{"id":1322,"date":"2013-01-09T18:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T23:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2013-01-09T18:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T23:33:51","slug":"vegan-food-swap-december-thank-you-to-ms-one-small-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-food-swap-december-thank-you-to-ms-one-small-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan Food Swap &#8211; December &#8211; Thank you to Ms One Small Vegan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I\u00a0received\u00a0and sent a vegan food swap to Sasha of <a href=\"http:\/\/onesmallvegan.wordpress.com\/\">One Small Vegan<\/a>. I enjoy her blog a lot because she&#8217;s always cooking something up, and it&#8217;s inspiring. I haven&#8217;t been cooking or baking as much as I&#8217;d like to, so it&#8217;s nice to see some encouraging and delicious treats on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>After been whisked away to (not-so)far away lands for my birthday, I had to wait until I got back to Toronto to finally open up my swap pack from Sasha, and then upon coming back from our trip, I\u00a0immediately\u00a0caught the flu and wasn&#8217;t in much of a position to write anything about anything. So now I&#8217;m catching up.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Biscotti by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8365095523\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8376\/8365095523_bf5bd9b0b1.jpg\" alt=\"Biscotti\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sasha made several things herself, like a delicious Orange Chocolate Chip Biscotti from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theppk.com\/books\/veganomicon-the-ultimate-vegan-cookbook\/\">Veganomicon<\/a> and two things from a book I&#8217;ve been eyeing <a href=\"http:\/\/justthefood.blogspot.ca\/p\/cookbooks.html\">Vegan Food Gifts<\/a> by <a title=\"Joni Marie Newman's Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/justthefood.blogspot.ca\/\">Joni Marie Newman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cookies by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8365096127\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8374\/8365096127_f8644150fb.jpg\" alt=\"Cookies\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Candied Nuts by MeShellG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/8366167686\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8500\/8366167686_d85776dc6a.jpg\" alt=\"Candied Nuts\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She included the recipe for Candied Nuts from Vegan Food Gifts which I&#8217;m going to have to try and make happen soon, they were delicious. I&#8217;m drinking one of the warm spicy teas she included right now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/chocolateraspberry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1323 aligncenter\" title=\"chocolateraspberry\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/chocolateraspberry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"78\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/chocolateraspberry.jpg 130w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/chocolateraspberry-101x300.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 78px) 100vw, 78px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sasha also sent me a Chocolate Raspberry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetleaf.com\/\">SweetLeaf<\/a> (a stevia sweetner) which I&#8217;ve been curious about. Since I&#8217;ve removed most artificial\u00a0sweeteners\u00a0from my life, I&#8217;m excited to try this stevia based one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/VegaMacaBarLG.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1324\" title=\"VegaMacaBarLG\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/VegaMacaBarLG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, in addition to a nice selection of teas, Sasha sent a Vega Maca Chocolate Bar which was delicious. I&#8217;ve tried their protein drinks, but I hadn&#8217;t seen the chocolate bars. Delicious!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Sasha! I hope you enjoyed your swap too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I\u00a0received\u00a0and sent a vegan food swap to Sasha of One Small Vegan. I enjoy her blog a lot because she&#8217;s always cooking something up, and it&#8217;s inspiring. I haven&#8217;t been cooking or baking as much as I&#8217;d like to, so it&#8217;s nice to see some encouraging and delicious&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,557,507],"tags":[558,672,450],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toronto-2","category-vegan-food-swap-2","category-vegan-swap","tag-food-swap","tag-one-small-vegan","tag-vegan-food-swap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}