Mofo Case #16 Harriet the Spy and a Voopee Pie Giveaway

Everyday at exactly 3:40 p.m. Harriet would have an after school snack before sleuthing. She would indulge in her favorite cake and milk. Then one day little Harriet became lactose intolerant and she would throw up right as she was gathering clues at the scene of the crime. One day when Harriet was actually minding her own business and her P's and Q's she stumbled upon an evil slaughterhouse.

Harriet: I want to remember everything and want to know everything about all this meanness.
Ole Golly: Well you must remember that knowing everything won't do you a bit of good if you don't use it to bring beauty into this world.
Harriet: Okay I am a vegan now and I want to help all the world be vegan and compassionate. And I am here to help find GiGi. I miss her voopee pies and I miss GiGi too I guess. 
Ole Golly: You miss GiGi...you  guess?
Harriet: Well. GiGi is kind of annoying.
Ole Golly: True or False? 
Harriet: True. She's annoying but still I miss her. I know, let's have a contest to win some of GiGi's famous Veganville voopees. Maybe that will bring GiGi back. I mean if somebody wins and GiGi isn't here to bake them then nobody would win and that would make GiGi sad.
Ole Golly: No sadness here. A contest it is Harriet!

white chocolate with cherry, or cranberry voopee pies

Harriet's Contest Rules to win a box of Veganville's White Chocolate Cherry or Cran Voopees
1. Follow GiGi somewhere. Here, FB. Somewhere!
2. In the comments tell me who your favorite sleuth is.
3. In the comments tell me what is your favorite cookie.
4. Contest only open to U.S. residents.
5. Contest open until October 7th.

Anyone with any information on missing vegan blogger GiGi is urged to call 555-555-lost.

Voopee Name Picked and Winner Announced

You know what tomorrow is, huh smarty pants? I'll give you a hint it's the day after today, and today we announce the Name that Voopee Winner! There were so many clever entries too. It was a tough choice, but we decided to tally up the votes. Whoopee. Hope your 4th was at least a third as good as last year's celebration, so maybe you won't be needing to drink that whole 5th all by your lonesome. Tomorrow's the 5th.

And the winning name of the Molasses Lemon Voopee yep! The name with the most votes is:

Props to my peeps...my buddy Crazy Boy and front and sidekick Marcia who helped with the video announcement.
But since I provided the new voopee name it just wouldn't be fair to mail myself a box of voopees. I'm not sure how much postage I would need anyway. We decided to add all the terrific contestants' names into the gigantic world psychic number generator until it spit out the following winner. Sorry about the spit. The winner of the Molasses Lemon Voopees box is:

From the lovely blog: http://gildeddays.blogspot.com/ Check out Tess' lovely crafty vegan blog and Etsy store GildedNotes too. Congratulations Tess!!! Thanx so much for playing everybody.

Winner Not Announced Yet

And now another ridiculously important announcement from the nudnick who runs this blog.

*cough cough spit spit*

Hello...

Hello... Bet you thought that was all I was going to say... Hello.
Before we get to the announcement I'll let you in on a little secret. My shirt is on backwards in the above picture. Either that or Linda Blair has hijacked this site. And I am wearing a bicycle chain I borrowed from someone's bicycle. Apparently some people in the criminal justice system think I use the term borrow to loosely.


Guess what if you haven't played "Name That Voopee", the contest has been extended until June 30th, and so if you haven't named That Voopee yet you still have time, unless of course you are doing time, and I can't promise you voopees. 
Contest will end at 10:27 PM right on the nose.

photo by Crazyboy, it's just so perfect that he found a dog with the exact time on his nose

Winner will be announced on Independence Day which is on July 4th this year.
But hey we'll see ya before then.
Thanx for swinging by.

Fellowship of the Vegetable Interview

We interrupt this voopee contest for a moment of shameless self promotion.
Have you seen me being interrogated/ interviewed on Kylie's uber cool blog Fellowhip of the Vegetable?

So what are you waiting for? Hop on over!
Just a reminder the "Name That Voopee Contest" is still open. Enter here at you own risk.

We'll be back soon with Elvis Pie and a another post "Veganville Delivers, Baby!"

Happy Pride Day everybody!

"Name That Voopee Whoopee" This Contest Rules

It's Give Away Time with Name That Voopee! But First a Very Very Extremely Important Message From the President of Veganville, after she clears her throat.



Madam President

Hello. Spittle Spittle. In a concerted effort to gain even one more freaking follower, we here at Veganville have decided against our better judgement which hardly ever gets better, to have a contest. We used to have a lot of contests back in the day, but then we were traumatized.

Who can forget the Nasoya give away Debacle of late 2011 that dragged into 2012.
For a recap and the video of the biggest contest number generator in the world please see http://gigi-2boomers.blogspot.com/2012/01/labor-of-love-nasoya-cool-beans-winner.html

 Sorry about the long linky, Blogger is not cooperating. After many many sessions on the couch and lots of free pharmaceutical samples, we here at Veganville, (actually there is no "we" it's just me), are ready to leave that contest trauma in the past. We are now ready to woo you with a Contest. Woo Hoo.
Name That Voopee
You probably know what a voopee is but in case you don't. A Voopee is not a cake, not a cookie, it's got a middle, it's a Voopee.

