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…
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Named with a playful take on the road that courses through the heart of Solvang, Root 246 was a very pleasant surprise among the tourist kitsch of Danish-influenced Solvang, California. The menu offered six vegan items and we had five of them. It was a pleasure to see…
I want to say that this seemed like the first time I’ve had a vegan ramen that actually had the unctuousness that pork ramen typically has. The spicy ramen at this totally vegan counter only spot in downtown LA’s Grand Central Market was an absolute delight. I loved…
This is also set in an unassuming strip mall behind the Walt Disney Concert Hall. After having been to Shojin for our first meal, I wasn’t sure there was going to be much left downtown to try, and certainly nothing else could impress me the way I’d been…
We unexpectedly started our LA adventures off with a bang. We’d spent the day driving down from San Francisco, finding our lodging and settling in a bit. Sweetie had found a place that sounded good, had good reviews and wasn’t too far from where we were staying. We…
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 love nothing more than the taste of tender fresh stalks of asparagus this time of year. Asparagus and delicate onion seem to go well together. This simple, quick and easy soup came together in under 20 minutes from start to finish and is a delicious and elegant…
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…
Here’s the menu. Much of it comes from Eric Tucker’s The Millennium Cookbook and The Artful Vegan. Both of them seem to have excellent ideas, though I find, in all honesty, that I can’t follow the recipes as written. Each one that I tried in advance has needed…
Planning a meal like this is not easy. Who would think that Brown Rice Syrup would be the one thing on my list that I have yet to find. One stored promised it might be in tomorrow. I already want to just find a good substitute. Same with…