Veggie Conquest

Have you been looking for an excuse to dust your bike off and take it out for a spin? Well, here is your reason! No more excuses… If vegan biscuits, quiche, grits and sausage casserole and danishes don’t get you on that bike, I am not sure anything will… and I mean that in a totally nice and encouraging way. 

Noon Sunday, May 30, a group of awesome people (including me) will be meeting up in Greenpoint and riding to Prospect Park for a vegan picnic! All of this benefits youth activism through the New Look Foundation and it’s Powered By Service Initiative.

Bikes, a vegan picnic… AND for a cool cause…. I’m totally in. And if you are not as much into the bike riding part as you are into the eating part, you can always  join everyone at the end for the picnic and good times!

Here’s all the details including a menu!

A radical bike tour and vegan brunch picnic extravaganza to benefit youth activism within the five boroughs. $5-20 Sliding scale donation.

Stop at interesting radical, environmental, art and community landmarks while enjoying the Brooklyn landscape from between your handlebars. All will culminate in a vegan picnic brunch with a menu sure to cure your weekend hangover. Live music and a raffle too.

So what’s on the menu?
~Minted Fruit Salad (soy free, gluten free, nut free)
~Beet & Avocado Arugula Salad (gluten free, soy free)
~Roasted Rosemary Home Fries (gluten free, soy free, nut free)
~Southern ‘Buttermilk’ Biscuits (nut free)
~Hush Puppies
~Pesto Quiche with Broccoli and Tomatoes (+optional pie crust for the gluten-free)
~Creole Quiche (nut free)
~Grits and Sage ‘Sausage’ Casserole (gluten free, soy free, nut free)
~Three Berry Danishes
~Spiced Maple French Toast Casserole (soy free)
~Mocha Muffins with Toasted Hazelnuts (soy free, gluten free option)
~Eggplant Bacon (soy free, gluten free, nut free)

AND picnic-goers will get a free mini-zine with these recipes in it, from the author of Cookin’ With My Crawdaddy 1 & 2 (Vegan Cajun cookzines).

Proceeds go to benefit youth activism and youth empowerment through The New Look Foundation and its Powered By Service Initiative. New Look and Powered By Service train and offer resources for youth to create social change and lead their own projects addressing pressing social issues (for example, environmental justice workshops, community gardening, LGBT youth homelessness, and creative techniques to raise awareness about student Metrocard cuts).

Here is a link to their Facebook page so you can RSVP or ask questions.