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Joshua ploeg, hero

Last night was an eating extravaganza at Neon's house. vegan-hardcorepunkrock travelling chef Joshua Ploeg (pictured here, formerly of Behead the Prophet NLSL & The Mukilteo Fairies) called neon's house a stop on his current food tour.

What's a food tour?
oh like only the most amazing thing ever.
pretty much thru word of mouth, etc. etc. he travels across the country creating amazing (and vegan) meals in people's houses. he's like a travelling one-man catering company. i asked niki if we could keep him. wouldn't it be amazing to have your own chef? wow. especially a talented one.

put it this way. randall, the infamous vegetable hater, even ate the food. WOAH.

the whole meal had a mediterranean feel. it started off with a ciabatta bread with roasted (all day) tomatoes with a balsamic vinegar and rosemary oil. this was also accompanied with a super great salad with apples, walnuts and...were those prunes???

after the starters we all had a bowl of soup. a very mild flavor with tomatoes, some sort of pickle family item and rice noodles.

once we slurped the soup down it was on to the main course. we lined up single file and traipsed into the kitchen to load up our plates. fried chickpea patties with a tomato and pepper and carmelized onion accompanyment. a "chicken" dish with more vegetables and a strong cognac sauce. grilled asparagus (which i normally don't like but yum yum) and then roasted beets. i was totally afraid of the beets, i didn't think i'd like them one bit, but they were really savory and great. oh and then risotto with lemon and some sort of buttered herb.

it was a food heaven. camille and i went back for seconds on the chickpea patty (we were served first so only took a small amount to make sure everyone would have some).

after the food eating i was FULL.

but wait! there was more. don't forget the cheesecake.
okay, i just remembered he said it was a vegan meal, but wait a minute marscapone isn't vegan. cheesecake isn't vegan (unless he fooled me with the vegan cheese). maybe it's in one of his cookbooks.

it was amazing. it had a strange texture, not lumpy, but with little bits. also the crust was made from pistachio cookies or something like that. and the sauce on it was pomegranate. alice and i wanted to eat another piece afterwards but we were so full. but i really wanted to eat it. it was really great. i'm drooling right now just thinking about it.

mmmmm....

so yah if you ever have the opportunity to have a travelling chef come cater a dinner party at your house, i would highly highly recommend it. and thanks neon for doing so!

update: niki says the entire meal was vegetarian and not vegan. she says the whole thing was lousy (in an good way) with butter (i thought it might have been, but was under the impression it was magic vegan butter) and that the cheesecake was the real deal. and speaking of the cheesecake. man i still wants to shove more in my face.

Posted by pocketpig at February 10, 2006 05:00 PM

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