Anyway, most of our voopees have clever names, but we've been slow as molasses coming up with a new funky ass name for our Molasses - Lemon. Poor guy, right now he's just Molasses Lemon.

We've thought of
1. Slow as Molasses
2. Molasses for the Masses
3. Move Your Molasses

What's your favorite? Can you come up with something better? Help us and you could win a box of the newly named voopees.

Very official Contest Rules
1. Add your self as a blog follower.
2. Tell us your favorite molasses and lemon voopee name, or come up with something else kick ass.
3. We will add your name to the largest number generator in the world.
4. Winner will receive a box of molasses/lemon voopees. If you are gluten free, we will send you some gluten free cupcakes instead. How nice is that?
5. Sorry contest is only open to the United States.
6. Winner Announced Tuesday June 26th 10 PM California time.

 Thank you for playing. Please!

Shortbread Recipe in Honor of the Alleged Winner of Longest Contest in History

Do you care that this Nasoya "Cool Beans" contest has taken over my life? Nights are endless and tofu will never be the same. Rivka, I am sad to say did not claim her Nasoya swag. I even gave her an extra two days. Now if this next winner does not step forward I might have to send this Nasoya Tee and coupons to my mommy in Los Angeles, and she's not even one of my followers. Here is a reason why. My mom does not like it when I post pictures or videos of me that make me look like an aging Pinocchio. She didn't use those words exactly. She just thinks I look better in person. Aww thanks mom. When she told me how she felt about the videos I laughed and said, that's right I have  a face only a mom could love. My mom got upset and said, and your father and your husband could love and added, what happened? You were never like this? Like what? The truth is, I am happy with who I am, some days I'm happier than others.My serenity is direclty proportionate to my self acceptance. The truth is as I get older the lighting gets worse. Before I include today's, not so attractive, special on location, "Cool Beans Winner" video, I have a disclaimer. (This is for you Mommy).
1. I am not wearing a shower cap.
2. I actually have nice hair, but I need it cut and colored. This is my need a new coif hat.
3. I am cuter in person.
4. This Nasoya "Cool Beans Contest" has aged me, considerably.

Here are some special cookies for my special Mom. My Mom was born in Scotland and actually crawled under an immigration table to come into this country. This worked to my advantage as a kid. If my mom threatened to ground me I threatened to have her deported.  An old Scottish saying is," He who has contempt for food is a fool." I think they also say, "He who has contempt for whiskey is a fool", but it's my blog and I can say what I want to say.

I surprised my mom with this over the holidays and she loved it. I was surprised it got all the way to Los Angeles like this. I didn't pack it or anything. I just sent it through the mail on this plate.

Scottish Shortbread kind of, (it's not like the kind I grew up on but My Mom gave it a thumbs up!)

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
8 T Earth Balance
2 T vegetable shortening (I use Spectrum)
1 1/4 cup confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)
2 T organic sugar
2-3 T ice water
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Beat sugar, salt, Earth Balance and shortening on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 1-2 minutes.


Gradually sift flour mixture into the butter-shortening mixture, and mix with wooden spoon or spatula. Stir together with the spatula until the dough comes together. Add 2 T-4 T of ice water so the dough holds together.
Lightly grease and line 8 X 8-inch baking dish or round pan with parchment paper.
Place the dough into the prepared pan and press it down with your fingers into a smooth, even layer.

Use a fork to pierce holes into a decorative pattern.

Bake for 45-50 minutes until the shortbread is a pale golden color and slightly dark at the edges.

Remove to a rack and let cool until it's slightly warm. With a sharp knife, cut almost all the way through to form triangles.

And now the moment you've all been wating for...yet another winner of the Nasoya "Cool Beans Contest"!
Drum roll please!

Crackle Cookies and the Longest Contest in World History

I totally dropped the Jingle Ball this year. Bell, I mean, BELL. I think I was waylaid by the longest tofu contest in soybean history.

Rivkah please step forward! And claim your tofu coupons and tee shirt. I think the Nasoya people hired Rivkah as a shill for a shilling. It's been over a week and not a peep from Rivkah. I never saw Rivkah before the contest, and haven't seen her since. I'm totally screwed! I mean how much longer can this freakin' contest go on? Think I'll give Rivkah 'til Tuesday to call in. So if you did not win last time, you still might win. Feh. Who cares? The best thing about this crazy ass contest is that I have an excuse to use a random generator. It's the best thing to happen to me since off track betting.

I hope everybody had a lovely Holiday Season. I did, except for FB. FB can be pure torment for the already tormented. If you are reading my blog I probably don't have to explain this to you since you are most likely tormented and maybe even demented. Everyday on FB during these festive times, there seemed to be just another picture of some happy little homemaker in their pretty little vintage apron standing next to their barely used Wolf oven with their dozens of Christmas cookies. Hey, I love it when people create and cook, but why once a year? And why do those lady's nails look so nice after they bake? And why is their mascara still intact? I bet  those Pfeffernussen aren't even vegan. Who's frilly vintage apron is pristine after sweating it out in a kitchen? A day in my kitchen and I look like I've been mud wrestling in chocolate. Eh. Who cares?!

