{"id":3905,"date":"2014-09-26T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2014-09-26T20:40:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T00:40:35","slug":"a-final-tilt-for-vegan-mofo-things-i-loved-soup-salads-and-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/a-final-tilt-for-vegan-mofo-things-i-loved-soup-salads-and-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"A Final TILT for Vegan MoFo &#8211; Things I Loved &#8211; Soup, Salads, and Pumpkins."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed looking through all the posts and thoughts and recipes throughout Vegan MoFo, having all the blogs collected together on <a href=\"http:\/\/feedly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feedly<\/a> has been pretty great, and while I&#8217;m still (STILL) lamenting the loss of Google Reader, feedly does a decent job of aggregating RSS feeds, and I like that it&#8217;s integrated with a bunch of other services I like to use.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up feeling terrible this morning, I had to scrape myself out of the bed cocoon I had created with pillows, and try to get in motion, because I tend to follow one of Newton&#8217;s law&#8217;s of motion, this one especially:\u00a0An <em>object<\/em> that is at rest will <em>stay<\/em> at rest unless an external force acts upon it. Even sitting up makes a huge difference in how I&#8217;m feeling, and I feel better when I&#8217;m moving around, than when I&#8217;m laying in one place being miserable. But it was tough.<\/p>\n<p>JC was kind enough to pick up some ginger, and then chopped it up, and boiled it in a pot of water, with some <a href=\"http:\/\/beefreehonee.com\/slippery-elm-honee\/\" target=\"_blank\">slippery elm bark blended beefree honee<\/a>, and a splash of cayenne in an attempt at shortening the duration of these crummy feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I realize it&#8217;s not Thursday right now, but it was when I started! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any other hot tips? What do you do to feel better?\u00a0<\/strong>(other than <strong><a title=\"That time I made Samosa Soup\" href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/that-time-i-made-samosa-soup\/\" target=\"_blank\">make samosa soup<\/a><\/strong>?)<\/p>\n<h3>On with the Vegan MoFo TILT<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done three other VeganMoFo TILTS, and you can see them here: <a title=\"Things I Love Thursday \u2013 Vegan MoFo Edition 1\" href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/things-i-love-thursday-vegan-mofo-edition-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">first week<\/a>, <a title=\"Things I Love Thursday \u2013 Vegan MoFo Edition 2\" href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/things-i-love-thursday-vegan-mofo-edition-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">second week<\/a>, <a title=\"Things I Love Thursday: Vegan Mofo Edition 3\" href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/things-i-love-thursday-vegan-mofo-edition-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">third week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3834\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Things-I-Love-e1411773392327.png\" alt=\"Things I Love\" width=\"864\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Things-I-Love-e1411773392327.png 864w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Things-I-Love-e1411773392327-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Soups<\/h3>\n<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sproutsandchocolate.com\/pureed-broccoli-cheezy-soup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pureed Broccoli and Cheezy Soup<\/a><\/strong> from Sprouts and Chocolate looked amazing and comforting. It spoke to me on some kind of visceral level. And I knew the moment I saw it, that soon I would be making a broccoli soup.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/taE-hXl4Lg\/embed\/\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theresasworkinprogress.blogspot.ca\/2014\/09\/vegan-mofo-day-25-tomato-stew.html\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Vegan Tomato Stew<\/a><\/strong> sounds lovely too, plus A Fruity Life made a video demonstration of how to make it happen.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7MQDAwsQMiU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mary&#8217;s Test Kitchen posted a recipe for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marystestkitchen.com\/almond-gruyere-vegan-cultured-cheese\/\" target=\"_blank\">Almond Gruyere<\/a><\/strong>, also with a video. I feel as though with every one of her vegan cheese posts I come closer to actually attempting to make it myself sometime. Not yet of course, but it&#8217;s pretty cool.