Friday night was the birthday dinner. We met at Root Table, a small hobbit-hole of a restaurant that offers American-Asian fusion cuisine.
I had perused their menu beforehand and was delighted to see root vegetable fries. Lucky for me, another guest asked about animal byproducts.....which the fries were guilty of being immersed in. SAD. I decided on the veggie-friendly Golden Gardens Curry.
THE AFTERMATHI'm really afraid to admit this, but this was my first curry. Growing up, I had a sensitivity to spicy foods and have just grown accustomed to avoiding them. Lately, however, I'm finding myself asking for medium spice on Thai dishes and throwing jalapeno salt into scrambles. Let me tell you, this curry was the gateway drug. It was spicy, but in a yummy way. It was rich, flavorful and amazing. I WANT CURRY ALL THE TIME.
The rest of the night we spent at a friend's house, talking about Burning Man and oohing and awing over a homemade water cooler. At 1:30am the group decided to trek to Beth's Cafe. Definitely not vegan friendly, but the atmosphere more than made up for it. I went for an English muffin with jam and we played telephone pictionary until 3am.
The next morning (ok, whatever it was noon) I provided the pancake recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance and made believers out of my already veggie friendly friends. A couple took down the recipe and I jumped up and down in excitement. Three of us went to Discovery Park, this mammoth space that borders the Sound and boasts a serpent mound, a learning center AND a lighthouse. Munching on the pesticide free berries in the park, we hiked all these tiny trails and saw some spectacular views. Of course this made us very, VERY hungry.
Dinner following such an excursion had to be what is now my favorite pizza place, Pizza Pi Vegan Pizzeria. My friends used to live just up the street from this place but we never visited. We had breadsticks with melted Teese and four dipping sauces and the Field Roast Favorite, also covered in Teese.
Now, I have been meticulous in avoiding processed food stuffs, but Teese is amazing. It didn't just slide off when you picked it up, like I've found FYH Vegan Gourmet to do.
Sunday morning I spent my last hour in Seattle munching on a vegan banana muffin and the best coffee I've ever had in Seattle at Cloud City Coffee. My soy mocha wasn't sweet and milky, it was grownup; and the muffin was the perfect fuel for the drive ahead. I also found their drip to be slightly bitter, which I LOVE.
Stay tuned for the PPK Cookbook Challenge results!!!
The rest of the night we spent at a friend's house, talking about Burning Man and oohing and awing over a homemade water cooler. At 1:30am the group decided to trek to Beth's Cafe. Definitely not vegan friendly, but the atmosphere more than made up for it. I went for an English muffin with jam and we played telephone pictionary until 3am.
The next morning (ok, whatever it was noon) I provided the pancake recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance and made believers out of my already veggie friendly friends. A couple took down the recipe and I jumped up and down in excitement. Three of us went to Discovery Park, this mammoth space that borders the Sound and boasts a serpent mound, a learning center AND a lighthouse. Munching on the pesticide free berries in the park, we hiked all these tiny trails and saw some spectacular views. Of course this made us very, VERY hungry.
Dinner following such an excursion had to be what is now my favorite pizza place, Pizza Pi Vegan Pizzeria. My friends used to live just up the street from this place but we never visited. We had breadsticks with melted Teese and four dipping sauces and the Field Roast Favorite, also covered in Teese.
Now, I have been meticulous in avoiding processed food stuffs, but Teese is amazing. It didn't just slide off when you picked it up, like I've found FYH Vegan Gourmet to do.Sunday morning I spent my last hour in Seattle munching on a vegan banana muffin and the best coffee I've ever had in Seattle at Cloud City Coffee. My soy mocha wasn't sweet and milky, it was grownup; and the muffin was the perfect fuel for the drive ahead. I also found their drip to be slightly bitter, which I LOVE.
Stay tuned for the PPK Cookbook Challenge results!!!
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