10 November 2012

Online Vegan Bake Sale is OPEN!

1. During this weekend, November 10-11, check out the 15 items available. All are pictured below, just scroll down. (Please note that some items are available in duplicate, for example Jessi will make up to 7 orders of 6 raspberry blondies). 

2. Comment on the post, stating the items you want to buy. Or if you're having trouble with the commenting, mention your items on our Facebook (event page/PTAC fan page, or Jessi's personal page). We will be updating the list of sold items every few hours here and on Facebook.

3. Pay via PayPal to gingercardco@gmail.com immediately, to secure your item(s). Be sure to include shipping costs for each item if you are not in the area the baker is. You do not need to have a PayPal account to use it, you can just enter your credit/debit card number. It is very safe. Email us if you have questions/issues.

That's it! The baker will make the goodies and ship them Priority mail to your address listed in PayPal, by next weekend, right to you! Or if it's a local item, we will contact you to arrange a pick up. Anyone in the lower 48-states can bid.

As an extra incentive to raise more money for the charities, for each $40 you spend, you also get your choice of 'zine issues (including the new cookbook).

ALL money (except shipping costs in some cases) goes to four of our favorite and very deserving charities, which are: Cat Call (rescue group in Tampa), For The Animals Sanctuary (in NJ), Carnism Awareness & Action Network, and Animal Rights & Rescue of North Texas. Any additional donations over the requested amount are very much appreciated.


1. Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge
1 dozen pieces $20 (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Orlando)


 2. Mini Apple Spice Donuts
1 dozen $20 (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Orlando)


3. Beastie Biscuit Dog Treats
1 dozen cookies for dogs $15 (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Colorado Springs)
Variety pack of flavors, including pumpkin, molasses and peanut butter
Baker can make several dozen, up to 5 dozen or so.


4. Raspberry Blondies
6 big bars $25 (+$8 Priority shipping if outside Orlando)
Baker can make several orders, up to 7 orders (6 in each order)


 5. Chocolate Zucchini Mini Muffins
$20 per 2 dozen (2 mini's = 1 regular) (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Colorado Springs)
Baker can make several dozen, up to 5 dozen or so.


6. Pecan Pie
$28 (+$8 Priority shipping if outside Tampa)
(And Jessi in Orlando will make a second pecan pie if this one sells)


7. Pumpkin Pie
$23 (Orlando area only - must be local pick-up)


8. Pumpkin Scones
$20 - 1 dozen (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Orlando)
2 orders of these are available. (12 in each order)


9. Pumpkin Spice Balls - 95% Raw
$20 per dozen (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Plant City/Tampa area)
2 orders of these are available. (12 in each order)


10. Pumpkin Bread
$18 (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Bergen County, NJ)


11. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
$20 - 1 dozen ($7 Priority shipping if outside Arlington, TX)
Baker can make 2 orders of 1 dozen.


12. Double Chocolate "Oreo" Brownies
$25 for 6 (+$8 Priority shipping if outside Plant City/Tampa area)
4 orders of these are available. (6 in each order)
 


 13. Giant Peanut Butter Cookies
$25 for 1 dozen (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Brooklyn, NYC)


14. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies
$25 for 6 (+$5 Priority shipping if outside Plant City/Tampa area)
4 orders of these are available. (6 in each order)

15. Banana Bread
$18 for 1 loaf (+$7 Priority shipping if outside Orlando)

07 November 2012

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau says Watch my NEW Thanksgiving Video!




As Thanksgiving approaches each year, vegetarian and vegans tend to be accused of "breaking tradition" for not eating turkeys. And yet, if we hold historical accuracy as the standard for being true to "tradition," then all of us who eat mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, sweet cranberry sauce, and flour biscuits are breaking tradition since none of these things were eaten at "The First Thanksgiving" in 1621.  

The strong response people have to vegans not eating turkeys on Thanksgiving belies the unfortunate fact that we place more emphasis on tradition than on our values of health and compassion. And yet, they need not be mutually exclusive. We can most certainly eat in such a way that reflects our values and honors tradition at the same time.

