{"id":212,"date":"2011-10-24T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-10-24T23:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T23:48:00","slug":"vegan-mofo-mofo-monday-and-the-beginning-of-apple-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegan-mofo-mofo-monday-and-the-beginning-of-apple-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan MoFo &#8211; MoFo Monday and the Beginning of Apple Week."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like I said on Thursday &#8211; We have too many apples. Luckily there are many things that can be done with apples, but too few of them seem to be savory. Well. I&#8217;ve followed in the footsteps of other vegan bloggers in the last few weeks and taken their recipes and made them at home.<\/p>\n<p>First item on my list was this&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/bitemevegan.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/apple-spice-muffins.html\">Apple Spice Muffin<\/a>&nbsp;recipe&nbsp;from <a href=\"http:\/\/bitemevegan.blogspot.com\/\">Bite Me (I&#8217;m Vegan)<\/a> (don&#8217;t they just look perfect for breakfast?). While getting into the apple peeling, chopping mode, I ended up opting to make some unsweetened apple sauce in my slow cooker. There is always a use for it, especially when I&#8217;m baking, so I threw some of it in a jar, and some of it in snack bags in the freezer. My winter instinct to stockpile food for the cold months ahead is in full force.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6278410444\/\" title=\"apple spice muffins by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6240\/6278410444_95e3f1cdb9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"apple spice muffins\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nHaving gone grocery shopping yesterday, we picked up a couple of beautiful&nbsp;baguettes&nbsp;from <a href=\"http:\/\/acebakery.com\/\">ACE bakery<\/a>, one of them didn&#8217;t make it past 7pm last night, drowning in a mix of olive oil and balsamic vinegar. The other one was supposed to turn into crostini today, I decided it would be a waste of sandwich potential. But what kind of sandwich?&nbsp;Serendipity&nbsp;brought me a brilliant and&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;idea from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverdantlife.com\/\">The Verdant Life<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverdantlife.com\/2011\/10\/vegan-mofo-post-8-sandwich-time.html\">&nbsp;Basil Apple Mustard Panini Sandwiches<\/a>! Where have you been all my life savory apple sandwiches? It doesn&#8217;t matter, I&#8217;m just glad they&#8217;re here now.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/6277888891\/\" title=\"mustard apple basil sandwich by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6230\/6277888891_96208221a7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"mustard apple basil sandwich\"><\/a><\/center><\/br><br \/>\nI found Cupcakes and Kale&#8217;s (we meet again) recipe for <a href=\"http:\/\/cupcakesandkale.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/apple-salted-caramel-cupcakes.html\">Apple Salted Caramel Cupcakes<\/a> through Winged Snail&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wingedsnail99.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/liebster-blog-award-is-making-round-of.html\">Leibster Blog award post<\/a> yesterday. But they are gluten free, so I&#8217;m saving them for Gluten Free Wednesday. Which lead me to this recipe and beautiful pictures of <a href=\"http:\/\/vkreesphotography.com\/apple-with-salty-medjool-caramel\/\">Salty Medjool Date Caramel<\/a> and apples from V.K. Rees&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/vkreesphotography.com\/\">photography blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make this&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lizlemonnights.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/24\/apple-upside-down-cake\/\">Apple Upside Down Cake<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/lizlemonnights.wordpress.com\/\">Liz Lemon Nights<\/a>&nbsp;(and adapted from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/smittenkitchen.com\/2008\/09\/moms-apple-cake\/\">Smitten Kitchen<\/a>) some day soon. I have some not so pretty apples that are looking for a home &#8211; preferably one outside of the compost bucket. There is a good chance my lentil, sweet potato, apple and carrot soup will make an appearance this week, and honestly, I can&#8217;t wait to make and eat it.<\/p>\n<p>Sayward\/<a href=\"http:\/\/bonzaiaphrodite.com\/\">Bonzai Aphrodite<\/a> went to an <a href=\"http:\/\/bonzaiaphrodite.com\/2011\/10\/apple-tasting\/\">Apple Tasting<\/a>&nbsp;event, and it reminded me how much I wish I could attend one of those. I&#8217;ve missed them a few times when I was visiting Portland, but we have them here in Ontario and I have not put in enough effort into making it happen. To Do: <a href=\"http:\/\/totastings.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/ontario-apple-tasting-at-spadina-house.html\">Apple Tasting<\/a>. Or an apple festival. We missed several of the major ones last month &#8211; like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applefest.reach.net\/\">Brighton Applefest<\/a>&nbsp;in eastern Ontario, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.town.kingsville.on.ca\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/kingsville\/kingsville\/tourist+info\/attractions+and+events\/ruthven+apple+festival\">Ruthevan Apple festival <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stgeorgeapplefest.com\/\">St.George Applefest<\/a>. All in September. Something to make a note of for next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like I said on Thursday &#8211; We have too many apples. Luckily there are many things that can be done with apples, but too few of them seem to be savory. Well. 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