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Hey Pickles!

Happy New Year!
We hope you enjoy this replay of Ep 68, Vegan New Year's - Happy Veganuary - New Year's Fun Facts & Traditions - Our New Year's Intentions!

We're looking forward to bringing you more wonderful vegan content in 2024.

Talk to you soon!
Love, Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

We're taking some time to spend with our family.  We hope you can do the same!

In the meantime we will be re-releasing some of our most loved holiday episodes.
This week, it's Listener Holiday Favorites!

We hope you have a wonderful holiday season.
We'll be back with new episodes Tuesday January 9th 2024!

Till then, thank you for all of your support. We couldn't do this without you!

Love, 
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Hey Pickles!

This week, we keep the holiday shenanigans going with a round of holiday trivia!
We hope that you play along at home & let us know how you did!

In our Noteworthy Segment, we tell you about a Freedom of Information  law suit that was filed and won against the FBI in order to make available to the public, records surrounding the FBI's involvement with the animal agriculture industry. 

We have a new tip for new vegans, a Vegan Org of the Week, a new Listener Shout Out, and more!

Enjoy the show, and have a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year!

We will be back with a new episode Tuesday January 9th!

Till then, we love you. 
Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

This week, we go through a list of some our favorite things. We hope you play along at home, and we'd love it of you would share what your favorites are!

In our Noteworthy segment, we give you an update on animal activist, Wayne Hsiung.

We have a new recipe from our Listener Recipe series. It's a fabulous Spinach Artichoke Dip sent to us by Crystal Allen. If you would like to make it yourself, here's the recipe!

Crystal’s Amazing Vegan Spinach Artichoke Dip

In a high speed blender add:

4 C Raw cashews soaked in hot water for 2-8 hours drained then rinsed

1 T Pickled jalapeño pepper along with 1 t of the brine

2 t Sriracha (more if you want it more spicy)

2 T Apple cider vinegar

2 T Lemon juice

2 T Trader Joes Allium Seasoning blend ( if you cant find this add 1 T each of dehydrated onion, garlic, green onion & a pinch of salt)

2 t Each of garlic powder, onion powder, salt & ground pepper

1/8 t Red pepper flakes

4 Cloves garlic

2 T Salsa verde

Blend on high for  4-6 minutes

Then fold into:

2 12oz Bags frozen organic spinach pulsed in food processor a few times

33oz Marinated artichoke hearts drained & pulsed in food processor

Turn mix into a 9X11 pyrex baking pan

Top with vegan parmesan ( 2 C Raw almonds, 3 T Nutritional yeast, 1 t garlic & onion powder, 2 t salt. Process in food processor until it resembles parmesan cheese)

Bake at 350 for 45 min or until bubbly

Let us know if you try it!

We also have a new Listener Shoutout, a Vegan Org of the Week, and a tip for new vegans!

Thanks for listening, and enjoy the show!

Love,
Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

We hope this finds you well!

This week's episode is our 2023 Vegan Gift Giving Guide where, we give you some great ideas on how to buy gifts from small vegan friendly sellers.

We'll tell you some of our favorites, some new vegan vendors, and how to avoid consumerism at the holiday season.

We also tell you about a wonderful event that we tabled, and how we've been welcomed into a vegan community in Central New York. We've made some incredible connections with some beautiful people that we hope will become life long friends.

Our Noteworthy segment focuses on a Kickstarter campaign for an animal rights themed video game developed by vegan strongman, Patrik Baboumian!

You can learn more & support the campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/earthraiser/earthraiser-total-liberation/description?ref=section-games-function%20toLowerCase()%20%7B%20%5Bnative%20code%5D%20%7D-5-category_popular

We, of course have a new Listener Shout out, a Vegan Org of the Week, and a tip for How To Go Vegan!

Thank so much for listening & enjoy the show!
Love, Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!
 
This week, we're talking all things Vegan London! We attended Vegfest UK, and we'll give you all of the details!

