It is.
Last night (for my birthday) Mr cooked up a broccoli-polenta [pan-fried squares], a braised seitan/kale/brussels with sundried tomato and red-wine and an awesome pear/snow-pea sesame sprout salad. It was all from the http://theppk.com/ (that's Veganomicon grand-central) and it was gorgeous!! I mean, lip-smacking-why-isn't-my-stomach-bigger-so-I-can-fit-more-flavour-in? kind of delicious.
Broccoli polenta sounds odd, but it just makes the polenta go "rar!!".
So, this morning, being suitably impressed and inspired, I made their chickpea/quinoa pilaf and their chilli-chocolate Mole sauce to serve over steamed veges. The Mole is OHMYGODAWESOME. IT's 'Like Water for Chocolate' awesome, it's a mouth-gasm x 300.
So, I very very highly recommend that anyone who feels like making a Vegan happy buy this tome and start creating. So far, everything we've cooked from it has been utterly fabulous!
In other news, I did quite a decent beef seitan the other day, and quite a decent chicken one a couple of days later. I'm still no buddhist master of mock-meat, but it's certainly getting there!
I am having very definite fantasies about holding a dinner party in the next school holidays...I think my good friends probably need a vegan experience they will remember...
I think the menu will look like this
Entree: Sesame pear salad
Main: Broccoli polenta rounds served with choice of braised seitan in red-wine or Mole
Dessert: thick caramel pudding with hot sauce and soy ice cream
