VegWeb Newsletter: Summer Brunch Edition
- In This Issue:
- Recipe Spotlight |
- What's Hot on VegWeb |
- Cooking with Webmistress Laura |
- Superstar VegWebber |
- Weekly Giveaway!
Bring on the vegan pancakes!
Recipe Spotlight on Summer Brunch
What is the meaning of life? Is there life on other planets? Why is brunch the best meal? These are questions we may never know the answers to. Okay, I'll take a guess on the brunch one. It's something that usually happens on weekends (yay!), after having slept in (yay!) and involves combining the best of the best from both breakfast and lunch (yay!). It's really just a genius meal and I want to meet the person who invented brunch and have their adorable, delicious babies. That sounded wrong. I can't help it. Brunch does crazy things to me!
Check out some of our other favorite VegWeb summer brunch recipes:
What's Hot on VegWeb
Check out our new Monday Night Chats! Every Monday from 6–7pm PST, head to the chat room for discussions ranging from vegetarian travel to cooking tips. This week (August 3), we'll be talking vegan brunches! We need your delicious recipes, themed brunch ideas, and suggestions about what to make to impress the omnis who show up. Bring your questions, tips, techniques, and more to our chat room.
Portland? New York City? Des Moines!? What's the most veg-friendly city in the world? I'm not sure but I think I have to visit all of them to find out, right? Weigh in with your opinion and supporting evidence at Your Favorite Cities and Why.
Vegan makes the heart grow fonder? See how many of your fellow VegWebbers are lucky enough to be with the vegan of their dreams and pipe up about whether or not you'd date a meateater in Veg Significant Others.
Do you like vegan products and prizes? Get yourself over to the VegNews Veggie Awards, the world's largest survey of vegetarian people, products, and places. And let's make sure VegWebbers get their share of loot! Did I mention the all-expense-paid Tropical Getaway and Vegan Ice Cream Starter Kit? Um, YEAH. Get over to the VegNews Veggie Awards before it's too late – voting ends on July 31st at midnight!
Yes, that is Frito pie at my recent Vegan Brunch Club meetup!
Cooking with Webmistress Laura: Start a Vegan Brunch Club!
Let's face it. Often the vegan options at restaurants are less than inspiring. A bowl of mushy fruit and dry oatmeal again? I'll pass! But why not pass with some panache and start a Vegan Brunch Club? I belong to a club in San Francisco called the "Vegan Brunch Cartel," and we meet one Sunday a month to share vegan food and play games, gossip, and drink plentiful amounts of coffee (and sometimes if we're feeling sassy, mimosas!). All you need is a group of vegans (and vegan friendly folk) with a desire to make and eat yummy vegan food. The fabulous recipes on VegWeb will take care of the rest! The following steps will get you from the lonely side of hash browns to bonafide vegan feast faster than you can say, "Pumpkin pecan waffles with a side of Earth Balance!"
How to Organize a Vegan Brunch Club (VBC)
1) Find or start a group. Advertise in the events section of VegWeb, post on Craigslist, and just start spreading the word. You'll find it's fairly easy to get a good group of vegan food lovers together.2) Pick a date, time, location and theme for your VBC. I've found that weekends at around noon works well. Good locations are people's homes, parks, and community centers. Parks are especially great in the summer. As far as themes are concerned, it's not necessary but it is a lot of fun! The picture above is from our "So Bad, It's Good" VBC, complete with Vegan Chicken Fingers!
3) Send an electronic invite (I like Evite) to the group asking everyone to state if they can attend and what they're making. You don't want nine servings of vegan donuts. Or do you?
4) Pick your dish! Check out the Potlucks and Picnics section of VegWeb for some great ideas.
5) Get your ingredients, prepare your dish, and be on time! You want first dibs on all the tasty treats, right?
Superstar VegWebber!
Each week we'll highlight a member of the VegWeb community who goes above and beyond to make VegWeb a truly excellent place to spend time on the internet.
This week, "RabidChild!"
VegWebber since? June 2007
What do you do when you're not on VegWeb? Getting my PhD in Social Welfare
#1 cooking secret/tip? Don't be afraid to screw things up
What is the best thing about being vegan? Being able to eat cookie dough and not get salmonella
Best music to cook by? Showtunes!
Read RabidChild's entire interview and tell her how fabulous she is in the Superstar VegWebber thread!
Weekly Giveaway: Vegan Brunch by Isa Chandra Moskowitz (it's autographed!)
This week we're giving away a signed copy of Vegan Brunch by Isa Chandra Moskowitz! This book is the only real competition for VegWeb when it comes to recipes for the most glorious meal of the day. It's worth owning for the Chesapeake Tempeh Cakes recipe alone – think crab cakes but oh-so much better. Oh, and did I mention it's signed by the fabulous Isa Chandra Moskowitz herself? Yeah, that too. Check out our brand new VegWeb Weekly Giveaway now and let us know your favorite brunch dish for a chance to win.
Good luck!
Peace in your kitchen,
Webmistress Laura
VegWeb.com
San Francisco, CA
