Monday, May 16, 2011

My new published recipe and a surprise package


I have been going through a lot lately, I have been fighting an infection due to several painful abscesses on two of my teeth. I am having a surgery next week and I have been a mess because of that. My anxiety and fear from the surgery are making my life miserable and I cannot wait for this to be over. In the last few days two very nice things happened that made my days a little brighter and put a smile on my face. Several months ago Eating Well bought a recipe from me. They recently published the recipe in their newest cookbook and sent me a copy. I was thrilled to see my recipe in a beautiful cookbook. It felt really good :-) They even took a nice picture of the pie and put in the cookbook as well. That is probably one of my best recipes for a dessert so far: "Chocolate Raspberry Tofu Pie".



This is the cookbook :-) You can buy it from Amazon, it has a lot of vegan recipes, and most of the vegetarian recipes in this book can be easily veganized. Each recipe has a nutritional information and many of them have very useful and informative notes.



Few days ago I got a beautiful surprise package from my friends at the Czech Vegan Society .
The package was full of vegan goodies, spices, salamis, pates, delicious cookies, spreads, puddings, and a big supply of my favorite vanilla sugar that I use for baking :-) These guys are wonderful, they are working very hard on making Czech Republic a better and more compassionate place and they are raising awareness about veganism and cruelty-free living. Czech Republic is fairly new to veganism and there is not a big vegan community so it is very impressive that they are doing this despite all the hard-headed meat-eating population. Please, check out their website, they have an English version as well.

17 comments:

  1. Congratulations on the pie recipe getting into the book! That's a huge deal! Hope more come your way.
    I hope all goes well with the surgery. It sounds painful and I'm sure it will feel a lot better afterwards.

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  2. Wow, even Polish pasztet sneaked into package! That's funny because we almost hunt here (in Poland) for Czech vegan food, since they come in such a variety of brands and high quality products (like tempeh, tofu, soy desserts and even soy milk!).
    Congratulations on recipe publication :)

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  3. @Olga Thank you :-) I love those vegan pate spreads! I can eat that everyday for a breakfast or a dinner :-) I like spreading them on bread and topping that with thinly sliced onions or pickles. By the way, I usually buy Polish pickles (or German) here in the US, since the American pickles aren't that great. I love Polish pickled vegetables (a mixture of cabbage, pickles, bell pepper, onion and carrots) and Polish horseradish and mustard and jams.

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  4. Congratulations!! I must buy that cookbook now...how very exciting for you - I can only imagine. So sorry to hear about your tooth pain...I'm sure the surgery will go well and hopefully the healing time will be short. I'm so jealous about the gift package you received..It looks amazing!! I will definitely be checking out their site. One of my Grandmothers was Polish and I've often thought of veganizing her recipes...this might be the inspiration I needed! Thanks!

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  5. How exciting that your pie got published! I hope you feel better soon.

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  6. @Lita Thank you :-) You have some beautiful photos on your website by the way. Feel free and try some of my veganized Czech recipes, they are similar to Polish food in some ways. Thank you for reading and following my blog.

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  7. @Leigh Thank you very much! The surgery is this Monday, wish me luck :-)

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  8. That´s amazing you got your recipe published! And what a nice recipe it is :)
    Enjoy the surprise package, the Vegan Society is really wonderful, because vegans are still in a such a bad position here:(

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  9. @Lenna Thank you :-) I am grateful that the Czech Vegan Society exists, they do a great job and they make it easier for people to convert to veganism in a country where veganism is quite new and strange. My life is so much easier here than if I lived there as a vegan.

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  10. Oh wow, that's pretty impressive to be published in a FREAKING COOKBOOK. Soooo cool :)
    The chocolate raspberry pie sounds soo good.

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  11. Stephanie, Thank you, but I only published two recipes so far, this one is my second. I am working on a cookbook though :-) Stay tuned :-) The recipe for the pie is on my blog, click on the Chocolate Raspberry Tofu Pie on the right for the full recipe.

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  12. Hah, ONLY two recipes? That's still totally incredible to me :)

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  13. Congratulations! That recipe looks awesome. I look forward to purchasing that book.
    Ah yes, the wonderful vanilkovy cukr! I know you can make your own, but that stuff is pretty special. You cannot make pracny without it!

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  14. I do need to add that last year when my husband and I visited grandparents in Prague, it was certainly pretty simple to stick to our vegan diet. My grandmother even cooked vegan for us (such a sweet lady, she is) and we had no trouble purchasing items when we were on our own. There were a couple of tasty restaurants too. I was actually pretty surprised...it being the land of pork and all (certainly better than when I was there four years ago)! It made us very happy :)

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