Earlier, I introduced you to my friend Missi Pyle and her new vegan blog. She stayed at my house while I was away, and tried out a vegan diet.

Here is her blog about Day 1 of cooking veg:

Day 1

By Missi Pyle

My father, who thinks tofu is a Japanese couch that turns into a hard bed that no one should ever sleep on, had his first ever vegan meal the other night at Real Food Daily. He had the Tofu Salisbury Steak. He is going deaf and missing half a toe. So it's hard to say how he really felt about it. He ate most of it and shrugged his shoulders. He then tasted my tahini dressing. He swished it around in his mouth a few times, gross, then simply said "yum."

Promising!

The next day, Meredith and I decided to venture into Alicia's cookbook. Knowing we had Frank as our only real taste tester. We decided on something that could invoke yet another of his signature yum's - Waffle Sausage and Cheese Paninis. Because we knew at least the waffles would be actual waffles.

We had a side salad of collard greens and pine nuts and raisins.

Frank sat and sweated while we got our vegan cooking on.

First we fried the soy sausages, put them on a cutting board, cut them up, and gave some to Lacey, the 14 year old vegan dog. Then we stirred together some vegenaise, yummy apricot jam, thyme and pepper. We toasted the waffles, put the jaminaise sauce on them, and added the fake sausage, sundried tomatoes, arugula, and fake mozzarella. The flavor was actually insanely good, even with the fake mozzarella. Which I am not sure I have fallen in love with just yet.

We finished the collard greens and sat down with a still very sweaty Frank.

And the meal was pretty darn delicious. We made it 2 whole days. Only 28 left to go.

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