As much as I wanted to create and bake new items and don a cutesy little apron, it's a super duper busy time of the year for me in the kitchen. Crazy boy and I sleep little, work lots and have too many hang nails. Now that I've had a few rounds of Zzzs. I can scroll through FB holiday pics and appreciate the love and creativity others put into baking even if it's just once a year. I'm incredibly grateful to be able to do what I do. It's been a good year in Veganville. Thank you all for swinging by. I am so grateful to have you join me.
I did manage to test four new cookies. Maybe you have had your fill of sweets. Maybe you received a dozen from Miss frilly prissy, the annual baker. Maybe you are at the gym right now for today anyway. I'll just bring you just one of these fine cookies today. First up is the Crackle White Chocolate and Semi Cookie. My testers said this was fudgy and the perfect chocoholic cookie.

photo courtesy psycho boy

Makes about 2.5 dozen decent sized cookies

12 oz vegan chocolate chips divided
3/4 C unbleached flour
1tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 C or 1/2 stick earth balance
1/2 C organic sugar
1/4 C firmly packed brown sugar
2 flax seed eggs (2 T flax mixed with 1/4 C + 2 T water)
2 tsp non-alcoholic vanilla
1/2 C vegan white chocolate chips



Preheat oven 375 degrees and line 2-3 cookie sheets with parchment.
Melt 3/4 bag of vegan chocolate chips in double boiler or microwave. (Best way to measure it out is just put 1/2 C of chocolate chips aside). Now set aside melted chocolate chips.
Mix flour, cinnamon, and baking powder in small bowl.
Cream earth balance and sugars in large bowl. Add flax seed slurry and vanilla and mix well. Add melted chocolate and beat until well blended. Gradually add flour mixture until well blended.

Stir in white chocolate and remaining semi sweet chocolate.
Drop dough by rounded tablespoon fulls, (is their such a word?), onto prepared pans, about 1 and half inches apart. Bake 10-12 minutes turning pans halfway through.
Transfer cookies on pans to wire rack and let cool for about 10-12 minutes. (They are little gooey). Remove cookies from wire rack and let cool completely.
Indulge!
Veganville will be adding more cookies to our Etsy and local stores in January too. Stay tuned.
Because we follow the Cretan calendar, we will be ringing in the New Year with you midweek and the Battle of the Hoppin Johns. See, you can have another cookie before your 2012 diet.

Is Rivkah here yet?

And We Have A Nasoya Cool Beans Winner: Special Friday Footage

Peekaboo, Guess who's here. I finally got a moment to hobble out from Hell's kitchen. Just in time to announce the winner of the Nasoya Cool Beans Contest. Be quiet I know I'm late! You in the drunk reindeer feetie pajamas sipping vegan eggnog, hush, or you're disqualified. You don't need any more pajamas anyway.
Before we get to this humongous contest winner announcement I have a couple of confessions:

1. Sheesh! I KNOW I'M LATE! The winner was supposed to be announced- well here's the link where it says "Friday, December 14th".
2.There is no Friday December 14th! There has not been a Friday December 14th since (see below) the Cretes cured olives, and

 3. If you guessed there was one other Friday December 14th you would be right, it is a day I will be forever grateful for, the day George Washington Carver invented the PB Voopee Pie.

4. I can hear you saying, but how do you know these things, GiGi?  My answer to you is, I am a savant. Your second question is probably, but who won? My answer to you is, hold your pits.
Watch my amazing talent in this video below.

Because my savantism is limited I used a random generator to pick the winner. I had to use the random generator several times because Andrea's name came up as the winner every time. As much as I love Andrea and her blog, I forgot that she was disqualified. I decided to eliminate Andrea because she is one blogger who already has too much swag. Sorry no gym shorts for you, Andrea!
The winner of the Nasoya Cool Bean Giveaway is Rivka.  Rivka let me know what size tee-shirt you'd like. Nasoya probably doesn't have your size but it would be nice to know if I ever have another contest. FB me with your particulars. Congrats again and thank you for playing!!!! 

 Happy Friday everybody!

Cool Beans Nasoya Giveaway and Leftover Pasta Pie Recipe

I promised you a contest and I promised you a chance to win some Nasoya swanky swag. I haven't received my swag, (read- tee shirt in size unknown), from the lovely Nasoya peeps over at Nasoya.There could be a couple of reasons for that. If you are a long time reader of mine you probably know that I changed my address. That could be it. Or it could be that Nasoya's very nice PR person chased down the FedEx truck to get my tee shirt back after I conveyed some very real concerns I had about their Nasoya Tofu U site. Sure I like tofu and sure no animals were killed making the silken tofu I use for my mousse, but what about their egg based noodles and all the meat and chicken recipes on their site?  What about the frozen PB pie recipe dubbed vegan on their site but dripping with honey? Well I tell you I almost threw the baby tofu out with the tofu water. I was so conflicted. Why should I deprive my readers and fans of a give away? That would not be the right thing to do. No! Besides, I want more stuff...how 'bout a bag, or more coupons, or how 'bout sending me some of those nifty Richard Simmons like gym shorts with Tofu U written on them? I could wear them dancing to the oldies in my kitchen.

