2 - as told to me at Old Wives Tales

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Hi all. These 2 aren't really recipes. We ate at Old Wives' Tales last

night and I chatted it up with a nice man (manager?) who told me as much as he

knew about the dishes we liked so much. I wanted to quick get it all down

before I forget, in the hopes of someday duplicating them at home. (Or, just

using the ideas for inspiration when creating in the kitchen.) I'm sharing

them with you in case you want some inspiration too. )

 

Brenda Adams

 

* Exported from MasterCook Buster *

 

Shepherd's Pie (as told to me - so it's rough)

 

Recipe By : Old Wives' Tales, Portland, Oregon

Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :

Categories : Restaurant Vegetarian

 

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Moosewood's Hungarian Mushroom Soup is used as a base for the dish; garlic

mashed potatoes, as the top crust, with melted cheddar cheese on top for

garnish. Any steamed or roasted seasonal vegetable combination: mushrooms

broccoli cauliflower (mix) -- goes in the middle.

 

Individual oven-proof bowl: First layer is Hungarian Mushroom Soup. (The

restaurant uses Moosewood's soup recipe for this dish and also serves the soup

in bowls, along with several other daily soups.) Next layer in the little pie

is the vegetables. The topping layer is garlic mashed (non-dairy) potatoes -

smooth it on and take it right up to the edges of the bowl. Next layer is

shredded cheese, as at pretty yellow topping.

 

Bake.

 

This recipe was given to us (4/3/99) verbally by a man who appeared to be the

manager at Old Wives' Tales, Portland, Oregon.

 

Brenda's Note: This dish is so tasty! I noticed one of the spices in the

veggies was fresh sage, but not too much. (Some restaurants use way too much

sage...it's better when it is only a hint of sage, I think.)

 

I had the Hungarian Mushroom Soup by itself, too, but didn't like it and traded

it for the Potato/Cauliflower Soup which was delicious. (I've made the

Moosewood recipe at home and didn't rave about it then, either. I've heard so

many internet raves about the soup as served at OWT, but I was disappointed.

It was pink with paprika and just toooo much of that taste.)

 

Old Wives' Tales is spoken of all over the world and the internet, seems lots

of visitors to our state come to dine here. It's not completely vegetarian,

but leaning that way -- impressive and varied menu. Salad bar is different: so

many ethnic salads and unusual, homemade salad dressing, and things like

sesame/garlic marinated tofu, tons of feta cheese (how do they keep from going

broke, I wondered as I scooped huge chunks of it up).

 

Brenda Adams <adamsfmle; posted RC & VR 4/4/99.

 

 

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Greek Melt (as told to me - so it's rough)

 

Recipe By : Old Wives' Tales, Portland, Oregon

Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :

Categories : Restaurant Sandwich

Vegetarian

 

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As stated on the menu:

 

Greek Melt: Baked open-face sandwich on toast with feta, fresh

tomato,mushrooms, sweet pepper, onion, artichoke hearts, Greek olives & Greek

herbs.

 

Note: For extra you can have grilled chicken breast on this. It comes face-up

(on two pieces of homemade white bread, kind unknown) -- garnished on the side

with alphalpha sprouts and slices of oranges.

 

The vegetables are first roasted (probably sprayed with garlic oil), then

placed on garlic-oiled toast. Whole Greek olives are added, then a layer of

feta cheese and then the whole thing is baked a little or broiled. (The feta

was browned on top.)

 

This recipe was given to us verbally by a man who appeared to be the manager at

Portland's Old Wives' Tales. Yum, was this ever good. It had that elusive

Greek taste that I love so much.....wonder what herbs they used.

 

Old Wives' Tales is spoken of all over the world and the internet. Not

completely vegetarian, but leaning that way -- impressive and varied menu.

Salad bar is different: so many ethnic salads and unusual, homemade salad

dressing, and things like sesame/garlic marinated tofu, tons of feta cheese

(how do they keep from going broke, I wondered as I scooped huge chunks of it

up).

 

Brenda Adams <adamsfmle; posted RC & VR 4/4/99.

 

 

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