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Spooky Meal

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We didn’t do much for Halloween weekend- in fact we spent most the weekend making gifts for Christmas.  However on Sunday my parents were over so we decided to have a Halloween inspired meal which included Mummy Dogs with shriveled purple potatoes and a side salad

And Bloodthirsty Marys

Recipe:
Serves 4

3 cups tomato juice
3 tablespoons drained prepared horseradish
1/2 cup vodka
2 teaspoons vegan worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons soy sauce
Juice of 1 lemon, more for garnish
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Hot sauce
Celery stalks, for garnish
Celery Salt and Cayenne to garnish rims of glasses

Directions

In a pitcher, stir together tomato juice, horseradish, vodka, vegan worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, lemon juice, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and hot sauce to taste.
Wet the rim of 4 glasses with lemon juice and dip into a mixture of celery salt with a pinch of cayenne. Fill the glasses with ice and pour the tomato mixture over. Garnish with a lemon slice and a celery stalk.

Read more at Marthastewart.com: Bloodthirsty Marys – Martha Stewart Recipes

Vegan Mofo Survey

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1. Favorite non-dairy milk?

My favorite non-dairy milk is Blue Diamond Unsweetened Almond milk it’s creamy, low calorie, soy free and it works well in hot and cold dishes.  I really love Tempt hemp milk as well but it is awful in hot items- it curdles in coffee boo- but I love it in smoothies or in cereal.

2. What are the top 3 dishes/recipes you are planning to cook?

I plan on making some bean and kale soup tonight, I am working on a pasta recipe with truffle oil and a rice and bean dish with chipotle peppers and saffron powder.

3. Topping of choice for popcorn?

Nutritional Yeast and Cajun Seasoning!

4. Most disastrous recipe/meal failure?

ummm some Asian inspired dish with glass noodles- it was slimmy and gross.

5. Favorite pickled item?

Bubbies pickles!

6. How do you organize your recipes?

I don’t really organize them haha.

7. Compost, trash, or garbage disposal?

Trash, Recycle and garbage disposal- we used to compost but don’t have the place to accommodate this now.

8. If you were stranded on an island and could only bring 3 foods…what would they be (don’t worry about how you’ll cook them)?

I would bring avocados, brown rice and kale.

9. Fondest food memory from your childhood?

Monkey Bread- my mom used to make this at Christmas and I loved it.

10. Favorite vegan ice cream?

Salted Caramel at Stogo in NYC

11. Most loved kitchen appliance?

My Blend Tec

12. Spice/herb you would die without?

cumin and chili powder

13. Cookbook you have owned for the longest time?

The Moosewood Cookbook- it’s my mom’s from the 80’s

14. Favorite flavor of jam/jelly?

Raspberry jam- with lots of seeds

15. Favorite vegan recipe to serve to an omni friend?

Stuffed mushrooms

16. Seitan, tofu, or tempeh?

tempeh

17. Favorite meal to cook (or time of day to cook)?

Love cooking dinner.

18. What is sitting on top of your refrigerator?

Nothing.

19. Name 3 items in your freezer without looking.

flax meal, spinach, butternut squash

20. What’s on your grocery list?

i haven’t made one yet- we are going out of town soon

21. Favorite grocery store?

Healthy Living in South Burlington

22. Name a recipe you’d love to veganize, but haven’t yet.

Nanaimo bars for the husband

23. Food blog you read the most (besides Isa’s because I know you check it everyday). Or maybe the top 3?

  1. http://www.healthytippingpoint.com/
  2. http://carrotsncake.com/
  3. http://fitnessista.com/

24. Favorite vegan candy/chocolate?

I love Sjaak’s peanutbutter cups

25. Most extravagant food item purchased lately?

I haven’t really purchased any…I received dried wild mushrooms for a contest though!

Welcome Back!

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It’s that time of year again! VEGANMOFO! Wahoo! I love Vegan MoFo!

Right now we are on the ends of the political campaign season and after spending the day listening to a number of great democratic nominees and the Vice President Joe Biden I am exhausted and ready to curl up with fur baby. Blogging will resume to normal on Wednesday! Good thing I decided to participate in early voting- that means I get to sleep in before work tomorrow and a night of political events and parties- I love my job.

Cuddling with this cutie

P.S. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD! GET OUT THE VOTE!

The last Vegan Mofo Post: Boston Veg Fest 2009

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My hubz and I decided that we are going to Boston Veg Fest again this year.  Last year besides getting to hear Sarah Kramer speak I wasn’t overly impressed.  I was hopping for more information about vegetarianism and not just tons of products (and there weren’t as many samples as I expected).  However I’m open to trying it again and seeing what is there this year. 

I am also excited because we have decided to stay in Lowell again this year (Boston was just too expensive for the night…..Lowell=1/4 of the price and only 30min away).  Also Lowell has Life Alive which has delicious, healthy food and is amazing.  Also planning on hitting up Prana Cafe in Newton Corners, Grezzo and our favorite Bagel Rising.

Alright I’m out blog Monday!

Vegan Mofo #14: Vegan Care Package Swap

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UPDATE: ALL PARTNERS HAVE BEEN PICKED AND E-MAILED OUT. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK YOUR E-MAIL AND CONTACT YOUR PARTNER IMMEDIATELY.  IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FROM YOUR PARTNER BY MONDAY 11/2/09 PLEASE CONTACT ME.

