New Vegan Recipes – Guest Recipe Post

Today I have a very special guest post by a wonderful blogger I met in Las Vegas at BlogWorldExpo 2009. This is from Karen Bell, who has a blog called ktotheb.com and her video blogs are very spiritual, inspirational and all around awesome. She’s been traveling lately from Canada to Boston for her newest video blog (The Power of Meditation) so keep an eye on her site!

Here is the recipe she has provided us this time around:

Vegan No-Nut Butter Cookies by KB

1/2 cup vegan margarine
1/2 cup tahini
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp egg replacer mixed 2/ 4 tbsp water
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cup flour

Mix margarine and tahini together with a fork. Add sugar, brown sugar, baking soda, and baking powder. Mix until combined, then add egg replacer and vanilla. Stir in the flour last.

Shape dough into 1″ balls and place 2″ apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten with fork. Bake in a 375 degree oven for 10 – 12 minutes or until bottoms are lightly browned. Cool on wire rack. Makes about 2 dozen cookies.

Eat these cookies within a day or two as they tend to get stale quickly!!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of SEO 5 Consulting. All opinions are 100% mine.

Plan Canada’s goal is to have as many Canadian residents as possible sponsor children.

How ‘Plan’ works:

All of the contributions from  sponsors go into a central pool and fund programs that benefit sponsored children, their families and the community.

After doing this for over 70  years, ‘Plan’ has determined that this is the best way to help families become more self-sufficient.

The benefits of Sponsoring a Child include teaching more fortunate, Canadian children about other parts of the world and the problems that exist. This is helpful for teaching values about sharing and caring for others you may not know, or even know about.

Helping change poverty with $35/month is a very rewarding experience, and you can send pictures and postcards to your sponsored children. Allowing your kids to connect with less fortunate children across the globe with postcards and photographs is still an option, even thought most kids these days don’t write letters anymore.

Remember there is little or no internet access for these areas of the world, thus receiving a post card, although seemingly ancient now, is like Christmas morning for these underprivileged children. To avoid security and delivery problems, plus jealousy issues, only photos and postcards can be sent, otherwise send money to help pay for the community issues that need it the most.

This IS one way you can actually help change the world. Starting with one child.

Some statistics:

EACH DAY 25,000 children under the age of 5 die because they were unlucky enough to be born in the poorest regions of the world that lack the basic necessities: clean water, medicine, food and sanitiation.

By investing $35 a month, you will help grassroots programs to build schools, dig wells, help health clinics,empower girls as well as boys, start up businesses, train teachers and more.

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Start changing the world by sponsoring a child today!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Kraft Dinner Gotta Be Canadian Contest!. All opinions are 100% mine.

When I say Kraft Dinner here in Los Angeles, no one ever knows what I’m talking about. If I say Mac ‘N Cheese, they do.

So let’s talk to those who are in the KNOW and KNOW what kraft dinner is! This is an AWESOME Opportunity for you social media nerds out there to get a trip on a TRAIN on VIA across CANADA! all you do is eat kraft dinner and blog about it!!! (seriously though look at the prizes and rules, its pretty awesome).

Kraft Dinner Gotta Be Canadian Contest!

Here are the OFFICIAL RULES:

CONTEST INFO:
Kraft Dinner, one of Canada’s favorite brands, is looking for an Official Canadian Correspondent to travel across Canada via train, and share their experiences online.

Prizing is as follows:
• A 16 day trip from the Pacific to the Maritimes for 2, valued at $16,000

• $1,500 spending money

• A MacBook Pro®

• A Sony bloggie™ camera

**** All you have to do is submit an essay or video, and tell Kraft Dinner why you should be picked to be the Official KD Canadian Correspondent.

Once you have entered, you can get all your friends and family to vote for you to make the top 10!

Voting will be based on Canadian spirit, charisma and passion of the entrant, originality of the composition/video, and overall quality of the composition/video.

Remember when the BareNaked Ladies (BNL) said, if we had a million dollars, we’d still eat kraft dinner, just MORE of it!

LOL  – I eat it with KETCHUP. remember this song? I love I love I love I love my Kraft dinner with: (insert punchline from commercial here). some where: hot dogs, chopsticks, meatballs, ketchup, and the best of all, My Dad…. for me personally i loved my dad’s homemade mac ‘n’ cheese with ‘awesomesauce’. I miss that. Okay Get at it!

Kraft will select the winner from the top 10 after a telephone interview. Kraft’s final judgement will also be based on the above criteria!

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Club House. All opinions are 100% mine.

Okay so being Canadian and living in America, I’ve been lucky to get invites to lots of ‘new thanksgiving experiences’ where I have been lucky to try out tasty home cooked meals from different American families who have large get-togethers where the food is just amazing. I recently spent a long time making food for a company potluck, that I felt could have used some ‘gravy’ but no one thought to bring it. I spent my hours making my specialty, Caesar Salad where I use two types of croutons (garlic and regular), two types of Parmesian Cheese – the real kind and the powder kind, along with Caesar dressing and lots of fresh cut romaine lettuce and simulated bacon bits. – it was a hit.

In the event that I’m asked to ever bring gravy somewhere however, or perhaps next year I could follow some tips on just how to go about it so that you make great gravy with little worry: Watch the video!

gravy tips video

While at the Clubhouse website learning about making gravy, make sure that you don’t forget to enter ‘The Great Gravy  Contest’ where you could potentially win a clubhouse gravy gift pack which consists of:

• A variety of Club House Gravy Products and Spices
• Your Very Own Apron
• An Emile Henry Baking Dish & A Gravy Boat to boot!

Here is the newsletter sign-up and contest entry.

Happy Holidays and Happy Eating!