Happy Mothers' Day! How's this for a holiday-appropriate post? Mothers Market is in Hood River, right where highways 84 and 35 cross. These mothers make up my favorite VEGAN pizza. (I must say that I've been a devout and happy vegan in my past but nowadays I'm not keen to expound on the virtues of vegan pizza as a true pizza whore -- because is it really pizza without cheese? -- but there are some pizza pies out there that are excellent and just happen to be vegan. These deserve special attention.) Mothers has a great little deli with soups, sandwiches and other delicious grub. Their pizza pie is not just a pizza without cheese -- it is its own
delectable and substantial pie.
They make a nutty cream sauce on a not-very-doughy dough and top it with all kinds of roasted veggies and gomasu (a salt & sesame seed mix). I feel good eating this pizza, really good. The mothers are sweet Seventh Day Adventists women with long hair tied up in buns, wearing aprons. I want to hug them. Walk into their health food store and you feel the love. Good food is love. You must swing by for a slice on your way to Mt. Hood or on a Sunday afternoon just because the Hood River valley is a wonderful place to be. Thank you Mothers!
They make a nutty cream sauce on a not-very-doughy dough and top it with all kinds of roasted veggies and gomasu (a salt & sesame seed mix). I feel good eating this pizza, really good. The mothers are sweet Seventh Day Adventists women with long hair tied up in buns, wearing aprons. I want to hug them. Walk into their health food store and you feel the love. Good food is love. You must swing by for a slice on your way to Mt. Hood or on a Sunday afternoon just because the Hood River valley is a wonderful place to be. Thank you Mothers!