Crap. Now I probably have to apologize to Nasoya. I'm sorry Nasoya. I really do love Nasoya Silken Tofu. I used it in the pasta pie recipe I'm about to give you. I actually have used all their tofus except the new sprouted ones. I tried to track down Nasoya's new hummus but it was unavailable in the five stores that I checked. Speaking of five stores I take the fifth on Nayonnaise. It reminds me of that midwest sandwich spread - you know the one with the initials M.W. It might be good with vegan baloney, on vegan white bread if you dig that sort of thing. What do I know? Before we play, check out this interview I had on prime time.

Here's the recipe for leftover pasta pie I promised you.

Leftover Pasta Pie Made With Nasoya Silken Tofu

1 Prepared corn crust pie
1 hearty portion of leftover pasta (ours was made with rice pasta, peas, vine ripened tomato, Tofurkey and red onion)
vegan pesto (enough to cover bottom of pizza shell)
olive oil spray
1/4 C water
3 vine ripened tomatoes
1 clove of garlic minced

1 package Nasoya Silken Tofu (drained and pressed) crumbled
1 C Daiya Mozzarella
1 T oregano
1 tsp liquid smoke

Preheat oven according to corn pizza shell directions. Spread pesto on bottom of crust. Place on cookie sheet or pizza pan. Spray skillet with canola or olive oil, cook garlic for about 2 minutes, mix in pasta and add about 2 T of water, cook about 5 minutes, add crumbled tofu, and liquid smoke. Cook over medium heat for about 12 minutes. Add water or spray as needed. Slice tomatoes and place in concentric circles on pizza shell. Top with tofu mixture, sprinkle with Daiya and oregano. Cook according to pizza shell directions (12-15 minutes). Let sit.

Onto the giveaway and your chance to cash in on some free coupons and tee. Winners will be announced Friday December 14th  and will be chosen through a mighty number generator.

Here's all the ways you can play. You can enter as many times as you want too. Tell me what action you took in the comments. Each action is worth an entry. Woo hoo! Number 5 is worth 2 entries. C'mon I want those gym shorts.

1. Add yourself as a follower of the blog.
2. Tweet this contest.
3. Like the Nasoya FB page.https://www.facebook.com/#!/Nasoya
4. Like Veganville on FB https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/VEGANVILLE-Make-No-Bones-About-ItWere-Vegan/101254843910
5. And here's the clincher. Enroll in Tofu U and take the pledge to cook tofu once a week, (we're vegans, how easy is that?).http://www.nasoya.com/tofu-u/

Good luck and thanx for playing the "Cool Beans" giveaway!

Random Acts of Randomness, Updated Giveaway and a New Recipe

Hello my little patooties. After much reflection and zippo contestants I have decided to simplify said contest!
This will do absolutely nothing for my self esteem if nobody enters this time. This is beginning to feel like all the times my conspiracy theories were rejected. I still believe that Alvin and the Chipmunks were behind the sabotage of Liberace's Final Vegas show. I believe Theodore and Simon, both longtime members of CETA (chipmunks for the ethical treatment of animals), threatened Liberace with a candlelabra. Liberace, famous for his ermine lined robes, even wore a chipmunk and diamond encrustted coat once. Why oh why does nobody believe me? You can't handle the truth!! Well never mind. Let's move on to the cruelty free contest. Shall we? The link below is for your listening pleasure, you know to listen to while you enter the new easy peasy contest, and try a new recipe.


Believe me you, this contest has no hint of the delusional. Even though I will be preparing part of the prize.

Same great prizes are available, yep the grand poobah prize is a mighty box of Veganville goodies and this beautiful bookmark. Here are the new easy rules. What are you lookin at?

Easy Peasy Rules:
1. Become member of this blog.
2. Comment on what your new fave or old fave Veganville goodie is. (new faves below)
3.Twitter or FB fan page your comment.
4. Enter as many times as you like.
5. Sorry only US entrants eligible.

Contestants will be entered into a random generator this Saturday August 27th at 9 PM Pacific Standard time. Practicing random acts of randomness is enlightening.


Veganville will be adding new items this fall like our new Black Forest "Cuffin". Thanks for naming our newest cuffin, Cynthia Welch of Los Angeles, CA!

Double Jolt Voopees- Chocolate Voopees with Java-Oreo filling
Blast from the Past- Coffee and Ho Ho Cupcakes with Java Oreo filling
Spice Boy- Cardamom-Espresso Cuffins
Brooklyn 'Nilla Voopees- Vanilla Voopees with half Chocolate and half 'Nilla frosting
Black Forest Cuffin- Dark Chocolate Cuffin- filled with plump dried cherries and dark chocolate chips

I'll even give you the recipe if you'll play.
Yields 6 Jumbo or 12 Standard Cuffins

Black Forest Cuffins

1/3 of a 29 oz. can of Pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
1/2 C canola oil
1 T of  Ener-G egg replacer mixed with 1/4 C H20 into slurry (or 1/2 banana)
1 1/2 C organic sugar
1 3/4 organic unbleached flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/3 C dark cocoa powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 cup vegan chocolate chips
1- 1.5 C dried cherries
1/3 C H20

Line cuffin pans with liners of course. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix pumpkin, canola oil, egg replacer slurry, and sugar in bowl of electric mixer. In separate bowl combine flour, baking soda and baking powder, cocoa powder, cinnamon and sea salt with wooden spoon. Add to pumpkin mixture and mix well. Stir in 1/3 C of water and then add chocolate chips and dried cherries. Bake for about 35-40 minutes. Keep an eye on them though. Rotate halfway through cooking time. Cool in tins for about 10 minutes, then remove and cool on racks. Chow down!

