Vegan Dinner

Lady cooked up a storm Sunday night for an incredible all-vegan dinner. Our friends Jodi and Pat are vegans and she thought that it would be nice to be able to cook them an entire meal they could enjoy without having to hassle with questions of ingredients. It turned out wonderfully.

Lady got a vegan cookbook from her sister for Christmas. It's by some fancy-schamcy place out in San Francisco [I forget the name]. She's been dying to make use of it's gourmet dishes and she finally did. I helped make the dish pictured above: sliced and layered heirloom tomatoes with avocadoes, two kinds of basil and arugula drizzled with some yummy dressing. Hard to eat, but very rewarding in taste. She also made a chickpea stew with sundried tomatoes, apricots, chianti and some other stuff I didn't see go in served on a crêpe [I made this too!] made from crushed almonds, chickpea flour, salt, pepper, oil, egg replacer and water. It was hard making the crêpes with those crushed almonds in them, not a normal crêpe consistency. That dish was topped with a pickeled topping consisting of diced orange, olives, onion, chili peppers and other goodies pictured here. For dessert was a yummy key lime pie pictured here made with key limes, avocados, crushed pistachio crust and topped off with a vegan mousse and poppy seeds.

Mmmmm. I'm getting hungry thinking about a few hours ago.

Comments

[yoko]

Chez Panisse in Berkeley, perhaps?

[Albert]

I've never been out there before, I couldn't tell ya. I'm sure Lady will clear things up with a comment soon enough.

[addie]

woah! go Lady! i can't think of a better combination than tomatoes and avocado. YUM!

[katestryker]

The restaurant is called Millenium. Plenty of leftovers!

[yoko]

The whole meal looks scrumptious! Good job, guys!

[Sam]

Everything sounds really good. I am tempted to try my hand at gourmet vegan foods.