Kale buds are a new food for me.
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/04/08/kale-buds/
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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.
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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Warum vegane Ernährung für die meisten Menschen OK ist, aber nicht für alle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apUlYpcViZA
Found some trimmings from sockeye salmon fillets today: belly strips. The recipe I made was tasty:
Later On · Salmon-belly stripsI’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…
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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I gave into temptation and diverged from my non-animal diet, but I think it was worth it.
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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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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I went down a rabbit-hole on the benefits of inulin as part of putting together a recipe for an inulin-rich meal. The recipe produces a terrific dish.
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/03/11/inulin-meal/
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I'm reading an informative book on the gut microbiome. I had not realized how much has been learned about the microbiome, what it does, and how it works.
In this post, I quote a passage from the book, which I highly recommend:
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/03/08/gut-check/
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Later On · Informative book on the gut microbiome: Gut CheckI’m now reading Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health, by Steven R. Gundry, MD. The book makes clear how…
"Substituting butter with plant-based oils daily may lower risk of premature death by up to 17 percent, according to a new study out of Mass General Brigham, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Broad Institute." That's the lede on this article:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/a-dietary-swap-that-could-lengthen-your-life/
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Harvard Gazette · A dietary swap that could lengthen your life?
Wild coho salmon stew - I occasionally diverge from a non-animal diet, and today was one of those times. I believe the stew is still quite healthful. Recipe at link.
Later On · Wild coho salmon stewI generally follow a whole-food non-animal diet, but occasionally I diverge, typically for a bit of seafood. I spotted these wild coho salmon fillets on sale, and was tempted. 300g wild coho salmon…
Black sorghum & Great Northern tempeh sectioned and stored after a total fermentation time of 75 hours.
Details here: https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/sorghum-tempeh/
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48 hours along in the latest batch of tempeh, the fungus has pretty well covered the grain and beans of the substrate. The full story of this batch, a mix of black sorghum and Great Northern beans:
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/sorghum-tempeh/
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I started a new batch of tempeh, this time a mix of black sorghum and Great Northern beans. Details here: https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/sorghum-tempeh/
Photos below show the bagged batch at the start and then after 24 hours. I just now moved it from the incubator to the countertop, where it will continue to ferment for another 48 hours.
The bags I use are Ziploc Fresh Produce bags, which have small perforations, so the condensation will taper off.
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New batch of tempeh underway: black sorghum and white bean (Great Northern beans).
Details: https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/sorghum-tempeh/
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I had a productive morning:
1. New batch of tempeh
2. New batch of turmeric paste
3. New batch of breakfast pudding
4. New batch of Lesbian Kale Sauce
5. New batch of seed blend
Details and links to recipe here:
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/27/productive-morning/
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Later On · Productive morningI was productive this morning, making: New batch of tempeh (black sorghum & Great Northern bean) New batch of turmeric paste New batch of breakfast pudding New batch of Lesbian Kale Sauce New b…
A note on Cara Cara oranges, which are high in lycopene.
https://leisureguy.ca/2025/02/26/cara-cara/
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Interesting finding on how eating citrus seems to prevent depression (via the microbiome effects):
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/eating-citrus-may-lower-depression-risk/
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Harvard Gazette · Eating citrus may lower depression risk