{"id":195,"date":"2011-10-04T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-10-04T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:30:00","slug":"mofoer-monday-appleicious-recipes-from-the-first-two-days-of-veganmofo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/mofoer-monday-appleicious-recipes-from-the-first-two-days-of-veganmofo\/","title":{"rendered":"MoFo&#8217;er Monday &#8211; Appleicious recipes from the first two days of VeganMoFo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s MoFo&#8217;er Monday or at least what&#8217;s left of it, and this is the day I&#8217;ve decided to look through the past weeks posts and find recipes by other MoFo folks to make at home. You&#8217;d think after only two days, and so many people only starting up on Monday that there wouldn&#8217;t be enough recipes to choose from. But that&#8217;s not even possible. So many excited vegans blogging about food, even just 48 hours leads to 100&#8217;s of choices. The problem isn&#8217;t finding an appealing recipe, it&#8217;s deciding on one or two things to make, and not filling the house up with too much food.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6205643464\/\" title=\"Fun with Apples - Applewood Farms by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6125\/6205643464_a6990b942f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Fun with Apples - Applewood Farms\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nWell, yesterday J and I went apple picking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applewoodfarmwinery.com\/\">Applewood Farms<\/a> in Stouffville, ON. It&#8217;s about 40 minutes outside of Toronto. They have lots of apples to choose from (including cortlands, golden delicious, red delicious and spartans) as well as a winery\/cidery. We ended up running out of time to do a nice slow wander around the apple orchards, but I still had a great time. I&#8217;ve never eaten an apple straight off the tree before, so that was an awesome experience (and the flavour is unbelievable).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6205652558\/\" title=\"Fun with Apples - by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6173\/6205652558_459006ec78.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Fun with Apples -\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nNow, while we didn&#8217;t have much time to pick apples, we still came home with four bags of them.&nbsp;Which made the choice of what recipes to focus on slightly easier&#8230; I was going to make things&#8230; with apples! That should narrow it down a little right? Apples&#8230; No, no it didn&#8217;t. With so many A is for&#8230; Apple posts done either today, yesterday, or Saturday from people starting their MoFoing. there were so many great things to choose from like:<\/p>\n<p><b>Sweet Dishes<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/veganisethis.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/vegan-mofo-is-for-apple-sponge.html\">Apple Sponge Cake<\/a> from Veganize This!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/veganprairiefood.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/01\/baked-apples-with-oatmeal-cookie-stuffing\/\">Apple Stuffed with Oatmeal Cookie Stuffing<\/a>&nbsp;from Little House on the Vegan Prairie<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chubbyveganmom.com\/2011\/10\/start-your-monday-morning-off-right.html\">Apple Caramel French Toast<\/a> from Chubby Vegan Mom<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/plentysweetenough.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/apple-crisp-vegan-mofo-day-2.html\">Apple Crisp<\/a>&nbsp;from Plenty Sweet Enough<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vgan-jar.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/raw-apple-cinnamon-rolls.html\">Raw Apple Cinnamon Rolls<\/a>&nbsp;from VGANJAR via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/feudfood.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/mofo-day-2-raw-apple-cinnamon-rolls.html\">Food Feud<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WK_dBxqxu_s&amp;feature=youtube_gdata\">Apple Fritters<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/thesweetestvegan.com\/\">The Sweetest Vegan<\/a> (it&#8217;s a cooking Youtube video!)<\/p>\n<p><b>Gluten Free<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/theveeword.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/veganmofo-is-for-apple-walnut-muffins.html\">Gluten Free Apple Walnut Muffins<\/a> from The &#8220;V&#8221; Word<\/p>\n<p><b>Savory dishes<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/veganmiam.com\/2011\/10\/01\/applelove-agave-nectar-raw-apple-slaw\/\">Agave Apple Slaw<\/a> from Vegan Miam (savory! yes!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/libraloves.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/spring-green-fennel-salad.html\">Spring Green Fennel Salad<\/a>&#8230; okay, it&#8217;s not from the past two days of MoFo, but it is from a MoFo&#8217;er and it looked delicious.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thedirtyvegan.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/fun-fall-soup-illustrated-how-to.html\">Fun Fall Soup<\/a> from The Dirty Vegan.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/healthykitschyvegan.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/02\/vegan-mofo-day-2-apple-pie-hummus\/\">Apple Pie Hummus<\/a> from Healthy&nbsp;Kitschy&nbsp;Vegan. (How rad is that?)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6210065550\/\" title=\"DSCF9290 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6058\/6210065550_8319b22a02.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSCF9290\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAfter we returned our zip car and came home, I thought it&#8217;d be a great idea to bake an apple crisp as a nice fresh after dinner dessert. I opted to try the one from Plenty Sweet Enough. I suspect I used too many apples (or two many big ones), &nbsp;because they didn&#8217;t quite stew as much as I had expected them to after an hour, but the crumbly crisp portion was sweet and cinnamony as crisp should be.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the Apple Caramel French toast looked great, but by the time I rolled out of bed it today was a little after 8 and it was too late to really make much of a semi-elaborate breakfast. But it is going into my fun potential breakfasts file.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6209550635\/\" title=\"DSCF9302 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6098\/6209550635_129e5d7035.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSCF9302\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nFirst recipe of the day was The Sweetest Vegan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WK_dBxqxu_s&#038;feature=youtube_gdata\">Apple Fritters<\/a>. Way back when I wasn&#8217;t vegan, I used to love Tim Horton&#8217;s Apple Fritters. I&#8217;ll admit it. Then again, I was ten, so really, there isn&#8217;t any shame in it. They were delicious, fluffy and cinnamonriffic, and I wanted to veganize them&#8230; someday. This batch went quite well, I fried them up and ended up with a few nice fritters. Definitely make the lemon icing drizzle, because The Sweetest Vegan is totally right, the flavour just pops after that.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6210066036\/\" title=\"DSCF9312 by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6074\/6210066036_906e060bbd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"DSCF9312\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThis evening I made the <a href=\"http:\/\/healthykitschyvegan.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/02\/vegan-mofo-day-2-apple-pie-hummus\/\">Apple Pie Hummus<\/a>. Honestly, when I saw the recipe my mind jumped through a series of thoughts&#8230; from no way, to that can&#8217;t possibly be good, to&#8230; really? followed by I&#8217;ve GOT TO TRY THIS. It makes complete sense, because I know I&#8217;m not the only one that&#8217;s dipped apples into hummus&#8230; it turned out great. I think I see apple pie hummus on the menu for breakfast tomorrow. I encourage you to give it a try!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Month of Food!<center><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/X2oWtCvQB6uqE-XN69eIsU_qDZeiBfSvVlmMczwBGIo?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-3EA02GUcw18\/Tod_0hoayII\/AAAAAAAANfE\/yYqcmWP6mlE\/s800\/veganmofobanner.jpg\" height=\"84\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s MoFo&#8217;er Monday or at least what&#8217;s left of it, and this is the day I&#8217;ve decided to look through the past weeks posts and find recipes by other MoFo folks to make at home. You&#8217;d think after only two days, and so many people only starting up on&#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":[312,313,156,303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apples","category-recipes","category-vegan-mofo","category-vegan-mofo-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}