{"id":196,"date":"2011-10-04T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-10-04T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T17:15:00","slug":"vegan-mofo-tuesday-tasty-treats-the-great-pumpkin-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-mofo-tuesday-tasty-treats-the-great-pumpkin-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan MoFo &#8211; Tuesday Tasty Treats &#8211; The Great Pumpkin has arrived."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday, so it&#8217;s time for some Tasty Treats. I had a great time with all the apple recipes yesterday, but despite having a kitchen filled with freshly picked apples, I&#8217;m opting to make something with another autumn favourite &#8211; Pumpkin!<\/p>\n<p>I have really positive memories of pumpkin related baking from the first successful (or maybe just memorable) baked item I ever made. I was about 14-15 and a bakery near our house had a delicious pumpkin spice loaf. It was fluffy and moist and delicious and I wanted to duplicate it. It was before I thought to use egg replacer or flax seeds, so I made it with a mushy banana, and threw in some dark chocolate chips. I remember hovering around the oven, nervously, trying to keep from opening the oven to take a better look. But it was by all accounts a success. I think my parents have a picture of it somewhere&#8230; on regular film! (I started this food photo thing early.)<\/p>\n<p>So today,&nbsp;I veganized a recipe I found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianliving.com\/food\/pumpkin_spice_muffins.php\">Canadian Living<\/a>&nbsp;for Pumpkin Spice Muffins with a lemony maple icing. It really took me back to that loaf of chocolate pumpkin spice bread. They rose up quite well, and had a nice spongey texture, even better when smeared with lemon maple icing.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6211708564\/\" title=\"Pumpkin Spice muffin with a side of lemony maple spread by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6049\/6211708564_861763c66c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pumpkin Spice muffin with a side of lemony maple spread\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI did make a few modifications to their recipe but followed it relatively closely otherwise. I opted to put in a little bit more pumpkin (I used 1 cup), and split the flour amount between whole wheat (3\/4 cup) and unbleached flour (1 cup).<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6211708338\/\" title=\"Pumpkin Spice Latte by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6212\/6211708338_3578a09236.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pumpkin Spice Latte\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI wanted to store the rest of the pumpkin puree for later, but when I packed it into a storage container&#8230; there was still some extra pumpkin left. Oh no? Oh yes. The perfect excuse to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/busyvegan.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/pumpkin-spice-cheap-o-chino-for-vegan.html\">Pumpkin Spice Cheapo-Chino<\/a> from Busy Vegan Mom. I followed her recipe fairly poorly and kept my drink hot, but I think it&#8217;s a great recipe to use as a guideline.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is Gluten Free Humpday, where I will be testing one of <a href=\"http:\/\/lauriesadowski.wordpress.com\/\">Laurie Sadowski&#8217;s<\/a> new gluten free recipes for her soon to be cookbook. I can&#8217;t give you recipes, but I can describe in detail how awesome everything is. Yeah I know, you&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will not be an entirely gluten free day however, because before we go to sleep tonight I&#8217;m planning on throwing some oats and pumpkin together to make Healthy Slow-Cooker&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/healthyslowcooking.com\/2011\/10\/04\/slow-cooker-pumpkin-coffeecake-oatmeal\">Pumpkin Coffeecake Oatmeal<\/a> for breakfast. Check out the picture on their site and you&#8217;ll know why.<\/br><\/br><br \/>\n<u>Some more MoFo pumpkin related links I loved:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohladycakes.com\/2011\/10\/pumpkin-spice-cinnamon-rolls.html\">Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls<\/a> from Oh, Ladycakes &#8211; These are gorgeous, and I loved the idea of using a muffin pan to make perfectly round cinnamon rolls.<br \/>\nGrim Confetti&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/grimconfetti.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/new-pumpkin-roll.html\">Pumpkin Roll<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roboticwhimsy.com\/?p=853\">Robotic Whimsy<\/a> made Kelly Peloza&#8217;s Autumn Clouds Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies from p. 127 of The Vegan Cookie Connoisseur. Just look at those pictures.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tea-and-tofu.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/day-four-pumpkin-bread.html\">Pumpkin Bread<\/a> from Tea and Tofu.<br \/>\nJoyful Girl made <a href=\"http:\/\/joyfulgirl415.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/vegan-mofo-day-4-pumpkin-bagels.html\">Pumpkin Bagels <\/a> AND the post has a picture of an adorable kitten.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone have any more suggestions? Perhaps a savory pumpkin dish?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/X2oWtCvQB6uqE-XN69eIsU_qDZeiBfSvVlmMczwBGIo?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"84\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-3EA02GUcw18\/Tod_0hoayII\/AAAAAAAANfE\/yYqcmWP6mlE\/s800\/veganmofobanner.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday, so it&#8217;s time for some Tasty Treats. I had a great time with all the apple recipes yesterday, but despite having a kitchen filled with freshly picked apples, I&#8217;m opting to make something with another autumn favourite &#8211; Pumpkin! I have really positive memories of pumpkin related baking&#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":[170,314,4,156,303],"tags":[1376],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pumpkin","category-pumpkin-spice-latte","category-vegan-food","category-vegan-mofo","category-vegan-mofo-2011","tag-vegan-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}