Food and Recipes
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Friday Food: All Sorts of Savories
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Hearty Stews, Spicy Dinners, and Fruity Desserts & Breakfasts
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Friday Food: Compassionate Comfort Food
Friday Food: Mushrooms Madagascar, Mango Cupcakes, Rosemary Bread
Published November 06, 2009 @ 02:48PM PT
From mango cupcakes to "beefy" stews to spicy noodle dishes to savory breads, there's a lot to love in this week's roundup:
Cocoa Macarons from Madcap Cupcake (photo at left courtesy Marika of Madcap Cupcake)
Polenta with White Beans, Braised Kale, and Roasted Pears from Vegan Dad
Parsnip Rosemary Bread from Rants & Recipes
Mushrooms Madagascar, Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Pears and Fennel from What the Hell Does a Vegan Eat Anyway?
Celery Root Soup from Happy Herbivore
Friday Food: More Autumny Vegan Goodness, with Lots of Variety
Published October 30, 2009 @ 05:47PM PT
It's one of those weeks when everything in this vegan food roundup sounds good: kale & yam soup, "hollandaze" sauce, maple biscuits and pumpkin biscuits, roasted applesauce, vegan haggis, cheezy asparagus, and so much more. Prepare to drool, folks.
African Kale & Yam Soup from Happy Herbivore (photo at left courtesy Lindsay of Happy Herbivore)
Hollandaze Sauce from Vegan Planet
Easy Cranberry Vinaigrette from Mitten Machen
Fat-Free Pumpkin and Raisin Biscuits from FatFree Vegan Kitchen
Spicy Fava Bean and Eggplant Stew from Holy Cow! Vegan Recipes
Vegan Red Curry Chicken and Vegetables with Coral Red Jasmine Rice from Show Me Vegan
Carrot Cake Smoothie from Raw Epicurean
Sunday Scrumptiousness: Raviolis, Risotto, Sweets, and Breakfasts
Published October 18, 2009 @ 06:46AM PT
Photo courtesy Madcap Cupcake
As promised Friday, here is more animal-friendly deliciousness for your Sunday and week of cooking:
Roasted Butternut Squash Risotto w/ Toasted Squash Seeds from Rhymes with Vegan
Mulled Apple Cider from Mitten Machen
Ravioli with Pumpkin Sauce from Rants & Recipes
Breakfast Scramble from Hello Veggie
Moong Dal Dosa from Holy Cow! Vegan Recipes
Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins from Happy Herbivore
Mocha Chia Pudding from Raw Epicurean
VeganMoFo Headquarters and a Mashup
Published October 07, 2009 @ 06:07AM PT
When I mentioned VeganMoFo in last week's edition of Friday Food, I failed to link to Vegan MoFo Headquarters International -- because I did not know there was such a space. But you should definitely be checking in there, where you can find regular roundups of some of the great recipes and photos being posted during MoFo. But there are far more bloggers participating than can be included in those roundups, so check out the looong list of participants in this post and in this public feed for more. Another way to keep up with the VeganMoFo madness, for Twitter users, is to search for the #veganmofo hashtag.
And finally, for another sampling of VeganMoFo yumminess, check out the "Monday Masterpiece Mashup" below that the oh-so-creative Kelly of easyVegan.info put together earlier this week. Click through to her post, and you'll be able to follow links to each individual photo's Flickr page, for details and links to recipes.
Friday Food on a Saturday: Autumn Goodies and VeganMoFo!
Published October 03, 2009 @ 06:52AM PT
The third annual VeganMoFo (Vegan Month of Food) has hit the blogosphere, and the bloggers and readers are buzzing with excitement over the gobs of daily recipes and photos on the way. Oh boy. See more on this year's VeganMoFo, including a crazy-long list of participating blogs over at Cake Maker to the Stars.
Now on to this past week's yummy vegan recipes:
Sweet Potato, Okra, and Chickpea Gumbo from FatFree Vegan Kitchen (colorful photo above courtesy of Susan at FFVK)
Curried Cauliflower Soup from the Voracious Vegan
Maple-Kissed Sweet Potato Muffins from Happy Herbivore
Mini Sweet Peppers Stuffed with Herbs de Provence Pesto from Raw Epicurean
Potato Leek Soup and Leeks: Step-by-Step from the Innocent Primate Vegan Blog
Carrot Jam from Where's the Revolution?
Friday Food: Brownies, Breads, Pumpkin, and Flying Saucer Squash
Published September 25, 2009 @ 07:54AM PT
Photo courtesy the Innocent Primate Vegan Blog
Vegan Pumpkin Brownies from Happy Herbivore (and a happy birthday to Lindsay, our Happy Herbivore chef!)
Creamy Chunky Cauliflower Chowder from Vegan Dad
Pumpkin Flat Bread with Caramelized Onions from BitterSweet
Beer-Battered Corn Fritters with Spicy Cajun Sour Cream from Rhymes with Vegan
Wild Rice Lettuce Wraps from the Innocent Primate Vegan Blog (ingredients shown above)
Homemade Vegan Pizza (video) from Vegan Break
Babysitters, Tofu, Sesame Street, and School Lunches
Published September 23, 2009 @ 07:03AM PT
I was a grade-school fan of the Baby-Sitters Club books. (In my defense, the books I remember most from that same time period are Island of the Blue Dolphins and Bridge to Terabithia, not Baby-Sitters Club.) I mention this here because in the series, one of the club members was a vegetarian (I think). And in at least one of these books, the word "tofu" came up. I had no idea what this was -- and continued not knowing for years. Likely because of whatever the context (or dish) was when the tofu was mentioned, I spent a decade thinking it was some kind of weird, healthy-but-disgusting casserole. I'm pretty sure I was nearing the end of college before I had a clue; I had only one truly vegetarian friend in college (whom I teased -- yeah, I was that person), but I don't recall her ever mentioning, never mind eating, tofu. And I'd graduated by the time I tried it for the first time, in some Thai takeout.
Maybe I wouldn't have been so oblivious if I'd not grown up in a rural area and in a meat-and-potatoes family and community that knew all about raising animals for slaughter but to whom even "vegetarian," let alone "vegan," was a baffling, almost blasphemous concept. But I am also absolutely convinced that much has changed in the last couple decades, that adults and kids alike are more aware of what's out there in the way of non-animal foods, not only for health reasons, but also because of growing awareness of animals, who they are, and what we do to them in the name of "food."
