First the cooki
es — Last year, I was lucky enough to receive a sample pack of some giant, all-natural vegan Intention Cookies by Bountiful Vegan. Not only are these cookies delicious, they're also said to possess a little mojo magic. Each cookie is supposed to bring about positive qualities — love, determination, success, courage, happiness, or prosperity — as you eat it. I don't know about y'all, but I totally believe in magic and the power of positive thinking. But I'm a little airy-fairy sometimes....I received an e-mail from Bountiful Vegan a few days ago to let me know that they've eliminated two flavors from their line, but they've added four more — Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Oatmeal Raisin, and Chocolate Chip. Those are in addition to the flavors they kept — Chocolate Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Chip Orange. Each cookie is named for the quality it's supposed to impart in you as you eat it. For example, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip is "Happiness." Um, duh. I would totally get happy with a PB Chip cookie! See, totally magic.
They're also offering holiday gift baskets with 12 Intention Cookies, a choice of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate (they make the hot chocolate mix themselves!), and a personalized card. Check out the baskets here.
Anyway, Bountiful Vegan is offering a very special deal to Vegan Crunk readers! They're extending their Cyber Monday sale of 30 percent off all gift items through Wednesday, Dec. 1st at midnight. All you have to do is email info@bountifulvegan.com and ask for the "Cyber Monday Extension."
Now for the Caribbean Vegan giveaway! Yesterday, I reviewed Taymer Mason's newly-released cookbook filled with 125 recipes for native foods of Barbados, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, Tobago, Jamaica, Grenada, the French West Indies, and Guyana.
In case you missed the review, you can read it here. Or you can just drool over the photo of Taymer's Hearts of Palm & Tofu Scramble from Caribbean Vegan.
One lucky commenter will win a copy of Taymer's book. Just leave a comment about your favorite exotic dish. Doesn't have to be Caribbean since I'm sure many of you (like me until I got this book) haven't tried that cuisine yet.
For an extra chance to win, tweet about the giveaway and leave an additional comment letting me know you did. For an extra, extra chance, link back to the contest from Facebook and leave yet another comment to let me know. And finally, for a fourth chance, link back to this contest on your blog (if you have one), and leave yet another comment to fill me in. That's four chances to win!
If you don't have a Blogger account with a listed email, please leave your email address so I can contact you if you win. Good luck! I'll randomly select one winner on Sunday night (Dec. 5th).
I have always wanted to make my own kimchi, but I have yet to truly dedicate myself to the process.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what exotic is because I eat Indian, Korean and other ethnic food all the time. I do love my Kimchee however. I search for the recipe similar to the one at my favorite eatery Charlie Kang's in East Lansing MI but most I find are for the cabbage style. Someday I will find it.
ReplyDeleteI twittered!JanScholl Cookbook Giveway! http://tinyurl.com/2vf74vp Yummy Vegan Caribbean . You will love the spiciness. Go enter now!
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I listed on FB, too.
ReplyDeleteHow do you get all these awesome sample packs? You're living the vegan dream, lady. No wonder you believe in magic. :)
ReplyDeleteIn southern China, street vendors sell a fruit called durian, that smells kind of like, um, rotting garbage, from across the street. But the taste is interesting, bitter and sweet. They make mooncake out of it, which can easily be vegan, and often is, depending on the recipe.
Anyway, that's maybe the most exotic thing I can think of right now. I don't really want the cookbook, but your blog is awesome.
I twittered.
ReplyDeleteAlso, my favorite exotic food is anything Ethiopian. I have yet to attempt to make anything but there is a Ethiopian restaurant here in San Diego that is definitely a favorite of my boyfriend and I. :]]
Heh, I love exotic foods, my other half refers to me as 'The Gastronaught'!
ReplyDeleteIt probably doesn't sound very exotic, but I'd love to make my own saurkraut (I have a thing for lactic acid fermentation, and love stuff like saurkraut & kimchi). hell, I love fermentation in general, being horribly addicted to sourdough & working in a brewery!
Oh I know that nowadays, hummus is nothing exotic anymore but I cannot think of anything more delicious! Hummus is my 'Happiness'-food!
ReplyDeleteI've always had a desire to try jerk seasoning on something savory... no idea what it tastes like!
ReplyDeletepersian food...rice with lima beans...spinach with kidney beans...yum
ReplyDeleteI love jerk tofu as made by my very good friend who has veganized so much of her Jamaican cooking for me!
