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Chickpea Magazine Giveaway

September 25, 2014 Panda With Cookie

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS CLOSED

As we head toward the end of MoFo 2014 we still have some great giveaways coming up. Including today’s giveaway, which is for a year subscription or single issue of Chickpea Magazine!

Chickpea is a quarterly publication founded in 2011 and is known for its gorgeous photography and layout. Each copy includes recipes, food musings, and DIY projects such as the do it yourself bouillon in the current fall issue.

Whether you’re interested in a collection of autumnal mushroom recipes or a tutorial on camping kits, there will be an article in Chickpea for you. Their fall 2014 issue has just been released and you can head over to their website where they’re having a sale on some of their previous issues. Check it out!

The fab folks who put out Chickpea are giving away a year subscription to 1 winner in the US and the current fall issue to one non-US international winner. With your entry you must mention if you are US or international so we can ensure everyone gets entered into the correct pool.

To enter, you just need to leave a comment below about your favorite legume. We’ll select two winners at 8 am PDT on September 27. You’ve got 48 hours to enter! One entry per person please.

GIVEAWAY: Salad Samurai by Terry Hope Romero

September 24, 2014 lazysmurf Comments 99 comments

This Giveaway is now Closed
When you are a vegan people ask you the same annoying questions over and over (ie Do you eat chicken?). But if you are a vegan that doesn’t like salad, let me tell you from first hand knowledge, that you are going to have some serious ‘splainin’ to do. People look at you, aghast, “But what do you eat???”.

Well folks, with this amazing new book by Terry Hope Romero I can easily answer now with salads like “Spring Herb Salad with Maple Orange Tempeh, or Deviled Kale Caesar Salad or Seared Garlic Chickpeas, Spinach, and Farro”. Terry’s book is full of recipes that I would actually not just eat but completely enjoy. The book has so many dressings like Chia Chipotle Dressing and toppings like Curried Cashew Pepita Crunch that you can add to any old boring salad you make to make it awesome too! Proteins like that 70’s tofu have been huge hits over on the PPK. And it’s arranged seasonally so you won’t be trying to use so-called “tomatoes” in the dead of winter. I am a salad hater no more! Here is a great and thorough review from Vegan Eats and Treats if you want to learn more and see tons of pictures.

Now if you want to win a copy from one the greatest vegan authors of our time you must have a US or Canada address, fill in your email, and answer me this question in the next 24 hours. What is the one thing that you like to add to any salad that will make it pop? Extra Rule! You can not answer with anything that someone ahead of you has already said. SO if the first comment is “Olives” you bet your ass you better not answer olives. Unless you want to lose!

Tuesday Round-up: Ready to Rumble

September 23, 2014 lazysmurf Comments 8 comments

I always learn a ton of things during veganmofo and find so much inspiration from other blogs. It’s amazing how everyone has the same parameters, write about vegan food every day for a month, and then takes it in so many different directions. For example, some people come up with themes like The Miss Kitchen Witch Recipe Blog doing Harry Potter inspired recipes every day. Today her Mrs. Weasley’s Vegan Bacon Butties looked pretty much to die for.

On of my most favorite things is seeing dishes prepared in ways that I am unfamiliar with and I’ve pretty much only seen jackfruit as a fruit or a meat sub so it was super cool to see this dish, Jukut Nangka, from Bali. VegFusion says that it’s “a local dish which is slow cooked young jackfruit with local spices and beans, served with red and white rice.”

I love seeing new ways to use ingredients that I make the same way every single time. In this case, these Maple Roasted Brussels Sprouts & Butternut Squash sound delightful and festive. I love sweet roasted vegetables and I bet the coconut bacon adds a lot.

Some dishes I see just make me swoon, not literally, I don’t know if I’ve ever literally swooned but I think you’ll know what I mean when you see these Chilean Panqueques con manjar or Crepes with Dulce de Leche in English from Vegan Sweet and Simple. It’s the kind of food you want to marry.

And finally, I love new ways to get more chocolate into my diet AND Earl Grey Tea so I can embrace my inner Captain Picard. I wish I could embrace the outer Captain Picard…and these truffles.

Hope you all still have your mofo mojo! Only 7 days to go!

