
I usually don't post about food I don't cook myself, but I was up in the bay area for a wedding this weekend, and even though I wrote "Vegan, please!" for the meal choice on my RSVP, I was pretty sure I was going to end up eating nothing but cliff bars. (I brought like three cliff bars and some soy jerky with me in my purse, just in case.) But then it turned out they had a special vegan meal just for me, with my own salad (the regular salad was a caesar), and the tofu kabobs pictured above. I was so happy that the bride and groom made sure I could eat amongst the billion of other wedding things they had to do, and the catering people obliged and made sure I actually got fed.
A lot of the time I end up feeling vaguely guilty for being vegan in social eating situations, like I am inconveniencing everyone with my special requirements, or else sort of awkwardly munching on a cliff bar and being all "No, I'm fine, don't worry about me," when there's nothing for me to eat, which totally feeds into the stereotype that being vegan means eating bad food, when really ninety percent of the time I eat ridiculously good food. Which makes it so nice when it turns out really being no big deal at all, like at this wedding. So yay for good friends and being able to eat like a normal person.
Also, the tofu kabobs were mighty tasty.