Saint Cloud Vegan Events

Looking for a delicious plant-based meal in St. Cloud? Join the St. Cloud CAA Chapter on Tuesday, April 22, at 6 PM at Arroy Thai & Filipino Restaurant for a fun and welcoming vegan dine-out!

#### Event Details

📍 Where: Arroy Thai & Filipino, 800 West Saint Germain Street, St. Cloud, MN
⏰ When: Arrive anytime between 6:00 – 7:30 PM
👥 Who: You and anyone you’d like to bring (omnivores welcome, but please order vegan). All are welcome.

#### Why Attend?

Vegan dine-outs are a great way to enjoy amazing food, connect with like-minded people, and support restaurants offering plant-based options. Whether you’re fully vegan or just curious, this event is a chance to explore healthy, compassionate dining in a friendly atmosphere. And this time, we are dining out to celebrate Veg Week!

#### What to Expect

• A variety of delicious vegan Thai and Filipino dishes
• Order a plant-based dish at your own expense.
• A warm, welcoming community excited to share good food and conversation
• A family-friendly environment—please be respectful and kind

#### RSVP & Meet the Host

To help us reserve the right space, please RSVP. Our Outreach Coordinator, Tamuno Imbu, will be there to welcome you and ensure a great experience.
Don’t miss this opportunity to try some of the best vegan food in St. Cloud and connect with others who share your love for plant-based living!

Date & Time: Thursday, April 24 | 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Online via Zoom (login details provided after registration)
Cost: $5.00 (Free for students and those who are unemployed)
We want this class to be accessible to everyone! If the fee is a barrier, please let us know when you sign up—we’re happy to accommodate you.
Register

### Ingredient List

If you’d like to cook along, have these ingredients ready:

• 1 package no-bake lasagna noodles
• 1 head cauliflower (separated into florets)
• 1 can whole plum tomatoes (crushed)
• 2 tablespoons tomato paste
• 1 cup non-dairy ricotta
• 2 cups shredded non-dairy mozzarella cheese
• ½ cup grated non-dairy parmesan cheese
• ½ cup + 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1.5 cups water
• 7 cloves garlic (1 chopped, 3 sliced, 3 whole)
• ½ teaspoon salt (optional)
• 2.5 cups fresh basil leaves (chopped)
• 2 tablespoons fresh parsley (chopped)

This must-make, plant-forward dish is packed with flavor and makes a great addition to your meal rotation. Whether you’re cooking for a group or prepping ahead for yourself, this lasagna is sure to be a hit.

This recipe comes to us from the website BlackGirlsEat.com from LA Dunn. It was created by their guest blogger, Leslie Segar aka Big Lez, who shared the full recipe for one of her favorite dishes.
Don’t miss this chance to cook alongside Tamuno and learn how to make a rich, satisfying, and completely plant-based lasagna! Sign up today!

All about Cooking With Tamuno classes
Cooking With Tamuno is an online cooking class offered one weeknight a month from 5:30 – 6:30 pm. CAA’s Community Organizer, Tamuno Imbu is our resident chef extraordinaire. Each month, he selects a vegan recipe that is particularly tasty and easy to make. During the class, he slowly and clearly demonstrates the steps to make the meal. He is also more than willing to take questions — he wants to be sure you walk away with the ability to make each recipe on your own.

He shares the ingredients ahead of time so that you can purchase them and cook along in real time. But it’s also okay to just sit back, watch, and learn. No cooking experience is required as he gears this for people who are new to plant-based cooking.

All are welcome to cook
Everyone is welcome at these fun online events. Join Tamuno and learn some plant-based cooking skills, all while having an opportunity to meet some of the youth and other participants. You will come away with new recipes and some handy cooking tips. Be prepared to impress your friends and family with your new-found skills! Or better yet, bring them along to the class so they can get these skills for themselves too.

Young people frequently join the classes through relationships with partner organizations. Tamuno also works with these youth in other ways, including leadership programming and introducing them to the issues surrounding living a more compassionate lifestyle.

