Saturday, October 15, 2011

Tal Ronnen, and a Giveaway for The Conscious Cook

Made and loved: Celeriac Soup with Granny Smith Apples and Chive Oil


Made and loved: Twice-Baked Fingerlings with [Horseradish!] and Crisped Dulse


Made and loved and you will have to imagine it: Corn Chowder, Peppercorn-Encrusted Portobello Fillets with Yellow Tomato Bearnaise and Mashed Potatoes, Scallopini With Sake Shiitake Sauce and Crispy Udon Noodles.

Made and didn't work: cashew cheeze. Possibly my fault.

Want to make: everything else in this cookbook. It's lovely. The photos are beautiful. The recipes are beautiful. If you don't like Gardein, just sub seitan where it is specified.

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It won't be any surprise what the giveaway is today! It's brought to you by the generous folks over at William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers. I offer to you a copy of Tal Ronnen's wonderful cookbook, The Conscious Cook!


To enter, please leave a comment below. Tell me about a fancy meal you've made recently, or tell me what you'd like someone to make for you, or anything at all. This giveaway is open to US residents only, but other giveaways this month will be open to everybody everywhere. The winner will be chosen by a random number generator and posted tomorrow below tomorrow's giveaway. If you have won a bigger giveaway from this blog, please consider being kind and not entering further bigger giveaways--I'd love as many people to win something as possible!


The winner of yesterday's Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites is hotveganchickpeas! Congratulations! Please send your name and address to me at miso...@yahoo.com. (Be sure to click on the . . . to get the rest of the email address. Alternatively, you could use your best thinking skills and possibly figure it out.)

16 comments:

  1. this cookbook sounds very fancy! fancy meals sometimes turn me off, because i think they'll be difficult to make. maybe this cookbook would prove me wrong?

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  2. We love perfecting our Lemongrass Tofu Banh Mi (http://www.nondairydreamer.com/2011/09/veganized-recipe-vegan-banh-mi-with.html)! It's by far our favorite!

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  3. Wow! I have this book and I still haven't made anything from it. That's why posts like this are so helpful. It encourages me to pull it out and look again. Thanks Celyn! :)

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  4. I'd like for my husband to make me ANYTHING, haha. On a more serious note, I made a fancy-schmancy appetizer the other day with some eggplant napoleons all stacked high. yum!

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  5. The last fancy meal I made was orange tofu, rice and broccoli! Yummy!

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  6. I don't usually make very fancy food, but I guess the fanciest stuff I've made recently was a frosted layer cake and some homemade gnocchi. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!

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  7. Vegan breakfast in bed would be awesome! Pancakes, fresh warm blueberry sauce, maybe a tangerine, on the side and chocolate almond milk. :)

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  8. I've flipped through this cookbook and it is gorgeous! He is amazing and his meals are beautiful. As far as fancy meals...I'm not one for super fancy meals but breakfast is my favorite meal of the day so some sort of sweet bread (pumpkin, banana, etc.) or a waffle or pancakes with some different ingredients would probably be something I'd like to try. I'm really into baking so making fancy desserts would be fun too :)

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  9. you're not the only one with cashew cheeze that hasn't worked out. i hear it's pretty fussy stuff. i haven't tried it yet because i'm not brave enough to give it a whirl. some day though - i'll make it happen. we don't have The Conscious Cook, but i hear good things about it. both the celeriac soup and those adorable potatoes look awesome, and the portobello filets sound fantastical! awesome all around, Celyn!

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  10. I wouldn't know where to start with what fancy meal to cook next, but, I'm very glad to have found your blog! I am not the best at keeping up with all the great vegan blogs, so thank goodness for MoFo and your stopping by Vegan Fazool, or I wouldn't have found you :-)

    XO

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  11. I haven't even heard of this book before. Those fingerling potatoes are definitely something I could go for right now!

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  12. Your dishes look delicious! I love finding new uses for horseradish.

    I would like for someone to make cinnamon rolls for me. They don't have to be fancy cinnamon rolls (but those would certainly be welcome).

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  13. My latest fancy meal was a zucchini ravioli stuffed with lima beans, garlic and rosemary! Topped with cashew cream. So yummy! Would love a copy of this book!

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  14. I've always wondered about this cookbook and now you've convinced me I need to order a copy. Both the soup and the potatoes look gorgeous, Celyn!

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  15. The celeriac soup looks amazing. I still have one celeriac in the fridge... maybe I'll try to make a soup with it.

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