Week 2 of VeganMoFo 2017 is all about Behind the Scenes – the gadgets, tricks and secret ingredients that help you to produce your culinary masterpieces. While we’re thinking about the processes in the kitchen, it seems like the perfect time to run a series of cookbook giveaways courtesy of the wonderful people at Vegan Heritage Press.
Vegan Heritage Press is an independent vegan publishing company which is no doubt behind some of your favourite recipe books – check out their published authors here! They are staffed by vegans and are doing great work meeting the growing demand for vegan cookbooks.
From Monday to Friday this week we’re running a daily giveaway of one of Vegan Heritage Press’ new titles.
On Wednesday, we’re giving you the chance to win a copy of Vegan Mexico by Jason Wyrick. Jason, who also wrote Vegan Tacos, dishes up mains, sandwiches, desserts, snacks and more, including recipes like classic sweet corn tamales, blue corn mushroom bocoles and tres leches cake. Yum!
For your chance at winning, leave a comment either here on our Instagram post telling us: what’s your favourite Mexican dish? We’ll choose a winner at random. This giveaway is only open to participants in the USA who are registered for VeganMoFo. Participants are allowed to enter all five giveaways this week, you don’t need to limit yourself to one. The competition closes at midnight Pacific Daylight Time. Good luck!
Week 2 of VeganMoFo 2017 is all about Behind the Scenes – the gadgets, tricks and secret ingredients that help you to produce your culinary masterpieces. While we’re thinking about the processes in the kitchen, it seems like the perfect time to run a series of cookbook giveaways courtesy of the wonderful people at Vegan Heritage Press.
Vegan Heritage Press is an independent vegan publishing company which is no doubt behind some of your favourite recipe books – check out their published authors here! They are staffed by vegans and are doing great work meeting the growing demand for vegan cookbooks.
From Monday to Friday this week we’re running a daily giveaway of one of Vegan Heritage Press’ new titles.
On Tuesday we’re giving you the chance to win a copy of The Lusty Vegan by Ayindé Howell and Zoë Eisenberg. Not only is this book packed with 80 delicious recipes, it also contains relationship tips and advice for those in a vegan/omni relationship! Chef Ayindé and writer Zoë have both never dated a fellow vegan, so they know all the obstacles to overcome and have provided recipes to please both palates, including crispy spring rolls, classic cloud nine pancakes and jackfruit fajitas!
For your chance at winning, leave a comment either here on our Instagram post telling us: what dish would you serve up to impress your non-vegan date? We’ll choose a winner at random. This giveaway is only open to participants in the USA who are registered for VeganMoFo. Participants are allowed to enter all five giveaways this week, you don’t need to limit yourself to one. The competition closes at midnight Pacific Daylight Time. Good luck!
Vegan Heritage Press Giveaway: The Vegan Air Fryer
Week 2 of VeganMoFo 2017 is all about Behind the Scenes – the gadgets, tricks and secret ingredients that help you to produce your culinary masterpieces. While we’re thinking about the processes in the kitchen, it seems like the perfect time to run a series of cookbook giveaways courtesy of the wonderful people at Vegan Heritage Press.
Vegan Heritage Press is an independent vegan publishing company which is no doubt behind some of your favourite recipe books – check out their published authors here! They are staffed by vegans and are doing great work meeting the growing demand for vegan cookbooks.
From Monday to Friday this week we’re running a daily giveaway of one of Vegan Heritage Press’ new titles.
On Monday, we’re giving you the chance to win a copy of The Vegan Air Fryer by JL Fields. If you love fried foods but don’t make them as often as you’d like on account of all that oil, then this is the book for you! JL Fields has tried and tested dozens of recipes to be made in your air fryer. Recipes include: mac’n’cheese bites, grilled cheese sandwiches and jalapeño poppers. Sounds good to us!
For your chance at winning, leave a comment either here on our Instagram post telling us: what’s your favourite fried food? We’ll choose a winner at random. This giveaway is only open to participants in the USA who are registered for VeganMoFo. Participants are allowed to enter all five giveaways this week, you don’t need to limit yourself to one. The competition closes at midnight Pacific Daylight Time. Good luck!
VeganMoFo’ers, thank you for everything you do! It’s been an amazing first week of VeganMoFo 2017, and we’ve been dazzled by all your creative offerings and culinary delights. Choosing a few highlights for each day is a tough old job, but here are some that have stood out this week.
The week one theme was Changing Vegan Perceptions, and I think you will have easily convinced the rest of the world that a vegan diet is in no way a boring one!
Mike and Sarra livened up the dull old hummus and veg offering by making hummus-crusted tofu with an exciting range of veg (blueberry sweet peppers, anyone?) and sticking it all in a taco. Talk about an improvement! They’ve posted a taco dish every day this week, so have a look at their other fillings too on their blog or Instagram.
How do you make avo toast fresh and exciting? Strawberries, pomegranate balsamic and cocoa powder! We like Amber’s thinking! All of her dishes this week have been beautiful and are worth checking out.
