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Iron Chef: The Beet Roundup

Iron Chef: The Beet Roundup

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As suspected, beets know no boundaries.  We’ve spanned cuisines and countries in this one.  This challenge even had some folks switching over from the beet haters side.

Some interesting ideas tackled this week:  beets to make pink bread and pasta.  Whoa.   Beetloaf?  Intriguing!

To take a look at the recipe and visit each participating blog, click on the corresponding photo below.    Cue the magenta!

Kohlrabi and Quince’s Roasted Pickled Beets and Radishes
The Space & Spoon’s Beetroot Mini Cobs with Caramelised Beet & Onion Mayo
Cupcake Kitteh’s Beetroot Pesto Pizza
Veganolution’s Pink Hummus
Come Vegan With Me’s Beet Risotto
Tasty Planet’s Beet-Apple-Carrot Juice
Vegan on the Prowl’s Beetroot Chutney
Geeky Treats’ Boba Fettuccine Beet Pasta
From Kirsten’s Kitchen to Yours’ Beetroot Ravioli with Spinach Pesto
Think Care Act’s  second dish: Beets with Coconut Sauce
Bedazzled Vegan’s Beetroot Samosas
Odd Mom Out’s Beetloaf
The Picky Vegan’s Curried Beet and Sweet Potato Latke with Apple-Beet Chutney
Kristy’s Beet Slaw

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, check out The Elizavegan Page’s Wartime Roasted Beets with Kale (unphotographed).

As I hoped, we even had some desserts, too!

Think Care Act’s Raw Beet Tartlet
Eating on a Napkin’s Chocolate Beet Pudding
Flaming Apron’s Coconut Lime Ice Cream with Beetroot Syrup

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ripe’s Beet Cheesecake Bites

Thanks guys.  Now have some great recipes to use with the beets in my garden!

Tune in this coming Friday for the next secret ingredient(s)!

Sweetbird & Zuma Giveaway

Sweetbird & Zuma Giveaway

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Congratulations Tiffany and Joey, you are our winners! Check your e-mails shortly and get ready to snuggle on down with some tasty hot chocolate this Autumn.

It’s very definitely Autumn where I am. The leaves are changing colour, there’s a chill in the air, I’m obsessing over everything pumpkin, and all I want to drink is hot chocolate.

Hopefully you’re feeling the same because today we have an awesome giveaway from Sweetbird & Zuma which is open to anyone living in the UK & Ireland, America or Canada.

The wonderful people from Sweetbird & Zuma are offering two lucky winners the chance to win an epic Hot Chocolate Set which contains…

1 bottle of Caramel Fudge Syrup

1 bottle of Toffee Apple Syrup

1 2kg tin of Zuma Fairtrade Dark Hot Chocolate

Zuma mugs, pumps, mini whisk and scoops

 

All of these goodies are sure to set you right up for a night curled up on the couch with a pile of blankets, an episode of Gilmore Girls (No? Just me?!) and a warm drink.

To enter just leave a comment below by 2pm BST tomorrow telling us about your favourite place to get cozy. Be sure to include a valid email address so that we can contact you. The two winners will be randomly selected and announced around an hour after the giveaway has ended. Please only enter if you reside in the UK & Ireland, America or Canada.

 

 

Day-Five-Friday MoFo Round Up!

Day-Five-Friday MoFo Round Up!

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Hello, hello, and happy day-five-Friday, MoFo-land! Jess here, and I’ve spent so much of the past day, our big fifth day in, scouring the internet, clicking and scrolling and being inspired all over the place, while most importantly, bookmarking the posts that make me smile and point at the screen to my girlfriend who’s sitting next to me on the couch. 

First up, I love fall and I love apples and I love cinnamon and I love doughnuts and I love autumn leaves and you get that I’m excited, SO, therefore, check these out from Shannon at Leaves & Flowers and see why:

Just as autumn appropriate are Vegan Crunk’s pumpkin cheddar biscuits on Panda With Cookie for Lisa’s Friday Fun theme. I must say, I’ve enjoyed these biscuits, and I want to enjoy them some more!

Commence cute attack with the playful food posts, this time with a green bell pepper monster, from the mother & daughter duo at Earthy Veg:

Shucks.

