I love winning contests.

My husband and I won a Halloween costume contest for our Racoons in Garbage Can getup. Our prize? Free cupcakes from Divine Cupcake.  If you are in Eugene and have not been to Divine Cupcake yet, shame on you.  Every cupcake is vegan and they have a wide offering of gluten free options.  The cupcakes you see below are all vegan and GF, though you would never know it. They taste just as moist and sugary and delicious as a laycupcake.

Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

 

I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful, I sure enjoyed mine. I spent it with some friends, so I didn't prepare a full Thanksgiving meal.  I should also note that I was reluctant to experiment because there's a lot of pressure to make delicious dishes on Thanksgiving.  I therefore found recipes and only modified them slightly.  Below are the dishes I prepared, links to the recipe, and modifications.  

Roasted Green Beans with Onions and Walnuts

via here

Indian Dahl and Rice

via here

 

modifications: substitute oil or earth balance for butter.

Mushroom Gravy

 

 

 

via here

modifications: I used less oil, used vegetable stock in place of water, added more nutritional yeast, less soy-sauce (I used tamari). Replace flour with gluten-free flour all purpose flour.  I also rehydrated some dried mushrooms, chopped them and added them to the gravy, I then used the leftover mushroom-water in place of regular water.

Ginger Pumpkin Pie

via here

This turned out better then my last pumpkin pie, my last PP didn't have enough sugar. This was plenty sweet and had a great kick to it.

modifications: use EnerG egg replacer in place of eggs, replace half and half with a non-dairy creamer (if using soy, try to use organic), used a regular crust and added a hint of sugar and cinnamon to the dough. 

And here's my plate filled with all sorts of vegan and GF offerings.