{"id":4118,"date":"2011-11-15T23:39:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T04:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2011-11-17T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:23:08","slug":"dinner-at-the-co-op-board-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/dinner-at-the-co-op-board-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner at the Co-op Board Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head chef at the co-op went all out to create an upscale vegan dinner for us: Himalayan red rice, with a squash and coconut milk stew to ladle over; red peppers stuffed with walnuts, corn, and I think a soy product; and a spinach salad with roasted tomatoes, portobello mushrooms and a basil balsamic vinaigrette.<\/p>\n<p>The stew was nicely spicy, and coconut-ty, like Thai curry; the salad was just fine, but the peppers were the tastiest &#8211; I didn&#8217;t even take one on the first pass through the food line, but then went back for a half, and another half.<\/p>\n<p>Now the main problem is that I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2011\/11\/watch-peter-gabriels-performance-on-live-on-letter.html\">Peter Gabriel on Letterman<\/a> one night last week, and he did (a pretty impressive version of, a full orchestra and like 27 people on stage) his song <em>Red Rain<\/em>, and on the mention of red rice the song starts going through my head. Good thing I like it OK.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4130\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/instagr.am\/p\/UiBCq\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4130\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4130\" title=\"redricebag\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/redricebag-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/redricebag-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/redricebag-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/redricebag.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Red rice in a bag on the counter<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head chef at the co-op went all out to create an upscale vegan dinner for us: Himalayan red rice, with a squash and coconut milk stew to ladle over; red peppers stuffed with walnuts, corn, and I think a soy product; and a spinach salad with roasted tomatoes, portobello mushrooms and a basil balsamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,148,20],"class_list":["post-4118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-co-ops","tag-live-music","tag-rice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions\/4131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}