Our friend Mary from Nether Ending Story in you guessed it, the Netherlands, nerds out with an adorable build-your-own cookbook idea:

Do it!

Next up, breadsticks and subsequent rustic marinara for dipping from the Unintentional Vegan – because this was one I had to point out to J. Legume because when doesn’t she want breadsticks for dinner? When don’t I? When don’t you?!

Earlier today, fellow round-upper Stephanie aka Lazy Smurf, shared her life-changing video on the following topic, and please, I urge you – CLICK ON THIS LINK (because I’m having an issue embedding it):

*************PSA: Burritos vs. Tacos*************

Tacos. Burritos. Tacos! Burritos! Ah!

And let me add, J. Legume instantly recognized Lazy Smurfy because she’s friends with Dinger and Willow, from this little post…

And bonus: even more tacos – this time, joined by enchiladas – from Vegan Soul Food:

p.s. Food and Blood wants you to know this:

Iron Chef Challenge: #1

Iron Chef Challenge: #1

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Welcome, everyone, to another year of Vegan MoFo Iron Chef!  Katie, who usually hosts this competition, has put her faith in me this month.

Fridays during the month of October will feature Iron Chef Challenges, wherein participants will use the week’s secret ingredient in a unique dish and post a link to the recipe. On Sundays I will do a roundup of the participating blogs’ dishes.

This week I wanted to chose an ingredient that is used in cuisines around the world, is fairly inexpensive, and can be used in a diversity of dishes.  According to Wikipedia, this vegetable has been cultivated since the second millennium BC, so I’m sure there are a few recipes to guide you through this challenge.

A quick review of our few simple rules/guidelines:

1. Whatever you come up with has to be new, nothing from a cookbook or a blog, not something you posted last week that happens to involve the secret ingredient. It’s fine to use a recipe for a jump-off point, but make it your own!
2. Entries are due at 3 pm PST on Sunday.
3. Have fun and be creative!

Let’s not beet around the bush. (Did you guess the secret ingredient just then?)

The secret ingredient is BEETROOT!

Think pickled/steamed/roasted/pureed/boiled/shredded beets, beet greens, beet juice as dye…really beets are quite a diverse vegetable! With their natural sweetness, they lend themselves to both sweet and savory dishes.

To participate, just comment on this entry with the link to your blog post by Sunday, 3 pm PST.

Allez Végétalien Cuisine!
(Disregard the carrots! Although delicious, they are not part of this challenge!)

PS- I apologize for posting this late.  Work gets in the way sometimes.  For this reason, if you don’t get around to posting your links until a little after 3 p.m. on Sunday, I’ll try to still feature your dish in the roundup!  I’ll be posting the challenges earlier in upcoming weeks.

Round-Up: Let’s Hear it for the Pie!

Round-Up: Let’s Hear it for the Pie!

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Aww yeah, Mofos!  We are back for another live edition of round up goodness.  Truthfully, this one was inspired by one of the fellow organizers.  I saw the most amazing layered soul food pie ever at Kittee’s blog, and thought pie is a great thing to roundup.  So, let’s giddyup!

We’ll start with the savory.  Megan at The Vegan Cookbook Aficionado was throwing down with her rendition of Pâté Chinois, a French Canadian staple.  Just check out her sexy lentils.

There’s also no shortage of autumnal pies.  This is the time of year for apples and sweet potatoes and pumpkin! OH MY!

Raw apple pie goodness coming from Allysia.

And lookit how cute Ashley’s sweet potato pie cups are!  So freaking cute!

Plus, Molly Alice Nests is flipping the switch and blowing my mind with these absolutely dreamy butternut squash pie bars!  So pretty.

Behold the versatility of pie.  The amazing Joni is tarting it up with her delightfully colorful avocado coconut lime tartlets, while Allyson lays down that sweet and salty caramel drizzle on her pear and ginger ricotta cheesecake.  Aww yeah.  Can we get some Marvin Gaye playing up in here?

 

If this post has inspired you to enjoy more pie in your life, why not try throwing a pie potluck like fellow MoFo organizer AndyDufresne?  And be sure to invite me!

Until next time…Happy Mofoing!

Giveaway- Beans, beans, and more beans!

Giveaway- Beans, beans, and more beans!

