Happy Chestnut Day!

Blogger of the Day: Liane at VGNGF/MoveEatBreathe

Every year my family really does roast chestnuts like the famous Christmas song...most of the nuts end up in a traditional wine-soaked stuffing recipe from days gone by. For some reason I'm not a stuffingloving person so I groove on using chestnuts in sweeter treats instead. Liane's chestnut cream-covered cake is a yumfully wonderful choice! The cornmeal and teff is a flavorful combination and the chestnut cream is lickably delish...so good on hearty bread or chocolate cupcakes or drizzled on roasted parsnips! Liane's recipes include chestnut flourpowered waffles, beignets and a luscious custard cake too!  :)

Happycake 

(Cornmeal Teff Cake with Coconut Chestnut Cream)

Waffles

Banana Beignets & Lemon Curd

Beignets

Tomato Quinoa with Hummus & Mushrooms

Fried Tofu Sticks & Bean Celeriac Salad

Mushroom Cheese Pancakes

Pasta, Broccoli Burger & Sweetcorn Tahini Pepper Sauce

Jerusalem Artichoke Cream Soup

Sticky Toffee Pudding with Burnt Caramel Sauce

Strawberry Custard Cake

How do you open chestnuts? Do you have a favorite chestnut recipe? What holiday traditions do you treasure most?  :)

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Happy Nutty Pie Day!

Blogger of the Day: Elle at Modern Veganista
Pubs: Quick & Easy Breakfast Ideas

Elle is a rising star Aussie photographer, capturing world cuisine on camera and creating fabulous vegan gluten-free foods in her sunny kitchen! Healthy recipes, lotsa of rockin' raw treats and ohyeah chocolate, nuts and truffles too! You can't get more yumfully nutty than Elle's medjooled quadruple nut pie, a delicious spin on our Southern classic. If you're feeling fruity, try her delightfully easy Raw Lemon Lime Avocado Pie. If it's pure decadence you want, indulge in a chunk of her chocolatedrenched Sexy Raw Brownies!  ;)

Georgian Pecan Pie

To Die For Chocolate Muffins

Very Berry Smoothie

Minted Mashed Peas

Apple & White Bean Curry

Provençale Pasta Sauce with Buckwheat Spaghetti

Spicy Cajun Pumpkin Dip

Driving Me Bananas Bread

Almond Crusted Chocolate Truffles

Double Choc Peanut Butter Balls

and a peek at her White Choc Pecan Pie!

Are you feeling nutty, fruity or chocolaty today? Do you prefer baked or raw pies? What pies are on your plate this week?  :)

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Happy National Cashew Day!

Blogger of the Day: Shira at In Pursuit of More

Shira believes that through simple soulful saving you can live with less and give more...she even started a nonprofit called Not So Fast to teach everyone how to help! She also organizes community foodsharing programs, leads cooking classes and quietly inspires everyone she meets to make the world a better healthier happier place.  :)

And she makes a crazyawesome cashew loaf! This nutty chunker is fabulicious sliced and sandwiched or serve it sauced for a potluck or family feast! The cheezy sauce is fast and easy, or go for the roasted recipe that follows for a smokier approach...so good on sliders and fries! And enjoy a few more of her yumful uses for cashews...  :)

Cashew Rice Loaf & Red Pepper Cheese Sauce

Roasted Cashew & Red Pepper Spread

Creamy Roasted Parsnip & Potato Soup

Classic Shepherd’s Pie

Sweet & Sour Tofu with Cashews, Veggies & Cilantro

Kale Veggie Slaw with Sesame Miso Dressing

Versatile Nut & Fresh Herb Sauce

Pasta Alfredo With Roasted Asparagus

Cashew Shortbread

plus a couple other nutty treats!

Banana Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies

Nutty No Bake Cranberry Seed Bars with Dark Chocolate

If someone gave you a cartload of cashews, what would you make first?  ;)

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Happy National Nut Roast Day!

Blogger of the Day: Johanna at Green Gourmet Giraffe

Officially it's National Nut Day but since each lucky nut gets its own individual holiday, I'm dubbing it National Nut Roast Day...which gives me the pleasure of featuring Green Gourmet Giraffe!

