once the ice cream is at soft-serve consistency, add in brownie chunks. YOu can either do this at the end of the ice cream maker's churning process, or once you pour it into a container. Smooth the top with a spoon, cover and freeze until firm. Or, eat immediately though it will be quite soft.