Saturday, August 14, 2010

August 14th--Scott Pilgrim Vs the World Vegan Shepherd's Pie

Dave: Lauren and I just went to see the movie version of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. It didn't make it into the movie, but one of the cool things about the comics is that there are instructions on how to do things in the real world.

Lauren: Yeah, and not just on stuff like "how to have a successful relationship with a girl whose evil exes are trying to kill you." Music/tabs are included for a couple of the songs that the characters play in the books, and there's also a recipe for vegan shepherds pie. Guess which part we're going to be trying out tonight!

Dave: No, we're not starting a band. We're going to try out O'Malley's recipe for Vegan Shepherd's Pie. Of course, we're going to need to make just a few alterations for it to fit our personal preferences. For one, O'Malley (using the mouthpiece of Sex Bob-Omb lead singer and guitar player Stephen Stills) calls for uniformly cut vegetables in the filling of his pie and I prefer to cut each ingredient slightly differently to highlight variations in flavor and consistency. For another, we added potato and clam shell mushrooms to the filling because that sounded like it would taste good.

Lauren: Also, for full disclosure, we added cheddar to the top of ours, returning it to the land of lacto-ovo vegetarianism (for those of you familiar with Scott Pilgrim, we are okay with the fact that 90% of our brains are filled with curds and whey). However, a melty un-cheese like Teese shredded over the top would have a similar effect, thus leaving you able to punch craters in the moon at will.

Here are the directions: