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Hey Pickles!

We hope this finds you well!

This week, we tell you all about a recent fundraiser that we sponsored for Penelope's Place Sanctuary. It was a meatless raffle, and it was so much fun!!

In our Noteworthy segment, we take a look at the new USDA rules for student lunches, and discuss how it affects kid's access to vegan options.
Here are the rules:
 https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/DGARuleFinalSummary5.2.24.pdf

Our Main Topic this week is Avoiding Grief, a piece written by animal law expert and fellow podcaster, Mariann Sullivan.
She explores how the knowledge of animal suffering in the animal agriculture industry affects advocates & non advocates alike.

Here is a link to her Substack article: 
https://exesandohs.substack.com/p/avoiding-grief

We also feature a new restaurant in our Vegan Restaurant SOS series, we have a Vegan Org of the Week, a Listener Shout Out, and more!

Thank you so much for listening!

Love, Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

We hope you had a great weekend, and a wonderful Labor Day (If you're somewhere that celebrates)!

This week, we have a new recipe from our Vegan Cookbook Challenge. It's a Lemon Cream Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower. Watch our socials for the recipe!

In our Noteworthy Segment, we were happy to see that columnist, Miss Manners recently answered a question on a vegan issue in her column! We'll discuss the question that was sent to her, and her answer!

Our Main Topic is a PETA supporter who supports a no slaughter dairy farm.
Singer and front woman of Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde was recently featured on a PETA billboard with a Go Vegan tag line. Hynde is not vegan, but is Vegetarian.

The singer felt the need to clarify her position with a post on her social media, where she spoke of her support of the above mentioned farm.

We take a hard look at Ahimsa No Slaughter Dairy, and discuss our thoughts on it.

Our Vegan Org of the Week is Northwest Animal Rights Network!
To learn more about their work, go to   https://narn.org

We feature a new vegan restaurant in our Restaurant SOS series, a new Listener Shout Out & much more!

We hope you enjoy the show!
Thank you so much for listening & supporting what we do!

Love, Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

This week's episode is jam packed! We'll tell you about some vegan food we found, and Christine will tell you about a Food Empowerment Project webinar that she attended, The Embodiment of Injustice - The Dairy Industry

Here's a link to the webinar replay: https://youtu.be/LL2fo4tqF0M?si=qALFLuFPkL6Z62SQ

We have a recipe for our Vegan Cookbook Challenge from Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking!
You can get the book here *paid link https://amzn.to/3XLfQTC

In our Noteworthy segment, we'll tell you about some vegan butcher shops, and how you can get their products.

Our Main Topic is Am I The Ass Hat Vegan Edition. We'll share several scenarios, and decide who is the ass hat! Let us know if you agree with our decisions!

We spotlight a vegan restaurant in our Restaurant SOS series. We have a new Vegan Org of the Week, and a new Listener Shout Out!

Enjoy the show & thanks so much for listening!

Love, Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

This week we finally got a chance to check out Grass Fed Vegan Butcher in Rochester!

We had such a great time at the Syracuse Vegfest! We'll fill you in on all the wonderful vegan food that we ate, the people we met, AND, we had a spooky good time with our friend, Andy Tabar from Compassion Co!

We also have a new recipe from our Vegan Cookbook Challenge. We make a delicious fall dessert from the book, Modern Vegan Baking by Gretchen Price.

We have a bit of a sad story to tell about some of the food that we bought.

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Grass Fed Vegan Butcher    https://www.grassfedrochester.com

Compassion Co    https://compassionco.com

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Hey Pickles!

We've wrangled all of the gremlins, and have a fun episode for you this week!

We continue the Vegan Cookbook Challenge with a delicious recipe from Power Plates by Gena Hamshaw of The Full Helping Blog. We made her coconut kale and lentil bowl with roasted delicata squash. Yum!!

We explore some vegan and vegetarian characters in television. We discuss clips from  Friends, The Simpsons, Southpark, and reveal some vegan characters that might surprise you!

We shout out a listener that left us a review, and 5 STARS!!

We hope that you enjoy the episode, and thank you so much for listening and supporting the show!

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Gena Hamshaw The Full Helping Blog    https://www.thefullhelping.com

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Hey Pickles!

