Who knew that you could drive from Seattle to Los Angeles and eat completely vegan!? And I experienced my first taste of Seitan, (pronounced say-tawn) a vegan protein I wasn't sure of, but that's partly due to the fact I thought it was pronounced Satan.
TOFU SCRAMBLE (vegan)
The trip started with delicious bevy's from Starbucks.
3 hours later the CAFFEINE HIGH was on a downward spiral into no man's land
until we stumbled upon...
Down To Earth Cafe
Location: Portland, OR!
Can I just say thank you Portland!?
Firm tofu, mushrooms, red onions, zucchini, tomatoes, spinach, topped with avocado; with salsa
Absa-freakin-loutely DIVINE! I wish I could snap my fingers and have a nice fine man deliver me this tofu scramble breakfast every morning...along with a mimosa.
Hours later, after a short detour for a wine tasting (whoopsie daisy) we yelped, organic vegan restaurants and stumbled upon the Greenleaf Restaurant
for another meal sent from the food lords.
WHERE: ASHLAND, OREGON
VEGAN SALAD
Cucumbers, red onions, tomatoes, garbanzo beans, grated carrots, roasted red bell peppers, pepperoncini, sprouts & sunflower seeds on a bed of tossed greens. 9.95
We shared a small vegan pizza & the best black lentil bean soup
I've ever tasted.
I've ever tasted.
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| This is a picture from their website. I wasn't quick enough to get my camera out. The food was gone. |
Just when we thought our luck couldn't get any better...
WHERE: SAN FRANSISCO & LOS ANGELES
Never have I been more excited to order food.
CAFE GRATITUDE
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| I AM EXTRAORDINARY! |
We loved it so much we ate at Cafe Gratitude in San Fransisco and Los Angeles! I wish I had more pictures, but we smashed the food like it was our mutha' grubbin' job!
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| The delectable desserts! |
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After 22 hours in the car and several hours between our last meal, the hungry vegans landed in Hollywood, CA!
Where: TRULY VEGAN
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| Don't judge a book by the cover! |
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I ordered the YUMMY! Salad! & added Seitan!   |
Every crunchy bite of the perfectly seasoned Seitan made me eat until I was at/over my full belly capacity! I just kept eating and eating and the salad would not decrease. It was packed full of fresh veggies, avocado, Seitan & light dressing. We guzzled down coconut water from a coconut (cool) & and ordered fresh veggie rolls before our salads made their grand entrance.
It doesn't get any better than road trippin' and eating quality food with quality people.
Signing off,
3 Happy Bellies
By the end of the trip I became a self-proclaimed Vegan! haha
ReplyDeleteMe: "I'm Veeeegggannnn!"
J: "You are???" o_0
Thank you for enlightening me, and showing me that the way to a healthy AND DELICIOUS lifestyle is simply one click away! (shout out to steve jobs & the yelp gods!)
BEST ROAD TRIP EVER.
CARPE DIEM!!!!!!
I LOVE that we ate vegan food that tasted dammmmmmmn good the entire time and not once did we eat in a place that had a couple vegan options!
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU FOR BEING OPEN MINDED AND EXPERIMENTAL!!!!
I wish we could do it all over again!!! - wait...we can!!!! J you're up next!! I love that we all went the vegan route! Notice how we only ate 3 meals the whole time...it's because we filled ourselves up with healthy food that left us satisfied and fulfilled - imagine how horrible we would have felt if we ate poorly and snacked the whole way! CARPE DIEM and CARPE HEALTH!! haha
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