Giveaway – Vegusto

September 23, 2014 veganinbrighton Comments 32 comments

This giveaway is now closed. Congrat’s to Matt!

It’s no secret that I love, love, love vegan cheese. Hell, it’s made up the majority of my own MoFo this year and I keep writing cheese based round ups. My cheese love is out there in the world! Vegusto are one of my favourite brands as they make the kind of delicious cheese you can eat straight up on a cracker at a fancy cheese and wine party. If anyone would like to invite me to one of those I’m totally available. I’ll bring the Vegusto.

Vegusto, who hand make their products in Switzerland, don’t just make cheese though they also make my absolute favourite vegan sausages as well as burgers, sandwich slices, luncheon rolls and steaks. Today they’ve teamed up with us to offer one lucky UK based winner a £20 voucher (excluding postage) to spend on whatever they’d like in the online store.

To be in with a chance of winning just leave a comment below by 8pm GMT tomorrow letting us know which Vegusto product you’d be most excited about purchasing with your voucher. Please be sure to leave a valid contact e-mail address so that we can contact you if you win. The winner will be randomly selected and announced after the giveaway has ended. This competition is open to residents of the UK only.

Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese

September 22, 2014 veganinbrighton Comments 7 comments

If you’d asked me before I went vegan what my favourite food was I would have said cheese. If you asked me now I’d probably still say cheese, just vegan of course. All of the deliciousness but with none of the heart wrenching guilt my vegetarian self was dealing with on the daily. The round up I wrote last week was focussed on this true love of mine and uh, so is this week’s, so sue me. Please don’t sue me, I have a problem m’kay?!

This first post comes from Laura at Abracapocus who wrote this seriously helpful round up of Atlanta’s vegan friendly restaurants. As a traveller I loved to amass this info, I never know where I’ll end up one day! Everything from the tofu spring rolls to the chimichanga look amazing but it was this pizza from Ammazza that really grabbed me. They make their own cashew cheese! Book me on the next flight to Atlanta, stat.

Whilst we’re travelling around the Southern states fellow vegan travel blogger Vegan Nom Noms hit up one of my favourite pizza spots Via 313 in Austin today. Via 313 make Detroit style pizza which is kinda like a well-oiled, crispy-crusted, deep dish ‘za. If you’ve never tried it you need to. Nicole ordered the Herbivore with vegan cheese – Follow Your Heart in this case (one of my fave’s for any melty situaton) and added extra arugula, or rocket as I would try to call it!

Coincidentally also located in the south is MoFo blogger The Veg Abides who wrote an epic round up of her favourite frozen vegan pizzas today. As a self confessed junk food lover she’s clearly a grrl after my own heart and I only wish there were six (yes SIX!) types of vegan frozen pizza in the UK. I think we have two. Maybe three. And only one has cheese. FML!

Easy Vegan are killing it again and again with the Carbs and Rec theme and today’s post is no exception. Today they blew my mind with this DEEP DISH MAC & CHEESE PIZZA. Yes. DEEP DISH. Sorry for shouting but OMFG! I made mac & cheese pizza for my birthday this year because it’s my dream food and deep dish didn’t even cross my mind. I feel like I need to hand over my mac & cheese lovers pizza crown!

My pal Lindsay from Vegan Chai made one of my favourite ever mac and cheeses, the Roasted Red Pepper Mac & Cheese from Isa Does It, for Mac & Cheese Monday. She upped the pasta (just like I always do!) because pasta’s awesome and this recipe makes a whole lot of sauce. If it looks as good to you as it tastes to us the recipe’s online here, thanks Isa.

Jenny from Man nennt mich Öko has the right idea about Mondays and she whipped up this gorgeously creamy looking cashew based mac & cheese for her Mac & Cheese Monday post. There are even vegetables hiding in the sauce so if you’re that way inclined this might just be the mac for you.

Lastly this cartoon from Kale Crusaders made me smile when I spotted it this morning. Nooch is my jam y’all. Every day during MoFo Kale Crusaders have been posting a cartoon that fits their theme, Vegan Faux Show, including a chickpea flour omelette and ten different kinds of plant based bacon! Each cartoon includes links to the recipe (or recipes) that inspired it. Such fun!

