I treated generous friends to Casa Borinquina's combination plate at Saluhall yesterday.  It was kind of a challenging situation because I wanted them to get a particular dish at this  Puerto Rican stall that's part of IKEA.  It worked out great because I pretended it was as if I were hosting at my own home and serving them what I'd made!  I got the dishes ordered and paid for, and while I was getting tea on another floor, the buzzer alerted my guests, who then brought the food to the table!  It takes a village!  They are all meat-eaters, and they loved the plant-based dishes.  I don't usually eat substitute meat dishes, but this really is delicious.  Except for one guest, who took some of her food home, we all cleared our plate, and they kept commenting on how good it was.

These generous friends gave two of us each a box of cookies, which I suspect were not vegan.  They're wonderful people, but they aren't clear on the concept.  Of course, plant-based is a cause for me, not something based on an allergy, so I could have eaten the cookies myself instead of giving them away.  I like to support plant-based dishes by giving people items that are plant-based.  They already know how good products with eggs and milk are.  But they don't seem aware of the abuse of animals--both cows and hens-- on  factory farms that provide milk and eggs.

I gave the beautiful cookies to a neighbor.