ReplyDeletemy favorite exotic dish is traditional thai lemongrass soup. i seriously could eat it everyday, forever.
ReplyDeleteI just won the monthly Bountiful Vegan cookie giveaway and "Happiness" was one of the cookies I chose. I can't wait to get my happy nom on!
ReplyDeleteWell, first of all, I wanted to say congrats on Vegan Mofo. I haven't had time to comment but have enjoyed your blog as one of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteSecond thanks too, for having my blog address linked on yours - you send more traffic my way than almost any other site, and as a little, small-time, non-cookbook-writing-basic blogger, I appreciate it a lot!!
Oh, and third, I'd like to be entered in the contest since I'm here! Anything sounds exotic after my month of gravies, let me tell you!
Oh, and I tweeted too.
ReplyDeleteMy most exotic fave foods are all on the buffet line at the International Farmers' Market--I can sample Mediterranean, Ethiopian, Somalian, Indian, you name it! And I dont have to cook it or clean up.
ReplyDeleteWell done on all your MoFo'ing chica!
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After recently moving to east Texas from Tucson I would gladly take ANY exotic food at this point! I do love a good and spicy Vietnamese dish when I can get it :)
ReplyDeleteI'm obsessed with all things mochi, and daifuku in particular. Thanks for the contest!
ReplyDeleteMy fiance is from Jamaica and he is always introducing me to new flavor combinations. Anything he does to his meat he'll do the same to some tofu for me. My favorite exotic dish to eat and make is jamaican jerk tofu mmm! With a little rice on the side and some sweet plantains!
ReplyDeleteBianca I love Taymer...she has some great recipes on her blog that are to die for...would love to be a contestant to win this marvelous book....I will post this giveaway on my blog....
ReplyDelete"Exotic" is such a relative term...! I love pretty much all types of non-American food, but what's coming to mind right now is this jerk tofu dish I had at a little Jamaican restaurant a few months back. So spicy and delicious.
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ReplyDeleteI love many kinds of "exotic" foods, mostly because non-exotic (ie, American, European) cuisine use a lot of the veggies I'm allergic to. BUT my favorite exotic type dish is anything that involves tamarind sauce. Thai stir fries, especially, often feature a great sweet/salty tamarind sauce. Yum!
Not sure if this counts as "exotic" but I love any sort of chai-tea-flavored desserts! - laurenlowe7@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteUmmm...I am not sure if any of the foods I eat qualify as exotic, but I have taken a real liking to falafel lately. I make a delish vegan wrap with falafel, avocado, hummus, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives and sprouts.
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Suppose Chinese counts as exotic...so my favourite exotic dish is dan dan noodles using tempeh (from Vegan on the Cheap by Robin Robertson) - Who can pass up the combo of tahini, peanut butter, tempeh and noodles?
ReplyDeleteI love Ethiopian food! Shira, is an amazing sauce that you eat with Injera (bread)! Love it!
ReplyDeleteOh jeez. I love kim chi and sauerkraut. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE
ReplyDeleteI love love love Kik Alicha (Ethiopian split yellow peas with onion and ginger... so easy to make!). I also often frequent the closest Indian grocery store to me and pick up n ENORMOUS vegan samosa for 99 cents. Yuuum.
ReplyDeleteI love Caribbean food--I hope there are some Ital (vegan Rastafari) recipes in there!
I would have to say anything Ethiopian...mmmmmm....LOVE Ethiopian...
ReplyDeleteI adore anything involving plantains.
ReplyDeleteI never heard of this book before but I love Caribbean food so I'd love this one :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite exotic dish is Thai Red Curry with Tofu & Eggplant yummmmmmy :) Love your blog!!
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ReplyDeleteI'll tweet this my dear <3
ReplyDeleteIt's hard for me to think of foods as exotic since I became vegan because nothing seems...out of grasp for me. I'd like to experiment/try more raw/fermented foods and learn to make those on my own.
My favorite exotic dish is these jackfruit smoothies from Urban Vegan. They're soooo creamy and delicious!
ReplyDeleteI love Indian food, not that it's that exotic anymore.
ReplyDeletei used to live in vietnam and hell yeah i love my pho. it was hard to get it vegan, but the little cart across the street managed to do it, for my sake! awww.
ReplyDeleteExotic? Well, I really love Middle Eastern ever since I spent time in Egypt and Israel. I ate some street food there that I would definitely call exotic now.
