I cooked three different dishes from three different sources for my contribution to Christmas this year.
Here's recipe #1: Vegan Fudge
Source: An email from the nice folks at VegNews
Background: I confess, I'm not a fudge person. I've never made it, and I don't even actually eat it...vegan or pre-vegan days. I like chocolate in small doses, generally speaking. Fudge is just so...fudgey. However. The recipe showed up in my Inbox just when I was starting to agonize about what to bring, and it looked damn easy. Four ingredients, and a little processing...piece of cake.
I made it. It was easy. It is incredibly rich, so one piece is about all I can take. And ti went over well with the fams, none of who are vegan, and none of whom seemed to realize or care that this fudge is.
Enjoy:
Vegan Fudge
Serves 24
What You Need:
8 ounces soy cream cheese4 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup vegan chocolate chips
What You Do:
1. Line an 8-inch square pan with wax paper. In a food processor, blend soy cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar and vanilla, processing until smooth.2. In microwave or double boiler, melt chocolate chips. Pour melted chocolate into cream cheese mixture and process until smooth.
3. Pour mixture into prepared pan and refrigerate until firm. Pull wax paper out of pan. Cut fudge into bite-size pieces. Store in refrigerator in an airtight container.
Happy Holidays to you, your family, friends and neighbors from all of us at Vox.
See you in 2010!
See you in 2010!
likely the last chance this year i get to tag a post christmas
of course its a pretty darn big plane
the old christmas tree and the new christmas tree
plus an animation i made for christmas a while back
I'm always looking for good resources to figure out what to eat and what to drink that's vegan. Especially since this year I wanted to give some wine, and wanted to make sure it was vegan wine. (Here's a wikipedia entry on wine and veg*nism, in case you're unfamiliar with the issues.)
The Vegan Wine Guide hasn't got the best interface. The wines aren't listed alphabetically, so you either have to browse a very long list in pretty short chunks of links, or you have to search for a specific brand.
I found it a little easier to navigate Veggie Wines and Barnivore. barnivore is definitely the best-organized, and therefore the most usable.
I'm going to head to BevMo today and look out for either Hahn Estates, Fetzer Merlot, Rabbit Ridge or Yellowtail reds.
Vegan Soapbox provided some good links to restaurant resources, including Happy Cow and Veg Guide. Prompted me to write this post in fact.
Something else that has come in handy lately are veg*n aps for the iPhone, such as:
1. Lock down the "vegetarian" restaurant type on UrbanSpoon, and you can find the closes veg restaurants wherever you are.
2. Download VegCookbook or Vegetarian Recipes for recipe ideas.
3. The VegOut app is a veg restaurant search tool, powered by HappyCow. A little surprised by the $2.99 price tag, but I just downloaded it anyway!
What do you use to point you in the right veg direction?