In my new Vegan Thanksgiving video, I call on each of us to remember the true meaning of this holiday - gratitude, community, seasonal abundance, and generosity - and provide practical tips for reflecting these values in the foods we choose. Check out the video for my recommendations for creating a beautiful main dish, delicious side dishes, and scrumptious desserts that contain all the flavor and texture of our familiar favorites without any of the harm. 

For the animals,
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

The 30-Day Vegan Challenge: Your personal guide to eating healthfully and living compassionately.
Whether you want to improve your overall health, shed a few pounds, demonstrate your compassion for animals, or help the environment, expert Colleen Patrick-Goudreau gives you the tools and resources you need to make the vegan transition - healthfully, joyfully, and deliciously. Addressing your every question and challenge, Patrick-Goudreau holds your hand the entire time, helping you to break free from old habits and to experience lasting benefits - both tangible and intangible.

02 November 2012

Another Online Bake Sale coming soon!

Save the Date! We're hosting another online bake sale! The bake sale beneficiaries are: Cat Call (rescue group in Tampa), For The Animals Sanctuary (in NJ), Carnism Awareness & Action Network, and Animal Rights & Rescue of North Texas. How it works: On November 10-11, you bid on goodies via blog comments or email (we'll have photos posted here), we contact you for payment via PayPal, then the baker mails the goodies to your door! We made over $1000 doing this in March!

PTAC cookbook available!!!

Two exciting things happening with the Peace to All Creatures Zine Project!

First, we have a cookbook zine for sale now! New recipes from friends and bloggers we love, plus some from back issues of the Peace to All Creatures zine! Of course, 100% of profits go to charities we love! It's available on Etsy here.

The recipes (all vegan):

Sides & appetizers: Mediterranean Quinoa Chickpea Pilaf • Roasted Garlic and Cilantro Hummus• Japanese Tofu Taco Bites • Stuffed Veggie Buns• Crabby Cakes

Soup & Salad: Tuscan Potato Soup • Cream of Mushroom Soup & Herb Spread • Green Chile Corn Chowder • Char’s Veggie Chili

Entrees: Colcannon Pancakes with Roasted Cabbage • Friend of the sheep’s pie • Thousand Island Dressing + Linguini with Pesto • Mushroom Stroganoff • Blackberry Glazed Tofusteaks with Hoppin’ Salsa in Mole Sauce • Maple Teriyaki Kabobs over Coconut Arborio Rice • Creamy Avocado Collard Green Wraps • Chickpea Tacos w/Fresh Tomato Avocado Salsa • Easy Peasy Garlic Veggies and Shells • Zucchini Lasagne • Weekly Meal Plans

Breads: Gluten-Free Bagels • “Buttermilk” Cinnamon Rolls • Fresh Apple Cake Muffins • BBB muffins (blueberry banana bran muffins) • Banana Bread • Gluten-Free Pancakes

Desserts: Cranberry Macadamia Buttons • Choco Chunk Cookies • Chocolate Bread Pudding • Gluten Free Girl Scout Samoas • Raspberry Creme Pie • No-Bake Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Date Balls • No-Bake Chocolate Cherry Pie Balls • Celebration Cake for Doggies • Brown Sugar Pecan Pie • Spiced Cashew Mylk Hot Chocolate • Fall Smoothie

Non-food: laundry detergent • eco-friendly roach repellent

27 October 2012

You Gotta Fight For Your Right

Picture of 1913 Suffrage March, New York City
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
In honor of the election "season", and in honor of progress, and in honor the four courageous women who got us to where we are today; I want to share with you "The Solitude of Self". 
     Elizabeth Cady Stanton served as president of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association for twenty years.And association founded by Stanton, Susan B. Anthony & Lucy Stone in 1890. This is the farewell speech given by Elizabeth in 1892 when she resigned at the age of 77. Elizabeth Cady Stanton served as president of the NAWSA for twenty years.
     The woman's suffrage movement lasted for nearly a century. Please see the end of this post for more links. Educate yourself! Take no right for granted. People fought passionately for these rights. People gave their lives for your rights. And girls: GET OUT & VOTE! Please and Thank you!


