Portland Let Live Conference Benefit Dinner, Wed 6-18

May 29, 2008

by IsaChandra

EDIT: This event has sold out, thanks everyone!

Join me at Sweetpea Bakery for a 4 course dinner to benefit Portland’s Let Live Animal Rights Conference. A few Sweetpea staffers and I will be transforming the bakery into a candlelit bistro for the evening and serving a seasonal, organic, intimate, four course vegan dinner for 40. I’ll even be using herbs from my garden, that’s how local we do. Please see all the info below the menu for ticket purchasing info, and I bet any other questions you have will be answered. If not, then email me at postpunkkitchen@gmail.com. Thanks everyone, I’m excited to cook for you and I hope to see you there.

Menu

Soup
Spicy Cream of Sweet Potato with Lime
A creamy puree of sweet potatoes and a little parsnip, with a kick of lime and chili

Salad
Jicama Salad in Citrus Vinaigrette
A Thai inspired salad of crisp, sweet jicama in a tangy vinaigrette of orange, lemon and grapefruit. Served with grilled and chilled asparagus and garnished with beansprouts, cilantro and roasted peanuts

Main
Blackened Seitan With Corn Pudding And Chocolate Chili Mole
Cajun rubbed blackened homemade seitan and grilled zucchini over a sweet and savory creamy corn pudding, with a mild chocolate chili mole

Dessert
Raspberry Brownie And Vanilla Ice Cream
A warm raspberry brownie with chocolate drizzle, raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream

Homemade ginger lemonade will be served. Please bring your own beer and wine.

When:
Wednesday, June 18th. Please arrive between 7pm and 7:30, dinner will be served at 8pm.

Where:
Sweetpea Bakery
1205 SE Stark off SE 12th Ave
Google Map

Ticket Prices
Since seating limited, you must buy tickets in advance to attend the night’s festivities. Tickets are a sliding scale, from 40 to 100 dollars. Diners who pay 100 dollars will receive a signed copy of my cookbook, Veganomicon. All proceeds go to The Let Live Conference, and anything left over will go towards local grassroots vegan organizations.

To Purchase Tickets
To purchase tickets, paypal 40 to 100 dollars. Print out your thank you email, this will be your ticket when you arrive to the dinner.

Seating
If you are buying tickets for more than yourself, please put their names in the paypal comments and a table will be arranged for you. If you would like to sit with people in addition to the ones you are purchasing tickets for, please put their names in the comments as well, and let me know that you want to sit with them. If you are flying solo, you may end up sitting with strangers. But we promise that they will be fascinating strangers.

Allergies And Substitutions
If you require a gluten free dinner, your entree will change to tofu and your dessert will change to a gluten free brownie. If you have a peanut allergy, the peanuts in your salad will be replaced with cashews. Please email me at postpunkkitchen@gmail.com if you have any other questions. You must put your dietary concerns in the paypal comments in order to be accommodated.

Alcohol
Please bring your own beer and wine.

Any other questions? Just email me! postpunkkitchen@gmail.com. Thanks!

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May 29, 2008 at 3:38 pm: Chad
Please try not to f this up, really. The animals depend on you to make the seitan shine!
May 29, 2008 at 4:09 pm: IsaChandra
I’ll do my best. I can’t make any promises!
May 29, 2008 at 4:42 pm: AsstroGirl
That menu sounds awesome! I’ll bet it would be an incredible night.

Looks like you’re thriving in Portland. Yay!
May 29, 2008 at 6:32 pm: katiejayne
I wish I lived in Portland. Or that I wasn’t leaving for the east coast the next day. So jealous!
May 29, 2008 at 6:51 pm: Amy
I am excited!!!!!!!!!! Probably, you should make me four brownies.
May 29, 2008 at 6:59 pm: Lane
Sounds like a wonderful event. I’m sorry that we’ll miss it. Just another reason to live up north,,,,

Lane ov VeganBits.com
May 29, 2008 at 10:47 pm: Carla
Things like this make me really wish I lived there too! I hope it is a great night, all goes smoothly and everyone has a wonderful time.
May 30, 2008 at 1:22 am: Melisser
This sounds INCREDIBLE! I wish I could be around for it.
May 30, 2008 at 3:46 am: Angel
It’s two thirty in the morning, and Eli (main person I talk to/boyfriend) is at work, third shift, until seven in the morning.
I try to stay up all night so I can nap with him when he gets off work.
Nighttime is super lonely and really dull
and full of downloading podcasts and looking at flickr and neatorama.
Anyway, I was listening to your episode two.
The,
“Why does this icecream taste like ham?” part.
and for some minutes afterwards I didn’t stop laughing.
I cried a little.
Laughing about the coffee part as well.
Delicious!
You are delicious and hot!
I know you know what it says.
Anyway.
I’m a terrible cook but I’m going to enlist my mom (who I never hang out) with to help me learn how.
With the help of the Veganomicon.
I’m excited about it.
So thank you.
For podcasts and cook books and sharing.

P.S. my sister who’s eleven months older than I am, and funnier, and vegan (while I’m just a veg), moved to Portland last summer.
It is rainy and magical for sure.
She’s coming here for the summer but I wish it was the other way around.

P.S.S Sorry this is sort of huge and doesn’t say that much
May 30, 2008 at 10:36 am: ruby red vegan
Hi Isa! The menu sounds awesome – especially the blackened seitan part. If only summer school didn’t have a hold on me… I wish I could be there!
May 30, 2008 at 1:57 pm: Bobbi
I’m so bummed I’ll be on vacation when this happens. It sounds awesome.
May 31, 2008 at 3:58 am: sandy
How will we know if you’ve sold out of tickets?
May 31, 2008 at 12:50 pm: IsaChandra
Sandy, it’s getting close to selling out. I’ll announce when it does!
June 1, 2008 at 3:21 pm: Diana
I would love to come to this…but I am both broke and I have no one to drag with me to this :( But really, I was hoping I could invite you to Victoria, BC to a persian feast…since you talk so much about it in your cookbooks ;) and victoria ain’t that far from Portland…and it’s just so beautiful here! However, I’m only a new vegan…and I’m just learning how to veganize persian recipes. I’m also not that good of a cook…If my mom was here, I would have begged her to cook you a true persian feast…she’s an amazing cook and anything she touches tastes great! So her veganized persian dishes taste amazing, whereas mine taste just okay :-/ But you are welcome to come eat my “just okay” dishes anytime ;-)
June 3, 2008 at 5:05 pm: Todd
“All proceeds go to The Let Live Conference, and anything left over will go towards local grassroots vegan organizations. ”

what exactly does that mean? If all processeds go to the Let Live Conference, how can there be leftovers? Are other organizantions getting literal leftovers? i.e. food scraps? Or is there a cap on the contribution to Let Live? If I’m going spend $100 on dinner for two, I’d like to have a little more confidance in exactly what I am contributing to. Thanks!
June 3, 2008 at 11:33 pm: IsaChandra
Well, it’s sold out anyway. But a) chill out! and b) 100 bucks for a 4 course dinner for 2 is very reasonable. Now, to try to answer your question: I don’t understand why you don’t understand how there could be extra money? It’s a conference with a set amount of expenses. All proceeds will go to Let Live. If Let Live’s organizers meet their expenses (unlikely, but you never know) then there would be extra money. Not food scraps. The reason I mention it is just to let everyone know that their money isn’t being used to pay for tattoos, it’s a not-for-profit event. Sorry to hear you regard that with such suspicion.
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