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Vegan Wedding Reception!

February 29, 2008 by Renee

This is the shiznit. I’m almost looking forward to my wedding now! Here’s our 5-star 3-course meal that we’re having at a veg-friendly restaurant on the river. It will be followed by a gluten-free vegan wedding cake as well, made by the nice cake making folks at the The Forest. These photos aren’t much good, but you can thank/abuse Nokia for putting crap cameras in their phones. You could also thank/abuse us for not remembering to take a decent camera with us to the food test-run, but you’re just not the sort of person who’d do that, right? We’re all friends here, right? Hugs for all! Anyway… The food was all very nice, moderately stodgy, simple, rather darn tasty 5-star fare, with a forktonne of that more-expensive-than-gold mushroomy truffle oil stuff poured over half of it. Yumbo!

Entrées

Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable Stack with Roast Tomato Sauce and Red Onion Marmalade.

Grilled Field Mushrooms, Toasted Olive Bread Asparagus and Truffle Oil.

Mains

Ragout of French Lentils, Spinach, Kipfler Potatoes and Macadamia Gremolata.

Porcini Mushroom Risotto, Stemmed Asparagus and Truffle Oil.

Desserts

Glazed Mango, Sauternes Syrup, Strawberry Sorbet

Poached Yellow Peaches, Fresh Raspberries, White Peach Soup

Wow, tasty AND healthy? Ouch. Yes, veganism is awesome! All the animals get to benefit, including me. Everything except for the second entrée is gluten-free, but the vegan bit is the most important! Closely followed by the tasty bit! And there’s still a fancy gluten-free wedding cake to come. Don’t forget the cake. Who could forget cake? Not me, that’s for sure.

P.S. Happy Leap Day!

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10 Responses to “Vegan Wedding Reception!”

on March 1, 2008 at 10:19 am1 Courtney

I didn’t even realize you were getting married–congratulations! That food looks amazing–how exciting!

Courtney
on March 3, 2008 at 1:47 pm2 Andrew

That raspberry dish in particular looks awesome, agh!
on March 4, 2008 at 7:59 am3 Kaylen

That is a brilliant menu! Wow. Hope it tastes as good as it looks.
on March 5, 2008 at 7:37 pm4 Kristy

which state in Australia do you reside?

I want to go to that restaurant!!!!
on March 5, 2008 at 7:42 pm5 Renee

The restaurant is at South Bank on the boardwalk in Brisbane, & listed on the Veg Society Qld website too:

http://www.vegsoc.org.au/restaurants_list.asp?restaurantID=96
on March 23, 2008 at 4:48 pm6 Daniella

Thanks so much for publishing this blog and I think it’s so great that you had a vegan wedding! So many of us compromise too much, we need to remember whose bodies we are “compromising” …..

Thanks again
on March 28, 2008 at 7:13 am7 sandrananda

Wow! I’m looking for a glutenfree wedding cake recipe. What one did you make?We like the idea of a fruit loaf covered in marzipan and white chocolate icing. Anyone know any good recipes?
on March 28, 2008 at 10:40 am8 Renee

My cake is being made by the lovely caking-making folks from the Forest: http://www.theforest.com.au
on May 15, 2008 at 2:55 pm9 pen

Hey, I hope the whole vegan gluten-free wedding thing went well. We ended up trying to do gluten-free vegan, but the caterers sort of messed up (it was vegan and only three of the eight courses were gluten-free), but we baked our own wedding cupcakes so at least we knew they were fine.
on May 15, 2008 at 3:21 pm10 Renee

Our wedding stuff worked out fine! The cake was made by someone who makes gluten-free cakes for a local vegan cafe, so that was pretty reliable! The restaurant did good, also, and even sorted out a vegan alcohol/wine menu for us.