Elizabeth Cady Stanton "To deny political equality is to rob the ostracised of all self-respect" quote
Such is individual life. Who, I ask you, can take, dare take on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul? ~Stanton

The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul; our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment; our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe, with her woman, Friday, on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.
Secondly, if we consider her as a citizen, as a member of a great nation, she must have the same rights as all others members, according to the fundamental principles of our Government.

Thirdly, viewed as a woman, an equal factor in civilization, her rights and duties are still the same—individual happiness and development.
Fourthly, it is only the incidental relations of life, such as mother, wife, sister, daughter, which may involve some special duties and training. . .

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself. No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency, they must know something of the laws of navigation. To guide our own craft, we must be captain, pilot, engineer; with chart and compass to stand at the wheel; to watch the winds and waves, and know when to take in the sail, and to read the signs in the firmament over all. It matters not whether the solitary voyager is man or woman; nature, having endowed them equally, leaves them to their own skill and judgment in the hour of danger, and, if not equal to the occasion, alike they perish.

To appreciate the importance of fitting every human soul for independent action, think for a moment of the immeasurable solitude of self. We come into the world alone, unlike all who have gone before us, we leave it alone, under circumstances peculiar to ourselves. No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life. There can never again be just such a combination of prenatal influences; never again just such environments as make up the infancy, youth and manhood of this one. Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. No one has ever found two blades of ribbon grass alike, and no one will ever find two human beings alike. Seeing, then, what must be the infinite diversity in human character, we can in a measure appreciate the loss to a nation when any class of the people is uneducated and unrepresented in the government.

We ask for the complete development of every individual, first, for his own benefit and happiness. In fitting out an army, we give each soldier his own knapsack, arms, powder, his blanket, cup, knife, fork and spoon. We provide alike for all their individual necessities; then each man bears his own burden.

Again, we ask complete individual development for the general good; for the consensus of the competent on the whole round of human interests, on all questions of national life; and here each man must bear his share of the general burden. It is sad to see how soon friendless children are left to bear their own burdens, before they can analyze their feelings; before they can even tell their joys and sorrows, they are thrown on their own resources. The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages in self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. . . .
In youth our most bitter disappointments, our brightest hopes and ambitions, are known only to ourselves. Even our friendship and love we never fully share with another; there is something of every passion, in every situation, we conceal. Even so in our triumphs and our defeats. . .

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in the shadow of our affliction. Alike amid the greatest triumphs and darkest tragedies of life, we walk alone. On the divine heights of human attainment, eulogized and worshipped as a hero or saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty and vice, as a pauper or criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs of our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded through dark courts and alleys, in by-ways and high-ways; alone we stand in the judgment seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the awful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities, hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing, then, that life must ever be a march and a battle that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes; to deny the rights of property is like cutting off the hands. To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work, of a voice in choosing those who make and administer the law, a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment. Think of . . . woman’s position! Robbed of her natural rights, handicapped by law and custom at every turn, yet compelled to fight her own battles, and in the emergencies of life to fall back on herself for protection. . .

The young wife and mother, at the head of some establishment, with a kind husband to shield her from the adverse winds of life, with wealth, fortune and position, has a certain harbor of safety, secure against the ordinary ills of life. But to manage a household, have a desirable influence in society, keep her friends and the affections of her husband, train her children and servants well, she must have rare common sense, wisdom, diplomacy, and a knowledge of human nature. To do all this, she needs the cardinal virtues and the strong points of character that the most successful statesman possesses. An uneducated woman trained to dependence, with no resources in herself, must make a failure of any position in life. But society says women do not need a knowledge of the world, the liberal training that experience in public life must give, all the advantages of collegiate education; but when for the lack of all this, the woman’s happiness is wrecked, alone she bears her humiliation; and the solitude of the weak and the ignorant is indeed pitiable. In the wild chase for the prizes of life, they are ground to powder.

