- Must read Frances Moore Lappe Diet for a Small Planet. Planet would be better off with more vegetarians
- Diet for a Small Planet How Buildings Learn Mountaineer's Guide to the High Sierra Our Bodies, Ourselves Illuminatus!
- A decades old book addressed this "Diet For A Small Planet" It's more pertinent than ever
Tuesday, I was at the bookstore and saw a copy of DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET and snatched it up.
I already have the book but if you have it, you use it.
Meaning pages come loose over time.
You don't have to go vegan.
If you do, great.
But we can all reduce the amount of meat we eat -- if only for our own health.
DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET explains how much the cost of a pound of beef ends up being. It will surprise you.
It's a great book.
It has many wonderful recipes.
If you have it in your kitchen, you may end up like me, putting rubber bands around it until you can get a new copy.
That's because you'll use it so much the pages will come loose.
It has all kinds of recipes including sweets.
I noted the book in my firstever blog post -- January 2006.
Eleven years ago!
Goodness.
I'll share the same recipe because it's great and even my meat loving husband does not complain about this dish -- it's really great.
Warning: The sauce for this is very hot. You may want to reduce the amount of hot sauce and chili powder.
Olive oil for sauteing
1 1/2 cups chopped onions
2 cups canned tomatoes
One 8-ounce can tomato sauce
2 cloves garlic, minced
Pinch cayenne pepper
10 drops hot sauce
1/2 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon chili powder
1 tablespoon honey
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin seed
1/4 pound black olives, pitted and sliced (reserve some for garnish)
1 1/2 cups cooked pinto beans (1/2 cup uncooked), mashed or ground
8 soft corn tortillas
1/4 pound Monterey Jack or other cheese, grated
Salt to taste
Heat oil and saute two-thirds of the onions until translucent. Add tomatoes, tomato sauce, half the garlic, the cayenne pepper, hot sauce, 1/2 tablespoon chili powder, honey, salt, and cumin seed and simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes.
Heat olive oil and saute remaining onions and garlic and black olives until onions are translucent. Add remaining 1 teaspoon chili powder, taste for salt, and add beans (and some sauce if mix seems too sticky). Stir well.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Fill each tortilla with 2 to 3 tablespoons filling and 1 tablespoon grated cheese. Roll up and put in a shallow baking pan. Cover with sauce, sprinkle with remaining cheese, and garnish with reserved olives. Bake until bubbling hot, about 30 minutes.
Complementary protein: beans + corn.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for Friday:
Friday, October 27, 2017.
The Baghdad-based government in Iraq has been using US supplied weapons to attack the Kurds. For those familiar with the law, the response required is not words of 'let's all get along.' No, the law compels the US government to drop all support for the Baghdad-based government of Hayder al-Abadi.
Per an assortment of treaties and agreements -- as well as the Leahy Amendment -- the US must immediately cut off support with the Baghdad-based government.
This means that the administration of US President Donald Trump are currently breaking the law.
The Baghdad-based government in Iraq has been using US supplied weapons to attack the Kurds. For those familiar with the law, the response required is not words of 'let's all get along.' No, the law compels the US government to drop all support for the Baghdad-based government of Hayder al-Abadi.
Per an assortment of treaties and agreements -- as well as the Leahy Amendment -- the US must immediately cut off support with the Baghdad-based government.
This means that the administration of US President Donald Trump are currently breaking the law.
Kurds demonstrate & call for support from international community against the attacks of #Iraq|i forces & Shia militias.
#SupportKurdistan
Greg Walters (VICE) updates the conflict:
On Thursday, Baghdad spurned Kurdistan’s offer to “freeze” the results of referendum, insisting the plebiscite be cancelled outright.
“We want calm, we want dialogue,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a press briefing this week. “We don’t want any violent acts being taken by anyone on any side.”
So far, no one in Baghdad appears to be listening.
Washington's decision to back Baghdad in its dispute with Erbil was based on its strategy to help Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi consolidate power and curb Iranian influence.
But by acquiescing to Baghdad's offensive on Kirkuk, the US inadvertently empowered the Iran-backed militias, which have dominated Iraq's security sphere since the 2014 collapse of the Iraqi armed forces.
The PMUs are supported by large segments of the Shia community in Iraq and will almost certainly alter the political map of the country in forthcoming elections in 2018. While in their ranks there are a number of state-aligned units that do not answer to Tehran, the PMUs are led and dominated by two Tehran-linked militias: the Badr Brigade and Ketaib Hezbollah.
The US government's refusal to support the Kurds has led to condemnation in some quarters. David Shuster offers this commentary.
US abandonment of the #Kurds in #Iraq is a moral failure and a strategic mistake, @DavidShuster says
And:
The U.S. abandonment of the #Kurds is absolutely stunning. Everyone needs to hear it. New Podcast...
Having sold out the Kurds and broken the law, the US government has certainly gone out on a limb for the Baghdad-based government. And in return? Hayder al-Abadi has attacked US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's suggestion that Iranian influence be slightly curbed. Further, IRAQI NEWS reports:
The Iran-backed paramilitary force fighting Islamic State alongside the Iraqi government said Friday the United State’s remarks branding one of its top leaders as “terrorist” were a transgression against Iraqi security services.
Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesperson of the Popular Mobilization Forces, said in statements, circulated by some Iraqi media outlets, that U.S. State Department Spokesperson, Heather Nauert’s description of Abu Mahdi al-Muhanids, deputy chief of the PMF, as a “terrorist” was a transgression against Iraqi security services.
“We are waiting for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to respond to that transgression,” Assaid stated, noting that those remarks would not discourage the PMF from its mission.
Maybe Hayder and company feel they no longer need US support? THE DAILY TIMES reports, "Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, whose forces Thursday battled jihadists in the west of the country and Kurds in the north, won the support of Iranian leaders at talks in Tehran."
1/ Am near to Faysh Khabur now, on Iraq/Syria border. Despite Iraqi push, Kurds in control of area. Ambulances waiting to transport wounded.
2/ Kurdish doctor told me: "Yesterday we had many wounded, especially from artillery, not bullets." Today 2wounded. "It is relatively quiet"
3/ Talked to Peshmergas who just returned from front. "For now no fighting. Y'day difficult but we stopped attack. No idea about tomorrow."
4/ As peshmergas bought soft drinks in Faysh Khabur, they said: "We're alone - attacked by Isis, Iraq, Iran, Turkey & int community silent."
5/ One Peshmerga claimed: "It's a scandal that Iraqi forces use U.S. supplied guns against us which were given to them to fight ISIS."
6/ Surprising to me 2hear some Kurds near frontline use sectarian language. "Shia try to kill us Sunnis". Kurds usually secular/nationalist.
7/ In Zakho, Kurdish civilians now putting up "banners with names &pics of our martyrs" who died y'day &today in battle with Iraqi forces.
8/ ...and more banners of young men who will never see their own children grow up. Too many sad stories here.
REUTERS is reporting that a truce may have been reached. From earlier today:
#Iraqi forces used drone to locate KDP #Peshmerga and PKK locations then Federal police IRAM targets them. Full video will be released soon.
No truce could mean problems for Hayder al-Abadi. The only thing propping him up has been the US government.
The following community sites -- plus Jody Watley -- updated:
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