Find more vegan cooking recipes and resources
If you are looking for more plant-based recipes, you can go to our resource page for links and to our archive of recipes from our Monthly Vegan Recipe Club. There are lots of great vegan recipes available to support you on your compassionate journey.

Download the recipes

About Simple and Delicious Vegan
The publisher describes the book: “Eat Plants, be happy. Simple and Delicious Vegan makes cooking healthy food that tastes good easy as pie. Enjoy original, easy recipes that are healthy, allergy-friendly, delicious, and good for both your body and the planet. Only a few recipes contain nuts, soy, or corn, with substitutions always provided. This cookbook keeps things simple by providing metric and imperial measurements (cups, ounces, and grams). Lovingly photographed, Simple and Delicious Vegan also offers ingredient shots, so you see what to buy—getting you cooking—and eating—faster!”

This month’s featured recipes
In the recipe club this month we will discuss these recipes:

• Potato Flatbread – pg 96
• Creamy Pasta Soup – pg 130
• Mujadara (Lentils & Rice) – pg 162
• Peanut Butter Truffles – pg 222

optional:

• Smashed Potatoes – pg 95
• Avocado Basil Pesto – pg 39
• Vegan Cheese Sauce – pg 31

Vegan Recipe Club General Details

The Vegan Recipe Club is for everyone—those curious about vegan cooking and those more experienced with it. The club explores plant-based recipes created by cooks of varying cultures and nationalities and cookbooks are suitable for the novice to experienced cook.
This club aims to feature recipes that are great tasting and support the health of participants. It’s a chance to build community with others interested in vegan cooking. Best of all, these meals also help the animals and the environment!

How does it work?

In the month prior to the Vegan Recipe Club meeting, you can download the recipes for free here.

Try making one or more of the recipes then come to share and discuss what you thought about them with the group.

The group is facilitated by volunteer Henry Patterson of Compassionate Action for Animals (CAA).

If you have questions about the recipes or the Vegan Recipe Club between meetings, email info@exploreveg.org

Join us online!

The club meets monthly on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Meetings are held via Zoom, passcode 467109.

Download the recipes

## About Veg Forward

The publisher describes the book: “In this vegetable-forward cookbook, veteran cookbook author and food stylist Susan Spungen highlights the vegetables and fruits of each season–from spring to early summer to the bursting harvest of late summer, then ebbing into autumn and, finally, into the earthy flavors of winter.”

## This month’s featured recipes

In the recipe club this month we will discuss these recipes:

• Warm-Weather Farro Bowls with Grilled Tofu – pg 5
• Kale and Snap Pea Salad with Sunflower Seed Dressing – pg 39
• Simple Gazpacho – pg 83

optional

(vegetarian recipes can be made vegan with a simple substitution; recipe edits available in the recipe file)

• Red Lentil and Vegetable Soup with Crispy Spiced Chickpeas – pg 149
• Stuffed Spaghetti Squash – pg 187
• Slow-Roasted Tomatoes – pg 216

## Vegan Recipe Club General Details

The Vegan Recipe Club is for everyone—those curious about vegan cooking and those more experienced with it. The club explores plant-based recipes created by cooks of varying cultures and nationalities and cookbooks are suitable for the novice to experienced cook.

This club aims to feature recipes that are great tasting and support the health of participants. It’s a chance to build community with others interested in vegan cooking. Best of all, these meals also help the animals and the environment!

## How does it work?

In the month prior to the Vegan Recipe Club meeting, you can download the recipes for free here.

Try making one or more of the recipes then come to share and discuss what you thought about them with the group.

The group is facilitated by volunteer Henry Patterson of Compassionate Action for Animals (CAA).

If you have questions about the recipes or the Vegan Recipe Club between meetings, email info@exploreveg.org

## Join us online!

The club meets monthly on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Meetings are held via Zoom with passcode 467109.