Of course, you don’t have to be following the weekly theme or daily prompts to be featured in our round ups! MoFo regular Jen is posting about hurricane recovery in the Florida Keys, and we were so happy to see her again! Week 1 has been full of honest and hopeful videos from her B&B, along with inspiring tales of human kindness and generosity.
Feast your eyes on this! Clare has a mouthwatering review of this vegan junk food haven in South Devon that will have us all descending there for a holiday! Clare has also shared some of her own flavoursome recipes this week if you’re in the mood for some cooking.
If you’re in need of a sugar fix, check out the recipe for this spectacular concoction: funnel cake topped with pumpkin pie ice cream, pecan pralines and caramel sauce. Truly a work of art! There’s a recipe every day on their blog, so do check it out for meal inspiration.
Emily (who happens to be VeganMoFo’s resident IT expert) went to the trouble of googling high-protein foods and then whipped them up into a veritable feast: baked tofu with a sun-dried tomato and pepita pesto, garlicky sauteed spinach, and a quinoa-lentil pilaf. Yum!
We have a lot of respect for Tofumom’s no-nonsense protein response: plants, duh! Check out this colourful array of protein-packed veg – just one of her vibrant pics from week one!
And you can’t talk about protein without mentioning the humble chickpea! Bianca shared these collard green falafels, and you can find the recipe right here.
There were no catering disasters at this wedding – Michelle took a look back at her wedding, a week long celebration of vegan food (oh, and true love) culminating in this tower of five different kinds of cupcakes. Happy anniversary!
Emma’s worst catered meal was so unbelievably bad, you really do have to read it yourself to believe it. Let’s just say that this lasagne (made using actual lasagne pasta sheets!) was a huge improvement! She’s shared her recipe so you can make it yourself at home. Look at her other daily recipe posts while you’re over there!
Kristen pointed out that we vegans quite often miss out on little nibbles like hors d’oeuvres, so she made a whole meal consisting of delicate little appetisers! They all looked amazing, but these fried chick’n tofu and waffles a really something else. She’s posted some really beautiful dishes throughout the week.
Everyone tells Danielle that she makes the best grilled cheese sandwiches in the world, vegan or otherwise. Judging by this picture, I’m inclined to believe them!
First of all, yes, this would win anyone over. Second, did everyone else know that banana blossom is a good fish alternative?! You can find more details over on Natalie’s Instagram post. She’s been serving up delicious and hearty feasts all week, so don’t head over there on an empty stomach!
Checking in on another personal theme, if you ever watched The Wire this one’s for you! Every morning vegan.raptor posts a photo of a vegan dish inspired by the name of a character with a little clue as to who it is. In the evening all is revealed! This isn’t just bacon, it’s Wee-bey-con! Play along and see if you can guess any of them!
Laura’s theme is ‘magical unicorn rainbow party’, and this mac’n’cheese seems to fit perfectly! Natural colourings abound, including something called butterfly pea tea powder. You can find the recipe on her blog and check out her other great and thought-provoking posts this week.
First time MoFo’er Raquella shared this tempting mac and cheese. This was a popular dish for this prompt, but hers was the only one we spotted that was made with split peas!
Julie turned to our vegan goddess Isa for this original vegan dish: the goddess noodles from Isa Does It. In every blog post Julie included a drawing of her dish for Inktober, so make sure you stop by to admire her artistic skills!
Look at this magnificent plate of food from Tania (or, to give credit where it’s due, her husband)! As she points out, respecting your vegetables is all it takes to create a wonderful dish. This seared cauliflower is served with steamed millet and braised thyme-scented white beans, finished with a lemon-tahini cauliflower puree.
MoFor regular Susan treated us to a fabulous review of Terry Hope Romero’s Salad Samurai. Salads like this avocado tofu breakfast one are will win you friends any day of the week!
Occasionally we might be persuaded to skip the tofu and instead get these black pepper candied maple bacon pecans! Don’t they sound amazing?! Oh, and they’re served with baby spinach, homegrown black krim tomatoes, and smoky pumpkin vinaigrette.
So that’s it for week one! Week two starts today and we’re curious about what’s going on in your kitchen: it’s Behind the Scenes week! We’ll have another round up for you next Monday, but keep an eye on the blog for a daily cookbook giveaway Monday-Friday this week. And keep serving up that delicious food!
Today VeganMoFo is inviting those of you following our daily prompts to celebrate all things cheesy, so it seems like the perfect time to announce our giveaway with Tyne Chease!
Tyne Chease is a small, family-run business which makes its own cheases using organic ingredients. It won the Best Vegan Cheese Award at the Vegan Awards UK last year and currently boasts over twenty different varieties on the website.
If you are overwhelmed by all the choice, look no further than the Selection Box: ten mini cheases to make up the most elegant and delicious of chease boards! The Selection Box includes the following flavours: Original, Dill, Garlic, Ethiopian Spice, Mustard, Chilli Flakes, Za’atar Spice, Sundried Tomato, Pink Peppercorn and Smoked.
Thanks to the generosity of the Tyne Chease team, we have one selection box to give away!
To be in with a chance, you just need to make a cheese-related post on any of your registered VeganMoFo accounts – blog, Instagram, Twitter, whatever. We will then choose a winner at random. You have until midnight BST to enter. This giveaway is open to UK residents only.
