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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!

A Fridge Full of Meat! *Lightlife Giveaway*

A Fridge Full of Meat! *Lightlife Giveaway*

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CONTEST CLOSED Caroline of East Bay Dossier won with her near empty fridge! Thanks y’all for playing!

This might be the biggest giveaway we have ever done at VeganMoFo HQ. It’s pretty exciting that Lightlife, the makers of so many wonderful vegan products, really get what the vegan month of food is all about! They are offering one lucky person an entire fridge full of Lightlife meat alternative products, that is 23 items in all and every vegan products that they make.

I absolutely love their products, I get their flax or garden tempeh nearly every time I go to the store. Their Fakin’ Bacon is probably the easiest tempeh product in the world to work with, just heat and eat.Lightlife seems to have a real presence in mainstream grocery stores now too. I seem to be able to find smart dogs and smart ground just about everywhere. The smart ground is so versatile, you can use it in simple dishes like spagetti with meat sauceor you can take it up a notch and cook it with spices or use the mexican version to make tacos or empanadas.The smart Chick’n or Steak Strips are perfect to throw into a quesadilla or top a big salad with. They also have a bunch of different lunch meats like bologna, ham, and turkey if you are trying to make fantastic deli style sandwiches. I like to top them with pepperoni and recreate the “El Italiano” of my youth but Cuban sandwiches are fun too! They have breakfast sausages, barbecue, chili, and basically every American meat that you can think of.

Just imagine having every single product they carry! You could make just about any standard American fare in seconds, like nachos with the works.Here is the list of everything the winner will receive.

·         Smart Dogs
·         Smart Dogs Jumbo
·         Tofu Pups
·         Smart Deli Bologna
·         Smart Deli Ham
·         Smart Deli Pepperoni
·         Smart Deli Turkey
·         Smart Links Breakfast
·         Smart Bacon
·         Gimme Lean Beef
·         Gimme Lean Sausage
·         Smart Ground Mexican
·         Smart Ground Original
·         Organic Flax Tempeh
·         Organic Garden Veggie Tempeh
·         Organic Smoky Tempeh Strips (Fakin’ Bacon)
·         Organic Soy Tempeh
·         Organic Three Grain Tempeh
·         Organic Wild Rice Tempeh
·         Smart Strips Chick’n
·         Smart Strips Steak
·         Smart BBQ
·         Smart Chili

Isn’t that amazing? You should “like” lightlife on facebook or follow them on twitter and follow their blog because you never know when they are going to do another insane giveaway.

TO ENTER today’s giveaway: I want to see what the inside of your fridge looks like. I gotta know if you can handle all this food! If your fridge is completely packed or if it has a lone bottle of Frank’s Hot Sauce and a PBR, I don’t care take a picture. Post it on either your blog, flickr, or any other sort of photo site that you can actually link to. Put the link to the photo post in the comments along with a valid email address so that I can contact you. I will pick the winner at 11pm CST so you have 12 hours to get to it!

This is only open to people with a US address.

Happy Mofo!