Spotted this morning on the way to work. Caribou Coffee at Monroe & Piedmont.
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A new year
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!
2008 Holiday Bake Off!
Hey, don’t miss this year’s holiday bake off at Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe! You all should totally enter so there’s more for us to eat when we show up fresh from vacation. Oh yeah, we’ll be out of town and unable to enter, so that’s two more chances for YOU to win! I’m actually looking forward to gobbling up other people’s yummies rather than stressing over my own this year. So bust out your mixing bowl, okay?
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this?
After voting last Friday, I went off in search of a Goodwill that turned out to no longer be there. That seems to happen all the time with Goodwill around here. It wasn’t a total waste of time though because across the street from where it should have been was this:
What? Why has this been kept from me? I know it’s ITP OTP, but still, a vegan Jamaican restaurant! So of course I went in. The guy said everything is vegan. VEGAN. Woohoo! So I bought a callaloo pie and a tofu pie and went off to meet Kevin. Well, I ate half of each cause I was starving. Then I met Kevin at Cosmo’s and he had pie, and Ken & Leigh had pie. I think everyone agreed they were mighty tasty. So later we grabbed up Matt and went back there for dinner. Kevin got the vegetarian steak:
And I got the vegetarian ground beef. They were out of the chicken which seems pretty popular becvause everyone that walked in asked for it.
The dinners come with rice & peas and then you get a choice of salad or veggies. I know it looks remarkably brown, and blurry, but it was really tasty. The steak and ground beef had distinctively different flavors so it isn’t just the same exact stuff in another shape.
I wish this place was in closer to home but I could make it sort of be on the way to Dekalb Farmer’s Market. They also have a bunch of juices if you’re into that. The guy let us sample one and it was pretty good. While you can eat there, it is really designed more as a take out place. So don’t expect tablecloths and, uh, silverware.
Vegetarian Paradise
6125 Covington Hwy.
Lithonia, GA 30035
(678) 518-8649
Autumn Vegan Potluck
Ashley organized another fun potluck at Candler Park the weekend before Halloween. I was working on stuff for the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival, so I made Kevin make the food. He made little individual open face pot pies. Yummy! Here it is in the center of my plate surrounded by tastes of a bunch of other yummy dishes.
I really did try to take it easy and not over eat, but it’s so hard to do at these things! I mean, look at the dessert spread:
So, of course, I had to try and taste as much as possible of those as well. *blort*
And here’s a crappy picture of everyone where you can’t tell anything because it’s crappy. But seriously, there were a bunch of people at that table in the shadows where you can’t see anything because the pic is crappy.
