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February 13, 2010

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February 13, 2010 - katherine. Tags: Uncategorized

brunch: lemon cornmeal pancakes (click for the recipe) with apple-banana sauce (2 apples and 2 bananas chopped and cooked in saucepan with maple syrup, Earth Balance, lemon, and water, until it sort of resembles a sauce); Boca burger sausage (basically chunks of frozen Boca burger deep fried in canola oil with red pepper flakes and liquid smoke); orange juice; coffee

1 c flour
3/4 c corn meal
3 T sugar
2 T baking powder
3 T Earth Balance, plus more for frying
1 T corn starch
1.5 c soymilk
juice of 2 lemons
zest of 2 lemons

Mix flour, corn meal, sugar, baking powder together in a large bowl. Cut in Earth Balance (either with a knife or fork, or just by kneading it in with your hands). Prepare replacement for egg by whisking the corn starch with a splash of soy milk. Add this corn starch/soy milk mixture, the rest of the soy milk, and the lemon juice plus zest to the dry ingredients. Mix, leaving some clumps.

Heat a stick-free or well seasoned pan on medium-high heat. Once hot (dribbled water should sizzle), add 1/8-1/4 tsp Earth Balance. It should melt and sizzle quickly. Before it has spread out very far, scoop about 1/3c batter into the middle of the melting Earth Balance. Flip pancakes once most of the bubbles that form on top have popped.

dinner at Sushi Seki: tofu appetizer (three big chunks of fried tofu with three different sauces); spinach with sesame sauce; vegetable tempura entree (without the non-vegan sauce that is served with it); rice with soy sauce and ginger; avocado roll; Sapporo (“NO!! You can’t brew beer with fish.” -Sapporo); Wakatake Onikoroshi sake (may or may not be vegan)

Not much is vegan at Sushi Seki, as there is bonito in the broth that is used in the miso soup, all the noodle dishes, and some of the vegetable and tofu dishes. However, they were extremely knowledgeable and thorough about what actually was vegan, and it was all very good.

I mentioned this before, but miso soup is often cooked with a bonito or other fish base. Also agedofu and greens are often cooked with fish sauce or fish-based broth.

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February 13, 2010

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