full disclosure

i'm not 100% strict vegan. well, i have been up to this point... but i plan to eat the goat's milk cranberry 'rappahannock fromage' from lovers retreat that unexpectedly came in my dominion harvest box this week. i might eat eggs that my cousin jenny's chickens laid, if they were cooked in a really tasty way. but i can't in good conscience buy or eat anything that came from a factory "farm." (i don't think a warehouse can really be called a farm...)

there is so little non-factory food - so many small farms have been put out of business - that it is impossible for everyone to eat ethically raised meat, dairy, or eggs on a daily basis. there aren't enough pasture-raised chickens to feed staten island.

i never really ate much meat, but i ate a metric ton of seafood. really, there is nothing tastier than hamachi sashimi. but the way they are caught can be really destructive. if myself or someone i know were to go fishing and catch a few, i will eat that fish. i'll eat crabs next summer, caught off my parents' dock on queen's creek.

i didn't really need a book or film or other book to tell me any of this, and i'm sure you already know, too. (that film really seared it into my brain forever, though, yikes.) but i realized that the changes i need to make to ease my conscience were really pretty small. i've found it to be remarkably easy to make filling meals without fish, dairy, or eggs.

although all of the recipes i post here can be unveganized for omnivores, they're hopefully just really tasty recipes as they are - not recipes just for vegans.

xoxo