VEGAN BAKE SALE for Haiti results!!!

Vegan bake sale for Haiti in San Luis Obispo today 10-2.  In 4 hours we raised $258.76 to send to

 Partners in Health .  Not to shabby!  We had plenty of baked goods and someone brought some fresh out of the oven pretzels and small focaccia rounds.  YUM!!!   

This Maryann (left) me(right).

It was nice to finally meet some people from the vegan/vegetarian meetup group in San Luis Obispo, I just wish it wasn't 50min. away. 

When I e-mailed the idea for the bake sale to the group Judith(the gal in red) took no time to set the date and place to have it.  It was really nice to see so many baked goods when I arrived about 10:15, I got a bit lost.  There were different members that stopped by during the bake sale so I was able to meet a few more.  Everyone was so nice.  Oh one of the ladies I met works for the ASPCA.  How cool is that!  

Check out some of these awesome treats!  We had cupcakes, chocolate peanut butter bars, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, coconut muffins, pretzels, etc. 

 

Not only did I forget to take pictures of the goodies I baked I also forgot to bring my camera to the bake sale.  Luckily Judith had hers and posted the pic's on the meetup site.  So you see that cinnamon roll on the bottom left?  That's mine, yeppers I made cinnamon rolls and these were the first to sell out.  I got to tell you they turned out awesome.  I made the recipe from VCON.  I had to split a small end piece with my son, just to make sure they tasted good enough to sell and they did! hee hee hee.  

I also made these Carmel Pecan Bars I found on line the other day.  Next time I'll need to line the pan with parchment so they will come out of the pan easier.  I will also adjust the recipe to the pecan layer on the bottom layer a bit.  I also made orange and chocolate chip biscotti(biscotti is one of my favs).  

Maryann made these mini carob muffins.  Oh these were so yummy they tasted like chocolate. 

 It was nice to hear people say it was cool to see that all of the baked goods were vegan.  We got such a good response from everyone.  We didn't put a price on anything, we just said it was donation and I think it was a good thing we did that because people gave more.  It was also nice to  see younger people donate as well.  All in all I think it was a good turnout and people were able to see and taste that vegan treats taste just as good, or better, as the other stuff!

Breakfast, lunch & dinner, plus getting ready for Bake Sale for Haiti

I've been cooking but nothing too exciting.  I've also been holding off on baking due to all of the baking I'm going to be doing tomorrow.  Why do you ask?  The vegetarian/vegan meetup group of San Luis Obispo is getting together and we are having a bake sale for Haiti this Sat. the 30th, outside of Vons Grocery Store located on Broad St.  I figured we would get more help having it up their in SLO because most of the group is from that area.  I'm looking forward to meeting some of the people in the group to which I've not gotten a chance to as of yet.  Let's hope this is a success and I'll let everyone know how we did afterwards.

 

This morning I whipped up a tofu breakfast for my son do to being out of non-dairy milk, bagels, bread, (this was our last slice of bread), bananas, etc.  I have to get to the store today.  Since I had a short time to make this breakfast I thinly sliced up a sweet onion and potato, sauteed it in a pan with olive oil.  Then threw on some thyme and salt.  Set aside then in the same pan sauteed up some thinly sliced sprouted tofu and chard.  Next I added back the potatoes for a quick reheat and wallah!  A yummy filling breakfast.  Oh and 1 piece of toast! :)

You know that tempeh salad I made the other day and had it in a salad?  This is how I ate it the next day.  One toasted spelt english muffin(these muffins rock)!  Smeared on some avocado, lettuce, tempeh salad and topped with a pretty red roma tomato.   The tomato was pretty tasty so what I didn't put on the sandwich  I just ate.

Since it's been rather cold in the evenings I made some chilli since I haven't made it in a while.  This is a sweet potato chilli with kidney beans, cannelini and a little bit of black beans.  Chilli always hits the spot and makes me all warm inside. It always taste great the next day as well.  So I leave you this and will be back soon!
Oh, quite a while ago I had made some coconut cookies that I never posted or at least never posted the recipe.  What made me think of this is because I was just looking through some recipes and stumbled upon the coconut cookie recipe.  So I'll be posting about them next post!  Until then.  Have a great day!