We have a recipe for you from our Vegan Cookbook Challenge. This week we made a recipe from Isa Chandra Moskowitz' new book, "I Can Cook Vegan".

What a great book this is. It's perfect for new vegans, the vegan curious, and anyone who's looking for fun, weeknight recipes to make. It would also make a great gift for anyone that is looking to learn more about vegan cooking!

We saddled up the old Hyundai once again, and headed to Batavia and Rochester NY!

We had lunch at the adorable Eden Cafe & Bake Shop in Batavia. They're located at 242 Ellicott St, Batavia, NY.

What a cute and calming space they’ve created. Its a cute corner shop with lots of natural light coming from the front windows. With comfy bench seats lined with colorful pillows, plants in the windows, and a nice cozy color scheme of pink & sage green.

They are an all vegan establishment, and the food was fantastic!

We then had plans to see a couple shows in Rochester. The first of which was a modern dance performance that was part of the Rochester Fringe Festival , called Commotion Dance Theater. One of the dancers was a former student of Sam's, and we were thrilled that we were able to attend!

Before the second show that we were going to see, we had dinner at The Red Fern.

They are located at 283 Oxford Street, Rochester, NY.  With it’s inviting little red door, you step down into the place & come face to face with their awesome looking bakery case!

We throughly enjoyed our meal there, and we will definitely be back! As expected we grabbed a couple baked goods to take home with us. We got a lemon raspberry blondie & a chocolate peanut butter rice crispy treat!

We then made our way to the Kodak Center to see Randy Rainbow Live - The Pink Glasses Tour! What a fun show! If you love musical theater, and political satire, you will love Randy Rainbow. Check out his You Tube channel!

Thanks so much for listening! Enjoy the Show!

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The Red Fern    https://redfernrochester.com

Randy Rainbow    https://www.randyrainbow.com

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Hey Pickles!

We're one year old!!! That's right we've been doing this crazy vegan podcast thing for a whole year! We're so glad that you've been here with us as we've grown and learned along the way!

We also had a big vegan birthday bash for Sam this past weekend. We'll fill you in on all the vegan food that we made for the party!

We made a recipe for our Vegan Cookbook Challenge with a bit of a twist.
This week's recipe was an homage to Christine's late Mother, Joyce. You'll hear why she honored her Mom with this particular recipe, and we'll share the recipe below! It's a recipe by Italian Chef, Lidia Bastianich. We have many of Lidia's cookbooks, however this recipe was not in any of them! We're pretty sure this recipe is only from one of her many cooking shows. We found it on a food forum!

We created a list of some of the hidden animal ingredients that you should watch out for when you're doing your grocery shopping, and we let you know in which foods you might find them.
We recommend the book Animal Ingredients A to Z by EG Smith Collective , and Carol Adams. We'll link to it below

We will be in Rochester NY this weekend to see Randy Rainbow at the Kodak Center, and we will definitely be seeking out some vegan eateries while we're in Rochester, so we will report back on that in next week's episode.

In other exciting news, we are going to Washington DC in October for the Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit! The AVA Summit aims to accelerate progress and create systemic change for animals by empowering advocates and organizations to increase their impact.
We'll give you more details as the it gets closer!

Thank you so much for listening! Enjoy the show!

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Randy's Autobiography *paid link    https://amzn.to/3duH9No

AVA Summit.   https://avasummit.com

This Week's Recipe  
Lidia's Potato, Onion, Cherry Tomato Bake

8 large yellow or russet potatoes sliced thin
1 large red onion sliced thin
1 C cherry tomatoes sliced in half
1/2 C Vegan Parmesan cheese
1/4 C olive oil 
Dried Oregano
Dried Parsley
Garlic Powder

in a large mixing bowl, combine the potatoes and onions add 1 Tbsp oregano,  1 Tbsp parsley, 1/2 Tbsp garlic powder, half of the olive oil, salt & pepper to taste. Mix well

Transfer to a baking dish

In the same mixing bowl add the

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Hey Pickles!

We were scheduled to be at the Toronto Vegfest this week. Alas, the Vegfest was cancelled due to an issue with their venue, but we decided to go to Toronto anyway because we love Toronto, and we had a non refundable hotel reservation.

