Disaster's a Dish Best Not Served

I am not going to lie. Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the vegan alternative just doesn't cut it. Case in point: my first attempt at vegan quiche. I was trying to come to terms with my fiance's decision to go vegan and my friends apprehension about vegan foods. I am open having known people who chose an animal product free life for decades, so I decided to host a brunch with vegan food that would please everyone. I should have gone the route of the tofu scramble that rolled in a tortilla with guacamole or salsa is mouthwatering, but I like to get fancy sometimes. So, for reasons unknown, I decided I'd make a vegan quiche.

It was a lot of work, but the end product looked great (I cheated and used a pre-made vegan whole wheat crust Whole Foods sells.) The ingredients were mouthwatering....pine nuts, red peppers, mushrooms, scallions.) I was a little nervous after I tried a small slice of the Follow Your Heart Vegan Mozarella because it was sour and not very appetizing, but I held my head high. It wasn't until we cut into it that my heart sank. The consistency was off...part pudding, part curdled. Nothing like the photo from the recipe. In hindsight, I probably didn't use the right type of tofu and not enough cornstarch or arrowroot powder. I was (or rather am) new to vegan cooking and you're going to have failures. Maybe I shouldn't have served a new recipe with ingredients I wasn't comfortable with to my unsuspecting brunch guests. Or maybe we should just do what we did ... laugh over the mimosas and gnosh on the other food.