Do you see what is photographed below? It is a mini, deep fried, apple pie. I can't believe I've been eating quite healthy the past few weeks, and yet, those words are being typed, that those words were experienced! The
Whiffies deep fried pie cart opened up at SE 12
th and SE Hawthorne (walking distance from my apartment!) last weekend by
Potato Champion!, and Ms.
Strawberryrock and myself just happened to walk by during their first evening. It was a soft opening and poor us, only the vegan fruit pies were being offered. My apple pie was hot, flaky and filled with small chunks of apples and delicious apple ooze. That's right.
Vegan apple pie
We sat outside the cart and enjoyed the late night liveliness around us. There was a DJ cart for
pete's sake. Of course, afterwards I felt a little...deep fried, and I knew this wasn't something that could be a frequent
indulgence from the get go, but I liked it. I would have died had there been a drizzle of icing, so it's probably best there wasn't. I've been immersed in focused greens consumption to preparation for trying their new savory vegan chicken pot pies and, in the future, they're supposed to have vegan fried chicken
seitan. Come on.
SE 12th carts. The fries at PC! are the best,
and the Creperie *just* started offering a vegan crepe!
DJ...cart...
The new Whiffies cart
Since I'm already skipping the final NYC food porn post til next week, let's continue onto more food in
PDX I've enjoyed & created. Daylight! photos! gasp!
The jdfunks burrito
I'm not quite sure how it happened, but I was in the mood for a burrito, and that is rare. I'm really a crispy person. Me + texture = great friends. This tortilla held lightly seasoned short grain brown rice, baby spinach, smoky pinto spread, hot sauce, homemade
almond cheeze (based on the recipe from
Real Food Daily) and
noochy breaded
seitan.
Seitan sausage, garlic, mushrooms & collards
This dinner features two types of homemade
steamed sausages, both of the spicy variety. One was based on Isa's
Chorizo in
Vegan Brunch and the other from
Artful Vegan.
Hodge
podge meal including the dish above, a leftover tamale from Paula of
Semicircular Vegan, brown rice, smoky pinto dip, etc. etc. etc. She brought them to a party I threw last weekend with a sub-theme of late 1990s
WB shows I watched and it was a super fun time! I can't even begin to describe how productive cutting out Buffy and Felicity quotes made me feel.
Yesterday I stopped by the
Eastbank Farmers Market for goodies including basil,
Hot Lips black raspberry soda and one of
Toddbott's rice triangles. One my my favorite stands, no question.
15 comments:
How did you have leftover tamales? Did you notice that they were Jessed?
I kind of want an apple pie now.
Your whole Portland food cart phenomenon is amazing to me! We have nothing like this. Sigh. Yet another reason to add to the list of reasons why Portland needs to be visited!
Oh, all of these dishes look amazing. That seitan...mmm delicious! But, you know, my mind keeps going back to that incredible apple turnover. Man oh man. What a great looking treat!
I briefly microwaved it and then spooned sauce onto it, you creep - what should I have done? I noticed they were jessed! Thank you guys so much.
If you make a pie, don't be a stranger, and make it with mcintosh.
Aimee - do it! visit!
Wow a deep fried vegan apple pie. We have nothing like that on the east coast (at least I don't think so). Anyway, the seitan dishes look great. I'm still buying the asian mock duck canned kind, but would love to try and start making it fresh and homemade. Now I'm inspired to do so. Thanks!
My love for this post only slightly outweighs my bitterness that you have access to deep fried pies, yo. And now I really must get my hands on a black raspberry soda.
Dang, we need food carts in SF! That's bonkers! Man, I always miss Paula when we're in each other's towns, it's crazy.
I don't have the self control to live somewhere that vegan friendly. The only reason I'm not 4,000 pounds is there are not vegan pie carts roaming the streets of Bangor, Maine. I am jealous, but also intimidated.
That apple pie looks so ridiculously amazing. I can't even imagine how I would react to those food carts. Option paralysis!
DJ Cart? That's cool! Wanna make some pies now.
yummm. vegan food carts? i have got to see this. delicious seitan!!
All the seitan dishes look incredible!
after helena bonham carter,i'm most often told that i resemble calista flockhart.
I used to live right down the street from there--in Ladd's Addition (SE Locust street). Great memories and wonderful vegan food in PDX!
jen
Boda Weight Loss Blog
1) Whiffies is pretty much genius, and perfect for late night snack attacks
2) The jdfunks burrito looks quite epic
3) I really need to visit Hot Lips next time I visit PDX. I've passed it a million times but am usually on my way to some other dining edifice.
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