September 2013 • anunrefinedvegan
Vegan MoFo 20: Seitan Satay with Spicy Peanut Sauce and Plum BBQ Sauce
AT LAST! It’s big Number 20 – and the last of my PB & J-induced recipe insanity. It’s kinda my favorite of the whole bunch. Inspired by Number 29 on 29 Ways to Honor the …
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Vegan MoFo 19: PB&J Poutine
I resisted making this one, but finally caved when I started imagining how a spicy peanut butter sauce and a sweet berry sauce would taste on oven-roasted potatoes. It started sounding pretty good. The original …
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Bake & Destroy: Good Food for Bad Vegans Book Tour
“Hey, I kid because I love!” – Krusty the Clown, from The Simpsons Every once in a while as I’m driving through the comatose streets of my adopted town – usually lamenting the lack of …
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Vegan MoFo 18: Chocolate, Peanut Butter, & Chocolate-Blueberry “Fudge.” Gluten-free.
Recently I made the mistake of mentioning to Kel that I needed to pick up some confectioner’s sugar; his eyes narrowed and he asked me what I needed it for… busted. I told him that …
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Vegan MoFo 17: Peanut Butter-Banana “Ice Cream” with Mixed Berry Sauce. Sugar- & Gluten-free.
This MoFo recipe taught me that the simplest method is almost always the best method. I went through three incarnations of ice cream – two that were too fussy and required ingredients that made me …
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Vegan MoFo 16: Peanut Butter & Jelly Rolls (or Bread)
This recipe is based on the PB&J Cinnamon Rolls, by Runs with Spatulas, featured at Number 18 on BuzzFeed’s 29 Ways to Honor the Glory of Peanut Butter and Jelly. I love bread. I love …
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Practically Raw Desserts: A Review, Giveaway, & Dulce de Leche “Spooncream”
Besides being refreshingly flexible, every recipe in this book has the added bonus of being free of dairy, eggs, gluten, wheat, soy, peanuts, corn, refined grains, refined sugars, yeast, starch, and other nutrient-poor ingredients. Many …
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Vegan MoFo 15: Peanut Butter-Banana Waffles with Blueberry Macadamia Nut Sauce. Low-gluten. Sugar- and Oil-free.
What should be here is a recipe similar to Liv Life’s PBJ Banana Waffle Sandwiches, except that at this point in MoFo, I’m kinda done with PB & J sandwich iterations. First was the mile-high French Toast …
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Vegan MoFo 14: Baked Peanut Butter & Jelly Oatmeal
When my favorite breakfast and my beloved flavor combination come together it’s a heavenly collision of warm, creamy, nutty, jammy breakfast-goodness. Making its way onto Buzzfeed’s 29 Ways to Honor the Glory of Peanut Butter & …
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Vegan MoFo 13: Peanut Butter Creme with Jam Brûlée. Sugar- & Gluten-free.
Here we are at lucky number 13 – just over halfway through MoFo. One of my favorite pre-gan desserts was creme brûlée, so much so that I bought one of those handy-dandy kitchen torches just so …
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Vegan Mofo 12: Peanut Butter & Jelly Banana Pancakes. Gluten-, Sugar- and Oil-free.
At first blush (much like the soft rosy hue at the center of these pancakes), this recipe comes across as mildly fussy, but it comes together pretty quickly, especially if you use the overnight method. …
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Vegan Mofo 11: Peanut Butter & Jelly Blondies. Sugar-free.
We’re more than halfway through this thing, kids! Are you still with me? The original for this PB & J take on a the classic blondie appeared at Number 12 on 29 Ways to …
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Vegan MoFo 10: Grilled PB & J Sandwiches
I can’t tell you how happy I was to get to this recipe. Why? Because it doesn’t get much simpler than this (unless someone else makes it for you). And at this point in MoFo, …
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Vegan MoFo 9: Crisped Brown Rice PB & J Thumbprint Cookies
Is it just me, or is there something kind of icky about the thought of a big thumbprint in the middle of a cookie? I get this flashback to the Man Hands episode on Seinfeld; …
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Vegan MoFo 8: Chocolate Peanut Butter & Jelly Muffins
Twelve years ago today I was sitting at my desk at Harvard Law School where I worked as a faculty assistant for Elizabeth Warren when my mom called to tell me that a plane …
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Vegan Mofo 7: Peanut Butter & Jelly Chocolate Bars (or Bark)
As much as I love how the salty creaminess of peanut butter whispers sweet nothings to the fruity innocence of jelly, it’s peanut butter and chocolate that really gets me hot and bothered. PB & …
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Vegan MoFo 6: Chocolate-Peanut Butter Smoothie with Strawberry Creme
And so we come to the inevitable (if not enviable) smoothie entry. The peanut-butter-and-jelly smoothie came in at Numero 7 on – say it with me – 29 Ways to Honor the Glory of Peanut Butter and …
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Vegan MoFo 5: Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich Cookies. Oil-free.
Can you detect the slight green color in the cookies? Nope, me neither. However, some avocado did find its way into these soft, moist cookies, completely replacing oil. (Okay, so I didn’t say fat. There’s …
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Vegan MoFo 4: Peanut Butter Creme & Raspberry Chiffon Pie. Gluten-free.
Day 4 of what could be called My 20 MoFo Ways to Honor Peanut Butter & Jelly brings us to a peanut butter and jelly pie. I’ve seen baked, brownie-like PB & J pies and …
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Vegan MoFo 3: Chocolate-Peanut Butter Cupcakes with Orange “Marmalade” Frosting & Chocolate-Peanut Butter Drizzle
Don’t be fooled by the diminutive stature of these cupcakes. They are studly in flavor: chocolate, peanut butter, and tangy orange. My jumping off point for these cupcakes came in at Number 4 on BuzzFeed’s 29 …
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Vegan MoFo 2: French Toast Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches
I’ve got quite a few “favorite” recipes coming up this month, but this one ranks right up there. It’s got everything: peanut butter, jelly, nanners, cinnamon, pumpkin, and carbohydrates. This is a nod towards …
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Vegan MoFo 1: (Chocolate) Peanut Butter & Jelly Bars, For Two. Gluten-free. Mostly Raw.
Let’s start out this MoFo thing with a super-simple recipe that lets the flavors of peanut butter and sweet fruit (the jelly stand-in) shine – along with their good friends, chocolate and cinnamon. These treats …
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Another Month of Mofo
The short answer is: Peanut Butter & Jelly The long answer is (for those of you with the time): This MoFo journey began back in April 2013 (April 2nd, to be exact) with an article …
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