If you’ve ever been to a vegan festival in the UK, you’ve probably seen the lovely people from Vegan Tuck Box there selling cruelty-free creme eggs, Go Max Go bars, and other insanely good snacks.
But you don’t need to travel all the way to a festival to sample their delicious treats – in fact, you don’t need to leave your house at all! With their Variety Box or Ultimate Box, you can get a mouth-watering selection of mystery vegan goodies delivered to you anywhere in the world.
This month, Vegan Tuck Box is celebrating its 4th birthday, and as part of their celebrations the team has kindly donated one box to a lucky VeganMoFo’er! (FYI, the one pictured up top is just an example – the real contents are still a mystery!
To enter, you just need to leave us a comment here on the blog or on Instagram letting us know: what’s the number one treat you would send in a vegan care package? You have until midnight Pacific Daylight Time to enter. This giveaway is open to entrants anywhere in the world, but you must be signed up to this year’s VeganMoFo.
There’s no denying that this is a great time to be vegan. Plant-based options are popping up on menus all over the world, you can watch vegan documentaries on Netflix, and thanks to Vegan Cuts you can get boxes of mystery vegan snacks delivered straight to your door every month!
The team at Vegan Cuts spend all month looking for the best vegan products to send out to subscribers in their two monthly boxes: the Snack Box and the Beauty Box (they also do a quarterly Makeup Box). Once you’ve subscribed, you just wait patiently (or not!) for your treats to arrive.
The kind people at Vegan Cuts have donated October snack boxes to two lucky winners!
This giveaway is now closed
To enter, you just need to leave us a comment here on the blog or on Instagram letting us know: what’s your favourite vegan snack that you would love to have delivered to your door? You have until midnight Pacific Daylight Time to enter and we will choose a winner at random. This giveaway is open to USA and Canada residents only.
It’s almost time for VeganMoFo 2017! With mere days to go the excitement is definitely building here at VeganMoFo HQ, and we’re thrilled to bring you the blogrolls of this year’s participants. Of course, VeganMoFo is not only about sharing your own delicious food, but also about discovering great recipes posted by others and filling your social media feed with as many vegan accounts as possible. We’re here to help you find all the other participants!
As always, we’ll be posting a weekly round-up post highlighting some of our favourite contributions. But you don’t need to wait for us: using these links you can see what your VeganMoFo friends are up to at all times!
First of all, here’s the Official 2017 Blogroll. Everyone who signed up is listed on here, neatly organised by category (web blogs, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook). Feel free to go on a following spree!
We’ve also got a Where in the World? blogroll so you can see which countries our participants are based in this year – for US contributors, there’s also a state-by-state breakdown, so you can see if you have any neighbours getting involved!
For the multilingual among us, make sure to have a little look at the 2017 By Language blogroll.
And here’s a handy guide to the Individual Themes chosen by this year’s participants – there are some really interesting choices, so keep an eye on these!
You can also easily see which blogs have been updated on our RSS feed here – though we’re still ironing out a few kinks, so do bear with us!
We’ve also added a handy Instagram feed too where you can enjoy every contribution using the hashtag #vgnmf17, so make sure to use it!
However you’re participating in VeganMoFo 2017, we hope you have a fantastic month!
VeganMoFo 2017 is starting soon and we want to make sure our lovely participants are dressed for the occasion! We’re very pleased to announce our first giveaway in 2017, courtesy of the wonderful Compassion Co.
Compassion Co was founded by animal rights activists Andy Tabar and Paul Stellar, and all their clothing proudly conveys the vegan message.
Not only are they promoting kindness to animals – their products are also good for the Earth too! They only use either recycled or domestically grown organic cotton, and there isn’t a sweat shop in sight. Compassion towards animals, humans and our planet? This is a company we can all get on board with!
Compassion Co has kindly offered one lucky winner the t-shirt or tank top of their choice.
To enter, you just need to do two things:
Sign up for VeganMoFo 2017 by 22nd September – if you haven’t already done so, the form is right here! If you’ve already signed up, then you’re already in with a chance!
Make your first VeganMoFo 2017 post on your registered social media account or blog on Sunday 1st October – but you were already planning on doing that anyway, right?!
It really is that simple! Participants from anywhere in the world are eligible to win. We’ll choose a winner at random and announce the lucky MoFo’er on Monday 2nd October.
In the meantime, don’t let lusting over their online store distract you too much from your VeganMoFo prep!
It’s already September, meaning there’s only one month to go until VeganMoFo gets underway! To get you in the mood, here’s our new MiniMoFo challenge.
In September our theme is: a meal inspired by a book you love.
And there’s a deadline this month – we’d love your submissions before 25th September, so we have time for a roundup before October comes around.
8th September is International Literacy Day, so we’re asking you to cook up something inspired by a beloved book. Harry Potter fans, how about some vegan butterbeer? Can you give Willy Wonka a run for his money and create a sublime chocolate concoction? Show us what you’ve got!
As usual, remember to use the hashtag #MiniMoFo or post your link in the comments below, and check back at the end of the month for our roundup.
