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 Vegan Omelette Day!

Blogger of the Day: Chelsey at Like A Vegan

Nobody on the planet needs to eat eggs, especially when we've got so many egg switches, subs and simulants, and recipes like easy and cheezy tofu scrambles everywhere. Newcastle native Chelsey steps it up with her heavenly omelette and yes, animalfriendly deviled eggs! We've got several LaV favorites...my nephew is a chompmonster for Chelsey's Chocolate Cookie Sandwiches and I am forever grateful for her Cheesy Pepper Arancini...yumza!  :)

If you really need a big heap of eggs here ya go!  ;)

Baby Spinach, Tomato Tofu Omelette

Bean Balls in Marinara Sauce

Winter Bowl

Aloo Baingan

Crispy Cajun Potatoes with Tangy Tomato Mayo

Tomato Pasta Bake with Quick White Sauce

Deviled Eggs

Salted Caramel Cookies

Bread & Butter Pudding

Honeycomb Eton Mess

Wagon Wheels

Recipe helpers...
• Nuttelex is vegan margarine.
• Cooking terms and ingredients vary a bit by country.
• Use a Cooking Conversion Calculator to convert temperatures, measurements, etc.

The issues with eggs...
Lurking Beneath the Shell: Health Concerns with Eggs
How The Egg Industry Hurts Chickens
Free Range Farms
Eating with Care

Do you eat eggy breakfasts? Do you have a vegan favorite...scrambles, frittatas, omelettes, huevos rancheros or...? What would you stuff in your omelette?  :)

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

Happy Frittata Day!

Blogger of the Day: Lizz at Lizz Delicious
Pubs:
15 Best Vegan Recipes
Vegan Holiday Treats
Vegan Glass Jar Goodies
Summertime Sippers

Meet Lizz Delicious, an Austin vegan exploring and expanding the wonderful world of compassionate cuisine! She and her partner Christine and sweet little Rusty are currently touring the Southwest, getting their marriage license (congrats!) and scoping out the landscape. When she's not on the road, Lizz creates all sorts of flavorfully filling dishes like her fabulous frittata!

It's National Egg Day so save some chicks and make Lizz's frittata instead! Frittatas are quick and healthy and you can throw in any veggies you like, plus a panful is yumful enough to feed a bunch of hungry friends. Or just you, all day long.  ;)

Easy Vegan Artichoke Frittata

Tofu Scramble Tacos with BBQ Collard Greens

Tofu Shawarma

Summer Harvest Pizza

Homemade Spicy Black Bean Burgers

Spinach Sin-Quesadillas

Lizz's Perfect Oven-fried Potatoes

Oven-fried Pickles

Hospitality Cookies

Best Vanilla Cupcakes

Blueberry Vanilla Pops

 From The Peace Patch Past...Potato Frittatas and Artichoke Frittatas!

What are your favorite frittata extras...potatoes, asparagus, truffles or something wildly exotic? What are you doing to save some chicks today? How do you feed a bunch of hungry friends?  :)

Check out the rest of our 2014 Daily Food Holiday and Featured Blogger Series!

Clever Eggs and Secret Salts

Happy National Deviled Egg Day...the vegan way!
Deviled eggs are a crazy mess of all the things that made me want to go vegan. The only good things about them are they're easy to eat and kinda salty, so here are some vegan versions that will rock that easy salty crave.  ;)

Deviled Potatoes

from Paul Jarvis via The Daily Meal

Fat-Free Vegan Deviled Potato Eggs

from Lindsay at Happy Herbivore

Tofu Deviled "Eggy" Bites

from Bianca at Vegan Crunk

Rosemary's Deviled Eggs

from Pj at Vegan Dinner and a Movie

Raw Vegan Deviled SquaShew Eggs

from Gena at Choosing Raw

Perhaps you need a more hors d'oeuvrey presentation...

Vegan Deviled Eggs

from Lagusta and Maresa at Lagusta's Luscious

Vegan Deviled “Eggs”

from Julie at Baked In

Vegan Deviled Eggs and Egg Salad

from Modern Hippie Cooks

Or a simple eggy salad...

Vegan Egg Salad

from Jessica at Clean Green Simple

Vegan Egg Salad

from Justin at The Chubby Vegetarian

Edamame “Egg” Salad

from Kristina at spabettie

The secret is in the salt...
You can use regular salt in your egg recipes or amp up the eggy taste with Black Salt (also known as Kala Namak). You can buy it online or in Indian food stores or spice stores. It smells and tastes like real eggs, so use it if you miss that or you are trying to impress non-vegans with your clever vegan cuisine.  ;)

Do you miss the taste of eggs? How do you get your vegan egg fix? What do you serve for hors d'oeuvres?  :)