Recipe: 16-Year Old Wanted "Yummy" Vegan Desserts, So She Started Clara Cakes

KPCC ^ | June 22, 2013 | Mukta Mohan

[schm0e]

I don't understand. She took matters into her own hands? Wasn't she supposed to write letters, organize protests, start a petition and demand her civil rights from the government?

[happyhomemaker]

I agree about all the plant estrogens. Soy is not meant for the majority of humans...especially boys and people with low thyroids

[Finny]

Yeah, and when this sixteen year old is a 37 year old with problems caused by calcium deficit or some calcium-related malady derived from getting calcium mainly in supplments -- osteoporosis or whatever -- she'll have learned the hard way that vegan's little unicorn wish of not hurting anything in pursuit of food, is wishing as hard as you can that two and two is five because it should be five if the world was fair. And it's just not fair to use animals for food or anything else!

While mowing down entire habitats to plant row crops that must be watered with water pirated from some ecosystem somewhere ...

*sigh*

Veganism is insanity, breathtakingly arrogant, profoundly reason-impaired and emotion-impaired. Look at vegans in the animal kingdom. The human body powered on a vegan diet is like a running a high-performance car on leaded regular gas. Physics is going to win every time.

[Finny]

Don’t hate on vegans, I actually respect their self control.

You might start hating on vegans when they get your daughter or granddaughter to start eating just about the most stupid, poor, expensive, destructive way possible. Even a junk-food diet is better than a vegan diet. Go look at their kids. You can recognize a vegan child by the big gray circles under his eyes.

Self control, my ass. For some of these folks, it's a political fanatacism, and when it gets "hip" status, it threatens health in a big way.

I hate what Vegans do to people sappy enough to fall for it, especially young kids. Nutrition is math. Veganism is forcing math to accommodate something it cannot. If you try to raise a baby on a vegan diet, the baby will die.

Sorry, vegans lose my respect.

[napscoordinator]

One thing I like about her is that she will never be on welfare. Sounds like she is a doer and not a taker. Heck she might even be a Republican someday after seeing the tax bill. I won’t go far enough to say a conservative, but Republican at least.

[ApplegateRanch]

Vegan cuisine leaves me cold; Altarian is much better.

[b9]

Veganism is insanity

True.
I still treasure the copy I made of your mother's common sense eating practice.

Veganism is a false religion.

[Ditter]

I tried a vegetarian diet years ago and I never felt worse or had less energy in my life. I discovered something about myself that I had not know before. My body needs protein, more protein than most people, to function properly.

[Finny]

I will be sure to tell my mom! She learned it from her grandmother, who lived to great old age (into her late 90s) and kept the books for a large company almost to the end.

[P.O.E.]

Banana Cicada Bread:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
2 ripe bananas, mashed
2 cups flour
1 tsp soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup dry-roasted cicadas
1/4 cup chopped nuts

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Directions:

For bread: mix together all ingredients. Bake in a greased loaf pan at 350º for about 1 hour or until the bread tests done.

For cicadas:

Newly hatched cicadas make the best eating because their shells have not yet hardened. Mature females are the next best thing. Adult males have fairly hollow abdomens, while the females are fat-filled. (Males have a rounded back end females have pointed back ends.) Collect then in a paper or plastic bag early in the morning, just after they’ve emerged but before they’ve climbed out of reach.

Blanch in boiling water for 4-5 minutes. This solidifies their innards and gets rid of soil bacteria. Cook with them immediately or freeze them. Remove all hard parts (wings and legs) before using.

To dry-roast, place cicadas on a cookie sheet and roast for 10-15 minutes at 225 degrees. They should have a soft dry consistency, a bit like a nut. Roast longer, if still moist inside. When dry, grind coarsely and use as a nut substitute in baking or as in ice cream topping.

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[Katya]

I would’t doubt it .. I don’t think diets or any medical treatments are a one size fits all...

My dad became a vegan after surviving prostate cancer at age 72... his PSA scores have never been as low as they are now. It may be an age thing...perhaps once your’re over 50 you don’t need as much protein.