At VegFest Oahu 2016 we wanted the festival cuisine to entice even the skeptics into trying new plant-based dishes, so that’s the challenge we proposed to our food vendors.  We loved Honolulu restaurant Peace Cafe‘s version of a Hawaii Local Favorite made vegan – Tempeh Katsu.  Keeping the traditional Japanese method of breading with panko and frying, the meat was replaced with a cutlet of tempeh, a fermented soy product.  Served on shredded cabbage with katsu sauce, it was a familiar local taste but with a much lighter carbon footprint. Check out this short video clip of Peace Cafe owners making Tempeh Katsu at VegFest Oahu.  [Read more…]

These video clips were shot for our Facebook Live feed at VegFest Oahu on September 24, 2016 in the Learning Kitchen Tent.  The first clip is an excerpt from a vegan cooking demo by Chef Mama T Gonsalves, from Ital Kitchen, showing how to make Mock Tuna Salad from chickpeas.  The second clip shows a section with Chef Kelly Stern from YoGarden Hawaii as she talks about how easy it is to make vegetable broth.  [Read more…]