This was a pleasant surprise that was a lot closer to us than we’d thought. Billing itself as a plant-based pub, Beelman’s had a fun approach to pub food. We started with their Crispy Garbanzo Beans, toasted garbs tossed with shichimi togarashi and gochujang spice. These were rather…
Posts published in “Things We Liked”
OMG. The cauliflower at this place. I can’t stop thinking about it. Cauliflower is sort of a mainstay these days with everyone trying to do their version of it, but these guys were knocking it out of the park. I even had to go up to the front…
Good plant based food. I really liked their “calamari” – tender, young coconut, battered and lightly fried. A pretty good approximation of “calamari” – and I’d be okay if you wanted to just tell me that it was young beer-battered coconut with smoked salt, gremolata, lime, and a…
We were out walking the Colonel late one night in downtown LA and we come across a closed store front for a place that when open, purports to sell vegan ice cream. Makes furious mental sticky note and sticks to forehead. The next night it’s all about where…
One of the things I have always liked to do is to make sure there substantial things on hand to always be able to throw a good meal together on the fly. There’s nearly always a grain on hand in the fridge and some sort of bean/legume/pulse that…
I wasn’t able to post anything for the past few days, because boy was this a lot of work. Friday and Saturday were both about 11 hour days and that was in addition to all of the time that was also spent Monday through Thursday. It was worth…
I’ve been working on planning a dinner party for next weekend. I’m super excited. I tested out a couple of the recipes last week to pretty good results once I was willing to tweak them to my one taste. I did most of the shopping for the rest…
On the heels of my recent meal at Millennium, in Oakland, CA, I made arrangements to try another vegan tasting menu, this time a little closer to home at French restaurant Everest, here in Chicago. Wait. What? A French restaurant that has a vegan tasting menu? I thought…
I’m not sure why, but when I woke up Sunday morning in bleak, dreary Gallup, NM, (sorry Gallup CoC) I wanted a donut. I didn’t say anything. It’s not helpful to want things you (think you) can’t have. Donuts are not very whole food plant based, since they…
The reason for our recent cross-country excursion was to gather for a friend’s Big Life Event. Part of that involved a night on the town, in a rented space with catered food. Our caterer was Green Leaf Platters and we wish to report that they did an excellent…