Saint Cloud Vegan Events

Download the recipes here

About Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan

From the author's website:
“Imagine a world with limitless vegan options; a place where anything and everything can be made vegan. Mac 'n cheese? Proper English fry up? Decadent ice cream sundae? Imagine no more – you can find them all here!

Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan is a guide to truly creative plant-based cooking with zero sacrifices. With over 100 innovative recipes, along with tips, techniques and ingredient guides, this book will teach you how to feel more confident than ever in a plant-based kitchen.
With cleverly marked difficulty levels, recipes range from quick, school-night classics to fun weekend baking projects. You'll learn to make delicious meat alternatives and proper, grateable vegan cheeses, and find out just how versatile tofu can be.”

This month’s featured recipes
In the recipe club this month we will discuss these recipes:
🥐 Berry Custard Danishes — pg 30–31
🍳 Vegan Fried Eggs — pg 36
↳ 🧈 Vegan Butter — pg 272
↳ 🥕 "If It Ain't Yolk" Sauce — pg 269
🥯 Seitan Deli Meat — pg 245–246

optional:

🥪 Seitan Reuben — pg 73
↳ 🫙 Ten-Second Mayo — pg 262
🍟 Fish Supper — pg 146–148
🍨 Veganetta — pg 224

Vegan Recipe Club General Details
The Vegan Recipe Club is for everyone—those curious about vegan cooking and those more experienced with it. The club explores plant-based recipes created by cooks of varying cultures and nationalities and cookbooks are suitable for the novice to experienced cook.

This club aims to feature recipes that are great tasting and support the health of participants. It’s a great way to explore great new recipes, work out issues in different recipes, and to build community with others interested in vegan cooking. Best of all, these meals also help the animals and the environment!

How does it work?
In the month prior to the Vegan Recipe Club meeting, you can download the recipes for free. You can also request the entire cookbook from your local library. Try making one or more of the recipes, then come to share and discuss what you thought about them with the group.
The group is facilitated by volunteer Henry Patterson of Compassionate Action for Animals (CAA). If you have questions about the recipes or the Vegan Recipe Club between meetings, email info@caa.mn.

Join us!
The club meets monthly on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Meetings are held via Zoom, with occasional in-person potlucks on dates to be announced.

Join Zoom Meeting, with passcode 467109

Or use the dial-in information: Meeting ID: 815 7424 7392 Passcode: 467109 Dial by your location: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)

Questions?
Email abbey.feola@caa.mn
Full details: https://caa.mn/event/writing-for-animals-group/

Watch the film Aquariums: The Dark Hobby on your own then join us for rounds of small group discussion and a special guest Q&A!
Virtual Documentary Night is a monthly online event hosted by Community Documentary Night. It is designed to give people the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions on a wide range of topics with people from various backgrounds.

For this Special Virtual Documentary Night, in honor of Veganuary, we are meeting to talk about the documentary, Aquariums: The Dark Hobby. This eye-opening documentary offers an inside look at the destruction of reef wildlife by the aquarium trade. Today Hawaii is ground zero in the worldwide struggle to save marine wildlife. Native Hawaiian Elders, conservationists and scientists battle aquarium fish collectors to protect these tiny creatures, who are key in the reef wildlife hierarchy.

Animal behaviorist and author, Jonathan Balcombe, will be joining us for a special guest Q&A!

🐠 **PLEASE REMEMBER TO WATCH THE FILM ON YOUR OWN BEFORE JOINING THE DISCUSSION**

🐠 How this Works
How this all works is you will first watch the film prior to our event. Then we will meet on Zoom on the day of the event, where you participate in multiple rounds of small group discussions with a different discussion prompt and different randomized groups for each round. This gives you the opportunity to hear a variety of perspectives throughout the night. Then we will follow with the special guest Q&A! Again, you must watch the film BEFORE the event.

🐠 How to Register
You will receive the Zoom link and password once you register for the event by RSVPing here. Please remember your Eventbrite login and password. You may need that to access the Zoom info on the day of the event.
If you have any trouble accessing the zoom link, have any questions or would like to be added to the email list, please contact our partner at **CommunityDocumentaryNight@gmail.com**.

🐠 Norms and Expectations
Community Documentary Night has generated a set of norms and expectations for these events. They were created to help maintain a welcoming and civil environment for everyone in attendance. Please read through before attending. They will also be recited at the start of the event.

1. This event is open to all who are open to all. This is an inclusive event. We are open to anyone including all gender expressions, racial identities, political affiliations, etc. as long as you are open to hearing the perspective of others.
2. Step Up and Step Back. Step up meaning we ask that you step up and share your perspective so that we can learn and grow from your knowledge and experience. Step back meaning we ask that you step back on occasion, allowing yourself the opportunity to hear and grow from the experience and perspectives of others in attendance.
3. Allow others to express their full thought. This is just a nice way of saying try not to interrupt.
4. Be mindful of others wanting to speak. Try to keep your thoughts concise, allowing time for others to respond.
5. If you don't agree, this is not a debate but a discussion. So instead of trying to sway the other person, try to understand where they are coming from. That can be done by asking "What makes you think that?" This requires coming from a place of curiosity rather than competition.
6. But even though it's not a debate, feel free to challenge what is said. Not in saying "You're wrong." But by sharing the idea that you have and asking how that fits with what they just shared. This allows for both ideas to be in the same space and gives the other person an opportunity to explain their thinking.
7. Assume good intentions. We are all here to learn and grow together. If something does not sound right, ask first for clarification before jumping to conclusions.
8. If there is an issue, speak up in the moment, if at all possible. Some may not realize that what they said had a negative impact on those in the room. Speaking up can give them the opportunity to correct what they said.
9. If it is not possible to resolve amongst yourselves, request that the host join your room. Once he enters your breakout room you can explain the situation or send him a private message if you are not comfortable stating the problem openly. If you would rather wait till after the event, feel free to email the host at [[CommunityDocumentaryNight@gmail.com](mailto:CommunityDocumentaryNight@gmail.com)](mailto:CommunityDocumentaryNight@gmail.com), then we can figure out a way of resolving the issue for future events.
10. It's ok to eat on video. This event occurs around dinner time for many of us. So feel free to eat while participating in the discussion. We just ask that you mute yourself while you are chewing.

🐠 The Sponsors
This discussion is hosted and organized by the Community Documentary Night, who run virtual documentary discussions to help people watch new films and then discuss and grow together. The film discussion is in collaboration with multiple organizations focused on different aspects of the issues addressed in the film, including us at Compassionate Action For Animals (CAA). We look forward to a collaborative and interesting discussion between members of the collaborating organizations, members of the documentary group, and other members of the public.

🐠 Looking for other free documentaries?
Community Documentary Night has created a linked list of places to watch free documentaries about animal issues. While this event is only to discuss Aquariums: The Dark Hobby, the list is a wonderful resource future watching!