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We're Signing Up for Vegan MoFo 2011!
We're feeling daunted but excited about signing up for vegan MoFo 2011. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Vegan MoFo is a month devoted to blogging about vegan food. There has...
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Games That Vegan Kids Play!
At VegaNation this week, we have been very moved by the efforts of lots of good, caring people in the U.S.who are working very hard to get animals out of shelters with very high kill rates. We have...
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There are NO Winners in the Weekly Shopping List War!
As I write this we are in the middle of the weekly war of attrition known as 'Planning Next Week's Meals'.. The tension is heightened by the fact that Vegan MoFo starts tomorrow so we want to use the...
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First Day of MoFo!
I've just read my first MoFo blog post- an amazing, beautifully illustrated review of a vegan extravaganza in a Brighton Sushi restaurant and am now feeling really humble and intimidated!! How will...
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MoFo Day Two: We Heart Pizza!
We were supposed to be going out to meet friends today at Ickworth House- so we made our lunch early to eat before we went. In the event I didn't go anywhere because Noah, one of our Twitter...
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MoFo Day Three: Cookies!
We had arranged to visit a friend of ours today, so we wanted to bake something to take with us. Joan always describes us as being 'bad visitors' because we always make something to take with us! We...
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MoFo day Four: Exotic Family Soup!
Today we have been baking (see www.veganationdoesmofo.blogspot.com )and then visiting our friends. Readers of my blog who are really paying attention will have noticed that we go and see friends a...
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Mofo Day Five: Purple Potatoes!
We had a day out planned for today but don't feel ready to leave the kittens for so long yet so we stayed home instead. Because we were going to go out today we didn't think we were going to have...
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General Tao's Tofu & Countdown to End of MoFo 2011- but in a NICE Way!
Today, in the spirit of exploration, we are going to cook General Tao's Tofu! I don't know who General Tao is or anything about this dish except that it is the most reviewed recipe on Vegweb. Tofu is...
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MoFo Day Seven: Woodward Veggie Burgers.
Vegweb really came through for us a few months ago with this delicious recipe. We'd been wanting to try a new burger recipe and this one appealed because it was made of nuts and rice rather than beans,...
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MoFo Day Eight: Two Cakes In One.
Well, it's Yom Kippur and since our family has a Jewish heritage, we are fasting today. Yesterday, after doing about a year's worth of cutting and pasting, letter and number recognition, drawing,...
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MoFo Day Eleven: Brumbies and Damper.
Pony, our seven year old, is reading aloud the Silver Brumby books to her brothers- remember those? M and I read them when we were about her age and they've stayed with us. The books are about the...
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Mofo Day Thirteen: A Quick Rescue While My Pastry Chills.!
b We had a visitor coming over today so I decided to make some Palmiers, also known as Palm Leaves or Elephant Ears Cookies. These are a lovely mixture of puff pastry and caramelised sugar which...
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MoFo Day Fifteen: Quality Assured Braised Tofu Sandwiches!
We had Enchiladas today topped with cheese sauce (a veganised Rose Elliot recipe for cheese sauce from her macaroni cheese recipe) and sour cream, made with plain soya yoghurt with enough fresh lemon...
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MoFo Day Sixteen: Charlemagne and Seitan Sausages!
Grumble, grumble, grumble...Oh, I probably shouldn't say this in case I alienate any Charlemagne-o-philes in my readership but we have just spent a VERY frustrating morning researching Charlemagne...
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MoFo Day Eighteen: Spicy Tomato Soup
Slightly lacking in MoFo today..! I think I might need to go and have a sly peek at my Counter-to-the-end-of-MoFo just so I can see the light at the end of the tunnel..! Our cats and our children...
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Everyday Hassles for Vegans
Sweet Freedom Honey Alternative: the bees say Thanks! Oh, it happens all the time to vegans, doesn't it? Shared lunches where the food isn't labelled so you don't know what's in anything, and loads of...
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MoFo Day Twentyfive: Birthday Cake!
Well, the first piece of news is that the issue over the Home Ed workshop which involved learning about beekeeping and honey tasting is now resolved; we chose not to attend, as we had said all along...
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MoFo Day Twentysix: Another Inexplicable Food Flop
Everybody move to their left and see if they like THAT food.. Today I thought I was going to be creating a lovely dish which was to be a combination, perhaps even a fusion, of General Tao's Tofu which...
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MoFo Day Twentyseven: Eleventh Hour Cupcakes!
Oh it was all looking so good yesterday: Miranda had baked the lemon drizzle cake for the next stage of Pony's birthday 'season'; we were SO ahead! Then doubts started creeping in..Miranda had baked...
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