Now please enter...go on. Must I beg you? Contests are good for the soul. I've heard that you have to be in it to win it...but that could be just a freakin' theory, my little chipmunks. Bahahaha.

Don't Be a Dum Dum, Dum Dum and Vegan Posole

So I have this big ass contest going on here in Veganville. Yep since like um before last week. Yep. Lots of people, yep lots and lots of people have entered.


NOT!

You know how many????  Look below for the answer.


You don't see any numbers. Do you? You don't see anything at all, right? That's because NOBODY ENTERED! NOBODY!
Bupkis. A big ass zero for the big ass contest. Which in my self respected opinion is:

Dum, Dum, Dum!  When you could win yum yum yum! See contest! Hey...speaking of dum, dum, dum. That's the name of the dummy pic above. This is a photo dear to my beating ventricle. It's from the ultra fantastic Etsy shop, Snailbooty. If I were you I would move my booty over to Snailbooty before I snatch up this pic for myself. 

Did you know that I was almost a ventriloquist? Well I was... I had a dum dum like the middle dum shown above. Jerry and I were inseparable when I was in the first grade. We had matching red suits and we went everywhere together. Jerry would even order dinner for me. "GiGi will have a knish, and I'll have a Shirley Temple." That is until Jerry's head fell off!

Hey look what I found. I knew I'd find you my long lost friend! Sob, Sob. You can find Jerry's head sans body at Marieskidscollege, a nifty little vintage shop only on Etsy. Why he's almost like "Johnny got his gun" of the dummy world.

I think I'm gonna see if my friend Gil the lamp guy can make Jerry's noggin into a lampshade, just for old time's sake. Gil says they will put a lightbulb in anything. Even Jerry.
And let me tell you- some heads are going to roll if nobody plays my contest, Bahahaha. Jerry said that, not me. Dum de dum dum.
While we are waiting for a contestant to freaking show up, here's a delicious recipe for Posole. 

Traditional Posole is more brothy, so feel free to up the liquid content. Either way it's a bowl of hearty goodness. I like it more stew like.

Pozole Stew

1 small can roasted diced chipotle peppers
3 cloves of garlic chopped
1 C chopped onions
1 T canola oil
1 Summer squash diced
1 yellow, red or green pepper diced
1 zucchini diced (boy this is getting dicey)
1 tomato diced
2 tofurky links sliced (we slice 'em we dice 'em)
3 T tomato paste
15 oz can hominy (drained)
16 oz can pinto beans with chipotle rinsed and drained
1 tsp. cumin
1.5-3 C vegan broth or H2O
sea salt to taste
oregano to taste
cilantro julienned (optional)
1 avocado (optional)
lime
tortilla chips

***** breaking news******we interrupt this recipe to bring you a contestant****All the way from Chicago****

I Can't believe I won another box of voopees, GiGi!

I'm speechless, Oprah.

But I'm not speechless!
How did you like my Oprah impression, GiGi?

At one time you had the upper hand in our relationship Jerry, but now you have no hands so I win. So bob on out of here so I can finish this recipe.

Posole continued: without interruption, Jerry!

Heat oil in big heavy pot and add chipotle, onions, garlic and veggies, and saute. Add remaining veggies and tofurky rounds and cook til lightly browned. Add hominy, beans, tomato paste, spices and the amount of water (or veggie broth) you are comfortable with. Simmer for about a half hour. Serve in bowls. Top with cilantro, lime and avocado. (I added lime to the Pasole while it was cooking) then added more to my bowl. Just because I like it.

I used to like Pazole, but now it goes right through me. Bahaha. Good Oprah impression, huh, GiGi,huh?

Jerry quit talking over me! Sorry for all the interruptions today, folks.  Hey don't be a dum dum. Be a smarty. Play the contest, join the party.

What?! A Veganville Contest for Carnivores and the Ilk? Contest! Contest!

What? It's been eight days without a blog, you say. In Beatles' lyric lingo eight days is a week.
Crap, I owe you a contest or something. I got a doozy of a contest right up my bamboo organic sleeve too.

Boy oh boy I hope people enter. This is open to all members of the human race, except members of the Tea Party. I think I contradicted myself there, since Tea Party members are not considered  humans or mammals.

Quite honestly I never could stand tea, and that kombucha stuff just stinks. I know I'm a vegan and I'm supposed to expound on the benefits of tea, right? Screw that I say. The only time I really drank tea was when I used to get my tea leaves read. My whole crazy family used to visit the tea leaf lady. She was a little old lady who wore a flowered mu mu and had a pornographic light switch in her bathroom. You know the kind. The switch has an erection when you put the lights on. And when you switched them off well...sometimes that happens in the dark. (bahahaha). Mildred the mu mu clad pornographer tea reader lady had a favorite phrase she used while reading your leaves to you. After each leaf  prediction "you will get married when you are 20" or "you will have a friend named John" she would add in this high pitched voice..."and that is that". "You will brush your teeth" and "that is that". One day you will not drink anymore tea...and that is that.

Back to the contest.

I won't leave you in the dark here. Stop playing with that light switch, would ya.

