A Vegan Table / win $25,000 / veganmofo 2009

I got a new cookbook for my birthday — "The Vegan Table" by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau — and we've started giving it a try. My husband found the can of artichoke hearts I bought to make a Turkish dish, and he made red lentil artichoke stew from Colleen's cookbook, instead. It wasn't the Middle Eastern dish I had intended, but it was delicious. I'm sure we'll want to make this again. I have a real weakness for artichoke hearts.



To go with the lentils he made cauliflower with spicy vinaigrette. This was an extremely easy dish of steamed cauliflower with a piquant dressing, proving once again that a dish doesn't have to be complicated or take hours, to be terrific. This dish might end up on our Thanksgiving table.

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Cooking contest
Are you feeling creative and in the mood to enter a cooking contest with a $25,000 grand prize? I received an email from French's Mustard representative Danielle Nuxxo who wrote:

"I came across your Easy Vegan Cooking blog...and wanted to send you some info on a new cooking contest from French’s Food, where you can win a trip to NYC for a cook-off and get a chance at the $25,000 grand prize. Since mustard is naturally low in sugar, fat and calories, I thought your vegan readers would enjoy the challenge of coming up with a naturally delicious recipe that fits well into the gluten-free and vegan lifestyle.

Here are the details on how to enter the contest. Time is running out, since all entries need to be entered by Saturday, Oct. 31. Each recipe must:

• Be original, unpublished, and created by you

• Include at least one French's product

• Include no more than 8 ingredients (with the exception of salt, pepper and water…those are freebies)

• Be prepared and ready to serve in under 60 minutes (Parents are busy, we all know that!)

• For recipe inspiration and giveaways, check out the French’s Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Frenchs/129122660682?ref=ts

Recipes will be evaluated on appearance, creativity and overall deliciousness and must be submitted by Saturday, October 31, 2009 online at: http://frenchs.com/Login.php?redirect=/Contest/SubmitRecipe.php. Five finalists, determined by online voting and a judging panel, will compete in a LIVE Cook-Off event to be held in New York City for a chance to win the Grand Prize of $25,000!"

I know it's a tight deadline but my fellow bloggers are so creative!

DEATH LIST - SEVERED - 1998 / DISCOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHY / REVIEW

THIS ALBUM CONTAIN(10-TRACKS)
1-TIME TO DEATH
2-WILL IT END
3-STRICKEN
4-BLACK & WHITE
5-EXHUMED
6-ANTIPAS
7-BEFORE YOU DIE
8-SCALPED
9-SEVERED
10-THE LIE/FALLING DOWN
CREDITS:
Rikki Pukket - Vocals (Treacherous Death/Golgotha)
Bryan Tubby - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Kevin Tubby - Guitar, Vocals (Broken Flesh)
Dereck Scarbrough - Bass
David "Plowboy" Campbell - Drums
(Sickened, Inversion, Treacherous Death/Golgotha)
(http://www.myspace.com/obliterationmusic)







BIOGRAPHY/REVIEWS:(Death List)
This is one brutal heavy metal platter. Musically comparable to Carcass "Heartwork" or even Sepultura's "Chaos AD." There is nothing "core" about this CD, rather Severed walks a fine line between thrash and death metal.Since I dug Obliteration, I was excited to hear this,Good drumming, heavy riffs to bang your head to, and some shredding guitar solos make for some brutal death metal. Killer cover, too. The vocals are what get in the way of this album. A re-release with the original vocalist would get a lot more play from me.

The guys retooled and renamed the band "Death List." Kevin Tubby was assigned to take over the vocal duties in addition to being the lead guitarist. Greg Berger also was soon to leave the band as well. They brought in a new bassist which made the lineup changes consist of the following:

As "Death List," the band would eventually release their first and only full length album entitled, "Severed." Severed was picked up for worldwide distribution through Cross Rhythms Music (which is now Blastbeats Music). "Severed" was received well amongst fans nationally and worldwide but failed to garner the same praise and accolades by fans when compared to the OBLITERATION material. The band also took criticism in reviews from several magazines, including HM Magazine, as well as online music sites due to the controversial cover art of the "Severed" album. The artwork depicts a girl who has been decapitated, with the head lying in proper position above the neck with the rest of the body in a transparent body bag. It was somehow rumored that the artwork on the front of the cd insert was a true and real picture of a real decapitated girl. However, there is no truth to those rumors. It is indeed a true and real picture, but it is NOT a "REAL" dead girl who has been decapitated. It is uncertain how this rumor got started, but there is no truth to those accusations (Editor's note: I should know since I was the original vocalist of the band.(http://www.veilofdisdain.com/downloads.html)

Cross Rhythms/Blastbeats Music also put together and released a compilation entitled, "Chords of the Grave," which included the entire OBLITERATION demo. It also included several other significant and notable underground christian death metal bands such as Oblation and Disencumbrance. The "Chords of the Grave" compilation was a smashing success within the christian death metal scene worldwide and was well-respected within the underground secular death metal scene also. To this day, "Chords of the Grave" is widely viewed as perhaps the greatest christian death metal compilation in history(http://www.holymetalrob.com/)