I'm a relative newcomer to Johanna's blog so I'm still exploring her treasure trove of yumful recipes but one love I discovered we share is nut roasts! Not only has she developed dozens of delicious nut roasts, but she also features "A Neb at Nut Roast"* posts where you can learn of, share and discuss the wonders of this marvelous meal...what binders to use, which veggies pair well, how to sauce and sandwich up the leftovers if you have any! Give me a chunk of nut roast layered between two thick slabs of bread, bedded with veggies and dripping with sauce and I'm bouncing in roasty rapture...yumza!  :)

Beyond the roasts there's so much more...Johanna shares colorful notes and narratives on cooking, plus glimpses of her kitchen and garden in Melbourne and tales of her global gallivanting. She also provides plenty of advice and insights into ingredients, techniques and tools, as well as wit and wisdom on the joys and jangles of life. Johanna's recipes are easygoing, enticing and inspiring, and so is her writing...like wandering over to your favorite neighbor's house and joining in a casual chat on the porch on a lazy afternoon. Friendly peeps, lots of laughs and a side of music too...before you know it, many hours have pleasantly passed and it's almost past sundown! Time to hop up, run home and try one of Johanna's many irresistible dishes!  :)

Lentil and Walnut Roast

BBB Nut Roast (Broccoli, Brown Rice & Brazil Nut Roast)

Spinach, Sundried Tomato and Chive Chickpea Scramble

Sweet Potato, Chickpea and Hemp Seed Burgers

Potato, Edamame and Carrot Fritters

Sweet Potato and Cheeze Scones

Buffalo Cauliflower Sourdough Pizza with Tofu Blue Cheese Spread

Apple and Walnut Crumble Muffins

Choc Chip, Walnut and Date Sourdough Cake

Flourless Almond Choc Chip Cookies

GGG's Rockin' Vegan Roast Posts...

Lentil and Mushroom Nut Roast

Vegan 'Cheese' and Walnut Nutloaf

Walnut and Mushroom Loaf

Pumpkin Almond Ravioli Roast

Pumpkin Nut Roast

Parsnip Nut Roast

Carrot, Parsnip and Cashew Loaf

Golden Beetroot Nut Roast

Green (Pea) Nut Roast

Purple Nut Roast

Sweet Potato and Poppyseed Nut Roast with Strawberry Glaze

Tomato Nut Roast with Buckwheat and Seeds

Nut Roast Lasagna

A Neb at Nut Roast (March 2008)

A Neb at Nut Roast – Round Up (April 2008)

A Neb at Nut Roast II (March 2011)

A Neb at Nut Roast II – Round Up (May 2011)

Notes...
Many of the vegetarian roasts can be easily veganized!
Use a Cooking Conversion Calculator to convert oven temps, measurements, etc.
*According to Johanna, "Neb is Scottish slang for having a peek, taking a look, a sticky beak. It literally means ‘nose’."

Happy Wombat Day too!

Do you eat vegan meatloaf sandwiches? What's your fave vegan meatloaf/nut roast?  :)

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Happy National Pecan Cookie Day!

Blogger of the Day: Betsy at Raw Food Betsy

Betsy is vividly living proof that a raw plantbased diet can be thrivingly healthy! She's welltrained in nutrition and fitness, including years of study under such culinary luminaries as Alissa Cohen. Betsy teaches her own classes too so if you're lucky enough to catch one, dive right in to the raw lifestyle!  :)

I promised my little nephew we'd make cookies for the football game today so it's Betsy's easy Pecan Pie Cookies for the win!  :)

Pecan Pie Cookies

Lemon Pecan Breakfast Scones

Banana Tahini Burrito

Parsnip “Rice” Pilaf

Zucchini Tartar

Orange Marmalade Date Bars

Mushroom Walnut Veggie Burger

Peach Cream Pie

Chocolate Cake with Frosting & Raspberry Sauce

German Chocolate Cupcakes

Anise Cookie Balls

What's your favorite kind of cookie? Have you made a raw version of it? Share a recipe to your best!  :)

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Meditate and celebrate for the International Day of Peace!  :)