The simplest of salads

Good morning! Last night I made an impromptu, quick dinner that was so easy I just had to share. 

Here’s the simple salad recipe:

1. I started by chopping a small head of romaine lettuce.
2. Then I drained and rinsed a can of chickpeas and tossed half with the lettuce in a bowl.
3. I added chopped red onion.
4. Then I sprinkled hemp seeds (Ziggy Marley Organic roasted salt and pepper brand from this month’s Vegan Cuts snack box), pumpkin seeds, and pine nuts over the top.
5. I added a splash of rice vinegar, a splash of low-sodium soy sauce, and finished it off with ground black pepper.

Filling, delicious, and packed with nutrients! What’s your favorite five-minute salad?

Miscellaneous

Sunday I ranted about the Humane Society of the United States hosting a dining event in Denver in which they “celebrate” and “respect” hoofed animals … by eating them! Clearly filed under “WTF,” some might say I’ve become obsessed. I have. I simply cannot wrap my head around how HSUS can take their philosophy of meeting farmers at the table to talk about treating animals humanely to meeting farmers at the table and eating animals while celebrating how awesomely humane they all are.

Well, there’s been a lot of activity since then:

• My friend Alison (Running on Vegan) put together a Change.org petition on behalf of our local animal rights group. I hope you’ll sign it.

• Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary is holding a beautiful online vigil for each HSUS-sponsored animal slaughtered and consumed this week in Denver. While others are dining on animals, Peaceful Prairie is telling truth stories about the animals they have rescued and about the myth of humane meat.
• I am ranting regularly on Facebook. I can’t stop. I’m obsessed.

In other news, our friends at the Colorado Springs Independent wrote up a piece, Join the Cowspiracy, to help get the word out that we need to sell 82 tickets by September 11 to show Cowspiracy locally. With 50 more tickets to sell, we need you! Please buy tickets (and share with everyone you know!).

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