Well, I just finished a lovely Thanksgiving dinner — actually I finished it four hours ago and then spent a lot of time collapsed on the couch talking about how full I was with my relatives (it turns out, if you eat mostly vegan food all the time, eating a meal absolutely full of butter, cream, and eggs — the mashed potatoes recipe alone called for three sicks of butter and a pint of cream — makes you feel like you’ve been hit by a truck. It was pretty fantastic though).
I’m at my parents for Thanksgiving, and my mom cooked up an incredible feast. My mom is very sweet — she cooked me some delicious vegetarian dressing, and amazingly enough cooked everything with cage-free eggs and American-Humane-Association-certified Clover milk, butter and cream, which I was thrilled by (well, most of the cream anyway — I was sent to the store to buy extra cream for the many dishes that required cream at noon, and Safeway was the only store open, and apparently it doesn’t carry Clover products? I’m appalled — so some of the cream was not humane, and I had to be the one to grit my teeth and purchase it. Yuck).
Anyway, I didn’t want to be One of Those People who demands that other people use special cooking ingredients, so I was just going to eat inhumane products without saying anything to my mom, who was kind enough to cook a huge amount of wonderful food for all of us. So it turns out that apparently when I happened to mention that I would only ever buy cage-free eggs and American Humane Association certified milk a few weeks ago, my mom took it to heart, and decided to cook Thanksgiving dinner humanely for me! I was very touched. She even bought a free-range turkey, which though I didn’t eat any of it, made me very, very grateful that I have such a sweet mom.
Which is totally in keeping with the spirit of Thanksgiving — I hope all of you who celebrate Thanksgiving are having lovely Thanksgivings as well!
