We tried a new-to-us recipe last night: Sweet Potato & Bean Burritos from Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites. Beans and sweet potato purreed to a gloppy mush, not a shred of cheese in sight...call me a skeptic, but I wasn't hopeful. I was, however, willing to try it. Why? A very good question, indeed.
We went mostly dairy-free a couple years ago after an allergy test revealed that Flip and cheese, butter, milk, etc. don't get along too well. We still have the occasional pizza and our favorite Nachos Sauce from the Moosewood Cookbook because a totally cheeseless life is just too sad to contemplate, but I'm always on the lookout for dairy-free options to add to my recipe box.
The trouble is, many dairy-free dishes just aren't very good—butter really does make everything taste better—and, consequently, my dairy-free repertoire is still rather limited. So when I happened across a recipe that has a note like this, "One young Moosewood waitperson said this was the first time she had ever loved a burrito without cheese," I was willing to set aside my skepticism and get out my skillet.
And to my unending surprise—these burritos are actually good! I don't know if they'd stand up to a side-by-side taste test with a cheese-filled burrito, but I'd enter them in a burrito contest just to find out. Anyone up for a cook-off?
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Bouandary Bay Brewery in Bellingham has this dish called Yam-alechiladas...its enchiladas w/ yam filling and mole sauce. and beer. And fresh cabbage.. I think there may be a little cheese, and come to think of it... probably a fair amount of butter, but if you liked that you should try those sometime. There's also a lot of beer there and a pleasant, casual atmosphere a lot of worn wooden things but also a lot of people and merchandise in the entryway...and a beer garden but honestly it has to be at least june for that to be comfortable.
------alissa
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