I hope everyone’s had a wonderful Monday and don’t forget to keep on MoFoing, we’re nearing the finish line and the team are already busy franticly compiling list upon list of blogs, blog posts and cats (for our personal collections!) for this years MoFies, our amazing online awards ceremony. With prizes this year! You gotta be in it to win it!

Herbivore Clothing Company Giveaway

September 22, 2014 Panda With Cookie

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We are rolling into our fourth week here at Vegan MoFo Headquarters! And we’re starting off this week’s giveaways with our friends from Herbivore Clothing Company!

Herbivore is located in the vegan mini mall in Portland, OR and has been selling vegan t-shirt, hoodies, totes, stickers, and more for years. They constantly have new designs coming out, such as the Love Like No Matter Whose message on this new grey t-shirt featuring a charming rat. I love the hand drawn design on this one. Love that rat!

And you probably recognize their iconic cow hugger design on the tote bag below. Herbivore is generously giving away one t-shirt (ladies cut or unisex) to a lucky winner and one tote bag to a different winner. Each will also come with a selection of Herbivore stickers.

They are currently doing weekly specials with great discounts on a single item for the duration of the week, both in store and online. Follow their Facebook page for updates. You’ll also be able to keep up to date with the new products they release, such as their new hats, cup cozies, and belts. Herbivore is a great part of the vegan community and very generous with their time and with donations for events so I am thrilled that they are participating in Vegan MoFo this year.

To enter, you just need to leave a comment below about your favorite Herbivore item. We’ll select two winners at 8 am PDT on September 24. This giveaway is open to everyone. You’ve got 48 hours to enter! One entry per person please.

Vegan MoFo Sunday Round Up – Odds and Ends

September 22, 2014 Zsu Dever Comments 4 comments

Greetings from the much cooler southwestern USA – San Diego. Tonight’s Sunday Round Up is all about good stuff. Let’s get to it!

First up… kitties! Because …kitties!

More kitty love at My Apologies For the Novel …and hot chocolate. Kept that in my pocket until now.

Because kitties bring to mind their undying need to be wild, these mulberries reminded me of my own kitties’ because they are beautiful. A Fruity Life’s mulberries are just as pretty.

Next up is roasting prickly pear fruit. Cats to mulberries to prickly pear. Don’t miss Vegan Eats and Treats’s Part One of her cactus encounter.

Once you’ve picked your prickly pear, go pick some almonds from your neighborhood bulk aisle and make milk. Gorgeous photo by Sprouts and Chocolate.

After you have milk the natural inclination is to enjoy it with challah from Triumph Wellness.

Once you have your delish challah, it’s time to enjoy it with your Tempeh Bacon and Leek Quiche. From Vegetarian Snob. Because deep, deep down in all of us, there is a desire for tempeh bacon.

Just because it made me think, Fuck Yeah Vegan Ice Cream rounds up some great signage.

Finally, this has nothing to do with food, but it is just as beautiful as the foods above, Vaelium 76 has had some great instagram posts.

Zsu

Announcing the VeganMoFo 2014 Chopped! Champion!

September 22, 2014 jess sconé Comments 7 comments

It’s time to announce the winner of this year’s VeganMoFo Chopped! competition! Our contestants showed up for a vibrant, well-rounded entree round with Oolong tea, fresh prune plums, spicy jalapeños and every Fraggle’s favorite, the hot-headed radish.

Here’s a listing of our fab contestants and their variety of exciting submissions, in random order:

