The California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) located at the bottom of the Holiday Resort & Spa in Tumon has a vegan friendly menu that's posted on their website. Among the many choices includes my favorite, the Vegetarian with Eggplant Pizza (thin crust, no cheese). Only the thin crust is vegan at CPK and can be ordered with any of their pizzas for an extra $2.50. As for their pizza sauces, their pizza marinara, vegetarian black beans, and spicy marinara sauce are vegan. The vegetarian pizza was a great size, crispy and very satisfying topped with baby broccoli, grilled japanese eggplant, red onions, mushrooms and marinara sauce. I went ahead and had the corn omitted and substituted the sun-dried tomatoes with fresh tomatoes. This is a great change from those oily cheese smothered pizzas that you see. Even other family and friends you eat with at CPK will be asking for a bite of your pizza.
Check out the vegan options on the CPK menu and you can practically turn any pizza, salad, and appetizer vegan. The other two most common vegan eats at CPK are the Tuscan Hummus appetizer (be sure to order it with thin crust bread instead of pita) and the Dakota Smashed Pea and Barley Soup (curry-like texture and delicious!).
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That pizza looks awesome! What is it about thick crust that makes it nonvegan? Also, what are some nonvegan friendly ingredients to look out for in bread?
Hi!
The CPK website states that the traditional crust is suitable for lacto-vegetarians, so that means it contains dairy. They state that the whole wheat crust is suitable for lacto-ovo vegetarians but not lacto-vegetarians, so it must contain eggs. These are the key ingredients you gotta look out for: eggs, butter, buttermilk, milk, milk powder. You can even go as far as bleached flour and bleached sugar because these are usually filtered through animal bone, if you are a really strict vegan. Best quick reference is to check the bottom of the ingredients list when you shop "This product contains:..." and it will usually state dairy and eggs if it contains them.
Scroll down this website and you'll find a list of ingredients that are not vegan. http://www.veganwolf.com/animal_ingredients.htm#NONVEGANLIST
Hope you had a great new year :)
http://www.veganpeace.com/ingredients/ingredients.htm
This is good reference too:
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/accidentally-vegan.aspx
http://www.peta2.com/stuff/s-accvegan.asp
Excellent educational links - thank you.
I love the split pea soup there, and I'm not a big pea fan! Nice article!
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