Anyway, this contest has a little twist to it because as we all know I can be a little twisted. I don't like to proselytize.Yeah, of course I'd love it if the whole world became vegan. I'd love it If everybody left the itty, little, bitty baby calves alone with their mommies. And I sure wish those little, itty, bitty babies weren't taken away from their mommies so they could be placed in a cramped disgusting box to live out their infancy just so you could make them into Italian V Parmesan sandwiches later. NO! I didn't bring you here to tell you that. No I did not.

This is not a conversion contest so I won't tell you how cows are abused just so you can eat some soft serve or coffee praline heavy duty ice cream sundae. I promise I won't mention how porky pig becomes your breakfast side at Denny's (bacon has a mommy too) or ramble about how chickens suffer in battery cages. Nope why should I become all hot and bothered about that stuff. I know you are still going to rush out maybe not today but tomorrow to get a triple heart attack burger with some drippy bleu. (I won't even mention the health benefits of eating vegan or how much water we save by going veg.) Nope I won't tell you that stuff.

This is a contest here and let's have some freaking fun. Shall we. Really I just want you to know how great the vegan options and food is today. If you are looking to feel better, look better or even want to be a little more eco conscious try 2 meatless Mondays. Try out your local veg restaurant. Try one vegan lunch one day, and a vegan dinner another. Oh don't be such a big baby.

This contest is for all you pesky pescetarians, all you died in the wool carnivores, the "I could never leave my cheese behind" vegetarians, the "I hardly ever eat red meat because I'm so effing healthy", and the "I eat only free range organic" gourmet, and of course let's not forget all you "I'm already vegan but only eat chips and salsa" friends.

********Think you can cook vegan? contest******
             Official Rules and What You Win****
1. Contest Starts Right Now. August 6th 2011 and ends August 26th 10 P.M. PST
2. You must make two completely vegan meals. It's okay to use prepared vegan food like vegan chili or vegan meat substitutes or vegan sour creme. 
3. Vegan means no animal products whatsoever. No meat, no dairy, no honey. You are welcome to use any of the recipes on my site, an original recipe or one from a vegan cookbook or a recipe you veganized from a regular cookbook. Send me the recipe and a picture of the meal you made. Tell me if you created the recipe or where you got it from.
Videos are welcome. I am open to questions and happy to make suggestions.
4. I will feature contestant's meals on the Veganville blog in the coming days and weeks.
5. You can enter as many meals as you like over the three week period.
6. You must be a follower of this blog.

7. I'll post your entry on my FB page too. Get your friends to enter or vote.
8. Let's rack up the comments and I'll bring in a surprise guest judge too.

Vegan newbies Hints
Some fave substitutes:
1. Daiya Cheez - perfect meltability, it's not soy based and tastes great.
2. Follow Your Heart Cheez is excellent as well.
3. Vegenaise mayonnaise is the only way to go in the mayo dept. (my mom even likes it).
4. Nutritional yeast (not Brewer's Yeast) is a great stand in for Parmesan and mixed and there are amazing recipes out there for vegan "mac and cheeze".
5. Wanna veganize a family recipe and not sure how, hit me up.


Prizes:
A big box filled to the brim with assorted Veganville goodies. And a beautiful handmade vegan bookmark from Lylah's Etsy shop. I have one myself. Please check out her shop for some more real gorgeous artwork. I heart her line drawings and doodles. You can also check out what project Lilah is working on right now at her blog.

I'll add some more prizes if we get a good showing here. Come on what are you waiting for? Get cooking. And tell your buddies. It's fun to share. Why hell, make a party out of it! Cook up some nifty vegan foods and have a vegan potluck.

And that is that!

Let's All Holler for Challah and a Contest Winner

Let's all holler for Challah! Challah Challah. The braided bread that's not just for Challah-days anymore. Enough of the bread jokes...Apparently I missed my Challing...yuk yuk and should have been a dumb joke writer, but hey wait a minute I was.
Anyway, while I was patiently waiting for another contestant to show up for the "I Got Into My Account" Contest I decided to make bread. Why not? Or in the case of Challah why knot? (Couldn't help myself). It takes hours and yep I had hours to go until I could rest.
Rest...you know that's a bread term don't you? The yeast has to rest and rise and rise and rest, just like a real person. Yeast is alive!! Bahaha. Anyway I like experimenting even after being in the kitchen all day. I haven't made challah in years and have always had a lot of fun with the braiding part. I would include a pic but the challah bread braid came out more like dreadlox.
I got the recipe from Amey's adorable cooklet. I won it last month and finally got an opportunity to make some. Check out  Amey's blog and her delcious properly braided challah. I must say our bread was quite delicious despite it's conspicuous hairdo.

And now the moment you've all been waiting for. No not that moment, silly! The winner of the "I Got Into My Account" Contest is (drumroll please)!
Big Bad Art! Check out their blog collective at http://bigbadartcollective.blogspot.com/
and while you're at it check out their ultra cool Etsy shops. Black Bird and Peacock makes some awesome journals. Larry totally loves this keyboard journal. Check it out!

Totally great, isn't it. Now, go give Blackbird and Peacock some love.Thanx for playing! Enjoy your recipe cards too!

