[VegChat] Veggie table, meetups, and eats.

[vaalea]

(See following email for all the pictures of things mentioned in this email.)



Hey guys, 

so last Saturday during the garage sale I set up a veggie table and then ended up just leaving it to go looking at things for sale and then the KFC protest, and Simon who was garage sale-ing also came along, and seeing an abandoned table, adopted it. People stopped to look and some took pamphlets and stuff, but I didn't count how many I put out, so I have no idea how many were taken.

Yves veggie burgers are on sale at Hartmans this week.... They also carry a new line called Mon Cuisine http://www.moncuisine.com/ which among the different dinners available is "Vegetarian Vegan Party Favorites" which contains mini egg rolls, cocktail franks, teriyaki ginger puffs, and garden puffs. I haven't tried them yet, but the idea is exciting. ;0)

Speaking of finger foods, I found at Loeb a brand called "Asian Delight" that has mini vegetable samosa.

At natural food pantry I found out they have a hard time getting in Roads End Shells and Chreese. They did have Road's End chreese packets next to their soy/etc tetrapaks, in the gluten free section, but after stocking up it occurred to me that I had not had gluten free before. I also tried the gluten free alfredo and thought it was pretty nasty.... so don't go running out and buying the chreese packets yet. If they suck I'll have to ask Natural Food Pantry about getting the others. They said they have trouble getting in certain things... of course things that I like best! (vegan gourmet mozzarella, shells n chreese etc.) They also have Roads End gravy, but that is another thing I've yet to try.

A guy from my work's Germany office came over for a few months, and he brought me Soyatoo Soy Whip Cream in a spray can! It has a strong soy taste (which you could get used to) and that spray can taste. It's just fun to use a spray can again! Various USA mail-order companies carry it now (in different packaging).

Besides halved yukon gold potatoes with Tofutti sour cream, my favorite way now to have potatoes is to throw a few cloves of garlic in with the potatoes when boiling, mash with the little remaining water when cooked, and add some olive oil (I use PC canola-olive mix) to desired consistency (not too dry - just sticky)... (Pictured with BBQ sauce-Tofurky and cinnamon-agave-carrots.)

As far as I can tell the new PC old fashioned Sea Salt and Balsamic Vinegar Kettle Chips are vegan, and I've recently tried other kettle chips (kettle brand, and some other one being sold in Zellers) and the PC ones taste the best in general, but particularly the vinegar in this flavor is milder to me than the usual S&V chip. YUM. (on sale - at Hartmans anyway- $2/bag). Zellers also had some brand of chocolate -Governor's Table- that is vegan, and the Natural Food Pantry (at billings bridge anyway,) has vegan milk chocolate - Terra Nostra.

Yves seems to be coming out with some new products... chicken ground round, 8 pack veggie burgers, veggie skewers(I tried the chicken one... Draven told me it tasted like rat - like he'd know- and he ended up finishing mine[perhaps that was the plan ;0)].... it was fine at first... but kind of like the "ribs" at chez nam, all of a sudden midway through the meal they taste really strange and you can't eat any more... maybe they needed veggies... ) 

Speaking of skewers, not long ago we had a meetup at The Table with HUGE turnout (20ish people?)... they had these awesome veggie&tofu skewers... SO GOOOOD! They also had some chocolate mousse cake or something like that which was also unbelievably good. We had a smaller group at the last one, but still great!

Someone know if PC/no name brand of tart shells are vegan? I never write down the ingredients so I can check.... or does anyone know of a vegan pie shell sold in stores? maybe I should try using phyllo or something... interesting.... (I've actually NEVER experimented with phyllo yet)

Also, VegGuide is now available.. check out your local health food store (I know Herb and Spice have them up in their seating area).

Well, that was a long email.... I do hope to get some upcoming meetups up on the website shortly.... Later! (sorry for any sp error... I caught a couple...)
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