ReplyDeletelisted on fb :D a little self-deprecating since i know my friends will come on, drool, and then enter too, but what the hot fudge, the more the merrier right? hahah.
ReplyDeleteoh, and i tweeted too <3
ReplyDeletei tweeted.
ReplyDeletethat sounds dirty but it's not.
i also blogged on my danish blog! <3 btw, i am both Lyra and Astrid Lyra, and my email is astriiid @ gmail.com. forgot to add it to the first comment, oops!
ReplyDeleteDeep fried sesame balls filled with red bean paste. yum!
ReplyDeleteCorn soup! I had two friends from Trinidad who used to make this and it was heavenly.
ReplyDeletehmm, favorite exotic dish... I don't think of it as that "exotic" but it's not American, so I'll say sweet-and-sour red cabbage, which an old German lady taught me how to cook years ago. It's delicious :)
ReplyDeleteThose cookies do look good. My favorite exotic dish is probably pho.
ReplyDeleteHmm... favorite exotic dish is gomen. Looooove it. I love me some collard greens but the Ethiopian way is seriously amazing :)
ReplyDeleteBeing from a small town in the Midwest, most things are exotic around here. I love miso soup, not exotic for most, but difficult to find here.
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this book, i've been checking out Taymer's blog for a while now and drooling over all the awsome food porn on her blog. My family is from the carribean and i remember that every year around Christmas time my mom would make a drink called sorrel. It basically hibiscus leaves boiled in water, ginger, and allspice and rum can be added, its always drunk cold. So thats my favorite exotic food item. Congrats to Taymer on the book and congrats to the lucky winner.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm. I really don't know what to consider as exotic when it comes to food I eat. Does falafel count? vegetable curry? sweet and sour tofu?
ReplyDeletesorry im the one who just posted about sorrel but i accidently posted anonymously
ReplyDeleteI love Jerk Tofu! and anything with Habanero in it. Yay! I really want to win this book!
ReplyDeletemochi with peanut butter. yes i got the idea from you!
ReplyDeleteIs Thai food exotic? I love all vegan Thai food! Especially pad thai, spring rolls, and mango coconut milk sticky rice. Yum!
ReplyDeletei'm always too nervous to make "exotic" food..i always feel like it won't taste as good as when you order it at an authentic place! that cookbook sounds so good though :)
ReplyDeletefavorite exotic food is probably red lentil coconut soup. is that even exotic? haha
ReplyDeleteHmm. Ginger tofu soup. With lots of veggies.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Caribbean food is the local Jamaican place's Tempeh Curry, Rice & Pigeon Peas, and Plantains. I think my favorite overall "exotic" food is Chana Masala and Samosas. Love Love Love Indian :)
ReplyDeletecurry!! though i'm headed to the caribbean in 4 weeks for the first time and can't WAIT to try some vegan grub there.
ReplyDeleteI love pad thai! And Vegan in the Sun!
ReplyDeleteFalafel is probably as exotic as I get right now. I really need to expand my food horizons!
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My mother's side of the family is Jamaican and I've always loved my grandma's ackee fritters. and her rice and peas. and her gungo peas stew! She's recently veganized a lot of her family recipes for me and I can't thank her enough!
ReplyDeleteIn the way of Caribbean food, I definitely love jerk seitan or tofu and rice and peas. There's a Jamaican restaurant in my old hometown that makes the most amazing Jamaican vegan food, and now I have a hankering for it!
ReplyDeleteI'm Cuban, so I love veganizing traditional dishes. On the Caribbean tip, though, there is an amazing all-vegan Ital restaurant in North Miami that is to.die.for.
ReplyDeleteChiming in with the kimchee love. My husband makes HUGE batches of it and it stays good for-nearly-ever. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm going to go with Thai basil eggplant...although I don't know how exotic it is ! :)
ReplyDeleteCoconut cookies i had in Hawaii. They were like the combination of sugar cookie and macaroon..mmmmmm
ReplyDeleteI ate an amazing meal at a Rastafarian restaurant in Jamaica earlier this year. That meal (and that trip) is actually what brought me to creating my blog.
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My favorite is one of my improvised Jamaican recipes - curried ackee puffs with a side of callaloo. To me it's not exotic, because I grew up there, but the fact that it's ingredients from home used in a vegan way is a nice twist!
