“We feed the world by being fed.”
Rodney Smith
Citrouille de Nerac
The fourth law of attraction is the law of sufficiency, plenty and abundance and what better time of the year to celebrate than the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful for what we have: love, health, family, friends, and our natural environment. Daniel Webster thought that the cultivation of the land was the most important labor and in Plato’s Republic, the Greek philosopher, Socrates, recommended a vegetarian diet because he thought it would allow a country to make the most intelligent use of its’ agricultural resources
Aprés le vendage dans le Gers.
Almost everyone looks forward to the Thanksgiving celebration when we share a moment of reflection and gratitude for the bounty we have. We also need to pay our respects to the Earth and mother nature, our collective hostess, for what good is this life if we don’t have a decent planet to live on?
Qui approche Larée
Francis Moore Lappé, author of Diet for a Small Planet, said long ago that Americans are hooked on a grain fed, meat centered diet because of the illusion of cheap grain. During the writing of her book she discovered that over 90% of grain produced in America is used for feeding cows,pigs, lambs and chickens. A diet of of vegetables, beans and whole grains would be healthier and support twenty times more people than a diet of grain fed meat.
Une assiette de figues.
Each year approximately 158 million mammals and over 9 billion birds are killed for food in America, but few people make any connection between these statistics and the food on their plates. We can harvest good karma and sustain human life by eating nourishing food that feeds the soul. The growing of food used to be an alchemical mystery. We transformed water into wine and grain into bread and partook of the divine mystery of life when food was sacred. In some cultures certain foods are still considered sacred: coconut to the Hindus, bread to the Catholics, Challah to the Jews, coca leaf to the Andeans and maize to the Native Americans, among many others.
Estang fenêtre
My mother was the worst cook in the world. She managed to burn everything she cooked, and my father made me sit at the table until I finished my meal because all the starving kids in China viagra generic only had white rice to eat. Becoming a vegetarian was an easy segue. I invite you to try a Thanksgiving meal without the turkey as the focal point and if not this year, maybe next. After all, we are what we eat.
Pain de Citrouille (pumpkin bread)
2/3 cup organic butter at room temperature
1+3/4 cups organic sugar
4 organic eggs
2 cups cooked organic pumpkin purée
2/3 cup organic milk
2 teaspoons organic cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon organic nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon organic ground gnger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
3 teaspoons organic baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1+1/2 cups chopped organic pecans (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and lightly flour 2, 9+1/2 x 5+1/2 loaf pans or 6, 5+3/4 x 3+1/2 loaf pans.
Mix all of the dry ingredients, then all of the wet ingredients in separate bowls and gradually mix together.
Turn into pans and bake for 1 hour or 1 hour + 15 minutes for the large loaves or 50 minutes to 1 hour for the small loaves.
Cool 5 minutes in the pan then turn out on a wire rack. Slice and spread with butter or soft cream cheese.
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