Christmas is over. I didn’t cook as much as I had planned on, we were going to do cookies, ice cream, and a few other things. At the last minute I decided to make Figgy Pudding. That was all I had time for with a busy day of people coming and going. After hearing “Bring us some figgy pudding.” a few times in the past weeks I decided I wanted to know exactly what it was and if it was really good enough to demand “Bring it right here”.

It is.

As with other British puddings it is actually a cake with a sauce to accompany. Very figgy, very spicy with cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon and I made a brandy sauce (with 1/2 cup of brandy not cooked after adding) that made it very tasty. I didn’t take any pictures for those who have a thing for food images, sorry. I’ll post the recipe in the recipe section of the messageboard. I used a standard dairy filled recipe and adapted it, nowhere could I find a veganized one already. So, there will be one now.

Halloween is nearly here and soon bags of sugary concoctions will be brought home to be devoured by little ones. For those of you who are vegan and have kids do you plan on trick-or-treating? Is there really much point in going door-to-door only to get candy that you can’t eat? If you are vegan and giving candy out what are you going to give, a vegan candy or otherwise?

We don’t plan on going trick-or-treating this year, but for those of you confused as to what to give out I did happen upon a bag of small play-doh cans at Target, 25 for $3.99 A pretty good deal and a very good alternative to the sugar overload.