Isa Chandra Moskowitz blogs at ThePPK.com and is the author of 7 cookbooks, including Veganomicon, Appetite For Reduction and the brand new Vegan Pie In The Sky.
Brownies Baked, Raw and Blonde: MoFo Round Up 10/09
It’s the weekend! Maybe you have a little time to pop some brownies into the oven. MoFo’ers have been baking up batches all week. Scratch and Sniff muses on her grandmother and brownies and her grandmother’s brownies. Vegan Thyme bakes up one of my favorite combos: Chocolate Ginger Brownies, from Robin Robertson’s new cookbook.
There’s an amazing looking recipe for Raw Fudge Brownies at the end of this dinner party post at Soap & Chocolate. And yet another Raw Brownie recipe at Fashion Peace.
MoFo is not about the status, nor the fame and riches that come with it. We work our fingers to the bone typing about hazelnuts at 2 am because it needs to be done, not for the inevitable praise that will be heaped upon us by a cold, nameless, faceless committee of ubervegans.
With that in mind, we introduce you to the world’s first truly democratic, anti-establishment, non-hierarchical, awards ceremony of the people: The First Annual Mofies!
The idea is simple: you are the awards committee. You not only decide who wins the award, but you get to make up the category, too. So if you would like to nominate someone for “Best Use Of A Tennis Racket In Culinary Preparation” then you go right ahead, and the nominee is the winner, too. You also get to decide the prize! Maybe it’s something simple, like a virtual hug or a photo of your cat. Maybe you’d like to take it a step further and bake them cookies. Maybe you’d like to make a donation to your local farm sanctuary in their name. It’s all up to you!
You won't be taking home one of these.
The only formal part is that we will all do it on the same night, Thursday November 5th between 5pm and 8pm EST. The MoFo blog will put up a post that evening, you link back to it in your award post so that we know about it and we will blog throughout the night and try to keep up.
So what do you say? A fun way to support other MoFos, a reason to soldier on and an incredibly nerdy way to freak out the family and spend a Thursday night glued to your computer. Viva La Mofies!
This morning I effed up my microwave oatmeal. Twice. It just kind of erupted all over the place, as only oatmeal can do (twice.) As I cleaned it off the cats I got to thinking about today’s roundup subject – projects – and what takes kitchen time from regular old cooking, into the project zone.
You definitely are in project territory when you need a special device for your food, like a ravioli cutter. Full disclosure, I have never really made my own ravioli, although I have cheated and used wanton wrappers. This Mushroom Garlic Tofu Ravioli from the aptly titled Cute and Delicious looks exactly that.
The Airy Way has got a lot going on. This recipe for kushidango has got all the classic elements of a project: adorable tchotchkes, moon-related activity, and skewers.
Sometimes a project happens because you’re entertaining, and need a fabulous edible conversation piece. Add to that a little internet buzz and born is this gigantor cheeseball that kittee adapted from the Vegetarian Times vegan cheese article a few months ago.
Speaking of internet buzz, you remember when everyone was talking about the NY Times no-knead bread on that one internet forum? Of course you do, because someone posts a link to it every single day. In all the excitement, they don’t even bother to search for an already existing thread even though there are at least 20. Well, maybe it’s about time you made the bread, like Hell Yeah It’s Vegan did.
There is a need for no-knead
Maybe you’ve got a sweet tooth and can be lured into the kitchen with the promise of a candy thermometer and toffee? The New Vegan Table has got the project for you.
And sometimes the best kind of project is the simplest. Harken back to a gentler time; lemonade on the porch, tofu roast in the wood burning stove and ma’s lattice top pie cooling on the window sill. I tend to lazy-out and go the crumb top route, but I think a lattice top builds character.
Um, and there's a bunny in it.
Now would be a great time to dip your toes into the wonderful world of jam making (but please don’t dip your toes into the jam!) Mocking The Meat is a canning newbie and look at what a great job she did!
We be jamming.
Or if you want all the goodness of homemade jam but don’t want to be the home that makes it, cheat and check out tahinitoo’s canning giveaway.
I love before and afters. The ones with a disheveled graying frizzhead that turns into a gussied up bombshell are fun, but even funner is a look into a blogger’s inner turmoil via their spice cabinet. Spoiler: she emerges victorious.
Happy MoFoing, everyone! I’ve been having a great time reading everyone’s posts. You’re doing a bang-up job. Do you have any projects planned for the weekend?
If I see the word “Autumn” on a menu I automatically know what I’ll be ordering. Autumn pancakes, autumn salad, autumn stew, you name it, I am a sucker for that word. So this morning’s round up is going to be all kinds of Autumnal.
Pumpkin are coming
My Zoetrope has beautiful photos from the Union Square Farmer’s Market. Who can resist crates of apples? And here’s more gorgeousness from Peace By Pastries from the Kansas City Farmer’s Market, don’t you just love a little wagon full of produce? Cardomom and Cast Iron visits Pike Place Farrmer’s Market in Seattle and gives us shots of chilis and squash blossoms.
You want recipes? We got recipes! Red Beets & Rock-N-Roll not only has a very autumn blog title, but also throws one of my favorite dishes into the mix in this Autumn Massaman Curry.
Autumn spilling over
Very Vegan Holiday pulls no punches with Autumn Soup, Salad AND Pasta. And since we all will have bags and bags of pears and apples we don’t know what to do with, The Elizavegan Page gives us a recipe for Pureed Fruit Pancakes. You’ll notice a theme developing; everyone loves stuffing squash into squash. Towards Ahimsa makes his pumpkin into a very simple but certainly delicious Pumpkin Soup.
This is the official blog of VeganMoFo, the Vegan Month Of Food! Come here to catch up with your fellow MoFo’ers with our daily round-ups, where we’ll feature the entries that caught our eyes. We’ll also be posting MoFo news, press, inspiration and gossip. Like this:
We’re currently at about 360 blogs and rising. Make sure to get your blog to kittee if you want to be included in the MoFo blog roll. The deadline is Friday Oct 2nd.
Kick off MoFo tonight at 12:01 EST during Midnight MoFo!
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