The best sandwiches ever!

Last night my partner and I made vegan tuna melts.  There have been so many meat substitutes/”delicious” vegan meals that we’ve hated that I think we we both skeptical about how these would turn out but these were the BEST SANDWICHES EVER.

I don’t say that lightly either, but we both sat down to eat them and were baffled by how good they were.

I mean honestly, we couldn’t stop talking about how great the sandwiches were.  They were really great, then they were fucking great, then they were really fucking great.  We settled on that they were so good I would have their babies, and he would raise them as his own.  I’d have gotten pictures if they weren’t already all gone. 

Anyhow, there are a few sites that have the recipe we used but we didn’t have all of the ingredients, so we ad-libbed a bit of it.  

• 2 celery stalks
• 2 Green onions
• 15oz drained rinsed chickpeas
• 1/2tsp garlic powder
• 2 1/2tsp Nutritional yeast
• 2 tbsp vegan mayo (we used veganaise, its the only kind that's really close to regular mayo)
• 1 tbsp soy sauce

Mash chickpeas, mince celery and green onions, combine rest of the ingredients and consume.
All of the other versions of this recipe I’ve seen say to shred the celery and that is bullshit.  It ends up looking like seaweed and it doesn’t break apart, its not worth the effort.  Its really good on toasted whole wheat bread with cucumber slices.

not just soft hearted

A few days ago my mother called me and told me about a cat that had been left at my uncles farm. Its a really common thing to see happen.  The cat was pregnant and only one kitten lived out of the litter, the problem was that the mother cat had no maternal instincts.  She had made no milk and the kitten was abandoned somewhere on the property.  Throughout the whole property you could hear it crying.  My mother kept saying that if I (myself) had been there, I would have looked for the kitten and I'd have bottle fed it and taken it to a shelter.
That is all completely true, I wouldn't have stopped looking for the kitten.  Why didn't she?
Knowing that it was out there should have been enough reason to go look, if it hadn't had anything to eat in days and it was still alive then its just inhumane to not go look.  If you knew it would be upsetting to someone to hear that you couldn't be bothered to help an animal that would die in a terrible way because you were to lazy, what good have you done?
I can't stop thinking about the kitten ,and it breaks my heart.  I've been caught in other situations where I've helped animals just to get laughed at my your typical townie pricks, and they always call you a softy/soft hearted.  At no point will it enter into the equation if what you did was right, you're automatically a "sissy" for caring about anything non human.  That kind of bullshit is just an extension of might-makes-right and the mindset that "its OK to eat animals because they're lesser beings".  Those same statements are why vegans/animal lovers get stereotyped as weak and feminized, which is just more connections to more macho  sexism and stereotypes that not only is compassion bad, but so is being female.
Being dismissive towards people for being compassionate is a huge societal flaw, which only degrades our potential for communication between different ideological groups and segregates social groups.  I'd rather be a soft-hearted animal lover than the alternative, but its still ridiculous for this to be some trope imposed on a group to make them seem bad.

First swings

If I'm going to be stuck in my flat because of illness, but with a head still full of sharp ideas, I may as well put it all somewhere.  
All of the simple and significant things about me are point-formed on the side.  I'm small, in my early 20s and dealing with a chronic illness that leaves me not really able to work or even get around.  Even though I do have a lot of mobility issues, I try to keep up with all of my old interests and hobbies, like bike riding, sewing, baking, and general mischief.  Social responsibility and shattering the really fucked up mentality of how to treat other earthlings is critically important to me.  There are too many things going on in the world because people are over complacent with what the distorted media and corporate puppets in the government are feeding us and it has to stop.  If there's one thing worth fighting for, its living free and honest.