Let Them Eat Vegan! {giveaway} – ENDED 5/8/12
Goooooooood morning <3 Fun news 🙂 The blog was chosen as a reader’s choice winner for best personal training blog over at Fitness Magazine. Thank you SO much to those of you who took the time to vote – I’m honored to have been included in such wonderful company.
Last week’s little photo shoot was for an upcoming issue of Fitness Magazine- exciting stuff!
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Lots of food prep went down in our kitchen last night: the usual stuff for the week (chopped veggies, salsa, grains, a baby meal)
and a seriously amazing dinner.
(Sorry for the weird color. My camera died so I had to resort to the iPhone)
As you guys know, Dreena Burton is one of my all-time favorite cookbook authors. My copy of “Eat, Drink and Be Vegan” has tamari stains and chocolate smudges all over it- it’s been well-loved. Her Supercharge Me cookies are a dessert favorite and my hardcore carnivore husband loves her recipes, too. Even though they’re vegan, they never feel like they’re missing anything, because they’re satisfying and filled with bold flavors.
I also love that a majority of the recipes aren’t dependent on faux meat and soy: mostly whole foods with fresh fruits and veggies as the star of the show.
When Dreena offered to send me a copy of her new cookbook, “Let Them Eat Vegan!” I was so excited to try out some of her new recipes. While I’m still getting back in the swing of making dinners that aren’t prepped by myself and then grilled by the Pilot, I’ve only tried a few of the new recipes. I’ve made the kale slaw a couple of times, and it’s incredible.
When I realized we had all of the ingredients on-hand for her Almond Curry Chickpea recipe, it was an easy choice for dinner.
Creamy spiced almond butter sauce,
chickpeas and zucchini,
baked and served over brown rice.
It was absolutely perfect, and just as before, Mr. Pilot didn’t seem to mind the lack of animal protein at all.
Dreena kindly offered to giveaway a cookbook to a lucky reader, so if you’d like a copy of your own, all ya have to do is leave a comment with a recent kitchen disaster.
I’ll go first:
I set the smoke alarm off while making a salad beast. I was grilling chicken on the George Foreman to put atop the salad and before I knew it, the alarms started beeping. Livi was sound asleep and managed to stay sleeping upstairs while I opened doors and frantically fanned a pillow over the alarm. The Pilot just laughed.
I’ll pick a winner tonight at midnight EST and post it in tomorrow’s AM post.
Edited: This giveaway has ended as of 11:52 AM EST, 5/8/12. Please stay tuned for more giveaways in the future! Did you win? Find out here.
Have a great day and I’ll see ya tonight!
xoxo
Gina
Yesterday’s #smoothieaday:
PB & J
-1.5 C almond milk
-1/2 banana
-1 C frozen mixed berries
-1 scoop Sun Warrior
-1 T peanut butter
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Sliced the end off my finger using a mandoline slicer. Much blood ensued. My bf took over the kitchen duties while I patched myself together. Not even 2 minutes later he came into the bathroom with blood gushing out of his hand. The mandoline has been retired…
I was trying to toast tortillas in the oven. I burned them. Tried again and burned them again. Third time was the charm.
cutting my finger while slicing a bagel =(
The craving for s’mores hit the other night when I realized we still had an unopened box of Williams-Sonoma vanilla marshmallows from a holiday gift. Somehow my husband convinced me that heating the marshmallows in the microwave would be “better and much faster than heating up the oven,” so I let him pop them in. Within a minute, I hear him laughing in the kitchen and I run in to find the marshmallows about to explode in our microwave! He said he was about to take them out, but I wasn’t so sure…
I also set off the smoke detector making chicken wings in the oven. Luckily our daughter slept through it as well.
Disaster-forgot to put the main ingredient (braggs aminos) in my seitan…ended up tasting like nothing!
Well, a recent kitchen disaster occurred when I was making pasta recently and ended up somehow spilling a good portion of the pasta on the floor! Since then, I have definitely tried to be more careful. Thanks for the giveaway!
Yep, I pretty much tried to make gluten-free whoopie pies using almond flour…it turned into one ooey, gooey, overflowing cookie mess!
I finished cooking the other day, but instead of turning the burner knob to OFF, I turned it to HIGH.. ruined the pan, melted the plastic spatula, and we had to evacuate the house while the melted plastic in the air cleared out. The food was delicious, but the smell of melted plastic was horrible!!!
Great giveaway and that curry recipe looks awesome. My most recent and embarrassing disaster is a double dose of too much multitasking and not enough sleep. Here goes: prepping meals for the week, every burner being used as well the oven, doing laundry etc. In the middle of all this started feeling hungry decided to pop a muffin in the microwave to defrost, forgetting the muffin cup was FOIL, Yes you guessed it a little fire and on top of that burned my sauce. 🙁
Congrats on the photo shoot.
