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2 packs of Follow Your Heart (one Cheddar and one Monterey Jack)
2 sticks of soy margarine
1 lb (box) of boiled and drained elbow macaroni
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
Splash(es) of soy/rice milk

Preheat oven to 375º
Melt margarine in large skillet over a low heat. Keep both wrappers
Open both FYH packs
Slice away a bit more than half of each. Put aside smaller halves
Slice both larger halves quite thin, add those promptly to melting margarine
Stir melting mixture
Add splash(es) of soy milk
Stir until all melted and gooey. (And yes, it looks like a small amount in there.)
Remove from heat
Slice remaining smaller "halves"
Take out your big baking dish
Rub margarine wrapper insides on dish
Line bottom of dish with a bit more than half macaroni
Add smaller halves' slices, alternating flavors across
Add remaining macaroni on top
Pour mixture very very slowly around the edges and then middle
Bake 25 minutes
Serve and enjoy

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Zen Burger Fast Food opened its doors today, up from Grand Central Station.

Pleased, and curious, to find mostly black (teen) staff ready for the lunch crowd I jumped into. For vegetarians, this is a potentially big hit. For us vegans, it's the Harvest Burger or Chili. The former was MIA, so I ordered a chili and fries. Chili was terrific, so much so I wanted some hot sauce to make it a straight-out A. Was intrigued by the big vats of natural tea (next to the soda dispensers); went with the Hawaiian something or other. A couple gals in front of me thought it was too much like prune juice - funny to me as it was not sweet enough to be such. It was dark and thick though, adding a bit of ice helped, I found.

This place will serve breakfast starting tomorrow, though only vegetarian for now; many vegan items (for both breakfast and lunch) are still under development and not ready for mass production/freezers.

Overall, ZB scores B- looking like an A- once said changes are done.

This place reminds me of Pan Pangea; it is a better shaped business, I find, if still very much a work-in-progress to delight and dazzle the customer. And Berlin's Yellow Sunshine (http://www.yellow-sunshine.com/) as well - they could benefit from looking closely at both, I believe.

And as the marketing guy noted Orean's in L.A. is really the only thing close to them; they too had problems on the vegan items front. (http://laist.com/2007/01/15/more_vegetarian_junkfood_at_orean.php)

TIDBITS
Zen Palate Union Square lease was up and new rent was multiples higher.... so time to move on.

Zen Palate L.A. is still to come.

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