In age, when the pleasures of youth are passed, children grown up, married and gone, the hurry and bustle of life in a measure over, when the hands are weary of active service, when the old arm chair and the fireside are the chosen resorts, then men and women alike must fall hack on their own resources. If they cannot find companionship in books, if they have no interest in the vital questions of the hour, no interest in watching the consummation of reforms with which they might have been identified, they soon pass into their dotage. The more fully the faculties of the mind are developed and kept in use, the longer the period of vigor and active interest in all around us continues. If, from a life-long participation in public affairs, a woman feels responsible for the laws regulating our system of education, the discipline of our jails and prisons, the sanitary condition of our private homes, public buildings and thoroughfares, an interest in commerce, finance, our foreign relations, in any or all these questions, her solitude will at least be respectable, and she will not be driven to gossip or scandal for entertainment.

The chief reason for opening to every soul the doors to the whole round of human duties and pleasures is the individual development thus attained, the resources thus provided under all circumstances to mitigate the solitude that at times must come to everyone. . .

Inasmuch, then, as woman shares equally the joys and sorrows of time and eternity, is it not the height of presumption in man to propose to represent her at the ballot box and the throne of grace, to do her voting in the state, her praying in the church, and to assume the position of high priest at the family altar?
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one’s self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded—a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position. Conceding, then, that the responsibilities of life rest equally on man and woman, that their destiny is the same, they need the same preparation for time and eternity. The talk of sheltering woman from the fierce storms of life is the sheerest mockery, for they beat on her from every point of the compass, just as they do on man, and with more fatal results, for he has been trained to protect himself, to resist, and to conquer. Such are the facts in human experience, the responsibilities of individual sovereignty. Rich and poor, intelligent and ignorant, wise and foolish, virtuous and vicious, man and woman; it is ever the same, each soul must depend wholly on itself.

Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life, he cannot bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world; no one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is greater than she can bear, alone she passes beyond the gates into the vast unknown.

From the mountain-tops of Judea long ago, a heavenly voice bade his disciples, “Bear ye one another’s burdens”; but humanity has not yet risen to that point of self-sacrifice; and if ever so willing, how few the burdens are that one soul can bear for another! . . .

So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone. We may have many friends, love, kindness, sympathy and charity, to smooth our pathway in everyday life, but in the tragedies and triumphs of human experience, each mortal stands alone.

But when all artificial trammels are removed, and women are recognized as individuals, responsible for their own environments, thoroughly educated for all positions in life they may be called to fill; with all the resources in themselves that liberal thought and broad culture can give; guided by their own conscience and judgment, trained to self-protection, by a healthy development of the muscular system, and skill in the use of weapons and defence; and stimulated to self-support by a knowledge of the business world and the pleasure that pecuniary independence must ever give; when women are trained in this way, they will in a measure be fitted for those hours of solitude that come alike to all, whether prepared or otherwise. As in our extremity we must depend on ourselves, the dictates of wisdom point to complete individual development.

In talking of education, how shallow the argument that each class must be educated for the special work it proposes to do, and that all those faculties not needed in this special work must lie dormant and utterly wither for want of use, when, perhaps, these will be the very faculties needed in life’s greatest emergencies! Some say, “Where is the use of drilling girls in the languages, the sciences, in law, medicine, theology. As wives, mothers, housekeepers, cooks, they need a different curriculum from boys who are to fill all positions. The chief cooks in our great hotels and ocean steamers are men. In our large cities, men run the bakeries; they make our bread, cake and pies. They manage the laundries; they are now considered our best milliners and dressmakers. Because some men fill these departments of usefulness, shall we regulate the curriculum in Harvard and Yale to their present necessities? If not, why this talk in our best colleges of a curriculum for girls who are crowding into the trades and professions, teachers in all our public schools, rapidly filling many lucrative and honorable positions in life?”. . .