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ReplyDeleteI'm struggling ot think of any of the food I eat as vegan as well. But, I know that my family would balk at jackfruit (which I like in tacos) and my favorite soup is mulligatwany and pho.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to decide between Middle-Eastern and Japanese, but today I'd say Japanese. (next week it could be Middle-Eastern or Thai or...)
ReplyDeleteVietnamese noodle dishes are my favorites.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to say what's "exotic" when we have dishes from around the world available just blocks away. I'm a big fan of Indian and Ethiopian foods, so either Aloo Palak or Gomen. Both are YUMM and eaten with bread - does it get any better than that?!??!!
ReplyDeleteI pretty much like anything with pineapple and coconut. But, I also like plantains!
ReplyDeleteI gotta say that trying 'soul food,' vegan of course, seems a heavenly idea for a food to try.
ReplyDeleteTweeted about the contest:
ReplyDeletehttp://twitter.com/DJMoronta/status/10604793525440512
I linked it up on the Facebook too!
ReplyDeleteI love to do onigiri. For a Japanese, that can be the most normal meal however I like to improvise the different fillings and surprise the people. And they are so kute...
ReplyDeleteexotic to me is something new and exciting you have never tried before. I love the taste, smell and texture of new foods. Now that's exotic especially if it is yummy and savory
ReplyDeleteMy favorite exotic dishes are Indian. I love savory coconut rice with tofu jalfrezi (three pepper tofu), as well as palak tofu, and veg biryani.
ReplyDeleteI haven't tried much Caribbean food yet, other than jerk tofu (lol, I love me some tofu), but I'd really like to taste more.
I also linked to the giveaway from my blog. :)
ReplyDeleteoh fun! Right now my favorite exotic food is japanese food. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the glorious japanese meal I made for mofo and I just want more!!
ReplyDeletei could eat indian food all day everyday. In fact I;ve had it for 3 meals in 24 hours recently
ReplyDeleteNot too exotic, but Carribbean. Bahamian peas n' rice which I have veganized and nom to death whenever I can. I would get so crunk with this cookbook!
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Is this open to Canadian residents? If so, I'd love to win.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite exotic dish is attieke, a dish that's very popular in Ivory Coast. We make it vegan by replacing the meat with tofu cooked in peanut sauce... and the best part is that we eat it with our hands!
I LOVE jerk tofu. I feel like Im just following the crowd though, it seems like on of the most popular answers! So I also love heluski (spelling?). I used to eat it when I wasnt vegan but would LOVE to veganize the recipe. Its basically dumplings that are boiled then pan fried in butter with onions. (Maybe use egg replacer in the dumplings, EB, and its VEGAN!)
ReplyDeleteMy fave is Curried Cabbage!
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ReplyDeleteI aslo posted on FB!
ReplyDeleteWow this sounds amazing! Soup soup soup!!!
ReplyDeleteI miss eating vegan tofu fajitas....not exotic back home in Cali but exotic here in Utah.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite exotic dish? Burritos and guacamole are pretty exotic for me since I grew up in Czech Republic:-) I also love vegan kimchi and miso mayo.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment, chana masala is my favorite. I can't get enough! When it comes to food, I have an addictive personality, so when I find something that I really like, I eat it until I find something new again :).
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I just tweeted about this contest @CzechVeganBlog
ReplyDeleteI shared this contest link on my personal Facebook page.
ReplyDeletemy favorite exotic dish is kabocha squash with miso-tahini dressing over brown rice!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite exotic food is tamales but their a pain to make so their more of a special occasion food.
ReplyDeleteI've had my eye on this book for a bit now. I'd love to win!
ReplyDeleteEthiopian and Indian are my favorite cuisines. My favorite dish would be kashmiri naan!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite exotic dish is moroccan tagine! I love the one in VWAV in particular.
ReplyDeleteI love aloo gobi and pretty much anything Indian (vegan, of course). When I was in college there was a vegetarian Indian place nearby that had a huge vegan selection...I ate there more than I care to admit! Love your blog, can't wait for your cookbook!
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I have zero experience with Caribbean food, but would love to change that! My favorite exotic food is a toss up between Indian and Thai. Mmm!
ReplyDeleteI love Indian Food and Thai Food!
ReplyDeleteI'm Bahamian and so I've been missing a lot of those Carribean flavors since switching to a vegan diet, but one of my favourites is peas soup and dumplings with Bahamian sweet potatoes, cassava, and plantains -umm so good.
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