My husband loves it when I do meals based on a music artist/band. For Michael Jackson's birthday we had Don't Stop Til You Get Enough French Toast, Beat It (tofu scramble), and Black or White (chocolate chocolate cookie w/ vanilla soy ice cream) for dessert. It's silly but fun.

Could you imagine doing a month of sausage?

I love the music/band idea.  I was thinking of doing something similar with a favorite tv show, although this is getting into 'dinner and a movie' territory.

Fridays are going to be International Food Friday.  The local library has a kids' series of cookbooks from around the world; it's been fun veganizing these recipes.

I am also considering choosing an ingredient for the month and assigning it to a day of the week, like every Tuesday.

If I assign topics for days of the week I'm less inclined to freak out.

I love the month of cocktails and veganizing pregan meals!

Let's see, what else...

Balanced meals/healthy deliciousness
Fast/lazy meals
Awesome accidentally vegan products
Awesome vegan things that are local to you (if you have such things)
Food for every letter of the alphabet... day 1 you do A, day 2 you do B, so on... giving you 5 days off!
Eat a different fruit or vegetable every day
Use appliances (or even dishes?) you don't usually use in your kitchen... sort of like the weekly the cookbook challenge, but for your blender

It seems highly likely that by October my man and I will have obtained a slow cooker, so there's a decent chance that my posts will chronicle those nightly experiments / triumphs / disasters.

Tofulish wrote:

Could you imagine doing a month of sausage?

Oh god, yes.  Which brave soul will volunteer to make a new kind of sausage every day for the whole month?

Everybody should do a palate challenge!  I wrote about wanting to do it last week because I always make fun of how out there some of the guesses are.

Not sure what I will do. Probably easy foods that involve no cooking since I don't have a ton of time to cook.

i started a list a while ago...

favorite recipes
cookbooks you don't use nearly enough
food stories - i'm thinking along the lines of "i used to make this with my grandmother... blah blah.
something you've never made before
from the pantry
from the freezer

for the last two... i'm trying to use things out of my cabinets and the freezer to cut down on the number of times i need to go to the supermarket in any given week/month.

Personally, September is the month that I start playing around with Holiday food ideas.  Also with cooler weather and school starting, baked goods and soup take the forefront.

I'm planning on making 1 thing from each of the cookbooks I have on my shelves and can get from the Library, linking to book authors sites and stuff.

i plan to make out with a new vegan every day in october and then writing all about it.

xo
kittee