veganmofo 2009

Sweet Potato Muffin Love

/ Kelly / 2 Comments

In an act of crazy VeganMoFo intertextuality, tonight I made the Maple-Kissed Sweet Potato Muffins posted on Happy Herbivore earlier today. Because this day has been quite chilly and autumnal, I figured that firing up the oven to bake a batch of hearty muffins would be the perfect way to warm up the house and fill up my tummy.

Nom.
(Sorry for the cruddy photo quality!)

I’m glad to report that my hunch was correct – these are wonderful autumn muffins. They’re sweet and slightly spicy and wonderfully rich. My only complaint was that they came out just the teensiest bit gummy; perhaps I should have baked them longer. Overall, though, they’re a fabulous stand-in for the traditional pumpkin muffin, and I enjoyed using a few more of the locally-grown sweet potatoes we picked up a week or so ago.

Now I’m off to grab another muffin and plop myself in front of the telly – it’s Office night!

Let VeganMoFo COMMENCE!

/ Kelly / 3 Comments

VeganMoFo!

It’s VeganMoFo, y’all! I’m sure everyone knows what that’s all about, but if not, go check out Kittee‘s post here.

Basically, vegan bloggers from around the globe will spend October doing heavy-duty blogging about how rad being a vegan is. This is my first year participating, and I’m beyond excited! I discovered vegan/food blogs last fall, and I remember reading all the VeganMoFo posts and thinking how fun it would be to take part in it. I’d actually never really seriously considered that I’d be able to go vegan, but when I saw the hundreds and hundreds of wonderful posts about the animal rights benefits of veganism and the unbelievably delicious nature of vegan food, it suddenly all felt more accessible and possible to me.

And that’s why I’m excited to participate this year. I’ve decided to count October 1st as the day I’m “officially” going vegan, only because I know I’ve slipped up and accidentally eaten some non-vegan things in the past couple of months. Plus, October 1st is a pretty memorable date, no?

So! Break out your nutritional yeast and dust off the cookbooks, because it’s VEGANMOFO, bitchezzz!