This recipe is quick, easy and tastes delicious! Slightly adapted from the Simply Veganista website, it is the perfect spring dish. I always double this recipe as it only serves about 2.
Ingredients:
1 can chickpeas, rinsed and drained, or fresh
1 head of cauliflower, cut into florets
Sea salt
1 cup quinoa
1 & 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup Italian parsley, chopped
Tahini Mustard Dressing:
1 Tbs Tahini
1 Tbs Dijon mustard
1 Tbs whole grain mustard
1 Tbs lemon juice
2-3 Tbs water (add more to get desired consistency)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Mix cauliflower and chickpeas on a sprayed baking tray or roasting pan with a dash of salt, if desired. Roast for about 45 minutes, stirring every so often.
In a pot, add quinoa and water. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer for about 15 minutes or until water has evaporated. Let sit for about 10 minutes.
In a bowl, prepare your dressing.
Once, vegetables are cooked, place into bowl and add dressing, or place desired amount of dressing on individual plates.
Error Correction. In my PlantPure Nation rally blog over the weekend, I had the incorrect link for reserving your FREE tickets for this Louisville, KY, event on Friday evening, July 12. Corrected link is in the above blog, or just click here for those tickets.
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That’s the date of the PlantPure Nation rally, video footage of which will appear in the about to be released, full-length documentary promoting the world-changing powers of plant-based nutrition.
You are invited to attend as guests of Nelson Campbell (movie director) — the oldest son of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, who will be the featured speaker on July 12.
Here’s where you come in: Lots of video will be shot at the rally and will become an integral part of the upcoming movie. You will not need to do any “acting” in the movie, you’ll just need to be yourself—while demonstrating your enthusiasm for the whole food, plant-based diet.
Like Forks Over Knives before it, this great new documentary will save millions of lives. Come to Kentucky on July 12 and help Nelson and his team put the finishing touches on this wonderful new film.
Nelson Campbell—PlantPure Nation Director. Graduate of Cornell University and founder and former CEO of BioSignia, a health risk assessment company
The amazing story all started in the Kentucky House of Representatives when Dr. T. Colin inspired them with a powerful presentation about how our most feared diseases can be easily tamed by simply helping people learn the complete truth about nutrition.
Now, Dr. Campbell is returning to Kentucky to share his message with all who wish to attend. Help make sure that he is speaking to an energized and completely packed, SRO amphitheater.
In addition to hearing Dr. Campbell speak, you’ll also:
Enjoy complimentary plant-based food and beverages.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell — author of The China Study and the world’s leading authority on health promoting, plant-based nutrition.
Movie Synopsis.This documentary tells the story of three people on a quest to spread the message of one of the most important health breakthroughs of all time. When nutritional scientist and author T. Colin Campbell inspires Kentucky State Representative Tom Riner to propose a pilot program documenting the health benefits of a plant-based diet, they inadvertently set in motion a series of events that expose powerful forces opposed to the diet.
When industry lobbyists kill the pilot program, Nelson Campbell decides to try his own grassroots approach in his hometown of Mebane, North Carolina. He then circles back to Kentucky for a dramatic ending to the film. The creative team behind PlantPure Nation includes the former Writer and Producer of the hit documentary film Forks Over Knives
The following five books and one DVD can be purchased on Amazon for a grand total of less than $60—and will enable you to understand the overwhelming challenges we face—along with the single most-powerful solution of all.
Six-Pack from Hicks—for health, hope & harmony on planet Earth
An essential scientific resource: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell; the primary book that influenced Bill Clinton to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet.
A horrifying wake-up call for leaders. TEN BILLION by Dr. Stephen Emmott
Food choices are the primary cause of our environmental problems, yet our world leaders, scientists & experts are Comfortably Unaware, by Richard Oppenlander.
Why should we be eating mostly plants? The “big picture” in 4 minutes.
Want to find out how healthy your family is eating?Take our free 4Leaf Survey. It takes 2 or 3 minutes and you can score it yourself. After taking the survey, please give me your feedback as it will be helpful in the development of our future 4Leaf app for smartphones. Send feedback to jmorrishicks@me.com
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His latest 7500 words on climate change—No mention of leading cause.
Al Gore, as he appeared in the Rolling Stone article. Still heavy, but probably 100 pounds lighter since he reportedly became vegan about a year ago.
And I read every single word of his new Rolling Stone article (link below), losing all hope after the first 1,000 that he was EVER going to mention the leading cause.
Some may argue that our food choices are NOT the #1 cause. That’s debatable, but without a doubt, it’s the ONLY primary driver that can be changed quickly?