I tried to make sunflower seed butter. Nope. Didn’t work. Not one bit. It was…chunkified…not smooth. I’ve got homemade almond butter down…so I should probably keep trying.
Super excited to try out this new protein muffin recipe. Happily went about making my muffins put them in the oven and after about 20 minutes realized I forgot to put in eggs and not only that but after I took them out realized apparently I forgot to spray the pan. BOOOOO!!! Only had enough ingredients for that one batch. So sad no protein muffins.
We have a joke in our family that we always leave stuff in the oven and it burns and that we need a talking oven. Well the other night we had veggies roasting and all of a sudden we remembered they were in the oven for quite a while and started screaming that they are probably all burnt. Turns out this time – we never even put the oven on. faillll!
My most recent kitchen disaster (let’s be honest they are pretty regular over here) was dropping an entire bottle of olive oil on the tile floor. Needless to say, I spent hours scrubbing olive oil off my floor! Get giveaway – thank you!
Was making salmon a few years ago and ran out of regular soy milk to add to the sauce. For some crazy reason, I figured the vanilla flavoured soy milk I had would do. Umm..not so much…GROSS.
Love Dreena and her books!
Recently I bought cream of wheat because I remembered how good it was as a kid. Made some for my kids, they loved it. Of course, I had to bulk it up and added some hemp protein. Bad idea, green and not delicious. Protein oats, yum, protein cream of wheat, not so yum.
After meticulously preparing some delicious raspberries to be frozen, I opened the freezer only to have something fall off the top of my fridge, knocking said delicious berries out of my hands and crushing them to a mushy pulp all over my white kitchen floor. So sad on so many levels 🙁 I love the possibilities that Let Them Eat Vegan has to offer… I recently went dairy & egg free and still feel somewhat lost and unsure about what kind of things I can make that my husband will still eat!
Making my whole wheat bread and left out the salt…..blech! Have you ever had bread without salt? Its horrible, amazing what just a little salt will do for bread.
Exploding oatmeal in the microwave…it’s a disaster that I unfortunately keep repeating!!!
I was hungry for a midnight snack, so I decided to make a bagel. Let’s just say I spent the rest of the night in the ER because of the nice slice I made in my hand while cutting the bagel. The next day my friend showed up at my door bearing a bagel slicer!
My favourite kitchen disaster story ever:
At 12 years old, I wanted to make shortbread cookies, I picked them because the only ingredients were sugar, butter, and flour. The recipe called for 2 cups of butter, in fact, and because it said to “cream” the butter with the sugar, I put it in the microwave and melted it, then added it to the sugar to make a cream. Added the flour to that, threw the 6 goopy cookies that the batter made (out of a recipe that should have yielded at least 48) into the oven, and my family politely ate about a quarter of a cookie before explaining to me what I had done wrong. Haven’t made shortbread since then.
My recent kitchen disaster wasn’t really a disaster, but it was upsetting regardless. I made a fresh batch of pistachio butter and dropped the entire (glass) jar as I was closing it 🙁 Not a lick of pistachio butter could be salvaged because of possible glass shards. Fail
Homemade mashed potatoes in the blender. They tasted so WEIRD, a rouge blueberry got in the mix!
Pulling the oven tray out too enthusiastically and everything on it swooshed off the back and onto the bottom of the oven. A perspex dish shattered and I had to throw everything away in case there were tiny bits of perspex in it. Great day… Luckily hubby perceived the look on my face and, without hesitation, said ‘kebabs?’.
I was prepping and buttering a casserole dish and opened the cabinet to grab some spices. However, the teriyaki bottle fell out of the cabinet and shattered my beautiful, expensive casserole dish.
My most recent kitchen disaster occurred this morning! I was making oatmeal on the stove and walked away to go to the bathroom and the whole thing boiled over and made the house wreak of a nasty burning smell – bleh! The worst part though was that half of my oatmeal was gone 🙁
When I was pregnant, I had a craving for macaroni and cheese, so I boiled the noodles and when I went to drain them in the colander, the colander tipped spilling all my noodles. I was sooooo upset I almost cried!!!!
What a great giveaway! Of course as a vegan I would love to win this cookbook! My biggest and most frequent kitchen catastrophe is setting parchment paper alight! It smokes up the entire kitchen and I can never seem to gets that right!!!
I was making quinoa and got a phone call so I left the room. I completely forgot that I had it on the stove and when I came back, the pot had completely overflowed, leaving water everywhere. Yikes.
Spilling an ENTIRE BAG of CHIA SEEDS on the kitchen floor. Seriously the hardest most impossible clean up task. They were caught in every crack and crevice. I still find them and mistaken them for bugs ALL the time.
that chickpea dish looks fantastic! yesterday i was making a salad that had sunflower seeds in it. i tore open the bag like an animal and pretty much every last seed flew out of the bag all over my kitchen floor. i’m still finding them.
