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No Mojo - No MoFo

Wing-it Vegan is closing up shop. It's been awesome, but it's time for me to move on to a different blog that won't be exclusively about food. That way I can still blog next year during our travels and it won't matter if all we've eaten is noodles or instant mashed potatoes or Sunshine burgers, because the new blog can be about anything! You should probably expect to see lots of our travel photos on the new mystery blog, which will most likely go live in a couple of weeks.

I have been the biggest blogging and emailing slacker lately. There is no excuse other than my recent internet aversion and a general feeling of blahness that has kept me from cooking or baking anything blog-worthy. There were big plans for Halloweegan and MoFo but they didn't materialize, and all I have to share with you are these few goodies that I managed to make a couple of weeks ago. I am not worthy of MoFo this year. *hangs head in shame*

Veggieloaf coffin and mashed potato ghosts

Make your favorite veggieloaf recipe but instead of baking it in a loaf pan, shape it into little coffins (with your hands), bake them and draw a ketchup cross on top of them. You can use this recipe if you don't already have a favorite veggieloaf. You can shape the mashed potato ghosts with a spoon like these ghosts from last year's Halloweegan, or you could always use a pastry bag or ziploc to squeeze them onto the plate. They have little ketchup eyes and mouths that I drew with a toothpick.

Now that we got the savory stuff out of the way let's move on to the sweet goodies! I made some Cat and Bat Cookies using this shortbread recipe. I cut them into circles and then used tiny bat and cat shaped cookie cutters to cut little "windows" out of half of the circles. The filling on each cookie is sandwiched between a circle cookie and a window cookie. The Bat Cookies have strawberry preserves in the middle and the Cat Cookies have chocolate ganache.

Strawberry sandwich cookies

Chocolate sandwich cookies

One more sweet treat before I turn my keys in. This is a very easy Halloweegan treat, it's a chocolate cake spell book with buttercream "pages" and a chocolate ganache "cover". I used the basic chocolate cupcake recipe from VCTOTW and baked it in an 8x8 inch dish, then cut the cake (at room temperature) into nine squares that later became nine little spell books. There is buttercream (also from VCTOTW) on three sides. I ran a fork alongside the buttercream to make it look like pages of a book. I spread some chocolate ganache (yep, VCTOTW) on the top and "spine" of each book, and threw some sprinkles on the spines while the ganache was still sticky. I wrote the words with leftover buttercream.

Mini spell book cake

Notice a little someone holding a broom in the background there? That is my little cold porcelain witch and kitty that I made a couple of months ago. I think. I lose track of time easily.

Witchita and her little black Kitty!

That is indeedy Witchita with a "T". I've been working with cold porcelain and other crafty goods lately and you will see plenty of craftiness on my future new blog! I'm nowhere near a professional crafter, but I would still love to share my crazy creations with you, my awesome readers who don't seem to be scared away regardless of how much craziness I throw at you! :-)

One more thing before I leave! Have you entered Nature's Path and Every Day With Rachael Ray's contest? The winner will get $5,000 plus $5,000 for a charity of their choice plus a year’s supply of Nature’s Path breakfast products! You can enter the contest through this link. The winner will also get a breakfast "block party" in their neighborhood hosted by Nature's Path! I really need to make sure that nasty Chancy that sent Kitty to animal control doesn't sneak into my breakfast party.

Well, this does it for Wing-it Vegan. I will post a link to the new blog whenever it's ready, for those of you who are kooky enough to want to follow me to my new home. Thank you for an amazing ride, all your support and all your kind and encouraging comments have been an incredible confidence boost for this self-esteem challenged girl! But, what am I doing? This isn't goodbye! I'll see you guys at my new place soon! *eyes watering* This is stupid, I'm choking up here for no reason! Does anybody have a tissue? *frantically fanning my eyes with my hands*

See you guys soon! I hope everyone is having a lovely Autumn, or Spring depending on where you are! :-)

Winner Winner Chickpea Dinner (sorry about the multiple posts - blogger is being difficult)

Dude, that was a lot of entries! Thank you to everyone who participated, everyone who entered on behalf of someone else, everyone who linked back to the giveaway, and everyone who just stopped to say hi! You guys are too awesome! And thank you Lexen Products for letting me host this cool giveaway and for my own fantabulous Healthy Chef! YAY!

OK, bye.

Wait, I feel like I'm forgetting something. Oh yea! I forgot to mention that I might go back to regular posting and commenting a little earlier than expected, probably mid August. YAY! I've missed you all!

OK, now I'm done. See you guys in August!

Hmm. There was something else I was supposed to say. What was it? *dum dee dum dee dum*

Oh, duh! It's the big winner announcement!! :-)

The winner left this comment: "...we're expecting in december and can use something around the house that can cook rice, dry, and make yogurt when we can't. can it change a diaper?"

Congratulations Jen aka Jewbacca! Enjoy your super Healthy Chef of awesomeness! Don't stop 'til you get enough!

Here's the random generator thingie with Jen's lucky number (including double entries and excluding non-entry comments):

Well, there you have it. This was so much fun! See you guys a little earlier than expected, I have a lot of road-pictures to share. I'll leave you with one of my favorite ones.

*Group hug*

Prairie dog in Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Is he trying to imitate a walrus, or is he playing an imaginary oboe, as my too-cool-for-words friend Becks said? Don't you just want to poke that little belly?

PS/UPDATE: Becks just reminded me that today is my blogaversary. How could I forget? Am I going to have to buy my blog flowers and hope that it will forgive me? No wonder I had a hard time publishing this post, the blog was just mad at me! Oh boy, this is going to take some major butt-kissing!