Easy Recipe Suggestions for a Diner or Restaurant Italicized recipes are from the book Dating Vegans: Recipes for Relationships except as noted. Using Current Ingredients: Using Simple Everyone (already in use at diner) Additional Ingredients: Can Love These Dishes BREAKFAST BREAKFAST Home Fried Potatoes (use veg oil) Vegan Brunch: BREAKFAST Fruit Salad Pancakes, home fries, fresh fruit, Oat Waffles adapted from The Mushrooms & Tomato on Toast muffin Vegan Kitchen cookbook Oatmeal: use water, not milk; Makes 8 squares could add apples, raisins, spices Nick’s Pancakes 2 cups quick oats, 2 cups soymilk, Toast and jelly (no butter) Need soymilk. Serve with maple 2 Tbs shelled sunflower seeds, 4 syrup, nondairy butter, fresh fruit LUNCH & DINNER pitted dates, 2 Tbs oil. Process all Italian Specialties Vegan Platter Peach-Oatmeal Muffin ingredients until smooth. Then Salad and/or soup, choice from 2 Assorted fruits work. Needs put in oiled waffle iron for 10 dates, nuts. Yummy healthy fare. minutes. If start with certified entrees, bread Grand Vegan Brunch is the above gluten-free oats, these are a GF All-Veg Salad: Lettuce, tomato, option too! Serve with nut cucumber, peppers, olives, onion, plus Veg Scramble. Offer on a particular day with publicity. butter, vegan margarine, fruit spinach, mushrooms. May add jelly, maple syrup, sliced fruit. garbanzos (chickpeas). Veg Scramble: tofu, turmeric, Vinaigrette dressing on side. LUNCH/DINNER mixed herbs & spices, optional mushrooms & onion. Rinse, Two more entrée options: Soup DuJour—Vegetable or Lentil-Veg or Minestrone: drain, blot, & crumble tofu into Paul’s Portabella Potatoes Carrot, potato, onion, spinach hot skillet. Add other ingredients. Endorsed by hearty eaters. (& other greens such as kale/ Use nonstick pan or veg oil. Note: Sautée mushrooms to collards), broccoli. Start with wa- Adding optional unsweetened keep potatoes white. ter, not beef stock. Add cumin soymilk and cornstarch makes it and Old Bay® seasoning. Heartier more egg-like. Jo’s Cornucopia Oat Burgers with lentils, or beans & pasta for Surprisingly simple. Baked Beans on Toast: good minestrone. hearty fare in winter; English Can use Lentil Garden Stew. Desserts classic uses beans in tomato Takedown Chocolate Brownies Pasta with Tomato Sauce sauce; spread toast with vegan So delicious most patrons won’t Offer chunky vegetables with margarine. know they’re vegan! Use sauce: asparagus, broccoli, soymilk, yam, whole-wheat mushrooms, spinach, some LUNCH/DINNER pastry flour, nondairy choc chips kidney beans for good protein. Two hearty options for Soup Pasta with Garden Vegetable Dan’s No-Ham Split Pea Soup Tiramisu Sauce. Check pasta is eggless. need split peas More elaborate and requires a few vegan ingredients: coconut Eggplant Sans-Parmigiana Victoria’s Famous Vegan Chili milk, flaxseeds, whole-wheat Eggplant/tomato sauce dish (no uses tofu; call it vibrant veggie pastry flour, vanilla soymilk, dark cheese), serve as entrée or on roll chili for regular customers (not milk) chocolate. Wouldn’t it (check bread ingredients) for sand- Desserts be great to have an amazing wich. Adapt current dish or use dessert everyone loves and its Randall’s Baked Eggplant. Foxy Fudge only 2 ingredients total reputation is so good people Bread: no milk/whey, butter will travel miles to eat it! Plain bread or with olive oil and Oatmeal-Raisin Cookies herbs. Double-Italian Bread uses vegan margarine, whole- Order Dating Vegans at Sides: Fries (baked or in veg oil fryer wheat pastry flour AmericanVegan.org not used for animal products) Vegetable of the Day (no butter) Like this idea? Become an AVS member or donate to support this work. Dessert: Fruit This page may be copied for distribution with credit to American Vegan Society.