day 1
my father, who thinks tofu is a japanese couch that turns into a hard bed that no one should ever sleep on, had his first ever vegan meal the other night at Real Food Daily. He had the tofu salisbury steak. He is going deaf and missing half a toe. So its hard to say how he really felt about it. He ate most of it and shrugged his shoulders. He then tasted my tahini dressing. he swished it around in his mouth a few times, gross, then simply said. "yum"
promising!
the next day meredith and i decided to venture into alicias cookbook. knowing we had frank as our only real taste tester. we decided on something that could invoke yet another of his signature yum's- waffle sausage and cheese paninis. because we knew at least the waffles would be actual waffles.
we had a side salad of collard greens and pine nuts and raisins
frank sat and sweated while we got our vegan cooking on
first we fried the soy sausages, put them on a cutting board, cut them up, gave some to Lacey, the 14 year old vegan dog, Then we stirred together some vegenaise, yummy apricot jam, thyme and pepper. We toasted the waffles, put the jaminaise sauce on them, added the fake sausage, sundried tomatoes, arugula, and fake mozzarella. the flavor was actually insanely good even with the fake mozzarella. which i am not sure i have fallen in love with just yet.
we finished the collard greens and sat down with a still very sweaty frank
meredith and i took a few bites and thought it was super yummy. but the true test would be to see what frank had to say
this is what we got...
We are not sure our father has any idea where he is ever. But he birthed us. And we are grateful for that. And the meal was pretty darn delicious. we made it 2 whole days. only 28 left to go.
woo hoo. easy right?
we shall see.....
these 2 recipes, are from alicia's book, The Kind Diet
Sicilian collard Greens with Pine Nuts and Raisins is on p. 176
Waffle Sausage and Cheese Panini is on p. 153
or go to thekindlife.com
bon (vegan) apetit!