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oa0uRrIQS0I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nGruyere is not a cheese I ever ate in my pregan days. I simply wasn&#8217;t a cheese aficionado, perhaps if I had gone vegan later in life, I would have done more exploration in that respect. But I didn&#8217;t, so my only knowledge related to gruyere is limited to my knowledge that people put it on <a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/veganmofo-unofficial-soup-week-continues-at-the-deppaneur-french-onion-soup\/\" target=\"_blank\">French Onion Soup<\/a>, a soup I&#8217;ve posted about during previous vegan mofo&#8217;s and I imagine, a soup I will post about again. I wonder if this almond cashew cheese would work with soup? (this was the first question I wondered about when I saw this recipe.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/tHEg53h8du\/embed\/\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onesmallvegan.com\/2014\/09\/26\/warming-sweet-potato-coconut-lentil-soup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warming Sweet Potato Coconut Lentil Soup<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from One Small Vegan looks nice and thick and I love the mix of spices.<\/p>\n<h3>Salads<\/h3>\n<p>Salads tend to disappoint me. Or at least the word &#8220;salad&#8221; disappoints me. It takes me back to those early vegan days where iceberg lettuce was offered in place of an actual meal in some restaurants I ended up in. Well, maybe it&#8217;s time to change that. This list of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanishingveggie.com\/2014\/09\/10-fave-big-ass-salads.html\" target=\"_blank\">10 Fave Big Ass Salads<\/a><\/strong> from the Vanishing Veggie looked pretty cool. As does <a href=\"http:\/\/veganeatsandtreats.blogspot.ca\/2014\/09\/mofo-salad-samurai-this-book-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">this post from Vegan Eats &amp; Treats<\/a> reminding me that <a href=\"http:\/\/veganlatina.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Hope Romero<\/a>&#8216;s new book <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/veganlatina.com\/category\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salad Samurai<\/a><\/strong> might be a cookbook worth checking out. Another collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/lisasprojectvegan.com\/2014\/09\/23\/salad-roundup\/\" target=\"_blank\">potential salad recipes, is from Lisa&#8217;s Project Vegan<\/a>. I&#8217;m especially keen on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lisasprojectvegan.com\/2012\/08\/04\/warm-lentil-potato-salad\/\" target=\"_blank\">Warm Lentil Potato salad<\/a>.<\/strong> And of course, how could I forget this <a href=\"http:\/\/vegfiend.blogspot.ca\/2014\/09\/vegan-reuben-salad.html\" target=\"_blank\">vegan reuban salad<\/a> from Veg Fiend? Just the idea sounds great.<\/p>\n<h3>Drinks Involving Pumpkins<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/instagram.com\/p\/tVAJlgl4Dp\/embed\/\" width=\"612\" height=\"710\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And finally, last but not least, I was very excited about the looks of this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sproutsandchocolate.com\/creamy-vegan-pumpkin-spice-latte\/\" target=\"_blank\">Creamy Vegan Pumpkin Spice latte<\/a><\/strong> from Sprouts and Chocolate. And probably several other things from Sprouts and Chocolate since I&#8217;ve linked to her twice in this one post.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3913\" src=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pumpkins-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"pumpkins\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pumpkins-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pumpkins-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pumpkins.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vegga.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/19\/hot-pumpkin-molasses-mug\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Pumpkin-Molasses Mug<\/a><\/strong> from Vegga looks unique and interesting and like something I could see myself trying very soon, especially since I have several beautiful pie pumpkins sitting on my counter from this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbfm.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity Bellwood&#8217;s Farmers&#8217; Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Did you have any favourite finds on VeganMofo?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed looking through all the posts and thoughts and recipes throughout Vegan MoFo, having all the blogs collected together on Feedly has been pretty great, and while I&#8217;m still (STILL) lamenting the loss of Google Reader, feedly does a decent job of aggregating RSS feeds, and I like that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,315,242,156],"tags":[612,1195,594],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-i-love-thursday","category-tilt","category-vegan","category-vegan-mofo","tag-pumpkin-2","tag-salad-2","tag-soup-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","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=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}