 

It’s time to do another Vegan Care Package swap! Last year around this time I organized a swap and it went over really well.  I am hoping that this year will bring on an even better turn out.  

 

If you are a blogger and are interested please comment here and send me a note  to Lindsay (at) cookingforaveganlover dot com with an e-mail address that you would like to be contacted by.  Please in include the following in your note as well: Name, Location, blog URL, and whether you are will to ship internationally or not. 

 

Please do not send me your address. I will match people together, give each other your e-mail addresses and then you can go on to exchange mailing addresses. 

 

Please expect to spend around $20-25 on  VEGAN goods, if you would like to spend more than do so, however, do not be disappointed if your partner does not do the same. 

 

Please enter to participate by October 29th, 2009  Closed.  I will match people up and let them know their pairs by October 30th, 2009.  You will have one month to gather your items and mail them out- so all packages should be mailed by November 31st, 2009.  Once you receive your package please photograph the contents and make a post to your blog detailing what is in your package, link to your partners blog and a link to this posting. 

 

I am excited to see how many of you are interested out there.  Like I said this went very well last year and it’s a great way to meet people and try new products.

 

goodies

 My husband’s Vegan Care Package 

from the care package swap of 2008

 

*Please note that this exchange is based on trust that whoever is participating will follow through, so if you don’t feel like you can participate to the full extent then please do not respond to this. 

 

Please check your spam to see if you have messages from me. Keep an eye out for an e-mail on the 30th from Lindsay[at]cookingforaveganlover.com – i have heard that e-mails from me are going to some peoples spam for some reason.  You may want to just add me to your contact list so it doesn’t go to spam. thanks!

Vegan Mofo #25- Double Garlic Broccoli & Asparagus 2 Ways

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One of my husband and my favorite places to dine in Burlington is A Single Pebble this amazing family style authentic Chinese Restaurant that has a great number of vegan options.   Our favorite dish, well one of them we have so many, is Double Garlic Broccoli  which is broccoli, garlic, cashews and chili flakes and this delicious soy based sauce.

I was rummaging through my fridge last night trying to decide what to make for dinner based on which produce needed to be used first and I remembered I had bought some broccoli at the Saturday farmers market that I hadn’t used yet. As well I had a huge bunch of Asparagus that was in need of being cooked up,  I decided I would make my version of Double Garlic Broccoli and cook the asparagus 2 ways.

Double Garlic Broccoli

Makes 4 large servings, can easily be cut in half

 Ingredients:

  • 4 Cups broccoli florets
  • 1 Tbl vegetable oil
  • 8 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced
  • 1 tsp chili flakes, more or less based on how hot you like things
  • ¼ Cup of  water
  • 2 Tbls soy sauce
  • ½ Cup raw cashews
  • ½ tsp toasted sesame oil

Directions:

  1. Heat the vegetable oil in a walk over high heat.
  2. Add the garlic and chili flakes and let cook for 30 seconds then add the broccoli and toss together.
  3. Turn down the heat to medium-high and add the water, for 4-7 minutes until the broccoli has softened.
  4. Add the soy sauce, cashews and sesame oil.
  5. Serve as a side dish or as a main over brown rice.

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Cheezy Asparagus

Makes 4 small side servings

 Ingredients:

  • 15 spears of asparagus
  • 1 Tbl olive oil
  • 2 Tbl nutritional yeast
  • ½ Tbl goya adobo (if you don’t have this use salt& pepper & a pinch of garlic powder)

 Directions:

  1. 1.Heat oven to 375F. Place the asparagus in a baking dish.
  2. Toss the asparagus with the oil, nutritional yeast and adobo.
  3. Place dish in the oven and bake for 15min
  4. Plate and garnish with chopped scallions.

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Garlicky Asparagus

Makes 4 small side servings

Ingredients:

  • 15 spears of asparagus
  • 5 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 1 Tbl olive oil
  • S+P

 Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 375F. Place the asparagus in a baking dish.
  2. Mix together the oil, garlic, S+P and pour over the asparagus
  3. Place dish in the oven and bake for 15min
  4. Plate and garnish with the garlic that has been left at the bottom of the pan.

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Vegan Mofo #24: The Kind Diet- Fried Udon Noodles

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Last night I made the Fried Udon Noodles from Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet and they were pretty good – and it made a ton of food.  The recipe says 2 servings so I doubled it so that we would have food for lunch tomorrow however not only did it make enough for for lunch tomorrow it made enough for dinner as well.  The dish was over all good, I was slightly apprehensive of the large amount of paprika but it was surprisingly good.  I felt that the dish again lacked salt same as yesterday – I sound like I just love salt since it’s been my major complaint but I really don’t I like just enough to enhance the dish and this one called for too little.  I also thought it needed a little heat- I would have add some chili flakes or jalapenos to the dish next time.  This time we just added a little hot sauce and it was great. Overall I have been very impressed with The Kind Diet, it is informative, and has had some very good, inspiring recipes.  

I still hope to make the Brown Rice Waffles this week and the Black-eyed Pea Croquettes but we will see.

Also: 19 participants! Can we make it 20??? Only 2 more days to sign up for the Vegan Care Package Swap: http://bit.ly/1qCKhZ

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