6: Recreate a restaurant meal.
I am looking forward to reading the fancy-pants restaurant-inspired fine dining meals that many of you are going to be creating. I took a slightly easier path, given some time constraints, however I think that good restaurant food can come from anywhere, including some chain restaurants.
Last year in Seattle I visited Veggie Grill and enjoyed the Harvest Bowl, which is a yummy bowl including super grains, kale, roasted vegetables, porcini mushrooms, Field Roast sausage, miso gravy and hemp seeds.
I just so happened to have some Field Roast Apple Sage Sausages in my freezer than I brought home from this year's US trip, and the rest was history. Instead of steamed kale I served it over baby spinach, and I just used straight quinoa instead of any sort of grain mix. I roasted broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and red onion for the vegetabls. I didn't have any porcini mushrooms, so I roasted some quartered swiss brown mushrooms. For the gravy I used the Miracle Miso Gravy recipe from La Dolce Vegan, but I added some of the roasted mushroom juices to it and I also added a bit of browning liquid because I like my gravy dark. It was good gravy!
The end result was fantastic, very yummy! I realise now as I type this that I forgot to add the hemp seeds, but I don't think it missed out on too much for that. This was super easy to put together as well.
Look how pretty the roasted vegetables looked on their own!
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Ooh, this is just the kind of food I love! Those sausages are amazing. We've just started to be able to get them in England. I think they're my favourite vegan sausages ever!
ReplyDeleteYours looks pretty similar to the restaurant-made meal, well done! That mix of roast veg looks so great!
ReplyDeleteField Roast makes the best sausages! Your bowl looks so good! I wouldn't mind murdering that for lunch. Do you always carry a tiny note pad with you? I do too! My brain can't be trusted to remember things. Tiny note pads FTW!
ReplyDeleteWouldn't you know I thought I had commented on these blogposts? I had too many windows open and after commenting, my browser crashed and they didn't go through and I'm just noticing now. Darn.
ReplyDeleteAnyway - I looooooove Veggie Grill. I live quite close to one, which is dangerous. And they have a Bombay Bowl which is quite good, I haven't tried this bowl yet so I'll have to check it out. Yours looks so good!