Happy Vegan Nog Day!

Blogger of the Day: Joni at Just The Food
Pubs:
500 Vegan Recipes with Celine Steen
The Best Recipes For Vegan Soups, Stews, Pastas, Casseroles & More with Celine Steen
The Best Vegan Breads Recipes with Celine Steen
The Best Vegan Breakfast Recipes with Celine Steen
The Best Vegan Desserts with Celine Steen
The Best Vegan Dinner Recipes with Celine Steen
The Best Veggie Burgers on the Planet
The Complete Guide to Vegan Food Substitutions with Celine Steen
The Complete Guide to Even More Vegan Food Substitutions with Celine Steen
Cozy Inside
Fusion Food in the Vegan Kitchen
Going Vegan with Gerrie L.Adams
Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites with Celine Steen
Home-Cooked Vegan Comfort Food with Celine Steen
Vegan Food Gifts with Kurt Halsey and Celine Steen
***Use coupon code WINTER14 for 50% off at Qbookshop through Dec 31st including Joni's books!***

Joni really likes writing cookbooks and that's making millions of vegans very happy! In my stack of most used and bookmarked and dogeared and doodled-in cookbooks, I've got at least three of Joni's books...500 Vegan Recipes, Best Veggie Burgers (of course!) and Vegan Food Gifts which has gotten a lot of use in the past few weeks. Going Vegan is getting gifted to a few of my not-yet-vegan family members...Joni and her superdelicious sandwiches and tacos and cakes, cakes and more cakes will convince them to cross to the vegan side!  ;)

I try every year not to buy vegan nog because I always end up drinking the whole dang carton in a day or two...at least if I use it in baking I can slow my intake. That's my theory anyway.  ;)

ChocoNog Cupcakes with Nutmeg Cream Cheese Frosting

Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes

Toffalo Hot Wings with Buffalo Sauce and Cool Ranch Dipping Sauce

Seitan Ya Ka Mein with Tofu Deviled Eggs

Sloppy Joe Pho

Photo by Wade Hammond

Indian Spiced Pumpkin and Jackfruit Chili

Teriyaki Seitan Asada Tacos

Chinese Take Out Burgers with Orange Glaze

The Double-Take with Spicy Sauce

Marbled Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge

Saltine Butter Toffee and Twigs & Berries

Chocolate Peppermint Balls

Seasonal nogs at the store...
Califia Farms Holiday Nog
Silk Nog Soymilk
So Delicious Nog Coconut Milk
So Delicious Pumpkin Spice Coconut Milk
So Delicious Mint Chocolate Coconut Milk

and homemade!  :)
Vegan Eggnog using vegan pudding powder
Vegan 'Egg Nog' using bananas
Soy Dream Nog using tofu
Dairy-Free Nogs recipes and links

Do you buy or make your nog? Do you use it in baking? What vegan cookbooks do you use the most?  :)

Celebrate some more with our 2014 Daily Food Holiday and Featured Blogger Series!

Happy National Hot Mulled Cider Day!

Blogger of the Day: Mary at Mitten Machen

After you're done bouncing around the pumpkin patch looking for a cute squash to carve, make a hefty pot of this hot spicy stuff and drink up! Mary knows how to make a wickedyumful mug of cider and more warming treats (and knitted mittens too!) because when you live in Maine you need to keep your inner fires deliciously stoked. Even if you're swimming in a heat wave now, save this recipe for those cold nights when it's just you, a movie and a thick quilt...and a plate of cinnamony cookies!  :)

Mulled Apple Cider

Pumpkin Spice Muffins

Cornmeal Pancakes

Double Squash Red Curry

Curried Carrot Salad with Apple Cider Vinaigrette

Seitan Tikka with Jira Rice

Easy Pad Thai

Sesame Garlic Tempeh

Maple Oatmeal Scones

Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes with Bittersweet Chocolate Ganache

Serious Hot Chocolate

Will you be visiting a pumpkin patch this season? What's your formula for the perfect warmup drink?  ;)

Find more feasts in our 2014 Daily Food Holiday and Featured Blogger Series!

Happy National Lemonade Day!

