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Neat Market: All About Cupcakes

24 Feb

If you haven’t yet. Giveaway & Giveaway

Hope you guys enjoyed yesterdays Seitan Edition. Today it’s onto the sweet treats of Neat Market.

First up was a personal favorite find of mine for many reasons.

It’s called OURS, which firstly is just a great name. There was so much cool artwork and awesome calligraphy all over this display. Everything looked so earthy, rustic, and beautiful it was hard not to take a bajillion photos. The couple who own and operate OURS looked like they belong in Melbourne so obviously I was just drawn to them.

OURS had a variety of products (including a “sausage” made from mushrooms, which I forgot to photograph) and I was happy to learn they also sell at Denver Urban Homestead.

They had sold out of this seed based cheese which I was bummed about but I happily snatched up the Pumpkin & Japanese Sweet Potato Cupcakes. These were the most appealing cupcakes of the whole market. And trust me…..there were a lot of cupcakes.

I got two to take home for my roommate and I.

It lived up to my expectation. Without being to sweet the texture was just perfect and the pumpkin seeds gave a nice crunch in there too.

Next up was Beet Box tons of vegan goodies from these guys, plus some Gluten-free delights. How two guys can make some of the prettiest desserts is beyond me. I can make a mean donut, but these were just gorge.

They’re sold in a ton of coffee shops in the Denver area and will be coming out with their own storefront soon. But that location is top secret for now….darn.

They also has some cupcakes.

Savory Tartes.

Gluten-Free Goodies.

Butternut Squash Samosa

I brought home the Apple Spice donut to share with my roomie. We dug into it immediately!

Ohmygoshmygolly.

Such an amazing flavor and texture. Chock full of apples and cinnamon flavor. I am certainly going to try to emulate this to the best of my abilities.

I tried to get a picture so you can see the real chunks of apple in there. My roomate mentioned that for a buck fifty. This is a steal considering you’d probably get charged the same thing at Krispy Creme

And since were on the donut theme here’s a preview of a recipe to come out of my own kitchen.I’ll give you a hint: Lavendar

Have a great weekend. My cousins coming in town so it’s going to be a fun one!

x

Casey

Neat Market: All About Seitan

23 Feb

I went a little photo crazy at the Neat Market this weekend.

And a bit food crazy. I tried and bought some awesome product from a few companies and I want to make sure I give each of them the proper write-up they deserve! So it’s looking like a two part post.

Neat Market is an all vegan pop-up market that occurs once a month in an art gallery (The Other Side Arts)

So. Freaking. Cool.

I joked that the market seemed to center around two things: cupcakes and seitan.

It may have been a joke but that’s exactly how I’m going to break up the next 2 days posts. Seitan and Cupcakes. Perfectly good diet to live off of :)

If you remember the Vegan Van post you saw me mention the Denver Seitan Company and how delicious that sandwich was.

There’s something about three bearded men making vegan faux meat that just gives ya the warm and fuzzies inside.

Real Men Eat Veg.

It looks like they’re constantly innovating over there and churning out some new flavors and products all the time, and they only started in November. Wowzers.

Look at the flavors they are in the works of making.

  • Seitan, plain and tall
  • Pastrami? Pastrayou!
  • Corned loaf
  • Beicàn
  • Gluten-free seitan

Dear Denver Seitan Company: If you make a Gluten-free seitan I will kiss the ground you walk on. And I think the rest of America will line up behind me. I mean gluten is in the name of the main ingredient so this would be some Willy Wonka type work. Keep it up guys!

I nabbed the last Sureizo of the day (score!) but they were all out of the Smokey Spicy. Guess I’ll have to return again in March to get my hands on some.

I see bright things in their future. I’m a bigger fan of tempeh and sietan than tofu. While the tempeh on the market is great, all of the packaged seitan goods are seriously lacking. I only eat seitan when I go to vegan restaurants so I’m excited to see a ton of companies popping up offering it.

And onto a newborn company Nomadic Garden. These ladies told me this was the first event they’ve sold at but they had a kicker or a product. Buffalo Seitan.

If you’re a vegan in Denver you know that Watercourse Foods and City’O'City offer some killer Buffalo Seitan Wings. But the ones served up in the restaurant are fried. With Nomadic Garden’s Buffalo Seitan I have the option to grill it or saute it.

This makes me a happy health nut.

I also got the last bottle of homemade Kombucha from WARRIOR. It was made with real rose tea no sweetener and it was even better than my favorite Synergy Kombucha.

All throughout next you should be seeing my seitan purchases in action on le blog!

Tomorrow I’ll follow up with the cupcakes and baked goods from Neat Market.

Also don’t forget to enter the raw foods giveaway and aloe juice giveaway!

x

Casey

Cheesy Bacon Popcorn (Vegan)

22 Feb

First things first. The winner of the Raw Foods giveaway is Colleen from nc!

Congrats Colleen, send me your address and I will get these delicious treats on their way to you.

Their is a consolation prize too. For all those who entered you get a second shot! Food on Purpose! sent me a few more of the choco-roonies and I will be choosing three lucky winners to receive two bags each of the choco-roonies.

To enter, just leave a comment below!

I’ll choose a winner on 2/29 since that extra day of the year is bound to be a lucky one ;)

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Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

The first two words in the title of this post are “cheesy” and “bacon” so how in the heck is this vegan?

Nooch and bacon flavored soy bits.

Me? Totally normal I tell you.

Also as a a side note I still spell flavor, behavior, etc.. etc… with “u’s” like flavour, behaviour and have to spell check it back to its “American ” way. I have no idea why or how these Australian spelling made its way to be so permanent in my brain.

I used the paper bag technique and popped the naked kernels in a brown paper bag in the microwave for a couple minutes

Then I poured them into a bowl, coated them with a bit of sunflower oil and topped with an inordinate amount of nooch and about a teaspoon of soy bacon bits

Remember to enter the Aloe Juice Giveaway too! There will be a plethora of giveaways next week as well so keep your eyes peeled!

x

Casey

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