{"id":1331,"date":"2013-01-10T21:18:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T02:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2013-01-10T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T02:18:06","slug":"things-i-love-thursday-food-love-cats-and-vegan-pledge-tilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/things-i-love-thursday-food-love-cats-and-vegan-pledge-tilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Love Thursday &#8211; Food, Love, Cats, and Vegan Pledge #TILT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of things I love this year so far, it started off in a lovely fashion, I&#8217;ve started knocking things off of my 101 in 1001 list, and we started fostering kittens with <a href=\"torontocatrescue.ca\">Toronto Cat Rescue<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Adoptable from Toronto Cat Rescue - Corwin by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8369268002\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8228\/8369268002_82dea3cec9.jpg\" alt=\"Adoptable from Toronto Cat Rescue - Corwin\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet Corwin. He&#8217;s about 12 weeks old, and a shy, but cuddly purrfactory. I haven&#8217;t really gotten to know him very well yet, so I can&#8217;t really write anything other than he&#8217;s a sweetheart already with a bit of frost bite on his nose. He&#8217;s recovering from being neutered, he&#8217;s got a bit of a quarantine, and then he&#8217;ll be ready for adoption. People don&#8217;t appreciate how hard it is to take a non-blurry picture of a kitten. They&#8217;re always in motion, always seeing something that they want to play with, or nuzzle, or chew or hey look over there&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Goathouse Refuge in North Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siglindascarpa.com\/\">Siglinda Scarpa<\/a>&#8216;s (mostly) cat rescue called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goathouserefuge.org\/mission\/\">The Goathouse Refuge<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/10\/garden\/300-cats-and-counting.html\">in the New York Times today<\/a> and it made me smile. Siglinda Scarpa is an Italian-American potter and artist with an\u00a0affinity\u00a0for animals, she started the no-kill cat rescue in 2007, and has been the primary benefactor of the organization ever since. There is a full time staff, and volunteers, but it relies on donations and funds from the sale of Scarpa&#8217;s art work.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4bUlwFZ9Vlo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheGoathouseRefuge\">connect with The Goathouse Refuge on Facebook<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pressure Cookers and delicious recipes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the holiday gift exchange this year, JC&#8217;s sister got me a pressure cooker, and so far it&#8217;s been really awesome. We&#8217;ve both had a great time using it, and it&#8217;s amazing how fast (and tasty) things are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/51itdSKE5YL.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1333\" title=\"Everything Vegetarian Pressure Cooker cookbook\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/51itdSKE5YL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/51itdSKE5YL.jpg 431w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/51itdSKE5YL-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kelly of <a href=\"threeandahalfvegans.blogspot.ca\">Three and a Half Vegans<\/a> mentioned a book called the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/The_Everything_Vegetarian_Pressure_Cooke.html?id=7t3pb4SicQEC\">Everything Vegetarian Pressure Cooker cookbook<\/a>, and I got it on the Kobo this morning. It&#8217;s not exclusively vegan, but every recipe that isn&#8217;t vegan has vegan substitutions included (if needed).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Paella - going for seconds by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8369405784\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8465\/8369405784_e2e2d653cc.jpg\" alt=\"Paella - going for seconds\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to playing around with it some more, but I made the Paella for dinner tonight and it was delicious and took a total of 30 minutes including cooking!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Vegan Pledge and\u00a0Mentor-ship\u00a0option by The Vegan Society.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"www.vegansociety.com\/VeganPledge.aspx\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1332\" title=\"Vegan-Pledge\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Vegan-Pledge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Vegan-Pledge.jpg 468w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Vegan-Pledge-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I volunteer as a Vegan mentor with <a href=\"www.vegansociety.com\/\">The Vegan Society<\/a>. Sometimes I get connected with people that have no interest in talking, other times people email me frequently with questions and concerns and often those &#8220;How do you deal with&#8230;&#8221; questions. It&#8217;s connected me with a lot of interesting people, with different reasons for wanting to be vegan, and has all around helped me identify what&#8217;s important to me, and made me aware of the struggles that some people experience when going vegan.<\/p>\n<p>I love that this exists, and that the Vegan Society offers this service, and I know there are lots of other volunteers out there helping people go vegan for free, no consultation fees or &#8220;programs&#8221; required. If you&#8217;re interested in taking the vegan pledge or being a vegan mentor, check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegansociety.com\/VeganPledge.aspx\">here on the Vegan Society&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other stuff on my Things I Love Thursday list are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tajin.com\/en-us\/\">Codeacademy<\/a>, friends that check in on me when I&#8217;m sick, rediscovering dreams and consuming as many books as possible on the subject, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tajin.com\/en-us\/\">Tajin fruit seasoning spice<\/a>, grapefruit sparkling water, watching the new technology appearing at CES, the very awesome job my grocer did of packing up my grocery bags today (seriously, it was impressive,) feeling a bit closer to health. I love that we&#8217;ll be visiting Cedar Row for a potluck and working visit (assuming JC and I feel better by Saturday) and, saving the best for last, Kes and Emmie, and JC.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love today?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of things I love this year so far, it started off in a lovely fashion, I&#8217;ve started knocking things off of my 101 in 1001 list, and we started fostering kittens with Toronto Cat Rescue again. Meet Corwin. 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