Showing posts with label theme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theme. Show all posts

Monday, October 1, 2012

Vegan Mofo Theme for this year




I'm so excited to be participating in Vegan Mofo again this year. Last year was my first taste and I did a whole month of firsts. This year I decided to use the Food Network Cookalong as my inspiration. I chose to use Around The World in 80 Plates as my muse which aired in Canada on our Food Network since we are being deprived of Bravo. I loved watching the show and also watching what Hannah Kaminsky would make while she was cooking along with the show as it aired. Her talent wasn't unnoticed either since she totally won the blogger competition and now gets to take a trip to somewhere fun in the world!

My approach to this month is going to be to cook some tasty International cuisine using the vegan cookbooks I already own for recipes as well as making up some of my own along the way. I have been prepping a bit ahead to make sure I can keep up with it and it has already brought me some new favourites that I can't believe I haven't tried before. I hope you will enjoy reading all about my one month food tour of as much of the world as I can fit into it and all the amazing veganized versions of the traditional dishes of each country I feature. If the recipe is my own I will include it but if it is a published recipe I will just include the title and author so you can go out and buy a copy and support some amazingly fantastic vegan authors! And as always, if you would like to submit a blog entry that you do that would work with this show as it's theme, send me an email and I will include you in my end of the month round up.



Saturday, September 1, 2012

Food Network Monthly Cookalong Theme - September

It's heading into fall now and I'm feeling like something a little hearty and rustic and the first food that comes to mind is Italian comfort food. This month's theme will be Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis! There are over 600 recipes on foodtv.com from this show so I'm sure anyone can find something they love! Of course, you could always just make your favourite Italian inspired dish and blog about it. Giada's style is to infuse the Italian food of her family's lineage with the Californian cuisine she grew up around. Maybe you can take your family's heritage and fuse it with Italian and see what you can come up with. Get your pasta water boiling and show us what you made! As usual, at the end of the month, send me an email with a link (or links) to your blog posts and I will include them in the monthly roundup!



Links for inspiration

http://www.foodnetwork.com/giada-de-laurentiis/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/giada-at-home/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/everyday-italian/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/search/delegate.do?Nr=Record%20Type:Result&N=501+4294959884&fnSearchString=everyday%20italian

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Food Network Monthly Cookalong Theme - August

The theme this month is The Sandwich King! I love to watch Next Food Network Star and thought from the beginning how much I loved the concept of this show. I'll be honest, Jeff Mauro is a bit much for me and sometimes I wonder if anyone at Food Network is editing him but I do love a good sandwich so I keep watching!

So this month, I am challenging you to make sandwiches, any kind of sandwich! You can take your pick from Jeff's creations and veganize it, you can pick from any other chef's from the Food Network as well. You could even pick any recipe from the Food Network site and turn it into a sandwich! Like Jeff Mauro always says "You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal". Just like always the rules are super loose, let your imagination run wild and share it with us!

I will be talking sandwiches all month to celebrate the (early) release of Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day by Tamasin Noyes and Celine Steen as well (shipping now, just saying)! I had the joy of being a tester for this wonderful book and can vouch for the fact that is jam-packed with delicious sandwiches as well as all the staples you need to build your own masterpieces (ie. seitans, breads and spreads). And great news, simply leave a comment on this post about how much you love sandwiches and be entered to win a copy of Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day. You can also earn an extra entry for each blog post you send me at the end of the month participating in this month's cookalong. Contest is open to Canada and the US and will be drawn on Sept. 2, 2012. So grab a loaf of bread and get stacking! Let's see what kind of sandwiches you love!


Links for Sandwich Inspiration

http://www.foodnetwork.com/jeff-mauro/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/jeff-mauro/recipes/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/search/delegate.do?fnSearchString=sandwiches&fnSearchType=site




Sunday, July 1, 2012

Food Network Monthly Cookalong Theme - July!

First off...Happy Canada Day to all the Canadians out there! We are going to celebrate it by going to the farmer's market and cleaning our backyard, woo! I know, we are wild!

The theme for July for our cookalong is going to be GRILLING! Works perfectly for this time of year, too hot to cook inside around here for sure. I figured I would go broad with the theme this month since there are lots of grilling recipes on the American Food Network website (5000+ in fact if you search) and they have a page up right now as well called Grilling Central that is full of recipes just screaming for that vegan touch. I can say I don't have much experience barbecuing since becoming vegan but I'm ready to give it a go. We even bought a new BBQ the other day that I am really excited about breaking in. Don't have a BBQ? No problem, grilling is something you can do inside as well on a grill pan or under a broiler or maybe even over a camp fire! And remember barbecuing isn't just about the food, it's about the experience too! You can blog about your favourite summer drinks or sides too! So summon your inner Bobby Flay and hit the grill, then share it with the rest of us on your blog and don't forget to email me a link or let me know so I can include you in the round up at the end of the month!


Links to Food Network Grilling ideas for inspiration


http://www.foodnetwork.com/search/delegate.do?fnSearchString=grilling&fnSearchType=site

http://www.foodnetwork.com/grilling-central-home/package/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/bobby-flays-barbecue-addiction/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/search/delegate.do?fnSearchString=bbq&fnSearchType=site

http://www.foodnetwork.ca/guides/summer/bbq/index.html