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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Thai food!

Tonight we made Thai food. I freaking love Thai food.

Here's what we ate: Thai iced teaspicy cucumber salad, stir-fried eggplant with basil, tofu pad see ew, a variation on a veggie curry I learned in Norwich, and Thai coconut purple sweet rice with mango. Many thanks to all our guests and helpers! Next week: Ethiopian!



Monday, February 18, 2013

Fresh from the Farmers Market!

This Saturday Vegheads held its classiest and most gourmet dinner this year! In addition to wonderful live music by the guitar and violin duo of Avery Merritt and Rory Glenn, we had a delicious meal prepared with all the freshest organic local ingredients from our local Farmers Markets. Ready for this?: 

Menu
Starter- ciabatta bread with onions caramelized in chocolate olive oil and brown sugar
Salad- mesclun and kale with shredded beats and carrots, chopped bell peppers, tangerines and homemade spiced blood-orange vinaigrette 
Soup- Ann Gentry's Yucatan Yam Picante
Side- artichokes with homemade veganaise curry dip, cous cous
Main- spaghetti squash topped with garlic, tomatoes, broccoli, asparagus, and snap peas
Dessert-  Pumpkin pie spiced apple and pear crumble

Many thanks to the amazing musicians, and to everyone who came, everyone who helped in the kitchen, and everyone who helped plan the event!




 

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Italiano!

Last night, the wonderful Ellery and Grace led a delicious Italian Vegheads meal! We feasted on a lentil/red potato/cous cous mesclun salad, roasted garlic on toast, a seriously incredible eggplant and mushroom vegan lasagna, and a banana-berry sorbetto. And as usual, everything made from scratch! Thanks for a fantastic dinner, everyone!



Next week's theme: Farmers Market! All that's fresh, local, seasonal, and organic is fair game!

Sunday, February 3, 2013

A little taste of Southern hospitality...

Vegheads came back in full force this week with our first (official) dinner of the semester: Southern Comfort food! We were partly inspired by a recent lecture at Oxy by the documentarian Byron Hurt about his newest film Soul Food Junkies, which examines the sociocultural ties and health threats of soul food. At the talk, he discussed the connections between food access, cultural bonds, food security, nutrition, and disease, saying that in order to stymie the declining health of our nation, we will need to re-examine our food system. Hear, hear! He also mentioned that there are plenty of healthy southern foods, but they are often forgotten. So our project this week was to dig up some forgotten southern gems.

Our menu:
Sweet tea
Collard greens, apple, red wine vinegar salad
Cornbread
Cajun spiced dirty rice with black eyed peas
Vegan okra gumbo
Traditional apple pie

End result? Seriously delicious, vegan, healthy, southern food. Hallelujah!