Today Colleen and I (John) are up to our necks in Mexican food.  We are celebrating like it's Cinco de Mayo with vast amounts of good quality veganized Mexican dishes, including guacamole, refried beans, tacos, soups and Mexican hot chocolate cupcakes.  ¡Arriba!

The photo to the left is from Maggie, who made these tamales from the cookbook Veganomicon. For good veggie recipes for refried beans check out RecipeZaar.

On the vegan baking front, there is some serious moving and shaking coming up. The Totally Fabulous Vegan Bake-off competition, if you are willing to put your recipe on the line, will take place on Saturday, October the 4th at Grange Park. If you're not willing to compete it is also a spectator sport where you can try the recipes. Prizes include the chance to win one of four $50 vegan gift baskets from Whole Foods and a gift certificate from LAVA. 

Visit the Resource Centre and check out some of our new books, including: Eat Drink and Be Vegan, Get it Ripe, Thrive Diet, Quick Fix Vegetarian, Skinny Bitch, Skinny Bitch in the Kitch, Green for Life and Ecoholic. 

Last weekend was the annual Vegetarian Food Fair.  It was a great success.  There was a podcast done at the event but we are still working on getting this posted for you.  Check back soon. 

Also, if you are interested in volunteering in the Resource Centre, and hence becoming a podcast co-host, please send an email to tvp@veg.ca. 

This podcast is the-genius-of-refried-beans 29 minutes. 

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