I put a glass pyrex on a hot electric stove (didn’t know that it was on). About 10 minutes after it had been sitting there, I realized the stove was on, turned it off, and moved the glass pyrex over to cool down. OF course, the large transition from hot to cold is NOT recommended. The glass exploded, luckily my back was facing it, otherwise it would’ve gone into my face. The shards ended up all over the kitchen, and every shard was so hot that the ones which touched the linoleum floors actually burned small bubbles into it.
I dropped an entire, freshly made batch of cookies on the kitchen floor! Sad day.
My dishwasher caught on fire! Moral of the story: organize your dishwasher every time (to get more dishes/utensils in there without any free floaters).
PS. Kale slaw looks to die for! Must try ASAP <3
I was present when my brother set the wall behind the stove on fire… freaky!
My hubby was trying to make frozen banana ice cream using the food processor — he had seen me make it before, so he thought he’d give it a go. Next thing I know, I hear a very strange sound coming from the kitchen — and sure enough, the blade had broken (the bananas were rock hard!). He strained all the plastic bits out, but we still were biting on a few pieces in the end product. The funny thing is, he broke the blender blade about a month before trying to blend a frozen banana in a smoothie — Maybe he’ll learn after breaking TWO appliances?? I say it just means it’s time for a Vitamix!
Okay, this isn’t that recent, but about 6 years ago when my youngest son was a baby, I had set him on the floor of the kitchen while I was cooking. I was at the counter with my back turned to him for maybe a minute, when I next turned around to check on him he had opened the door to the pantry and pulled out my (nearly full!) 2 litre bottle of cooking oil and was sitting in a huge puddle of it! Great big grin on his face! He was so shiny and slippery! Needless to say, the clothes he was wearing just went straight into the garbage, did not even try washing the oil out.
I was boiling water to make a pitcher of tea and went to answer a few emails. 20 min later I smell something burning, all the water had burned out of the pot and the pot was smoking. I felt so lucky that I didn’t start a fire. Lesson learned! Now I never leave the kitchen if I’ve got something on the stove.
My brother tried to make easy mac for lunch one day. He put the noodles and the cheese powder in a bowl and placed it in the microwave (with no water, milk or anything). We came home to a terrible burnt smell and found his bowl of “attempted” EASY mac in the trashcan.
I accidentally used cow’s milk instead of almond in mine and my husband’s morning smoothies. Let’s just say the hubby was have a rough day at work.
Went to make a turkey sandwich, only to discover my unopened turkey container had red mold all over it…
Trying to pull something out of the oven without a potholder. That was fun:)
I was making a broccoli soup and after I boiled the broccoli I was supposed to put it in the blender with some of the cooking water. Well at the time I was not a very experienced cook and didn’t realize that hot things need to vent in the blender. In fact, I was holding the lid on extra tight. Next thing I know, the lid flew off and I was covered in scalding hot broccoli and it was all over my kitchen too! I was finding broccoli on random things in kitchen for months. Lesson learned. Painfully.
I made dinner for my boyfriend’s birthday. I tried a recipe I hadn’t used before. The pasta was inedible and I was pretty upset. 🙁
I had an almost disaster on Saturday night. I’m studying for my law school finals so I’m trapped home buried in books while my family goes out to do fun Saturday things. My mom asked me to start dinner and I totally spaced on the temperature she told me to put it on and set it at 500 instead of 400. Needless to say, their pork was nice and crispy. Luckily I caught it before it burned entirely and 1/2 my family claimed it was good while others (my mom) commented that it was too crispy and dry. Luckily they weren’t angry =)
Tonight I was grilling chicken, cauliflower, and celery, and ran out of gas before the flip. It’s hot in Phoenix! Had to turn on the oven to finish it off. Boo Hiss. I thought it was a disaster.
I made overnight oats for my boyfriend, but instead of tossing in some chia seeds, I accidentally used poppy seeds! I took it out of the fridge in the morning to give to him and it was a soupy mess! Being sweet and hungry, he ate it anyway! We would love this cookbook because we want to build a healthy, plant-based life together.
I was boiling a sweet potato to make sweet potato sourdough bread and completely forgot about it. Now all that sugar from the sweet potato is stuck to the bottom of my favourite pot. I have a lot of scrubbing to do tonight
I was cooking for my parents and tried to make garlic bread but burned it beyond recognition. At least the rest of the meal turned out okay!
I was trying to make basic chocolate chip cookies for a holiday party, but our apartment had a weird oven that would fluctuate temperature (aka broken, and it took us MONTHS for our landlord to replace it)….and so long story short, after THREE failed batches I was so sweaty and stressed I just went to the bedroom and cried.
Who cries over cookies?!