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

POSTED: Sunday, February 1, 2009, 10:38 PM
Photos | Drew Lazor

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.


Adam
Posted 2009-02-02 09:51:39
Tonight, Drew, skip Capital in favor of Barclay. Consistently the best steaks I've had in town.

Drew Lazor
Posted 2009-02-02 12:18:06
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.

clint
Posted 2009-02-02 13:42:02
Horizon's is fantastic.  I think I had dreams about that eggplant stuffed pepper.

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