A stew with collards, broccolini, sunchokes, tempeh, and friends

It’s time for a new batch of stew. I wanted to include sunchokes (not shown in the above — I steamed a batch yesterday, and when the photo was taken, they were still in the fridge), collards,…

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New to me: Kale buds

I love discovering new foods, and today one of the stores had kale buds, which I’ve not heard of. At right is a photo of a bunch lying on top of some Jerusalem artichokes I also bought. (It m…

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Combination incisor, canid, and molar dentation, a single stage stomach, forward facing eyesight with great depth perception and relatively little peripheral vision, bipedal endurance permitting all day and all night hiking if given sufficient water and snack--

We are omnivorous predator-scavengers by nature.

We removed most of the predators from our environment, so we must replace them with our own predatory actions in order to maintain balance in the environment, carefully.

Farmed animals have a population problem. If there is to be an intelligent response to the problem of using too much land, food, and water to grow animals, it will have to include the responsible, gradual reduction in populations until they can be reintroduced to an at least quasi-wild context, and we will have to continue to hunt them on occasion, as needed, or reintroduce/increase the populations of their predators.

Pollinators are more important than ever in such a case; however, the overuse of invasive honeybees has caused a competition problem. The non-natives out-compete the natives largely because they have direct human support. This fuss over "massive bee die-offs" and "devastating results for [unsustainable monoculture] farmers" is manufactured outrage designed to prop up a failed, imbalanced system. If you can't farm sustainably and in balance with the needs of nature, then fuck off and find a different job. I don't care if your grandaddy did it this way.

Finally. Veganism is a post-scarcity ideology. We are not there yet. At least, 95% or more of us aren't. One can abide non-cruelty to animals and humans, but doing so at the cost of their living healthy, libre lives is insufficient at best. To act as if a set of biologically unnecessary dietary restrictions is a Big Moral Issue completely ignores the ethical concerns of minding your own damn business, let alone those of living under capitalism with scarcity.

#vegan #omnivore #sustainability #bees

Quinoa salad with black beans and chickpeas.

I reconstructed and enhanced a recipe from memory. It turned out well.

https://leisureguy.ca/2025/04/05/quinoa-salad-2/

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#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #quinoa #salad

Quinoa, black bean, and chickpea salad

I remembered to buy the ingredients for this salad and then could not find the recipe, so I made up my own variation. 1 cup black quinoa, rinsed well and cooked in 1 1/2 cup water 1 can black beans…

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Warum vegane Ernährung für die meisten Menschen OK ist, aber nicht für alle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apUlYpcViZA

#vegan #omnivore #ernahrung

Darum empfehle ich vegane Ernährung nicht mehr • Utopia Podcast

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Found some trimmings from sockeye salmon fillets today: belly strips. The recipe I made was tasty:

https://leisureguy.ca/2025/04/01/salmon-strips/

#food #recipe #omnivore #health #salmon #cooking

Salmon-belly strips

I’ve mentioned these before: strips of salmon cut off the belly side of a fillet to square it up, sold at a low price. I couldn’t resist getting a package today — they are not always av…

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Finally found Jerusalem artichokes at the market. I bought some and made a stew, and it's quite good.

https://leisureguy.ca/2025/03/21/jerusalem-artichokes/

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#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #cooking #JerusalemArtichockes #sunchokes #stew

Jerusalem artichokes at last

I’ve been eager to eat some Jerusalem artichokes (AKA sunchokes) since I learned that they are among the foods highest in the beneficial soluble fiber inulin. (See my earlier post for more ab…

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I gave into temptation and diverged from my non-animal diet, but I think it was worth it.

https://leisureguy.ca/2025/03/19/irresistible-salmon/

#food #recipe #omnivore #health #salmon

Irresistible salmon

My non-animal diet occasionally gives in to temptation, and one particularly tempting thing is seeing a package of salmon belly trimmings at a local grocer: thin strips cut from wild sockeye salmon…

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Scored some Jerusalem artichokes today at the grocer, along with some cute little purple yams (plus Cambray onions, red garlic, asparagus, and shiitake mushrooms).

I will soon cook a combination of those, along with some of my new batch of tempeh (white bean and black sorghum) in a sort of stew.

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#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #JerusalemArtichokes #sunchokes #tempeh

Greens, beans & barley: A recipe

I just made this, and I'm enjoying some now with lots left over for subsequent meals.

https://leisureguy.ca/2025/03/15/greens-beans-barley/

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#food #recipe #WFPB #vegan #vegetarian #omnivore #health #cooking #barley #beans #kale #rabe

Greens, beans & barley: Inspired by colcannon

St. Patrick’s Day, just around the corner, is celebrated in various ways. One way I mark the day is to have no snakes in the apartment. Another way that I just thought of is a recipe that is …

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