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Vegan Quarantine: Day 29

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Welcome to Vegan Quarantine: Day 29.

This daily video series is my way of trying to keep spirits high within the vegan community while also supporting independent business, charities, and musicians.

Links for everything discussed are below:

Support + Feed is asking people to order food from vegan restaurants that is then delivered to people in need. Includes tips on how to start this in your area:
https://www.supportandfeed.com/

Recipe for vegan thin mint cookies from Chef Chloe Coscarelli:
https://chefchloe.com/recipes/sweets/vegan-thin-mints.html

Kind Earth is a vegan produce and grocery store in Wales, delivering locally and nationally:
https://www.instagram.com/kindearthllanelli/

Beyond Meat is donating burgers and meals to food banks and hospital workers in the USA:
https://www.beyondmeat.com/whats-new/feed-a-million/

Buy a 25kg bag of vital wheat gluten flour for delivery in Europe:
https://www.buywholefoodsonline.co.uk/gluten-25kg-bulk.html

Music recommendation of the day. Don’t Change by INXS. Released 1982:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLm3Khusq_8

Vegan Quarantine: Day 27

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Hi all.

Welcome to Vegan Quarantine: Day 27. This daily video series is my way of helping to keep spirits high within the vegan community while also supporting independent business, charities, and musicians.



Links for everything discussed are below:

wagamama are sharing vegan recipes on their Facebook page this week. Some are up already:
https://www.facebook.com/wagamama/

Wanna learn bass guitar? This UK musician is running classes through Zoom starting next week. Pay what you can!
https://tinyurl.com/rqpzq7t

Doomie’s Home Cookin’ is serving for collection and delivery in Hollywood. Decadent vegan junk food:
https://www.doomiesrestaurants.com/

Fab recipe from Connoisseurus Veg for Vegan Irish Stew with Savoury Herb Dumplings:
https://www.connoisseurusveg.com/vegan…/

Music recommendation of the day. What’s It Gonna Be? By Shura. Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Vegan Quarantine: Day 17

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Hi all.

Welcome to Vegan Quarantine: Day 17. This daily video series is my way of keeping spirits high within the vegan community while supporting independent business, charities, and musicians.



All links for topics discussed are below.

Purezza has expanded delivery radius to 2.5 miles. Follow them on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/purezza/

Vinh Loi Tofu has two vegan restaurants in the LA area. They are doing take out and delivery via UberEats.

Their website:
https://www.vinhloitofu.com/
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/vinhloitofu/

Read these helpful tips for hosting a successful online meeting through Zoom, Skype, etc:
https://tinyurl.com/rnxzpyw

Rice Up Wholefoods Ltd is an amazing vegan grocery store in Southampton:
https://riceup.co.uk/

Moo Free Chocolates is highlighting staff stories during Autism Awareness week. Read Joe’s story here:
https://tinyurl.com/s9rexjt

Order Moo Free Chocolates online:
https://www.dairyfreechocolates.com/

Song of the day! A Life Less Ordinary by Ash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

Cuban food done vegan

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Los Angeles has long been one of the finest destinations on the planet when it comes to vegan eating, but it still manages to surprise a seasoned eater like me in 2017.

Tonight we dined with Equelecua in Inglewood and we were impressed, delighted and satisfied.

Equelecua claims to be the first and only vegan Cuban restaurant in the world and they are probably correct. When have you ever seen a vegan Cuban eatery?

The menu is rammed with specialties such as Arroz con Pollo, wings with garlic sauce, Cuban sandwich, and freshly-brewed fruit based sodas.

Just sampled some super tasty #vegan food at @equelecuacc in Los Angeles.

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Arroz con pollo at @equelecuacc #vegan Cuban cafe in LA tonight. xx

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The food above (vegan chicken with rice) tasted as good as it looks. Superb. If you ever find yourself in the area, Equelecua is the perfect choice for either a giant meal or a few quick snacks.

If you can’t get along soon, be sure to follow the Instagram page and marvel at all the wonder they create and share.

Chocolate and peanut butter swirl

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Got plans to be in Los Angeles anytime soon?

