Serious news is going down, people. This has nothing to do with Veganism, St. Patrick’s Day or food BUT it does have to do with some serious awesomeness, which is pretty much the corner stone of Wicked Vegan. Awesomeness with a side of food.

It has nothing to do with a new Pope because let’s be serious. Yeah, smoke signals are cool and all but the whole electing the Pope thing was way more interesting when Dan Brown told it. Where’s the exploding helicopters, the murder, the car chases? The art history lessons about Bernini which I totally nerded out about? No? None of it? Bah! Definitely not awesome.

It also has nothing to do with the fact that those backstabbing traitors known as The Patriots let my beloved Welker walk away. That is not awesome at all! In fact, where just not going to talk about it…

Nope, this is bigger. Ok. Deep breath. After YEARS of speculation…

…there is going to be a Veronica Mars movie.

I KNOW! I’m so excited!!

What? Were you expecting something else? I mean, weren’t you texting your equally excited friend for like, 2 hours counting down the Kick Starter bids to $2 million (seriously, watch the video on that site. It’s frickin’ hysterical!), stalking Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas’s twitters for the latest updates and rewatching your favorite Kristen Bell and Veronica Mars videos?

No? Oh, ok. Um, neither was I. I was totally working on this super yummy protein shake for you… Clearly.

Chocolate Mint Protein Smoothie aka Thin Mint Smoothie
from Rabbit Food for My Bunny Teeth

1 cup frozen spinach (or 2 cups fresh)
1 cup almond milk
2 scoops vegan chocolate protein powder (I used vega protein powder which I talked about here. You can buy individual serving sizes. I found mine at Whole Foods)
1/4 cup rolled oats
1/8 tsp peppermint extract

Toppings:
1 Tbsp walnuts
1 Tbsp 70% dark chocolate chips

Combine the almond milk, spinach, protein powder, rolled oats, and peppermint extract in a high powered blender and blend until smooth. Transfer to a glass and top with walnuts and chocolate chips.

It’s not exactly Irish but it is green. And it will taste great when you go to hot yoga at 9am on St. Patty’s day after lord-only-knows what sort of debauchery went down the night before. (yeap, that’s my plan!)

I’m really sorry this post was long and rambly. I average 1-2 post a week and this is my third with another one coming tomorrow. My life is clearly not interesting enough to fill 4 posts a week!