Sweet Heat Tacos, Veganista Mama
Barley Paella with Grilled Tofu & Fresh Plum Salsa, Cadry’s Kitchen
Plum and Jalapeño Glazed Tempeh with Picked Radishes and Butternut Squash Purée, The Picky Vegan
Plum & Radish Tart with a savory Jalapeno, Oolong Tea, and Apricot Preserve Glaze, Bedazzled Vegan
Stuffed Sweet Dumpling Squash in an Oolong-Plum-Red Wine Reduction with Jalapeno-Apple Radish, Rubber Cowgirl
Oolong Banh Mi Burger, Zsu’s Vegan Pantry
Assam Tofu, with braised radishes topped with Jalapeno, Assam, Plum sauce, Hasta La Vegan
Mexican Hot Lips Cake, The Mess in Messenger
Oolong Marinated Tofu with Plum Chutney and Pickled Apples and Radishes, @marylangmt
Dumpling Soup with Radish & Radish Leaves, served with Jalapeño, Plum Chutney and Spiced Lentil-filled Dumpling, Eating with the Rabbits
Channa Masala with Plums, Radish Salad and Oolong Rice, Vegan Needs Sauce
Radish cakes with Prune Sauce, Kohlrabi and Quince
Sweet Heat Sushi, Veganista Mama
A Very Special Marinara Sauce, Monsieur Avocado

You can check out all their photos and more on our Chopped! Contestant! Roundup!

Here we go! After much deliberation on who really got creative and elevated their ingredients, plus much discussion on presentation, perceived taste and the use of those mighty ingredients, our judges (Julia Legume, Dan Reed & Chelsea Hoshi) came to a decision!

Without further adieu, our new VeganMoFo Chopped! Champion is….Emily of the Vegan Needs Sauce tumblr and her Channa Masala with Plums, Radish Salad and Oolong Rice!

Our 2014 Winner! Vegan Needs Sauce’s Channa Masala with Plums, Radish Salad and Oolong Rice

Our judges agreed that incorporating all these flavors into a channa masala, which is a dish they already enjoy, was super special, intriguing and seemed quite balanced in terms of flavor combinations, bonus fresh herbs and that lovely tea-infused rice!

Emily wins a special sweet prize from our friends at Chicago Vegan Foods, a Vegan Iron Chef tshirt to show her vegan cookin’ pride, and the coveted title of VEGANMOFO! CHOPPED! CHAMPION!

Everyday Vegan Eats Giveaway

September 21, 2014 Cadry Comments 50 comments

Hello, all! It’s time for another giveaway! This one is international, and there will be two winners!

Everyday Vegan Eats, by Zsu Dever, highlights her family’s favorites. (You may remember Zsu from the blog Zsu’s Vegan Pantry and her awesome Vegan MoFo burger theme!)

Packed with comfort foods that warm the body and spirit, Everyday Vegan Eats has highly craveable dishes like Arroz non Pollo, Tex-Mex Migas, Spinach & Artichoke Dip, Baked Macaroni & Cheese, and Deli Reubens.

I did a full review of Zsu’s book on my blog earlier this year, and one of the stand-out favorites were these Greek Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce. The gyros can be made with Soy Curls, seitan, or marinated tofu. I went with the tofu, which was packed with the flavors of lemon juice, garlic, and herbs. An explosion of tastes!

If you’d like to get your hands on this book, just leave a comment below telling me about one of your favorite everyday dishes. What is a dish that you make weekly at your house?

The contest has ended! Congratulations to Maya & Moon! Make sure that I have some way of contacting you – either by email or by way of your blog. You have until Monday 10 am CST to enter. One entry per person please. I will pick two winners tomorrow for this international giveaway!

Vegan MoFo 2014: Freaky Friday Round-Up

September 19, 2014 John McDevitt Comments 4 comments

Friday, it’s Friday! Thank god ’cause this was a loooong week. Thankfully, I have MoFo Round-Up duties today, so we can start the weekend off right!

The Happy Vegan has the right idea to start off the weekend, Vegan White Russians! Easily my favorite cocktail, I may or may not be The Dude for Halloween. Hey careful man, there’s a beverage here!

Allotment2Kitchen is keeping it real with Vegan BBQ Beetroot Seitan Steaks! I took a double take because I thought they were real. I’d love to test one out!

Floral Frosting got my attention with these amazing Espresso-Speculoos Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies. What a combo! We Vegans love our Speculoos, don’t we?

This healthy breakfast bowl from Vegan In Berlin caught my eye! It might inspire me put some fruit into my daily oatmeal. Not sure how fruit in my Panda Puffs would go though 🙂

This sexy looking Coconut Cream Pie is courtesy of Another Hungry Vegan. This could be the nightcap to our Freaky Friday! Pie before bed is alright with me.

Enjoy your Friday and stay safe!