Breakfast Plus Salad

The Chef: Brooke

The Menu: Rich, hearty vegan Ham & Cheese Breakfast Turnovers courtesy of Veggie Brothers served alongside with crispy, meat-free breakfast sausage a la Harmony Valley Foods. Brooke balanced our breakfast-for-lunch meal with a refreshing simple green salad of romaine and garbanzo beans.

The Goods: Today marked Ms. Brooke's first turn in the VN kitchen, and lets just say that our happy and sufficiently satiated staff isn't complaining about it. We're pretty big fans of breakfast foods no matter the time of day, and we were particularly enthralled by Veggie Brothers' vegan take on ham and cheese turnovers. These buttery bites are reminiscent of another popular turnover product famous for its microwavable breakfast and lunch pastries, except without all the animal products and terrible commercials.

Frittata, Sausage, and Biscuits

The Chef: Abby

The Menu: Um, perhaps the most amazing smorgasbord of brunchy treats this side of Sunday. Ms. Abby whipped up her signature fresh biscuits, breakfast sausage patties, mini herbed frittatas, and a huge, gorgeous kale, quinoa, lettuce, kidney bean, and tomato salad. Oooof. We are pretty well slain with delight over here.

The Goods: It's possible that we made a few major announcements today in the form of the July VegNewsletter. Foremost among them are our second VegNews Great Adventure to India, the fast and furious discussion taking place in our brand new Book Club, and the VN Publisher's Circle. Yes indeed, there's plenty going on over here at the VNHQ, so it's a good thing we had this awesome lunch to help us power through!

Vegan Sausage, Biscuits, and Gravy

The Chefs: Abby and Liz

The Menu: Um, hello. A delicious smorgasbord of breakfasty goodies. First of all Liz busted out an incredible batch of rich cashew gravy, which we slathered on breakfast sausages (Liz whipped these up from a mix) and biscuits alike. Yes, those would be Abby's famous biscuits, of which we wish we had a permanent supply. Abby also made a lovely salad. You know, because vegetarians supposedly enjoy eating vegetables. Whatever. Oh, and the very bright cauliflower behind the salad? That would be Frankie's latest foray into pickling. Let's just say that she brought a few jars of various pickled goodies for us to try, and they are now empty.

The Goods: Today we shared lunch with VegWebmistress Laura Beck, whom, as you might know, we adore. We also enjoyed the company of Zac Taylor, our local Honest Tea rep. Zac was kind enough to bring us over a ton of tea, some of which he kept cool for us in this nifty container. Yes, we were thrilled. Thanks to Zac and all of today's chefs!