Blogger of the Day: Sarah at Superfoods and Squats

Can you put Lemondade Stand Entrepreneur on your resume? These days selling roadside refreshers seems to be a booming business...fancy stands, business plans and gobs of options may ensure lemonscented success. My vote still goes to a folding table with a giantsize icedripping pitcher of homemade lemonade and some paper cups. Less work, more profit.  ;)

Lemonade recipes are easy to find...Yogini Sarah's ultrapink powerdrink is screamingly yumful and way more loaded with healthitude! Grab a straw or a spoon or just slurp it up!  :)

Strawberry Basil Lemonade Protein Shake

Cinnamon Raisin French Toast With Berry Compote and Chocolate Sauce

Mango Blueberry Protein Bowl

Chocolate Almond Butter Pancakes

Double Blueberry Oatmeal

Fig & Date Spice Protein Shake

Sprouted Mung Bean Salad

Sweet & Spiced Teff Porridge

Chocolate Chip Banana Bread with Peanut Butter Crust

Tropical Matcha Protein Bowl

Chocolate Coconut Coffee Protein Mug Cake

Famous fests for lemon lovers...

• The crazyfabulous Fête du Citron à Menton revels in these juicy fruits!
• The Upland Lemon Festival takes over Upland CA in April
• The Annual California Lemon Festival in Goleta is coming up September 20 & 21, 2014!

Did you ever run a lemonade stand? What flavors did you sell? Would you rather command a lemonade stand or an ice cream bicycle in summertime?  :)

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Happy Smoothie Day!

Blogger of the Day: Tess The Blender Girl at Healthy Blender Recipes
Pubs: The Blender Girl

Tess is the gotogirl when it comes to smoothies...her recipes are spinningly creative, her videos are superhelpful and her Aussie accent is squealingly cute! Besides delicious drinkables Tess also does amazing appetizers, salads, main dishes and desserts too! Her new cookbook is on my wishlist...just look at a few of the recipes...
• Fresh Spring Rolls with Orange-Almond Sauce
• Twisted Caesar Pleaser
• Spicy Chickpea Burgers with Portobello Buns and Greens
• I-Love-Veggies! Bake

Give her smoothies a whirl then explore the rest of her blog...zillions of original and celebrity chef recipes too!  :)

Tess' Vegan Smoothies, Shakes and Drinks section includes over 120 recipes ranging from the clean & healthy “7 Fruits & Veggies a Day” Green Smoothie to the ultrarich Luscious Lemon Cheesecake In A Glass and ...

Minty Kiwi Kreme
Ginger Pear Superseedz
Spicy “Mango Magic” Juice

Blueberry Pie Greeny
Caramello Creamy Greeny
Apple Pie Smoothie

Creamy Coconut Date Shake

Hide-The-Spinach Chocolate Shake

Deliciously Holistic Raw Carrot Pecan Milk

And she takes you beyond the blender too!

Cheeky 10 Minute Chickpea and Rosemary Soup

Favorite Brown Lentil & Vegetable Pasta

Gluten Free Mac N Cheese

Lentil Fennel Quinoa Salad

Everybody Loves It! Red Cabbage Salad

Gloriously Green Quinoa Risotto

Really Good Raw Lasagne Stacks

Mmmm Macadamia Macaroons

Never Enough Nut and Seed Bars

Berry Good Crumble

Don't miss Tess' treasury of hints and tips including A No-Hassle Way to Clean Your Blender and the FYI on Plant Based Milks and Nut & Seed Butters!

Are you a smoothie monster? What are your favorite flavors? Do you use a highspeed blender or handblender? What would be your ideal smoothie?

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Happy Fresh Fennel Day and National Absinthe Day!

Blogger of the Day: Maria at Scandi Home

In honor of National Absinthe Day, today we're celebrating the fresh crunchy goodness of Florence fennel, aka finocchio, a magic ingredient in distilling that mysterious spirit. An eye-catching cousin of the common carrot, fennel resembles an elegant French showgirl...its shiny white bulbhead is topped with a magnificently flamboyant headdress of feathered emerald leaves. It's low cal and high vitamin C, and its rich licorice-like taste is refreshingly sweet. Springtime is the perfect season for it and lots of salads too so start some healthy fennel munching!   :)

Maria's got plenty of fennel and salad recipes to start you off, along with loads of lush travel and design photos. She's a Scandinavian-turned-Sydney citizen, interior designer and creative stylist so everything on her blog glows gorgeously yumful!  :)

Marinated Fennel and Pear Salad

Fennel and Persimmon Salad with Buckwheat-Sesame Sprinkle

French Lentil Salad with Chanterelle Mushrooms

Kale and Freekeh Soup

Roasted Beets with Black Rice and Kale

Chocolate-Blueberry Pudding

Cauliflower and Fennel Soup

Coconut Balls

Queen Muffins

Oven-Baked 3-Grain Porridge

How do you feel about fennel? Are you in a salad mood for springtime? Have you sipped absinthe? What's your favorite absinthe cocktail?  :)

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