Well, you had better make plans!

Today I stopped by a frozen yogurt shop on Robertson Boulevard in West Los Angeles as I had heard about dedicated vegan yogurt self service machines and toppings.

Milky’s is not a fully-vegan enterprise but they certainly do not shy away from their plant-based credentials. Check out the photos below and click play on the hypnotic video of me serving up a jumbo tub of chocolate and peanut butter swirl.

Glory!

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Extra note: these photos and the video all originally appeared on my Instagram account.

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¡Taco taco taco!

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josh panel

I was super-excited to read on the LA Times website that Los Angeles is getting a brand-new taquería, opened by none other than actor Danny Trejo and it appears to be very vegan-friendly! The LA Times article quotes Danny saying;

“Here, we wanted to include everybody, so we have a great vegan menu and gluten-free menu.”

Other online articles speculated that Trejo’s Tacos was 100% vegan but it has since been established that it is just vegan-friendly as they posted a picture of a chicken taco on their Instagram feed. Either way, I can’t wait to find out more during my next trip to LA!

As a side-note, FGV and I visited our first vegan taquería here in Mexico City last night… review and pics coming soon!

You can follow Trejo’s Tacos on Twitter and Instagram, or like the Facebook page.

Glorious food experience

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It has taken me a while to get around to posting these photos, partly because I didn’t want to be reminded of the fact that this stunning food is served daily on the opposite side of the world.

If you have room for a new goal on your bucket list, scribble ‘Gracias Madre Los Angeles’ on a scrap of paper and throw it onto the pile of things you must experience before you kick it.

Gracias Madre is a 99.9% vegan restaurant (honey in some cocktails… don’t get me started!) located in West Hollywood with an original location still operating in the San Francisco area. We visited the WeHo outlet during a recent trip to Southern California so we could satisfy our cravings for vegan Mexican food.

Let me give the page over to the photos as I believe they don’t need much help in conveying the glory of the food crafted and served by Gracias Madre. 

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Vegan Ethiopian

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josh panel

A trip to Little Ethiopia

Most Los Angeles vegans will already know about Rahel – it’s a vegan Ethiopian restaurant that has been on Fairfax for years and years. The secret to its success? Consistently amazing food. I’ve dined there multiple times over the years and on each occasion, Rahel has nailed it. A couple of weeks ago I was in LA and met my friend Brian for dinner. Check out the photos below of the ‘Millennium Special’ platter which included a dessert. Forgetting that I can never finish the platters, I also ordered a sambussa and instantly regretted it (although it was delicious).

If you’re familiar with Ethiopian food then you’ll know that the feast platters are served on a bed of injera and include many different and diverse dishes. Accompanying this were some of the tastiest vegetable and lentil stews ever, which combined with the injera made a mouth-watering combination of flavours and textures. The melt-in-your-mouth pumpkin stew was out of this world.

The dessert, a little like baklava, was nothing to write home about but who cares after such a delicious platter?

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You can visit Rahel online and make sure you pencil in a stop when you are in Los Angeles.

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Vegan restaurant in an airport

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I’ve been vegan for almost 17 years and I’ve seen a lot of changes during that period.

I can remember going to my first vegan fair at Conway Hall in London back in 1999. Somebody gave me seitan and I recall being incredibly confused.

I think there was choice of just one soya milk we used to buy from Sainsbury’s back in my early vegan days. It was sweetened with apple juice! Cheezly was the only vegan cheese on the block and I had the feeling that eating vegan was going to remain an outsider concern for a long, long time.

Flash forward to 2015 and I am now blogging about a vegan restaurant outlet situated inside Los Angeles International Airport. Times have changed.

Following on from our vacation in Southern California recently, Josh and I were booked to fly out of LAX Terminal 4. This air travel hub just so happens to be the site of an outlet for legendary vegan food chain, Real Food Daily. Yep. A vegan food outlet inside an airport.

The photos below show my club sandwich that was stacked solid with seitan, tempeh and avocado. Josh’s ‘build your own bowl’ meal was filled with brown rice, seitan, marinated tofu and steamed kale.

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