Verdict on restaurant yesterday

[petronia]

VEGAN POUTINE

OH MY GOD

SO UNEXPECTEDLY DELICIOUS

The weakness is in the "cheese" - no matter how well you mimic the texture, tofu is not going to melt under heat the way real curds do - but the shiitake gravy was awesome by way of tasting recognizably of shiitake mushrooms and yet EXACTLY LIKE NORMAL POUTINE GRAVY. I think the secret ingredient is a hearty dose of black pepper. That and the fact that, uh, it's not like normal poutine gravy really contains that much any meat to begin with. :D;;;

One vegan poutine costs three regular poutines, but what can you do.

Justin is currently not allowed any: dairy, eggs, gluten (down to the wheat in soy sauce), refined sugar, red meat, white rice. I promised to show him that shirataki noodle fake dinner recipe.

P.S. What would you expect a band called Vegan Poutine to play/be like?

Comments

[marici.livejournal.com]

What has Justin done to deserve this gruesome fate? He's basically got nothing but salads left!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Some kind of chronic digestive inflammation (he told me the name once but I've forgotten ^^;). He was on a course of steroids for a while, but is now off those as the diet seems to be keeping things in check.

[iatros.livejournal.com]

Ulcerative colitis? (other likely option is Crohn's disease).

[nem0.livejournal.com]

P.S. What would you expect a band called Vegan Poutine to play/be like?

Probably either something like Baby Gopal (http://www.mp3.com/baby-gopal/artists/166137/songs.html) (Hindu-influenced vegan-friendly pop-punk) or something psy-goa-trance.

Sri (http://www.srimusic.com/) from Baby Gopal also did an album of traditional Indain music set to dance beats that I highly recommend.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting (I was also thinking straight-edge pop-punk XD).

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

My brother's on a diet exactly like that, though he sometimes gets around it by popping TUMS. -_-; On bad days even fruit will set him off. Or fish.

There's plenty left to eat even with that -- I know because all the food in the house atm is Alex-friendly.

[fantabulous.livejournal.com]

Vegan poutine ... hm. It sounds good, actually. ;-)

As to what a band named Vegan Poutine would sound like ... *shrug* ... well, what comes into my head when I hear the name is a cross between Indian/Bollywood pop and Québec folk-rock. heh.

[sfllaw.livejournal.com]

Poor Justin. That sounds like a painful diet to be on. Many of my favourite foods involve one or more of those things.

[astrael-nyx.livejournal.com]

Vegan poutine? Only in Montreal. This, I must taste, along with the insane meat-laden poutine (found somewhere up on the Plateau) that my friends told me about. Probably best one after another.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, cheese substitutes are hard to find. But couldn't they have tried mochi instead of tofu? Consistency is much closer, and it does melt under heat.

I should have written about the time I tried mochi cheese gratin at this neo-Japanese cuisine restaurant.