Vegan Girl’s Guide To Life Signing at Peace O’Pie on 11/17
Melisser Elliott, of The Urban Housewife and New Vegland Favorite Cruelty Free Face, will be signing copies of her new book, The Vegan Girl’s Guide To Life, at Peace O’ Pie on November 17th at 7pm. That’s one week from today! Come eat pizza, meet Melisser, and buy a copy of her book for her to sign! Everybody wins!
Vegan MoFo Day Three!
More Halloween stuff! This is Desdemona’s recipe for muhammara from The Elizavegan Page. I have lots of pomegranate molasses lying around and love roasted peppers, and this is a fantastic use of both those things.
Vegan MoFo Day Two!
I have a weird obsession with Polynesian food dating back to my childhood, when we used to regularly go to a Tiki bar in Nashua, NH that was later turned into a generic Grand Buffet. How obsessed, you ask? I am the only person I know who has ordered a pupu platter and hibachi from a restaurant supply catalog. Of course I had to break it out for Halloween.
This time around I used samosas and spring rolls from my local Asian market, with the addition of homemade veganized crab rangoons. These are very simple, just Twin Marquis brand wonton wrappers filled with vegan cream cheese, scallions, a dash of soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce (Annie’s brand is vegan), and a tiny bit of crumbled nori. You can customize these however you want (curry maybe?). I baked these in a mini muffin tin like a namby-pamby, but once I conquer my fear of deep frying I will never look back I am sure.
Vegan MoFo Day One!
Most of my weekend was consumed by planning for my Halloween party. Fortunately, all that cooking yielded at least a week’s worth of MoFo posts. Let’s start with dessert! These Zombie Cupcakes are made from the well known and well loved basic chocolate vegan cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World. I love chocolate as much as I hate making frosting, so I covered these in a coconut milk based ganache (take a can of coconut milk, chill it so the cream rises to the top, scoop out 1/2 cup or so of the cream and melt it with a bag of vegan chocolate chips and 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.) The zombie hands came from Bake It Pretty.
Vegan MoFo 2010!
NewVegland is taking part in Vegan MoFo 2010! What does it mean? It means you can expect food related blogging from us for every weekday (even on THANKSGIVING, through the magic of scheduled posts) in the month of November. I plan to blog hot fire on traditional New England cuisine, veganized, along with fall and holiday type stuff as I see fit. It’s going to be like the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Plantation, only all month long, all vegan, and I won’t turn on you afterward!
True Bistro in Somerville opening this month
It looks like a yet another vegan place is opening in Somerville, this time in Teele Square. According to the website for True Bistro, chef Stuart Reiter has worked at Greens and Millenium in SF, and sous-chef Giles Siddons has worked with Eric Tucker at Milennium as well as at Counter in NYC. The menu looks very exciting, and it looks like True plans on setting themselves apart as a more upscale option for vegans, ideal for celebrations and bringing non-vegan family members you want to impress (this is timely, as I have both a birthday coming up in November and a non-vegan family). Expect more news as it becomes available, as well as a feature in the near future!
Jonathan Safran Foer at Harvard
On September 14th at 6:30 PM Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated, will be at the Harvard University Science Center to talk about his latest book, Eating Animals.
This event is free, sponsored by the Boston Vegetarian Society.
Susty’s Cafe for Sustainable Sustenance, Northwood, NH
We go here quite a lot, usually when we’re going to Hampton Beach on a Saturday and we know there’s nothing for us there besides McDonald’s, clam shacks, and those places that serve 1/4 of a pizza. It’s just nice, wholesome hippie food in a pleasant setting. I am usually boring and get enchiladas (I try not to eat things at restaurants that are easily made at home, but they’re so good!).
Nachos!
However, the last time we were there (en route to see Louis C.K. at the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, which was FANTASTIC) I got the modest sounding but magically delicious Tempeh Mash:
Tempeh Mash with homemade bread and mashed potato pancakes
I can’t even explain the how or why of this being so good. The tempeh is broken into tiny crunchy awesome bits (tempeh can be all over the place in terms of quality depending on how it’s prepared), and all the vegetables are perfectly cooked but still brilliantly colored (note the purple cabbage!) I could eat this every single day.
It seems to be a popular place to stop and get coffee for people in Northwood and you can overhear all kinds of amazing conversations about Alpaca farms and yurts and composting. They also have donuts:
Donuts!
And Love Potion:
Love Potion. Next time maybe?
Susty’s Cafe for Sustainable Sustenance
159 1st New Hampshire Turnpike
Northwood, NH 03261
603-942-5862
Patisserie Bleu Cafe in Nashua, NH is closing today
I was actually preparing to write a post all about Patisserie Bleu and the lovely job they did on my birthday cake last November (they were a non-vegan bakery and cafe in Downtown Nashua who did Vegan and Gluten free special orders, and were all around accommodating and wonderful). When I went to get my links in order, the home page of their site had the following announcement:
It is with great sadness that I must announce we are closing Patisserie Bleu Café for medical reasons. My doctors have advised me that working is preventing my back injuries from healing, and could result in permanent chronic pain. So, after much thought, consideration, and months of unsuccessful attempts to locate a buyer for the business, we are closing our doors for good as of July 24th.
Thank you for your patronage of our bakery over the past few years. All of us at Patisserie Bleu have enjoyed getting to know you while being a part of your weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and other special occasions. We will miss you all.
Deb Soby
Owner, Patisserie Bleu
I’m going to miss them! It looks like I’ll be baking my own cake this year (veganized crêpe cake, maybe?) But look how cute:
Vegan vanilla cake with "whipped cream" frosting and fresh strawberries, plastic gnomes added by yours truly.
Thank you Deb, I wish you a speedy recovery and good luck in your future endeavors!
Alissa Cohen in the current issue of Stuff@Night
The free bi-weekly Boston magazine Stuff@Night currently has an interview with Alissa Cohen, owner of the (sorely missed) raw foods restaurant Grezzo, which closed in May. She talks about her reasons for closing both locations and promotes her new cookbook, due to be released in October. On a happy note, it will contain many recipes from the Grezzo menu. Check it out!
I miss you, cranberry lemonade!
you too, "gnocchi!"
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