Rubystars said:"Vaine" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:This summer I hope to open a vegan restaurant.
In order to stay afloat you may have to offer some lacto
ovo meals.
There's a restaurant here in Houston called the Hobbit
Hole. It used to be a vegetarian restaurant only but now
they also serve some meat dishes in order that vegetarians
can go out to eat with their non-vegetarian friends and
have fun together (maybe even introduce them to some good
veg food).
That's pretty sad. I suppose it depends on where you are
located, because here in Montreal, there are quire a few
vegan only restaurants that do just fine. That has been my
experience in Toronto as well, and from doing some research
on NYC, it works well there as well.
If your dishes are good enough, there is no reason why you
should have to "branch out" into ovo-lacto or meaty cuisine.
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Quoted message said:The name will probably be Patches Natural or Patches
Natural Cooking. Can any1 give me some of there fav Vegan
Recipes for * style cooking. *Grilling *Mexican *Italian
*Irish *Cajun *Asian *French cooking/coffee (not sure what
type of food we'll serve, maybe all of 'em) Im trying to
also make it a cafe, with "home-made coffee"(we grind the
coffee beans, use soy milk/creamer, pick the vanilla/herbs
from my garden)
That sounds good. 🙂
Good sounding indeed! A suggestion thought: If you are
going to grind your own beans (yay!), you should also
look at roasting your own beens. You get them even
fresher and tastier.
I will just mention one of my favourite veggie-friendly
(unfortunately, the food is not very vegan friendly...)
places here in Montreal: Cafe Santropol
(santropol.comsantropol.comOpen ↗). They have been in business
since 1976, selling Fair Trade coffee and tea years before
it started to become trendy. I buy there beans at a local
co-op here because their cafe is located at the other end of
the island from me.
They recently (as in, the past 5 years or so) spun off
another effort called "Santropol Roulant", which is
basically a locally funded meals-on-wheels. That is where
the profits from the cafe go.
As the emphasis is on it being a "cafe", they do not need a
restaurant license so long as the only "cooking" that they
do is to boil water. They instead qualify for a more
restrictive (in what they can do), but cheaper and easier to
attain cafe license. Maybe that's just a Montreal thing
though, I don't know!
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Quoted message said:We will also be making our own (red) wine, using diff
herbs to flavor it, so if you could also tell me good
(herbal) flavors of wine that would be nice.(I usually
like when the grapes are planted with vanilla or hemp,
they giv the wine a good flavor)
So if you'll post some good casual restaurant type vegan
recipes, id be really greatfull.
Sandwitches are always good, and easy. Just use your
imagination. Easy to prepare, casusal, good lunches, and
go well with coffee. Other options include rice bowls,
pasta (easy, and familiar to most people, including non-
vegans), chili.
I would offer some recipes, however, many of mine originally
came from local restaurants.
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Why don't you make some basic soups? You should also offer
soy ice cream for desserts too.
Also excellent ideas.
A "curry cream of brocoli" soup that I have been playing
with recently goes something like this:
8 cups of vegetable broth 2 cups of soy milk 4 cups of diced
potatoes 3 cups of thinly sliced leeks (just the white
parts) 3-4 cups of chopped brocoli 3 cloves of pressed
garlic curry paste to taste.
Method:
* Simmer all ingredients about 1 hour, until
vegetables are soft.
* blend soup in batches until mostly creamy (I like having
some chunks still in there).
-- Blue
