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Yes please, I want to grow my own mushrooms

This mushroom kit from Back to the Roots looks fantastic. And a great indoor gardening project.

 I am so excited to try it out.

VEGAN MOFO

I just heard about Vegan MoFo from the Post Punk Kitchen. That stands for "Vegan Month of Food." The main idea is for bloggers to blog about vegan food for the month of November there are not a lot of guidelines but the idea is for bloggers to write at least 20 times in the month or more about vegan food. The blogs can be anything related to food.  There is also a website devoted to the Vegan MoFo challenge. Sign up here.

I will be participating in this challenge so stay tuned for some vegan yummmms.

Certified Orgasmic

Adam Sobel is a chef, baker, and vegan caterer in New Jersey. His food is amazing and delicious! I can't say enough good things about the food Certified Orgasmic sells. From raw vegan pizza to vegan canolis! It is all fantastic.

If you are ever in the Red Bank, NJ area on a Sunday morning you can visit their stand at the farmers market every SUNDAY 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM. On the corner of West Front St. and Shrewsbury Ave.

Also if you are in the area you can order food directly from him and pick it up. We really love to get those raw pizzas but he puts out a different menu each week with a different complete meal each day such as a Sunflower steak with garlic miso cream on a spinach salad with fresh herbs and tomato You can sign up to receive the menu here.

We hired Chef Adam to create deserts for our vegan wedding. His deserts are delicious!

Take a visit to his website where he has generously posted some of his tasty recipes!

Today is the Great American Meat Out and the first day of Spring!!!

What is the Great American Meat Out you ask? The Great American Meat Out is a day to "kick the meat habit (at least for a day) and explore a wholesome, nonviolent diet of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains." I have been a vegetarian for 17 years a vegan for 5 and I feel great! There are so many options when cooking as a vegan/vegetarian and so much yummy food.

I feel the best way for people to learn this is to try eating vegetarian/vegan, go to a vegetarian restaurant. Or if you are vegetarian cook a meal for a non veg friend. If you are in the Belmar area I highly recommend trying Kaya's Kitchen - 817 Belmar Plaza 732-280-1141.

Another time I will do a cookbook review but here are some of my favorites:
Veganomicon
The Joy of Vegan Baking
Eat Drink and Be Vegan
The Garden of Vegan
Vegan with a Vengance
How it all Vegan
La Dolce Vegan
Nonna's Italian Kitchen

Kicking the meat habit is not only beneficial for your health but also for the planet. There are plenty of great resources that can explain the horrible effect of factory farming and consumption of meat on our earth and health. Check out the current issue of Veg News it is full of resources, reviews, yummy recipes and 222 reasons why it is great to be veg!

In honor of The Great American Meat out myself and some other members of the vegan etsy street team are have promotions. Everyone's promotions are different so check them all out. My promotion is buy 2 $15 cuffs for just $25.

Here is a list of the shops that are offering promotions:

Aimee Dars Designs
Art by Susmitha
Bees Knees Jewelleries
Books by Bexx
Cards and Jewelry by Michele
Crickets Creations
Daisy Wares
Eco-Nut Hut
Emma's K9 Kitchen
Hello Kiddo
Jak Random Art & Design
Julep115
Lissa Lush
Paws In The Sun
Pitseel
Quixotic Clothing
This Is It! Creations
Vegan Ease

Happy Spring! It is quite the blustery March day but the flowers are starting to peak through the dirt and the warmth of the sunshine is on it's way!