Why did I think that he might mention food choices? After all, we’re talking about the same bureaucrat who won the Nobel Prize for his 2006 movie about global warming. He didn’t mention the #1 cause then, why would he mention it now?
Call me naive, but I was just thinking that since he announced that he had become a vegan, that he must’ve been exposed to ALL of the plethora of benefits that nature bestows upon us when we start eating the natural diet for our species. I was hoping that he had finally learned the truth and that he was about to become that powerful leader (with integrity, courage and audacity) that we so desperately need. I was wrong.
Al Gore has let us down again. And guess what? I’m thinking that he actually does know the truth, but doesn’t think that the public can handle the truth. Reminds me of this scene from “A Few Good Men.”
This is a perfect example of why I chose Ted Turner as the global leader that I would pick if I only had one choice. That’s because Ted, unlike Gore and most politicians, has a healthy combination of ALL of the following attributes. Mr. Gore is missing at least three of the five. Can you figure out what they are?
Courage
Integrity (driven to do “what’s right,” despite the consequences)
Influence
Recognition
Audacity (means extraordinary boldness, courage or chutzpah. Wikipedia)
Don’t waste your time reading his Rolling Stone article. I have provided a link to it below just in case you want to take a look for yourself. What you will find is an incredibly long list of activities, requiring global coordination, in the next ten years if we’re going to have a ghost of a chance of beginning the shift to renewable energy in a big way.
How could I expect anything different? A career politician can only think of political solutions to all problems. This time, it’s not going to work. It’s too late to tell people to start voting for people who talk about the reality of the climate crisis.
It’s time to attack the #1 cause with a vengeance. Instead, Gore attacks the #2 cause with politics. He writes:
Most importantly, now is the time to support candidates who accept the reality of the climate crisis and are genuinely working hard to solve it – and to bluntly tell candidates who are not on board how much this issue matters to you. If you are willing to summon the resolve to communicate that blunt message forcefully – with dignity and absolute sincerity – you will be amazed at the political power an individual can still wield in America’s diminished democracy.
How much does this issue matter to you Mr. Gore? So much so that you write a 7500-word article in Rolling Stone and never mention the #1 cause of our climate crisis. My friend in Singapore, who referred me to this article, reviewed your work succinctly:
By the way…. Al Gore’s latest long article in Rolling Stone is a BORE. It’s really a shame.
The Bottom Line. Al Gore probably thinks we’re all too stupid to be able to handle the truth. He leads off by telling us that everything’s going to be okay.
Without telling us how quickly all humans could eliminate the #1 cause of global warming by simply changing our food choices—he writes 7,500 words telling us how millions of leaders and politicians in 200 countries are going to work together quickly on thousands of problems in order to start reducing the #2 cause of global warming—the burning of fossil fuels.
He writes this “message of hope” as the general population of the world continues sleepwalking off of a cliff…because of “leaders” who won’t tell them the truth about the cliff.
The forward journey for human civilization will be difficult and dangerous, but it is now clear that we will ultimately prevail. The only question is how quickly we can accelerate and complete the transition to a low-carbon civilization. —Al Gore
One of my readers asked me recently why I hadn’t reached out to Al Gore—and appealed to him for the critical leadership needed? The short answer is that I have yet to observe any leadership qualities in Mr. Gore.
What does “leadership” mean to you? What’s the difference between leaders and managers? Think about the difference between Ted Turner and Al Gore as you read over this list that I compiled to help show what leadership means to me:
Managers concentrate on strategy — Leaders nurture culture
The following five books and one DVD can be purchased on Amazon for a grand total of less than $60—and will enable you to understand the overwhelming challenges we face—along with the single most-powerful solution of all.
Six-Pack from Hicks—for health, hope & harmony on planet Earth
An essential scientific resource: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell; the primary book that influenced Bill Clinton to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet.
A horrifying wake-up call for leaders. TEN BILLION by Dr. Stephen Emmott
Food choices are the primary cause of our environmental problems, yet our world leaders, scientists & experts are Comfortably Unaware, by Richard Oppenlander.
Why should we be eating mostly plants? The “big picture” in 4 minutes.
Want to find out how healthy your family is eating?Take our free 4Leaf Survey. It takes 2 or 3 minutes and you can score it yourself. After taking the survey, please give me your feedback as it will be helpful in the development of our future 4Leaf app for smartphones. Send feedback to jmorrishicks@me.com
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This is a perfect example of why 
The Bottom Line. Al Gore probably thinks we’re all too stupid to be able to handle the truth. He leads off by telling us that everything’s going to be okay.
J. Morris Hicks, engineer. writer. big picture guy. 