Vegan Carrot Soup -- yummm!!

My latest culinary creation ~ Vegan Carrot Soup (recipe from Sarah Kramer's book How It All Vegan). Sooo yummy!! I'm absoltuely thrilled with how this healthy soup recipe turned out.

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Cheesecake Adventure 2008

So, as many of you know, I have taken it upon myself to create the biggest baddest (bad in the good sense) cheesecake adventure of 2008. Since sharing with friends that I will stay here for Thanksgiving, I have received numerous invitations for turkey day festivities. Well, as we all know from our Emily Post books, it's simply not kosher to have dinner at someone's house without bringing a dish. Sooo.... hmmm.... what could I make that would be relatively easy, tasty, and a good choice for this handful of gatherings? I thought about making some pumpkin pies, but bleh, that's so cliche, right?! Pumpkin cheesecake though.... not so cliche! So I set out to find the bestest most yummiest recipe I could get my hands on. The final winner was Paula Deen's version of this not-so-cliche treat ;-)