'A Gentle Life'

 

Watercolours, coloured pencils, Copics and Microns on 300gsm paper

Hahnemühle's calendar competition

Hahnemühle manufacture the most gorgeous art paper.  What's even better is that it's VEGAN - FRIENDLY too!  They're currently running a calendar competition.  Click here for details.

Cat ATC

An Artist Trading Card (ATC) I did on iATCs

Nutritional typing

A free online nutritional 'typing' test is available here.

Protein requirements

The World Health Organisation´s "Protein and Amino acid requirements in Human Nutrition" report.

Online vegan shop - Barcelona

AT LAST -I found a 100% online vegan shop that sells not only food BUT also chewable methylcobalamin! YAY!! Vegacentre.com

Top 50 vegan blogs

With this many blogs to read, I'll never run out of reading material!
http://psychologyofeating.com/50-top-vegan-blogs/

Grains, nuts and seed chart

Protein and calories (based on info I found on the Internet)

	portion	protein (grams)	calories
almonds	2 TB	6,02	163
amaranth (amaranto /amarant)	100g cooked	3,8	102
barley (pearled)	100g cooked	2,26	123
brazil nuts	6 nuts	4,06	186
buckwheat (alforfón / blat sarrai)	100g	13,25	343
cashews	2 TB	5,17	157
chia seeds	2TB	4,0	137
coconut	1 cup	2,66	283
flax	2TB	3,76	110
hazelnuts	21 nuts	4,24	178
macadamias	10-12 nuts	2,24	204
millet (mijo / mill)	100g cooked	3,51	119
oats	100g	16,89	389
peanuts (roasted)	2TB	6,71	166
pecans	19 halves	2,6	196
pinenuts	2TB	3,88	191
pistachios (roasted) (pistachios / festucs)	2TB	6,05	162
pumpkin seeds (roasted)	2TB	8,46	163
quinoa	100g cooked	4,4	120
rice - brown	100g cooked	2,32	112
rice - wild	100g cooked	3,99	101
rye	100g	10,34	338
sesame	2TB	3,2	104
spelt (espelta)	100g cooked	5,5	127
sunflower seeds (roasted)	2TB	5,48	165
walnuts	14 halves	4,32	185

Herbs and spices

HERBS AND SPICES	CATALAN	SPANISH
allspice	pebre de Jamaica	pimienta de Jamaica
basil	alfàbrega	albahaca
cayenne pepper	pebre de caiena	pimienta de cayena
chives	cebollins	cebollinos
coriander	coriandre	cilantro, coriandro
cumin	comí	comino
dill	anet	eneldo
fennel	fonoll	hinojo
juniper	ginebre	enebro
lemon balm	melissa	melisa
marjoram	marduix	mejorana
nutmeg	nou moscada	nuez moscada
oregano	orenga	orégano
paprika	pebre vermell dolç	pimentón dulce
parsley	julivert	perejil
peppermint	menta	hierbabuena
rosemary	romaní	romero
saffron	safrà	azafrán
sage	sàlvia	salvia
tarragon	estragó	estragón
thyme	farigola	tomillo
turmeric	cúrcuma	cúrcuma