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February 20, 2010

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February 20, 2010 - stacey. Tags: Washington, DC

breakfast: coffee with soy milk from Sankofa (the staff was extremely friendly and are now considering stocking vegan cream cheese and vegan cheese after our suggestions); leftover vegan pizza from Duccini’s

snacks provided during cooking demonstrations at Rooting DC: a low cost vegan salad (I am not sure of the recipe), spicy kale salad made by Tracye McQuirter (a nutritionist who has been vegan for 20 years). She posts the kale salad recipe and other recipes on her website. I also tried 2 different raw green smoothies. If you want the recipes, send me an email and I will forward them to you.

lunch: half a loaf of vegan chocolate chip banana bread, also purchased at Sankofa

snacks during Shutter Island: fruit Fig Newmans (thanks Nate); maple cookies from Trader Joe’s, just like we used to eat by the box in Oberlin and Un-Chicken Fajita made by Sunneen.

drinks: free sample of brandy from Sportsman Liquors in Mount Pleasant; gin and tonic with lime; Yuengling; Peak Organic nut brown ale

“dinner” (provided by honey and nate): tempura mix pancakes chopped and fried with onion, garlic, carrot, roasted red pepper, sea salt, black pepper, vegetarian oyster sauce, and lime. Broccoli tempura (after realizing the mistake). This was the most amazing dish I have had in a long time!

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katherine's comment:
February 22, 2010 at 10:20 pm

stacey really did think that the tempura pancakes were the best thing she’d ever eaten. then she passed out.

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