The rest sounds good. Or interesting. I fear that much faux food in theory, but it could work.
Well, the mayo isn't really faux, just eggless. (The Trader Joe's brand low-fat mayo is vegan, actually, though they don't really advertise that.) The wings are tempeh pieces, with the regular hot wing sauce. The bleu cheese is the only really faux thing there. (I don't really consider tempeh to be a fake food or meat substitute -- it's just tempeh. It's its own thing. Here, I'm using it in place of the chicken wings, but I'm not doing anything to try to get it to taste like chicken rather than tasting like tempeh.)
my mind boggles at the wonder of wanting vegan bleu cheese. possibly because i think it is one of the most disgusting things considered "normal" in this part of the world. You can actually SEE the mold! {shudder}
I got the bleu cheese because I went with some vegan friends to a restaurant up in Rockville for lunch, and we figured that, since we were there anyway, we'd go to Pangea, which is a vegan store near the restaurant. They sell all kinds of specialty items and imported stuff, so we all just bought various things that we'd never tried before. The bleu cheese is from Scotland. I also got some candy from England, and cheddar cheese from an American company that's supposed to be incredible but they aren't selling it retail yet. I usually don't use the fake cheeses too often, but this place had a bunch of brands that I'd heard were really good and that you can't get anywhere else around here, so I figured I'd give them a shot.
A friend of mine got some vegan feta for a dinner we had a while back--they didn't have plain, at the store, so he got two flavored kinds (i think sundried tomato and garlic, maybe?). But they were both pretty good. Not quite feta-y...they were too dry...but still good. We suggested cutting them up in strips and using them in a wrap with the quinoa and bean main dish that it had been planned to be sprinkled on, which had leftovers.
I have found good vegan bleu cheese, and good vegan mayo
What brands? I have a vegan friend I like to cook for.
The bleu cheese is Sheese, which is a Scottish brand which is pretty hard to find in the US. The mayo is Veganaise, which is available at pretty much every Whole Foods and health food store, and sometimes even regular supermarkets. (It's in the refrigerated section.) If you want a cheese that'll melt, go with the Follow Your Heart Vegan Gourmet, available wherever the Veganaise is, since they're from the same company. But don't use that one as the centerpiece of a dish -- it works fine for something that you think, "This would be even better if it had some melted cheese on it," but it's too bland to make a cheese-centered dish interesting.
(I actually never really liked mayo before I was vegan, but I love Veganaise. It's not as greasy as mayo with egg.)
ack. It has started. Last week my first HS sent out 20 year reunion party invites. Now college is. I dunno why, but reunions have little appeal to me.
I dunno why, but reunions have little appeal to me.
Because you're sane?
I'm at this part of my writing where I'm quite frustrated I don't understand mathematics better. I need someone in my life to explain it to me better.
Also, I'm starting to be stressed about not having a job yet. I got interviews ahead of me, but getting a good job is in the way of keeping my education on the top of the priorities.
And now, dishes, followed by more brilliant-paper-writing.
Good luck Shir.
I've always had the impression that the people I'd most like to catch up with at a reunion would be the people most likely to not go to a reunion.