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And our three randomly selected bean-loving winners are: Veronica, Peggy, and Kalamckala.  Check your email, you three, and congrats!

I’m willing to bet you, faithful Vegan MoFo readers, go through a substantial amount of beans in a month.  Wouldn’t it be great to have several pounds of these nutrient-packed legumes shipped to your front door…for free?!  I mean, if nothing else, it would save you a trip to the grocery store and allow you to spend more time MoFoing.

For the second year in a row we’ve received a great giveaway from the folks at PNW Farmers Coop.  Three lucky people will win three two-pound bags of non-GMO lentils, garbanzo beans, and split peas, sustainably-produced by family farmers in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.  That’s enough to last you quite a while, I’d imagine!

If you need bean inspiration, why not turn to your fellow MoFoers?

Two Vegan Ladies cooked up some adorable Lentil Sliders that look both tasty and satisfying.Or how about some Moroccan Pumpkin Hummus, recipe provided by Robin Robertson?


If you’re all about the split peas, perhaps Cupcakes and Kale will inspire you with  her Curried Chana Dal Soup.

To enter, leave a comment below by 4:00 PST 10/3/2012, telling us about your favorite bean or bean dish to prepare.  Be sure to include a valid email address so that we can contact you.  Three winners will be randomly selected and announced an hour (or so!) after the giveaway is closed.  This giveaway is open to folks in the U.S. only.

Hey You! Sign up for VeganMoFo 2012!

Hey You! Sign up for VeganMoFo 2012!

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It’s less than two mere weeks away!!!!!!

Here’s the sign up form.

Go, go, go! The deadline is September 26, 2012

 

New to MoFo’ig? Want a refresher?

Check out the updated F.A.Q.

More tips & updates, the shiny new 2012 logo, and just perhaps, some 2011 VeganMoFo favorites, to follow soon!

Seriously, start theme-storming and sign up for VeganMoFo, October 2012! We’d love to see you on the fancy blogroll.

MoFo Swan Song: Sunday Round-Up

MoFo Swan Song: Sunday Round-Up

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On my last MoFo round-up, I just have to say that it has been an immense pleasure being involved this year. Not only did I blog regularly during MoFo for my first year, I also had the honour of writing some round-ups and giveaways with the superstar MoFo PPK team. This experience combined with my time at Vida Vegan Con just makes me want to smooch you all in the least creepy way possible. Okay, cheezefest over. Here’s today’s round-up!

Starting things off with a spooky bang: Ghoulish Shepherd’s Pie from Snarky Vegan. I am a lazypants these days and had a boring old Amy’s frozen shepherd’s pie last night, but my day would have been infinitely better if I’d been served this one.

I like planning my food-tourism far in advance, and on my list when I finally make my way out to visit my sister in Boston and reunite with New York City, I plan on tracking down The Cinnamon Snail vegan food truck. Apparently these award-winning vanilla bourbon crème brûlée donuts (!) are frequently available when the Snail is in NYC.

I’m always sad about the fact that more people think they don’t love tempeh. Aside from the initial un-sexiness of “fermented bean curd,” what’s not to love? Check out this excellent tempeh primer and resultant balls of fermenty goodness from The Vegan Weight Watcher. Bonus: the tempeh wingz from MoFo’s own Katie are also recommended, and I can vouch for their deliciousness.

I’m obsessed with Colorado and I don’t know why! Okay, it’s probably the mountains, but it’s also the vegan-friendliness, exemplified by this vegan buffalo chicken roll from Sun Deli in Boulder. Once I embarked on an entire trip to visit a university in Boulder even though I was 99% sure I wasn’t going to go to grad school there. I wish I’d had Vegan Coloradical as my tour guide.

You’ve no doubt already experienced jealousy and resentment over those of us lucky enough to be testing for Terry Hope Romero‘s upcoming world food cookbook. I haven’t found near enough time to delve into testing, but I did spend a good few minutes salivating over this Tofu Bo Bun tester from Living Free. Veganized Vietnamese food is amazing!

Vegan Chai (sorry, vegan chai) hates capital letters AND tomatoes, but we’ll forgive her when she serves up this amazing TLT (sorry, tlt).