In our Noteworthy segment, we discuss the rumors that Miyokos Creamery is planning on selling the company.
Read more here:  https://www.just-food.com/news/miyokos-creamery-calls-funding-ponders-potential-sale-of-business/

Get yourself a beverage and a comfy place to relax, because this is a long one!
We have so much to tell you about our trip across the pond!

Thanks for listening!
Love, Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

We're currently in London for Vegfest UK. We hope you are as excited to hear all about it as we are to tell you!

In the meantime, we are revisiting Ep 65, How To Navigate A Non Vegan World During The Holidays. 

Enjoy the episode, and thank you so much for listening!
Love, Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

We hope this episode finds you well.
This week, We share a letter that Wayne Hsiung wrote from his jail cell.
Read it here:  https://blog.simpleheart.org/p/the-transformative-power-of-suffering

In our Noteworthy segment, we tell you how drone footage is revealing what big dairy is doing to our water supplies.

Our Main Topic focuses on the delay in the upcoming Farm Bill, and we get some perspective on it from Farm Sanctuary's Aaron Rimmler-Cohen.
You can read his full interview here:  https://civileats.com/2023/11/06/animal-welfare-advocates-want-a-say-in-the-next-farm-bill/

Our Vegan Org of the Week is  Afro Vegan Society.
Learn more about them here:  https://www.afrovegansociety.org

We have a new recipe From Our Vegan Kitchen, a new Listener SHOUT OUT, a tip on How To Go Vegan, and so much more!

Thank for listening!

Love, 
Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!
We hope you had a great World Vegan Day, and this week, in our Main Topic, we wanted to offer you some ways you can celebrate all month long!

We also pay tribute to animal advocate, Karen Davis, who passed away this week.
Karen was the founder of United Poultry Concerns and spent her life fighting for animals in the animal agriculture industry. She will be missed by many, and we hope that her amazing work will live on.

In our Noteworthy Segment, we update you on the Right to Rescue trial involving animal advocate, Wayne Hsiung. We didn't get the verdict that we were all hoping for.

We have a new Listener Recipe from listener, Ray Rios. It's his delicious and completely whole food vegan mac & cheese recipe that he was kind enough to share with us!
Here's the recipe if you would like to try it yourself!

Ray Rios’ Vegan Mac & Cheese

"For everyone who came to The Great Vegan Mac and Cheez Cook-Off and everyone who didn’t. I wanted to share my cheese sauce recipe for everyone to be able to make a healthy Mac and cheese option."

2 cups potatoes unpeeled

1 cup carrots, peeled and chopped

½ cup unsweetened almond milk

½ cup nutritional yeast

1 tablespoon lemon juice

2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon onion powder

1 teaspoon smoked paprika 

Cut potatoes and carrots boil until soft put all ingredients in a blender blend and serve with your favorite pasta.

We have a new Listener SHOUT OUT,  a Vegan Org of the Week, and much more!

We hope you enjoy the show!
Thanks so much for listening!
Love, 
Sam & Christine

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Hey Pickles!

Happy Halloween! We hope you have a safe & spooktacular one!

This week, we have a tone to talk about! We tabled at The Halloween Pop Up at The Vegan Center in Tonawanda NY where, there were some great food vendors!

We also attended & judged the First Annual Vegan Mac & Cheez Cook Off!!

We have a new recipe from our Vegan Cookbook Challenge from Vegan Buddha Bowls by Cara Carin Cifelli!
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In our Noteworthy Segment we tell you about Kindness Ranch Animal Sanctuary.
They rescue animals from the animal testing industry.
You can find out more about the work they do here:  https://kindnessranch.org

Our Main Topic is Vegan Horror Stories! We searched the web for stories where veganism has caused some trouble in peoples lives in a sort of horrific way!

Our Vegan Org of the Week is We The Free aka WTF. They have a unique boots on the ground form of activism that involves a challenge where people can receive a free donut or cupcake for withstanding 3-5 minuted of a film documenting standard animal agriculture practices.

Find out more about their mission here: https://www.activism.wtf

We have a new tip on How to Go Vegan, a Listener Shout Out, and so much more!

Thanks for listening & we hope you enjoy the episode!

Love, 
Christine & Sam

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