The Artful Vegan

One of the other birthday delights I was treated with was a copy of the second Millennium Cookbook, The Artful Vegan. For those who don't know the Millennium Restaurant, it is a vegan gourmet restaurant in San Fran and when it comes to gourmet veggie cuisine they can not be beat. Not in my books anyway. I've had my share of very beautiful, lip-licking tasty vegan/veggie meals made by pros and with the love of darling friends and family, but Millennium is food on a whole new level. Flavours reduced, layered and carefully selected to tantalize your tastebuds and cause those of us veggie foodies to swoon from the toes up with delight. These are meals so flavourful, artful and damn delicious that I defy anyone to feel they are in anyway limited by their lack of animal bits. Seriously.

Their cookbooks do an amazing job of translating the intensity, creativity and art of gourmet veggie cooking. That said, they're not cookbooks for hurried evening, after work cooking or things you want to try out on a day when your self-esteem is feeling a little touch and go. They are recipes for a day when you have all the time in the world to spend in the kitchen preparing, simmering, sneaking tastes and planning for a truly beautiful meal. Conveniently, they're the kind of meals you might feel inspired to make when you have recently acquired some seriously rockin' new kitchen accoutrements like, oh-say a KitchenAid and a Le Creuset pot... For example. (Yes the birthday fairy was very good to me this year).

So now the only task that remains is choosing a recipe... I'm eying up the Gnocchi with roasted beets and walnuts and wondering if throwing some homemade foccacia and german chocolate cake (all requiring the use of the KitchenAid you see) is overdoing it entirely. My dinner guests may need a little help getting out of their chairs after that kind of a carb fest. Still, I'm sure it would be yummy.

Comments

[Jennifer]

Yummy... I have too many cookbooks already! I may just have to add that one to my Christmas list.

[Bill]

Hi!

Love what you're doing with the house!

Have you considered listing it in the Home Name Registry?

Check it out at www.homenameregistry.com

Billy!

[Mena]

drool....

[leosatter]

Maybe you can help me out with something…? I want to order all of my food online from now on because of various reasons, but I don’t know where to go for quality food. I have tried 2 companies so far, Fresh Dining, and and Celebrity Foods, but I wanna get others I can try out. Do you know of any? The main thing I’ve ordered so far is steak. I guess you can say, I’m a steak junkie. LOL!!! From what I have found out (from what I have ordered so far) I think I am able to regulate the quality of beef I buy. I hate going to a store and getting that crappy slab of beef that I have to cut down until there is like nothing left. Hahaha!!!! (its so true though) Anyhow, sorry that I made this comment so long. If you can help me out or point me in a direction where I might find more quality foods online, I would greatly appreciate it. Have a good day or night! (depending on when you read this) LOL!!!!