Gary Null holds a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public health science. He’s also a best-selling author and founder of Progressive Radio Network (PRN), a grassroots talk-radio network with a variety of hosts who cover issues like the environment, autism, health and natural living.

PRN features a show that covers a wide range of vegetarian issues: “It’s All About Food,” airing each Wednesday at 3:00 pm EST. The show may be accessed online at PRN. “It’s All About Food” is hosted by Caryn Hartglass, the executive director of EarthSave International.

I hope you find a dish below you like!

Holiday Stuffed Mushrooms

• 6 mushrooms de-stemmed (mince stems & set aside)
• 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 1 Avocado
• 2 tablespoon flax seed ground
• 2 teaspoon parsley chopped
• ½ teaspoon sage
• ½ teaspoon rosemary
• ½ teaspoon thyme
• Sea salt and pepper

Coat mushroom caps with 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Place in dehydrator for 1 hour. Combine all other ingredients in a food processor. Stuff dehydrated mushroom caps with mixture and serve.
Yield: 6 Mushrooms

Sweet Loaf
Filling

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 cup chopped shiitake mushrooms
• ½ cup chopped yellow onion
• 2 cloves garlic, minced

Dough

• Kernels from 2 ears of fresh corn, grated
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• ¼ teaspoon sea salt
• ½ teaspoon agave
• 1 cup yellow or white hominy, ground (or substitute frozen peas)

Garnish

• 5 olives, chopped
• Red, yellow, purple, and green bell pepper slices
• Cherry tomato

To prepare the filling: In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the mushrooms, onions, and garlic. Cook until onion is translucent, about 10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
To prepare the dough: In a large bowl, combine the corn, olive oil, salt, and agave. In a skillet over low heat, cook the mixture until thickened. Add ground hominy; cook a few more minutes, and set aside to cool.
Preheat oven to 375°. Oil a shallow baking dish and fill with one half of the dough mixture.

Add all the filling, and arrange sliced olives on top. Cover with the remaining dough, smoothing out the surface. Brush with olive oil. Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown. Garnish with red, yellow, purple, green pepper slices and cherry tomatoes.
Yield: 2 Servings

(Recipes and images courtesy Gary Null)

Post from: Tree Hugging Family

Scott from Metal Martyr has taken a break from his musings on music to talk about the earth. When you think about it though, maybe heavy metal and the environment aren’t so different. They both rock. Ok, done with the bad jokes.

We really appreciate Scott’s post. It’s very wise and deep and cool. Rock on. Read the post right now or else — Hello? Earth to Humans!

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If you haven’t guessed yet; it’s Blog Action Day. At last count (I’m not updating all day so…) but at the last count there were 15,568 blogs signed up to participate with a total rss reach of 12,507,731. Not bad. That’s a whole lot of bloggers blogging about the environment. Many bloggers participating are part of the b5media network.

Following are the b5media blogs that are participating in this fine event today. There could be more too — yup, I miss stuff.

• Hippie Sounds
• Offbeat Homes
• Simply Thrifty
• Declutter It!
• The Golden Pencil
• Yielding Wealth
• Daytime Talk
• Oz Music Scene
• The Sydney Traveler
• The Rock Dose
• Our Digital Music
• Copyblogger
• Problogger
• Quilting and Patchwork
• Alzheimer’s Notes
• She Plays Music
• The Code Cave
• Tangled Thread
• Home Biz Notes
• Brandcurve
• Metal Martyr

Amazing list right.

See it’s not just the green blogs that care about the environment. However, that does bring up a very good question. What’s a tree hugging blog to do on a day where we’re supposed to blog about the environment? Sort of an interesting question. If I do blog about the environment it’s not all that unexpected (I’d hope).

That said; I’ve got a few ideas. So let me ponder those while you enjoy what the rest of the bloggers from the above list are serving up. They’ve all painted their blogs a lovely shade of green for today so you know it’ll be good.

If you’re blogging for Blog Action Day at your personal blog one, that rocks and two let me know in the comments because I’d love to visit later.

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