[VegChat] Veggie table, meetups, and eats.

[Kevin O'Shea]

Hi,

One note on the Yves veggie skewers - they contain egg albumen. Thanks for all the product info - very helpful!

Kevin

On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:35:16 -0400, vaalea wrote:
> (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...)