Cooking for adventure 23 June 2006
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Sorry I’ve been away this month; I spent a good bit of June traveling and lately I’ve been trying to find a job.
I’m off to a retreat for the weekend in a few minutes. I’m the cook, and what’s on the menu includes:
- General Tao’s Tofu
- A veganized version of my mom’s Better Homes and Garden’s French Breakfast Puffs
- Vegan Chunky Monkey, which I’m a bit anxious about attempting, by adding chocolate and walnuts to a veganized version of Alton Brown’s Banana Ice Cream
When I get back I’ll probably post the latter two veganized recipes on the wiki, and get back to working on anti-HLS campaign pages and sidebar.
Also, I’m working on a new skin for the site. The “new” one I made a few months ago was I think an improvement, but it is a little crazy, and the one I’m working on now stays a lot closer to the standard MonoBook/Wikimedia skin. When it’s done I’ll put screen shots on a page and whoever wants to can vote on it (that vs. the current vs. the standard Monobook skin).
On essays, open rescue, and beeswax 2 February 2006
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There’s been a little talk on the community portal about creating a namespace for essays. A namespace is kind of like a folder for pages in the MediaWiki software. Pages related to policy or abou the wiki itself should (*cough*) be going in the “Wikiveg:” namespace, such as the page on deleting; help pages typically go in a “Help:” namespace. Most pages are in the default namespace, which doesn’t have a prefix. Anyway, you can add custom namespaces; if we added one for essays, you would have the freedom of creating a page like “Essay:Peta is too welfarist”, and write whatever you like. We’d have to work out a different set of rules I imagine though, since we probably don’t want people editing each other’s essays.
If you think this is a good (or bad) idea, go ahead and chime in on the community portal. In the meantime, feel free put any essays you’d like to write in subpages of your user page (e.g. User:Zach/Tofu_is_neat), like NTK has done with an essay on Peter Young and direct action.
NTK talked about the value of doing ‘open’ direct actions, i.e. ones where you act, call the cops (or wait for them to arrive), and accept whatever legal punishment the system gives you, in the style of civil disobedience. Personally, I support anybody who does direct action, covert ones included, but I agree there’s a lot of value to open actions. So I went and made a rough-and-ready page on open rescue, which apparently is a much more widespread practice than I had thought. (Until looking at the OpenRescue.org website, the only open action I had heard of was the Bye Bye Egg Industry one.)
I also started pages on direct action, the ALF, and sugar, and posted a recipe I pseudo-invented for molasses almond cookies. We also have a new page on beeswax.
Peter Young, Asia, chocolate cake, & candles 30 January 2006
Posted by Zach in activism, direct action, non-food veganness, recipes, regional.2 comments
We have some new users in the past few days: Jan, who’s been adding some pages on eating veg*n in several Asian countries (I’ve made an Asian category and put I think all of the pages in there); Ampolla has been adding some nice recipies (including Chocolate cake); and NTK, who’s been around a little longer than those two, has added some interesting info on candles and what they are made of. Glad ya’ll are here (:
I just spent a good while today making a page about Animal Liberation Front activist and prisoner Peter Young. Peter was involved in a bunch of successful mink liberations back in the 1990’s, got arrested, fled, and successfully evaded the cops for seven years, until getting arrested in late March of last year. He got sentenced to two years in federal prison.
I used a couple images from the Support Peter MySpace profile, and messaged them if that was OK. I imagine it’ll be OK.
Peter on liberating mink:
It’s just too easy. Two people can liberate 1,000 mink every 15 minutes. I believe if most people knew the simplicity of these actions, they would spend a little less time on instant messenger and a little more time tearing down fences. (from interview in No Compromise 28)
From Honduras, a recipe 18 January 2006
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I’ve been in Honduras and Florida for the past two weeks, taking a class in tropical agriculture. I just got back to school yesterday. Already four days behind (since school started last Wednesday), but things seem to be going OK.
More info about that trip is here, and I’ll be blogging about it a lot on my main blog in the coming weeks.
I was a bit of a naughty vegan, which I expected might happen. Once I was in a situation where a poor old Honduran grandma I was making a fence for made me a baleada containing an egg, and I thought it was more important to be gracious than to be vegan. (I usually don’t feel like that’s true in the States though, where people can be expected to know that lots of people don’t eat meat or other animal products. Just to be clear on that…)
What’s a baleada? It’s the national snack, that’s what. Sort of like a burrito. Well, here’s a recipe, without measurements, veganized by me. Maybe I’ll figure out some measurements later.
Baleadas
Ingredients:
· Flour tortillas
· Pinto beans
· Vegan cheese (e.g. FYH Monterey Jack or Cheddar Cheezly)
· Prepared tofu scrambler (optional)Directions:
Mash up the beans and shred the cheese. Spread them (and the tofu scrambler if you’re using it) on the tortillas, and fold in half. Typically the beans should be closest to the fold and the eggs/scrambler closest to the edges. These are best hot, so ideally you’d make fresh tortillas, and warm up the beans and scrambler beforehand. You can also just microwave the whole thing, though it makes the tortilla less good. These can also be eaten with vegan sour cream.
This will soon be found at www.wikiveg.org/Baleadas…
