Today wasn’t particularly eventful. Sure, some people on Twitter wanted to make a lot of the fact that I had a miso mustard glazed tempeh Reuben with avocado, ginger sauerkraut, spicy Russian dressing, on 7-grain vegan bread for lunch. But, honestly, who hasn’t done that from time to time?
In all seriousness, though, I bought the sandwich here in Midtown, and it was surprisingly good — especially for vegan food, which in my limited experience is often not very good. Certainly vegan and vegetarians get the short end of it at most restaurants, especially at lunch hour take-away. The place I got this sandwich was a little too far from the office, and certainly much too expensive, to be a regular lunchtime spot for me, but I was pleasantly surprised. I’d never even heard of tempeh before this. I have mixed feelings about soy in general. I like edamame, for instance, and don’t particularly dislike soy milk. But I pretty much hate tofu. So, again, it was a pleasant surprise, even if the sandwich wasn’t even remotely like a regular Reuben.
And that’s about it for Tuesday.
I always thought tempeh was battered something. Apparently I was wrong.
I must admit that I was also a-twitter about your sandwich. It sounded so much more exotic than my pb&j and my juice box. I was living vicariously through your tempeh.