We turned lemons into the most delish lemonade, and visited so many great vegan establishments!

We stopped first at Coven Plant Based Marketplace in Hamilton where we got some great vegan groceries, and a couple really swell sandwiches.

Then, we headed to the Hamilton Market to see our friend Kristy at The Apothecary Kitchen, and to get some of her amazing soups!

After talking with the fine folks there, we moved on to see Fraser at No Bones Plant Based Kitchen. We had a great time talking with Fraser while he baked us up some of his epic vegan sausage rolls.

We stayed in Vaughan, visited a huge Ikea, and had dinner at the Vaughan location of Copper Branch, a casual vegan place that has a ton of options to choose from.

We visited the Ontario Science Center, AND we had some of the best vegan Indian food at The Veggie Thali in North York. If you're in this area, and love Indian food, don't miss this place. So good!

On our way back, we stopped in Hamilton again to check out The Hearty Hooligan. This place is a funky little gem on Ottawa St with an amazing menu that's jam packed with vegan burritos, sandwiches, quesadillas & pizza pockets. They also have some great smoothies, coffee drinks and cocktails!

This was such a great weekend of vegan food & fun. We hope you enjoy coming along with us!

Thanks so much for listening!

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Coven Market    https://www.covenmarket.com

Apothecary Kitchen   https://www.healwithplants.ca

No Bones Kitchen    https://www.noboneskitchen.ca

Copper Branch     https://www.eatcopperbranch.com

Evviva    https://evviva.ca

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Hey Pickles!

This week we play a fun vegan trivia game that you can play along at home!

We continue our Vegan Cookbook Challenge with another recipe from Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero.

We have our first installment of a new segment, Sam's Books in Review!

We also have a good dose of our usual shenanigans, and talk a bit about a cool app called
Flash Foods that allows you to get soon to expire products from your local grocery store at reduced prices. Check it out!

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The Vegan Trivia Quiz   https://www.totallyveganbuzz.com/entertainment/quiz-can-you-score-full-marks-in-our-ultimate-vegan-trivia-quiz/

Isa Chandra Moskowitz Post Punk Kitchen    https://www.theppk.com

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Hey Pickles!

We have a ton to talk about this week, so we've pushed pause on our Vegan Cookbook Challenge to make room for it all!

We went to a vegan meet up in Buffalo at The Beer Keep, hosted by Donisha Gant, owner of Plantae Vegan Market 212 Grant St Buffalo! We'll fill you in on the event and the food we found at The Beer Keep.

We sat in on a zoom meeting hosted by Connie Spence, founder of Agriculture Fairness Alliance. She was reporting back on her trip to DC with their lobbyists where they had meetings with lawmakers to discuss the upcoming farm bill. Connie wants us to encourage you to join their vegan voter hub. It helps get information about animal rights policy out to vegan voters. You can do that here  https://agriculturefairnessalliance.org/vegan-voter-hub/

We headed south to the Pittsburgh VegFest! This was a big event with over 140 vendors.
There was food, animal sanctuaries, rescue orgs, food trucks, and live local bands!

It was a great event, and we want to thank everyone involved in putting it together!
We had a wonderful time, and it was a beautiful day!

Thank you so so so much for listening, and for supporting all we do!

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Our Mockingbird Farms Fundraiser    https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Cucumbers

Plantae Vegan Market.   https://www.facebook.com/Plantaemarketbuffalo/

The Beer Keep    https://www.thebeerkeep.com

Kindred Spirits Rescue Ranch    https://kindredspiritsrescueranch.com

Pigsburgh Squeelers Rescue.   https://www.pigsburghsquealers.com

Compassion Co. Vegan Clothing & Merch    https://compassionco.com

Geology Rocks! And Minerals    https://geologyrockspittsburgh.com

Sleepy Hollow Handmade Soaps    https://sleepyhollowhandmade.com

No Pig Neva.   https://nopigneva.com

Squash The Beef.   https://squashthebeefcatering.com

Ox's Way    https://www.oxsway.com

The Chosen Crumb.   https://thechosencrumb.square.site

Snackever    https://snackever.com

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