Kansas City with the Virtual Veggies

I just had one of the best weekends! In March, I joined Weight Watchers and came across an online community of vegetarians. Within this wonderful group, is a Virtual Vegetarian thread. Women, like me, who are on weight watchers and who are mostly vegetarian.

This weekend, 8 of us got together in Kansas City and all met for the first time in person. I am so amazed and impressed with these women. We all got along so well with no drama or competitiveness. Conversation came easily and it was like we had known each other for years (no doubt because we have been "talking" daily for months. Even me, who is generally in bed at 10 was up laughing and talking till 1 a.m.

On Friday night, we went to dinner at a tapas restaurant. We shared a number of delectable dishes and 2 pitchers of sangria. We ventured into Kansas City downtown on Saturday and ate lunch at Eden Alley. They had wonderful homemade bread. We had a variety of meals like pumpkin enchiladas, mushroom spinach loaf with marinara, and sweet potato croquettes. They had an amazing bread pudding and the most luscious pumpkin pie with orange whipped cream. According to TxGeek who called to encourage a cookbook, there may be one in the far future. We spent the afternoon on the Plaza.


Saturday night was so much fun. After a shopping trip to Wild Oats, we prepared (from the Moosewood Cookbooks):

Smokey White Bean Soup
Samosas with Tamerind Dipping Sauce http://www.molliekatzen.com/show/samosas.php
Walnut Feta Pate
Salad with garam masala toasted walnuts

Wondering1 brought us some of her famous soy banana "cream" pie. yummm. . . she also brought a dairy one because of Klo's allergy.



It was so good to be away and spend time with new people who are all on similar journeys. It has been a long time since I had this much fun for a whole weekend. I feel like probably a minute didn't go by that I didn't have a smile on my face.