I Got Into My Account Contest

Believe me it was my intention to blog sooner, but I've been wrestling with the kind operators over at Yahoo. Some not very nice person hacked into my friend's blackberry (or stole it) and in turn I couldn't log into my account. I tried but then I forgot the answer to my second security question. Did you know that they give you only three guesses? True. I did so well at the first security question too. Did you know that you can call back Yahoo as many times as you like but you still only get three guesses each time. They tried to give me hints because they were sick and tired of me calling and crying.
So I've decided to have a contest. Guess GiGi's answer to her security question and I'll send you all the money in my recycled pleather wallet. WRONG.
Unless you want 75 cents, that's okay too. Wowie let's have a real contest! Here goes.
Here are the very official rules!
1. Contest is open to Blog followers and fan page followers only
2. Contest starts right now.
3. Contest Ends Friday January 21st
4. Please hit the like button at Veganville on FB
5. Answer the following questions in a comment here or on FB

1. What were your two favorite foods as a child? Can you veganize them? Have you? Would you like Veganville to veganize it ? Would you share the recipe?

Oh yeah the prize is the adorable pack of vegan recipe cards at the top of this blog. They're from the terrific etsy store Myzoetrope Out of my hometown too! Go Brooklyn!

Good luck everybody! Hey...give me back that 75 cents!

MoFo 12 Veganville Voopee Pie Winner Announced!

 
That's right. The winnner of Veganville's first MoFo contest ever-ever is announced. We assigned each contestant a number and googled a high powered random generator. Through the powers that be we were led to "Psychic Science" a reliable paranormal  FREE random generator site. We typed in the numbers "Psychic Science" requested and the random generator picked a number/contest winner for us. We are thrilled to announce... drum roll please-
The Winner of Veganville's Voopee Pie Contest is Amandah!!!
Congratulations Amandah of "...And it's Vegan " a cool vegan blog where she makes things like  a mean pumpkin shake!
Please e-mail us with your contact information and your choice of carrot cake or pumpkin voopees.

Thank you all for participating and thanx for reading!
Hooray Amandah!

MoFo 5 Veganville Win Cookies Contest!!!

Word on the street has it that there are 599 other MoFoers blogging. My Day 4 MoFo received zero comments. Two days ago I did a MoFoTofu blog and I faired better. I received 4 comments. One was from my sister Heidi, the second comment was my response to my sister Heidi. The third was a sister MoFoer Amanda, (Thank Goodness), and the 4th comment was well, yeah me responding to Amanda. 600 to 4. Okay 2. This does not seem like a winning percentage to me. I've been doing some research. I see that some fellow bloggers are having some real Whoopass contests. All you have to do to enter is write a comment on their blog, and become a follower.
Well by God that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to throw my future followers a carrot and rack up some comments here!

That's right. Leave a comment on my MoFo 5 blog and go ahead add yourself as a follower too, and you are eligible to win a box of Veganville's vegan carrot, "What's Up Doc Voopees", or vegan pumpkin, "Punk-in Voopees" if you prefer. 
What's a Voopee, you ask. A Voopee is not a cake, it's not a cookie, it's got a creamy middle, it's called a Voopee. Contest ends midnight west coast time November 11th.
Contest winner will be announced Friday, November 12.
Good luck everybody!

Veganville Voopee Winner Announced

I am in beautiful Southern California visiting the judges of the first annual, "I Love Voopee Pies Contest".
I think I need a prize.
There were entrants from all over the world and lots of drool worthy flavors to choose from. This was no easy task for the judges. I did do thorough background checks on each of the judges before hiring them.

Judge number one-  91 year old ex - big wig, (Deputy Inspector on the N.Y.P.D.), WW II Vet, Edgar Cayce advocate, Semi - Pro athlete smarty pants, Emcee, (Stand Up) and my Daddy.

Judge number two- an ex - chorus girl, singer, immigrant, hospital volunteer worker, mystery reader,  mystery club president, and ex - doubles player. (I was of course suspect of this applicant's past, but since Mommy is married to an ex cop she met on a raid, I accepted her judge's application.)

Judge number three is a bi - polar pianist who paid me off.

Everything was done fair and square and there were hours of deliberation. Unfortuanately there was a leak and one of the contestants found out who the winner was before the winner was even announced. I found this out on FB. Yes, Heidi, a contestant from Southern California, is quite disgruntled and believes the judges should be institutionalized for not voting for her flavors. Although I agree with Heidi about institutionalizing the judges, it would not be for their supreme judging abilities. Perhaps I should not let my sister Heidi enter my contests any more. I don't know, there was a time when Heidi was the only contestant, so I think I have to let her play.
Anyway, this contest was not fixed!

My judges numbered their ballots vertically and I read aloud each flavor. Next to the number they wrote NG (no good), F (fair), E (excellent). We weened down the applicants and then there was an argument about their favorites. Judge 1 and 2 asked why no one had entered any chardonnay or burgundy flavored voopee pies? (Clear winners with these two judges.)

All in all the contest was a great success. Drumroll please!!!
Winner of the first annual Voopee Pie contest is Sherry a vegan blogger and jewelry maker from Chicago with her entry- Chocolate - Raspberry!!! Yay Sherry!!!
Sherry will receive a box of Veganville Voopee Pies in her choice of flavor.
You can check out Sherry's awesome blog at: http://www.exploitsofaveganwannabe.com/


Thank you all for playing!!! You all had such great flavor choices that if I were judging I would have awarded you all a prize. I suspect lots of your flavors will show up in Veganville Voopeeland.