As she is also part of the MoFo team (and a special friend of mine), I couldn’t end my round-ups without gushing about Amey‘s MoFo theme: a spice a day! Today’s dried rose petals resulted in this gorgeous rose petal & almond tea, in a Tin-Tin mug!

For dessert, and leaning into tomorrow’s holiday (and the final day of MoFo 2011), feast your eyes on these lovely ghost sugar cookies.

Happy Halloween!

Friday Round up – I spy with my little eye

Friday Round up – I spy with my little eye

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Gosh, it doesn’t seem possible that this is my last MoFo 2011 round up, where did the time go? Oh yeah, checking out all the awesome MoFo’ers that’s where!
This year has been so much fun, as all MoFo’s are. I’ve loved discoverng new bloggers, reacquainting myself with old bloggers and sharing a cup of chai with regular blogging buddies.
Here’s some of my favourite MoFo’ing that I spied today.

First up is this lovely little tidbit of wisdom from Janet over at The Taste Space

vegan food does not need to be a recreation of something dairy or meat-laden. It can just be. Wonderful, in all its glory. Nameless.

I really like that.
She also made these AWESOME Besan Chillas. Mmmm YUM!
I like those too.

Besan Chillas

Let’s talk about BALLS!
Lisa’s balls to be precise.
Her balls are what grabbed my attention first, but this little quote made me chuckle too;

“There is nothing more Australian than spending time in someone else’s country”~ Anonymous

I LOVE this quote so much because it’s so true, whenever I have travelled there is always, guaranteed, either a group of Australians or a lone Australian, they’s some hardcore travellers so they are.
And some of my best friends are Australian who I never would have met had they not loved travelling so much so I’m glad they do.
Anyway back to Lisa’s balls.

Raw mango, date, and sunflower tropical energy balls

This basic agave-sweetened spice cake, with a layer of pears on the bottom, top, and sides over at Bite me (I’m vegan) might be basic but it looks blinking AMAZING and I’m loving the spice combo.

Spiced Pear Cake

Moira really impressed me with her bread baking over at An Auckland Vegan. Not only is this so gorgeous looking I can almost smell it, but it only took 5 mins to prepare (plus rise time and bake time, but even so!).

Five minute bread

Vegan Angela’s been at it again, Raw Pumpkin Cheesecake anyone??
Awesome picture tutorial as well.

Raw Pumpkin Cheesecake

And finally let’s say hello to this cheeseburger from The Compassionate Cook.

Hello!

Hasta pronto guapos

xxxx

Sunday MoFo Round-Up: I Want It All

Sunday MoFo Round-Up: I Want It All

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Greetings, MoFos. Sundays are lovely. I’ve made waffles and raked leaves, and we drove out to one of the last island farmers’ markets of the year. There is a big sheepdog to my right and a nerdy boyfriend organizing his Magic The Gathering cards to my left. We are considering going to a pumpkin patch tomorrow. Basically, I’m all cozy and I hope you are too, because we are so close to finishing and conquering the wonderful Vegan Month of Food. Let’s take a look at what stood out today.

If you’ve been vegan for any length of time, you’ve probably already experienced the phenomenon that is cheese-less pizza appreciation. Suddenly, even the idea of putting Daiya on your pizza is kind of weird, considering how much it takes over the other ingredients’ flavours. I would happily eat up this caramelized onion and squash pizza from I Eat Grains any day.

What’s in Robin Robertson’s slow-cooker? should be a regular feature in the soon-to-be-a-reality vegan tabloids. Today, it’s seitan posole.

I am absolutely loving think. care. act.’s tour of veganized regional Germany. Today? Northern Germany’s intriguing Pears, Beans, and “Bacon”.

Gimme this breakfast.

WHAT! Dandies bars from Three and a Half Vegans. Homemade vegan chocolate bars in your pie hole.

I just started testing for Terry Hope Romero’s upcoming world vegan food cookbook, and it is absolutely amazing, since Viva Vegan is one of my favourite cookbooks of all time. Proving its awesomeness are these beautiful arepas sandwiching yellow chili grilled mushrooms and fruit slaw from Cupcake Kitteh.

No plans for this (or next) Sunday night? Take a cue from Amy Zucchini and throw yourself a sushi rollin’ party.

Have a marvellous week!