veganuary 2026 et al

 

I really truly wanted to start the brand new year, with all its promise of new positive beginnings and glorious opportunities, with an inspiring post on How is Veganuary going so far?

Instead we have experienced a vast amount of snow fall all over Sweeden and snow storms mainly in the Stockholm area. So no matter how beautiful it looks, it has been hellish to venture outside, or even impossible, since the snow ploughs can’t keep up with clearing the streets for walkers.

Grateful we got a food delivery prior to New Year’s as well as having a pretty full freezer, fridge and kitchen cupboard. I have even baked proper bread myself (eons ago since the last time) 

No-knead overnight rise bread rolls. They turned out great for a first try!

One of my goals this year is to  f i n a l l y  bake sourdough bread. But these fancy looking, simple baking rolls aren’t alas. Still great texture and very tasty. Perfect for breakfast. There are a gazillion recipes out there on the internetz, but I might share this one, if anyone is interested?

However disturbing and debilitating the recent snowstorms have been - it is after all an annual thing in Sweden, even if this was heavier than usual due to climate change (which really is real…) - 

nothing is as disturbing as seeing a braindead president - that he still, barely, is able to walk and doing his usual uneducated toddler talk, is a daily surprise for most of us - invading a sovereign country and kidnap its president (whom is a dictator, I know) for completely made up reasons known to us all (who care to educate outselves).

The audacity, the stupidity, the lack of functioning brain cells and decency, to do this is mindblowing. As is the lack of spine in most every other prime minister/president of other Western countries. 

I am so ashamed, but not the least bit surprised, of our Swedish, truly incompetent, government and its statements regarding this gross behaviour. 

International law is real. 

And should be upheld by any and every decent country. Period. You do not invade countries on a whim and kidnap other presidents, you imbecille orange nincompoop with cronies. 

And yes, Greenland is still and will remain a part of Europe. Period.

Given there is still an ongoing livestreamed genocide in Gaza, (and a mindboggling impunity for the perpetrators) and zero interest in facts, history or the law, it should not come as a complete surprise that the beginning of 2026 is unfolding like this. Yet it somehow is. 

The very opposite of democracy. Of safety. Of working for a better future for us all. For a livable, breathable, healthy planet.

Not to mention the Nobel Peace Prize laureate (who should never have gotten it) now saying she’ll hand it over to the orange joke… FFS. We are living in a real life Twilight Zone. With mental toddlers in charge. 

Capitalism. Colonialism. Fascism. Propaganda. The astonishing lack of decency and what used to be called common sense, solidarity and compassion. This is not what 2026 should bring.

Anyone else feeling the year certainly started in a way that get us off focus and personal goals for the year? All because senile white old men with megalomania… 

That needed to be said. 

Now it has. 

So how is Veganuary going for you? Are you eating old favourites or venturing into new recipes and ingredients?

Myself I started the year the same way I ended 2025, with this wonderful seafood inspired saffron tofu bowl of stew/soup with root vegetables. 

After that feast my kitchen has lacked a few ingredients (snow caused) to try new and exciting recipes alas. So old favorites and more basic cooking has been my Veganuary tune so far.

May the rest of the month bring more, so much more, joy and positivity, laughter and decency for us all!

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