Women are already the equals of men in the whole realm of thought, in art, science, literature and government. . . . The poetry and novels of the century are theirs, and they have touched the keynote of reform, in religion, politics and social life. They fill the editor’s and professor’s chair, plead at the bar of justice, walk the wards of the hospital, speak from the pulpit and the platform. Such is the type of womanhood that an enlightened public sentiment welcomes to-day, and such the triumph of the facts of life over the false theories of the past.
Is it, then, consistent to hold the developed woman of this day within the same narrow political limits as the dame with the spinning wheel and knitting needle occupied in the past? No, no! Machinery has taken the labors of woman as well as man on its tireless shoulders; the loom and the spinning wheel are but dreams of the past; the pen, the brush, the easel, the chisel, have taken their places, while the hopes and ambitions of women are essentially changed.

We see reason sufficient in the outer conditions of human beings for individual liberty and development, but when we consider the self-dependence of every human soul, we see the need of courage, judgment and the exercise of every faculty of mind and body, strengthened and developed by use, in woman as well as man.
Whatever may be said of man’s protecting power in ordinary conditions, amid all the terrible disasters by land and sea, in the supreme moments of danger, alone woman must ever meet the horrors of the situation. The Angel of Death even makes no royal pathway for her. Man’s love and sympathy enter only into the sunshine of our lives. In that solemn solitude of self, that links us with the immeasurable and the eternal, each soul lives alone forever. A recent writer says: “I remember once, in crossing the Atlantic, to have gone upon the deck of the ship at midnight, when a dense black cloud enveloped the sky, and the great deep was roaring madly under the lashes of demoniac winds. My feeling was not of danger or fear (which is a base surrender of the immortal soul) but of utter desolation and loneliness; a little speck of life shut in by a tremendous darkness. . . .”
And yet, there is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced. It is more hidden than the caves of the gnome; the sacred adytum of the oracle; the hidden chamber of Eleusinian mystery, for to it only omniscience is permitted to enter.

Such is individual life. Who, I ask you, can take, dare take on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self” The Woman’s Column, January 1882, 2–3. Reprinted in Ellen Carol DuBois, ed.,Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Correspondence, Writings, and Speeches (New York, 1981).

15 October 2012

New York City, Day 5


First up, Amber and I made our way to Foodswings vegan diner, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I got a chopped salad, potato skins (bacun bits, cheddar cheese – homemade, sour cream), and a “crunchberries” milk shake – strawberry ice cream with Oreo-type cookies blended in. The salad was okay, the potatoes were good, and the milkshake was magical! Afterward we went to what I would describe as an overpriced hipster yard sale store! They were selling secondhand items for $10 that at a regular yard sale you would get 50-cents for! Then, we went to a most amazing store, Fuego 718. So much cool stuff - I’m a huge fan of Dia de Los Muertos and Frida Kahlo items! I didn’t actually buy anything, but I wanted ALL of it!

Then a quick subway ride to Dun-well Doughnuts. I got one with raspberry icing, and one with peanut butter icing filled with raspberry jelly. MAGICAL. I ate the (very squished) half of the peanut butter one I had left when we got to the airport the next day. 

After that, we needed to see Trader Joes - we've never been. We went to the one in Manhattan – saw the line – didn’t buy anything. One of the employees told us they do the same amount of business at that one in a day than the others do in 2 weeks!  Will go to the new Sarasota location for all the yummy, inexpensive stuff next month. I have pined for a Trader Joes here for YEARS. They need to hurry up and build one in Orlando!

14 October 2012

New York City, Day 4

Wedding Day!

Amber and I made the palm-oil-free wedding cake, while Pj – the bride - was running around like crazy trying to get ready. The icing was only: cocoa butter, powdered sugar and vanilla. I think we should have made our own butter instead of just using cocoa butter, but there was no time for experimenting! It was an… interesting experience. I don't think I'll be posting a photo!

The wedding was held on the patio of V-Spot, a Columbian-influenced vegan restaurant in Brooklyn.  The dinner food included: empanadas - tofu scramble and tempeh mushroom, a cold Asian noodle salad with broccoli and tofu, summer rolls, and soft tacos – mushroom/spinach and ground “beef”. I need to figure out how to make the flaky, buttery crust the empanadas had!

I had the honor of officiating the wedding ceremony, which was based on an amazing vegan-centric ceremony that Dr. Melanie Joy wrote. Pj's sister did the photography.
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