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The Week Without Meat Day 7: The end is just over the Horizons
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The Week Without Meat Day 7: The end is just over the Horizons
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I’m abstaining from meat for a week. Read why here.
For Day 6's dinner, I decided to go all the way out — Horizons, y'all. Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby's much-celebrated vegan eatery, which opened in 2006 near Seventh and South, has definitely been on my The Week Without Meat hit list from the beginning. The second-to-last evening of my veg challenge seemed like the perfect opportunity to splurge a little. I'm glad I did.
The lady and I pulled up seats at the ground-floor bar and got busy. Clockwise from top left — seitan reuben sliders (I'm a Jewish deli addict, so these were killer); grilled seitan with yukon mash, horseradish cream sauce and red pepper tapenade (heartily American in the best possible way); Jacoby's super-creamy saffron creme brulee with pistachio biscotti; and Catalan tempeh with braised lentils and a smoked eggplant-stuffed pepper. I dug everything we ordered, but I'll admit that I'm not accustomed to the consistency of tempeh — this was my first time having it, and I was somewhat flummoxed by the inherent textural characteristics of the soybean-based superfood. I'll give it another shot down the line, but for now I think seitan is my number one not-meat girl.
Tonight, I'll be trying my hand at two recipes from their 2007 cookbook, Horizons: New Vegan Cuisine, for my Super Bowl dinner — seitan beef, barley and ale soup and garlic green beans with Marcona almonds and tarragon butter*. How badly will I screw this up? Find out tomorrow.
Also: When shopping for ingredients at Whole Foods earlier, I couldn't resist tossing a packet of uncured bacon into the cart. Will I be frying up a big-ass pile at 12:01 a.m.? Check back manana for the answer.
* The recipe calls for vegan butter, but I think I'm going to rock the real stuff.
Tonight, Drew, skip Capital in favor of Barclay. Consistently the best steaks I've had in town.
Turns out I'm not going out for the steak dinner until Wednesday night, but I am going to start eating meat like ASAP. I think Table 31 has become the settled-upon destination.
Horizon's is fantastic. I think I had dreams about that eggplant stuffed pepper.
[...] an organic veg restaurant in Hollywood that’d been recommended to me by quite a few people. My first experience with tempeh left something to be desired, so I decided to give the stuff another shot here by ordering “Vivas Las Pasta,” a [...]
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