After reading this post yesterday, I was craving waffles in a major way. I decided to make some waffles for dinner, using the recipe for Oatmeal Banana Raisin Waffles from Vegan With a Vengeance. The batter came together nicely, but, for the life of me, I could not get them to cook in my waffle iron without pulling apart with the top of the waffle stuck to the top of the waffle iron and the bottom of the waffle stuck to the bottom of the waffle iron. Don’t think that I still didn’t eat those waffles for dinner – I just scraped and salvaged as much as I could and the munchkin and I enjoyed our waffles anyway (really, she surprised me by how much she ate!). I had some batter leftover (after I gave up trying to make waffles), so I halved the recipe and made some more batter and made muffins out of it this morning. The muffins turned out really, really well and I actually think I’ll use this recipe to make more muffins in the future!
So, because I didn’t have a great dinner to post about today, I’m presenting some more Vegan Hodge Podge for today’s Vegan MoFo entry. Here we go…
Halloween is only a week away! Here is Peta’s list of Vegan Candy.
If you want to have a “Green”-oween, here’s a link to information on how to green up the holiday, including info on how to conserve energy on Halloween.
Since it’s never too early to start thinking about the holidays, here are links to two very adorable vegan Christmas shirts and some vegan holiday gift guides.
Merry Vegan Christmas t-shirt
Soy to the World shirt
Cheap Christmas (or any holiday) Gift Ideas for Vegan Friends
Christmas (again, any holiday) Gift Ideas for Vegans and Vegetarians
And, as far as I’m concerned, wine always makes a good gift, so here’s a link to a vegan wine guide.
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Did anyone watch How I Met Your Mother on Monday night? The episode took place at a vegan resort and vegan jokes abounded. Here is a synopsis of the episode and following is an example of one of the many vegan jokes:
Nora (the main character’s fiancee’s sister) says, “I’m a vegan. I wish I could tune out that moral voice inside me that says eating animals is murder, but I guess I’m just not as strong as you are.” Ted (the main character) purses his lips. “That’s ’cause you need protein.”
In fact, it is quite easy for vegans to get all the protein we need.
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On a non-vegan related note, In case you are thinking about redecorating one of the rooms in your house, here’s a link my friend sent me about some adorable wall decals and here’s a link to a picture of the decals we used to decorate our daughter’s bedroom and below are some pictures of our daughter’s bedroom (taken in March 2007, shortly before she was born – it’s not nearly as clean and orderly now!).
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There’s a vegan care package swap in the works (unrelated to the ppk swaps). Check out this blog for more info!
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I was tagged for a freezer pic by the awesome KimmyKokonut (she has the best sugar substitutions guide I’ve ever seen!), so I’ll be posting about that tomorrow. I told Kimmy it was great timing, because our kitchen renovation starts this weekend! Check back for that freezer pic and the kitchen renovation “before” pictures tomorrow!
Have a great day!
