i have a serious brain disease. please bring me a cat.
Mark your calendars! Sunday, June 21st Atlanta is participating in the World Vegan Bake Sale! Get fat and benefit animals, what a deal! Details are still being ironed out, but we’ll probably be set up outside of Criminal Records in Little 5 Points. Check out the blog for updates and information on how to participate. Even if you can’t come to one or participate, you can help by spreading the news with one of these banners.
I’ll leave you with a bit of food porn to get you excited about it.
Spotted this morning on the way to work. Caribou Coffee at Monroe & Piedmont.
Our good friends Ken & Leigh are packing up Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe and moving it OTP. Oh noes! Gone are the days of loitering forever in their store. To make the move easier, they’re having a big ol’ sale! Lots of stuff 25% off. Go stock up while they’re still right down the street. And leave me some Match Meat.
In January, the Graveyard Tavern in East Atlanta started serving a vegan special on Thursday nights. So far it’s been a three course menu with an appetizer, salad or soup, a main dish and dessert. These are definitely different offerings than you’ll find at the veg restaurants around town so it’s a nice change. I’ll take you on a tour through crappy, dark iPhone photos.
Ha, don’t judge this poor veggie stack by it’s pic.
This was basically pasta & veggie sausages in sauce. Good, but I can do at home.
Dessert was kind of like a smoothie. Nice, but lacking my favorite dessert ingredient, chocolate.
All in all, off to a good start! Our next visit, we were greeted with these lovely fried tofu nuggets. These were amazing! I think it was an asian sweet and sour sauce with it. BBQ sauce might have been better. But honestly, they were so good naked that it didn’t matter.
Main course was a shepherd’s pie. Again, good, but something I can make at home.
Now this is the kind of dessert I can get behind! I think it was a chocolate mousse in a sort of peanut buttery crunchy shell. Really good.
See, these are just getting better! Next visit:
The green and gold minestrone soup was slightly salty but otherwise excellent.
Beer bangers, mustard mashed potatoes and onion gravy. Again, good, but I can make.
And I’m not a huge fan of pumpkin pie. It’s okay, but again, lack chocolate. I think this particular meal was my least favorite. Again, it was still pretty good.
After a little break from vegan night, I got my favorite meal there so far! Collard green wontons with sweet chili sauce. I could eat a bowl full of these.
Gnocchi with cashew thyme pesto. Now THIS is what I’m talkin’ about! If you’ve ever made gnocchi you know why they’re appreciated so much more if someone else does all the work.
Dessert did lack chocolate. But the gnocchi was so rockin’ that I didn’t care. Brandied peach and almond cobbler:
So that wraps up the vegan nights I’ve tried so far. I know there was one more I forgot to take pics of. Oh well. If you’re looking to shake up your vegan routine, give it a try.
I just finished up banana pecan waffles and apple sausages Kevin made me for breakfast. Yummy! It tasted even better because I got to sit here and look at the internets while waffles magically formed and landed on a plate next to me. How cool is that?
Last night we joined up with Taylor and Beth and headed to get sushi at Sushi house Hayakawa. The owner is a former MF Sushi Bar chef. While they ate fishy bits, we had a bunch of yummy vegan rolls, edamame and seaweed salad. Our favorite was the pumpkin tempura roll, on the ends in the pic. Oh, the chef also gave us these marinated shiitake mushrooms that were amazing. Taylor and Beth ordered roasted gingko nuts so we got to try those. They’re hard to describe, but I could see myself busting open piles of them and chewing on the soft centers. I bet they can be had on Buford Highway. I’ll have to look.
New Year’s Eve Jill & Tony came over and played Wii while I kept falling asleep. I blame the sake and the beer. Yeah, all one of each. Pfft, lightweight. Anyway, it was a nice mellow end to the year. And somehow, despite having my house broken into and watching my 401k dwindle, it was a really, really good year. And 2009 will be even better. We have plans…big plans. Mwahahahahaha!
Oh yeah, and today is this blog’s 8th birthday. Awww!