The Best Pasta EVERR!!!

Tonight I made a Sundried-Tomato Spinach Pesto Pasta topped with Spicy Sauteed Mushrooms with a side of Roasted Asparagus and Onions. Honestly, it was probably one of my favorite pasta dishes I've ever had... I've never eaten a pasta dish from any restaurant that even compares, especially that's vegan. It was extremely delicious and I had no recipe. It was just using the things in my fridge. What makes me like this even more is that it was like a one pot wonder. I threw some spinach, pine nuts, sundried tomatoes, garlic, salt and pepper and of course drizzled the obligatory olive oil in the food processor. Then threw it in the pot of cooked pasta. So easy, so good. I went back for seconds and thirds. I literally couldn't stop. I was so surprised on how cheesy it tasted too and there was not one flake of soy parmesan cheese or nutritional yeast. The cheesy taste, something I really haven't had in years, was very appealing! Love it!

Before I start repeating myself on how delicious that dish was, I will touch on a topic that has always turned me off about veganism. I guess it's not really veganism itself, but really the product of being a vegan and the mainstream ideals on food. Every time I go to a social gathering where food is the main "theme", it seems as though, by no one's fault, I become ostracized. For example, today at lunch there was a "breaking of the bread" ceremony. I mean, it's not as serious as it sounds. Someone just brought a loaf of bread for everyone to share. The bread, however, had melted cheese on top, thus I was the only one who couldn't have any. Now, this is was not the person's fault, I blame no one for this. I blame the fact that we put so much emphasis on food as a social event and most of our food is not vegan-accommodating, therefore I am by sheer nature of our culture neglected. Moreover, we tend to go to the same spot for lunch every day. I love the place where we go and it's the most convenient since it's in the same building in which we work. But, at no fault of anyone (again, I don't want to blame anyone, this is more of a commentary of social problems of a vegan), I have to eat the same thing almost every day. The place at which we tend to eat has only 3 vegan options: a salad, a fruit salad, or a vegan wrap (only one kind). Therefore, after three days I am starting to repeat. It gets really old and so I tend not to eat. Sooo....to make things worse, not only am I not participating thing the sharing of food, I'm not even participating in the ritual of eating as a group. The ostracism is only exacerbated when I am just sitting there at an empty table. As almost a chain reaction, I see a commonplace effect of this: I am no longer included in some of the conversation, because, for some odd reason, food is like a metaphorical ticket to join in on a conversation. I'm not saying that this happens all of the time, or if you're reading this and you were there today, don't think that this is your fault. It just happens and it's very interesting that it does.

So, overall, sometimes I just feel like veganism causes a general neglect towards vegans during social events.

I hope everyone had a good day, I'm tired and no longer can think. These are the thoughts and recipes that pleasure and are engendered by la lengua de un vegan.