Vegan gluten-free bookclub part 2

Another successful mostly vegan and mostly gluten-free bookclub! I made two gluten-free items for this month's event (since I was hosting): curried potato-cauliflower from Vegetarian Times. I omitted the peas listed in the recipe because I forgot to buy them, but it was yummy! I also made walnut-mushroom pate from Veganomicon--I made a ton and expected it to disappear, but there were so many delicious things there is still some left over for me. The gluten-free bookclubber brought sandwich cookies from Bunner's Bakery. There was also two kinds of hummus and delicious spinach salad with red onion, pear and avocado. And yes, in addition to eating, we did talk about the book a little. I think this month, most of preferred the food to the book!

Delicous, delicious bookclub

Rice crackers.

I had my bookclub today. It was great! Everything was delicious! And the book was pretty good too.
In my bookclub, we have me, the vegan, someonewith celiac, a pescetarian, and 2 very supportive omnivores without any food allergies. So bookclub is often vegan/gluten-free bookclub. For some reason I found today especially delicious--maybe because I could eat almost everything we had today; or maybe because we started this cold day off with a hot comforting bowl of chilli; maybe because our designated non-cook made absolutely delicious vegan and gluten-free cupcakes. Maybe it was because I had two cupcakes--who knows?
I took a ton of pictures. Yay vegan/gluten-free food porn!

Guacamole. It's always delicious.

Super-garlic pickles that the hostess got at the farmers' market.

Fan-freakin'-tasic cupcakes.

Vegan and gluten-free English muffins, for bruschetta.

Bruschetta. Nom.

Hot, comforting chilli.

Cashew-cheese stuffed figs, drizzled with maple syrup.