If you lived here, you could be eating this right now.
Greetings fellow Foodies,
I thought I’d share with you yet another glorious display of vegan soul food:
This anything but humble offering is yet another fantastic lunch from the Taste of Life booth at the Hollywood Farmers Market. We’ve got the macaroni & cheese (so good and cheesy… how do they do it?), the pot roast (god I love this), the black-eyed peas (kinda plain but still tasty), and at the suggestion of one of my readers (thanks Scott!), the veggie lasagna. The lasagna was the only item I had not tried from these guys yet, and yeah, it was all that. The sauce was delicious and I don’t know what they used to simulate the Ricotta (tofu?), but it was spot on both in texture and taste. True, lasagna has got nothing to do with soul food… don’t ask me why they decided to add it to their menu. I for one am sure glad they did.
Oh and of course the cornbread on top was the proverbial icing on the cake. Although it wasn’t icing. And this wasn’t a cake. And I would have liked about two or three more pieces.
If you’re in L.A, head on over to the Hollywood Farmers Market tomorrow (if it’s not raining) (or on any given Sunday) and get your belly nice and full on some of this filling, comforting, fattening and authentically scrumptious down home cooking.
Update: Thanks to Your Vegan Mom for pointing out that the farmers market will have different hours tomorrow due to the L.A. Marathon. Here’s the scoop:
The Hollywood Farmers’ Market will be changing its hours for One Day Only! The market will operate from 11 am to 2 pm on March 2nd. This is to make it easier for everyone to get to the market once the Marathon has passed through Hollywood. Validated parking will be available during market hours at the Arclight/Cinerama Dome parking structure at Sunset & Ivar. 1st Hour free with market validation. Limited free parking will also be available at 1623 N. Vine Street in the Doolittle Theatre parking lot from 11 am to 2 pm.
And for the love of dog, whatever you do… despite the offers of validated parking, avoid driving out there tomorrow as if your life depended on it. Traffic will be an absolute nightmare. If there was ever a better day to ride the Metro, tomorrow will certainly be it.
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wow, I was planning on eating that exact same plate tomorrow!!! (with additional pieces of cornbread, and all!)
…creepy.
PS. For your own good, don’t look at my most recent post (I’m even ashamed of myself for eating like that)
Comment by teenage glutster — March 1, 2008 @ 2:58 pm
Hey! That mac n’ cheese is the best, but now I really want your lasagna. Also, just a quick PSA - I think the l.a. marathon is tomorrow which means that the hours for the farmers market are different, so check before you go.
Comment by Trina — March 1, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
Teenage Gluster: Oh… too late… I already saw your beefy post! My eyes are now bleeding (I kid, I kid). Enjoy your Soul Food tomorrow… if the nice man who runs the place is there, try to get him to fill your order… I find he’s always more generous with the cornbread than the others (though that might have something to do with me being female).
Comment by FoodEater — March 1, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
Damn! I may have to come to Hollywood, just for that dish! yum yum.
Comment by Melisser — March 1, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
Melisser: That’s the plan… to make you come back!
Comment by FoodEater — March 2, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
i’m glad you liked the lasagna. i think it’s my absolute favorite. i passed on the FM this weekend, with the reduced hours i wasnt sure who’d be there plus i needed to get to ikea before the throngs of people. i ended up making my awesome burritos last night. looking forward to next weekend though so i can get more lasagna and the piece of corn bread the was left off my plate last weekend.
Comment by scott — March 3, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Yes!!! Last week I had the kale and BBQ Tofu - which was incredible. This week I hosted a brunch at my house and was semi-confused while walking down to the FM (at 9:30 mind you) to find throngs of people flooding the streets. Ohhhh yeah the Marathon! In any case, about half the vendors were already there so I was able to stock up on strawberries and apples anyway. I love love love Taste of Life.
Comment by Allison — March 4, 2008 @ 6:01 pm
It looks like you have a cool farmers’ market there. Great picture, great food!
Comment by Cookiemouse — March 6, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
thanks for rubbing it in that I DON’T live there!! >:0(
Haha, just kidding - I LOVE that you share photographs of all the delicious vegan eats that are available in L.A. - keep ‘em coming!! :0)
Comment by VeggieGirl — March 6, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
Allison: Yes, the Taste of Life tofu is the bomb!
Cookiemouse: Indeed, the Hollywood Farmers Market in particular is really something special… especially for here in L.A. And it’s also HUGE!
VeggieGirl: The plan is to make everyone jealous of our fine food so that you will all come to visit us… and boost our flailing economy at the same time :)
Comment by FoodEater — March 6, 2008 @ 10:36 pm