Hugs,
GiGi
President of Veganville

Enter to Vin A Box of Veganville Voopee Pies

Enter To Vin Veganville Voopies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But First a Message From GiGi the President, CEO, Grand Dame, Head Honcho, Leader, Queen and Ministeress of Veganville:

Dear Friends and Everybody:

Veganville is excited to introduce their new vonderful line of Veganville Voopees. If you've never had the extreme pleasure of biting into a cakie cookie sandwich with a cruelty free creamie frosting middle, well then By Gosh you don't know what you are missing.
Our Veganville Voopees are flying off the shelves of a local coffee house. If you're sad because you are too far away to get to that cafe, or you're not even a certified vegan - so who cares - don't shvitz... Veganville Voopees are available to everybody near and far, (inside the US), and  just take a look at our Yelp reviews
http://www.yelp.com/biz/veganville-berkeley

You don't even have to be Vegan to love Veganville's goodies. Of course we'd be happier if you were but we still love you, anyway.  We currently carry...
What's Up Doc Carrot Voopees ( filled with scrumtious Vegan butter creme), Lassie's and Lemon, (Molasses Voopee with Lemony Middle), and PB Lovers, (all PB cookies and PB creme cheez middles). We will be introducing a Java Jolt Voopee and Chocolate JoJo Voopee in the next 2 weeks. In the meantime, you can enter to win your very own box of 5 Voopees of your choice of flavor. Just follow the Very Official Veganville Voopee Rules. Contest ends: Friday, September 3rd. Since I will be visiting the parental unit in LA.- we will have two very special guest judges.
My Mommy and my 91 year old Daddy will be judging all entries. Good luck everybody.

Veganville Voopee Rules:
1. Entries must be received before Friday September 3 by 3:00 PM .
2. Veganville needs more fans so please copy and paste this blog onto your FB or social networking page.
3.You must Add yourself as a follower on the Veganville fan page on FB. If you don't have a FB account - add yourself as a follower of this blog.
4. Add the comment to the Veganville fan page, " I love Veganville Voopees".
5. You must be a follower of this Veganville blog. Add a comment to this post, "I love Veganville Voopees", and add a new flavor you would like us to create.

Thank you so much! Good luck.

If you can't wait for the contest. You can order these at http://www.veganville.etsy.com/
xoxoxo
GiGi

Veganville Brownie and Mousse Winner Announced.. kind Of

Veganville decided to extend Koffee Klotch-"Send us a Dessert and We'll Veganize it for you Contest". We like to be nice and give people a chance to be nice back. We also needed extra time to cull through all two entries. Several people sent us letters explaining why they would not enter the Veganville contest for a chance to win brownies. Below are some of their comments.

1.I hate cooking and baking, hence I do not own any recipes at all.
2.I never write anything down, I make it up as I go. I don't know what a recipe is.
3.I buy pies and frozen cakes from TJ's.The only thing I do is thaw a pie.
4.GiGi has already veganized everything I've thought of.
5.I don't want GiGi's stupid brownies.
6.You suck, GiGi!
7.I do not eat dessert, unless you count Cheeze Doodles. (not vegan, not vegan!!!!!)

The entries were surprising too. Our first entry came from Mark Samu, a runner-up in Veganville's first contest. His wife Lu had framed the last recipe her late mother had given her. Mark snuck the recipe from under the frame, photocopied it and sent it to us when Lu was out tending her garden. We certainly appreciate the effort this contestant has made. We always applaud the macabre here at Veganville too. This is the second oil splotched dead person recipe we have received from Mark Samu. The authenticity certainly made him a contender. Sorry, Mark we've already done a cheesecake, but see who you can dig up-what you can dig up next time.

Our second entry came from a woman who was following GiGi's blog, anonymously. The recipe is for frozen peanut butter pie. Yum. The entrant said she followed all the contest rules and would be particularly nice to GiGi's mother, since she very much wanted to win. The entrant finally told us who she was and that she really wants our freakin' brownies. We have taken it upon ourselves to break her anonymity...
The Winner of the Koffee Klotch - "Send Us a Dessert Recipe and We'll Veganize it for you Contest" and the grand prize of dark chocolate brownies and mousse is:

Queen Elizabeth of Oakland, California.



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Official Koffee Klotch Contest

We here at Veganville are remorseville. I'm not sure why my spell check is highlighting Veganville and remorseville. Meh! Anyway we here at Veganville believe in apologizing when we make a boo boo. Hind sight is a great teacher.The next time we are blogless for a week we will have a representative meet you at an undisclosed location with some tranquil drugs. We still are very sorry about the week we were away. But all that's just water under the homeless bridge.
Veganville is gearing up for their Koffee Klotch dessert/ hangout with your pals summer classes!

It's time for a contest!!! Yippeekayay! Send us your unveganized dessert recipe and we'll veganize our favorite. Win our dark chocolate brownies with a side of mousse. Contest ends Wednesday 9:00 Pacific time.

Official Contest Rules
1.Must be a follower of this Blog, or become a follower of this blog.
2.Must do something.
3.Must send me a dessert recipe. (enter as many as you want)
4.Must be nice to my mother.

Best of luck everybody!

GiGi Veganville President and Owner