…but we’ll be back open on the 2nd of January.
That’s a Friday.
Filed under: About the Cafe, Food & Recipes | Tags: fermentation, hackney vegan, london vegan, preserving pears, sauerkraut, vegan breakfast
At the start of the week we found ourselves in posession of ten kilos of lovely English pears, completely unexpectedly. Didn’t know what to do with them for a while, pears are lovely and all, but we just don’t use them on a day to day basis! So after a smidgen of panicking, we found out that we could preserve them, without just turning them into jam or something. Claudia made a syrup involving red wine, and jarred the sliced, peeled pears in the liquid. It looks really pretty and they should last ages, although we think we’ll use them at Christmas for special desserts. Wine soaked pears with vanilla ice cream anyone?
At the same time, I was making a new batch of sauerkraut, with about five pounds of white cabbage. Fermentation rocks, everyone should try it.
Today is Sunday! We have breakfast enough to last all day I reckon. Come on down and get yer fill of american pancakes, scrambled tofu, baked beans, smoky tofu sausages…mmmmmmmm!
Later, there will be nutroast and a special tofu and winter veg stew.
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Filed under: About the Cafe, Events! | Tags: vegan hackney, no borders, immigrant detainees, fundraiser, vegan fundraiser, immigration solidarity, detention centres
TUESDAY 2ND DECEMBER
doors open at 7.00pm, wrapping up around 10.
FUNDRAISING VEGAN MEAL + films + live music
Entrance: £10 suggested donation towards actions in solidarity with immigration detainees (no one turned away for lack of funding)
Bring your own Booze (as long as you clear up your own cans!)
SOLIDARITY WITH THOSE HELD IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION CENTRES
The attempts by states to control the movement of people lead only to criminalisation, apartheid and death. Freedom of movement for all. Close detention centres.
Live acts include
Steve Mayne
Cornelius
The Carbon Town Cryer
Camilla Cancantata
Beth Dariti
POGO CAFE
76 Clarence Road, Hackney, E5 8HB
Info: www.pogocafe.co.uk
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: hackney vegan, pogo cafe, vegan burgers, vegan cafe, vegan food, vegan london
today we ‘ave for your gustatory pleasure…
carrot, sweet potato and beetroot patties, served with homemade sweet chili sauce and salads
tofu with fresh green peppercorns, spring onions and courgette, plus salads
mushroom and walnut ragout (that’s a red wine and tomato sauce) with spinach and herb polenta.
curried cabbage cauliflower and coconut soup.
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: cafe, co-operative, DIY, hackney, recycling, vegan, walthamstow
Today we went to the FRP, the Forest Recycling Project, which is based in Walthamstow. We got ourselves some recycled paint for the cafe! Hundreds of thousands of litres of paint are estimated to be thrown out in the UK every year. Y’know, you buy a big tin, use half, keep the rest of it for four years in the shed and then chuck it. The FRP are so cool that they put the effort in to trying to divert some of this waste from landfill. So they have a shed full of paints that you can give your old paint to, or go and peruse the colours and take away some for a donation
www.frponline.org.uk
So we’re planning to do some sprucing up over the December closing period. We’ll be closed for about ten days, from the 22nd til the 2nd.
Also today, we’ve been planning the festive menus!! (We don’t like to say the C word) But we do cater for large parties frequently during December, and we like to make it special! Marinated tofu, nutloaf, homemade sauerkraut, roasted root veg and sweet potatoes all feature.
Filed under: About the Cafe | Tags: book exchange, cafe, cake, clarence road, co-operative, exhibitions, free films, free internet, free movies, hackney, organic, vegan, vegan cake, volunteering, workers co-op, zines
Pogo Cafe is situated on Clarence Road, in deepest Hackney, East London. We like it here. We’ve been open since 2004, and from the beginning have operated as a workers co-operative, which means we make collective decisions about pretty much everything, and have lots of meetings.
Pogo is 100% volunteer run, meaning that nobody but nobody gets paid. Any money left over after we pay all our expenses, goes straight back into improving the cafe. Anybody who has ever looked at the accounts of a small cafe or restaurant knows there’s not much money to be made out of it.
That’s especially true of us, as we’d prefer to offer beautiful organic food to our customers at reasonable prices. We’d also like the food to be interesting, we love curries and stews but we figure they’re easy to find, even for vegans, so we like to make food that excites us.
We also like to think we act as a bit more than a place to eat. We’ve got comfy couches for lounging on, we’ve got a book exchange and various zines and magazines lying around for you to peruse. We’ve got two computers with free internet access and indeed we’ve got wireless too. We have exhibitions on the walls which change every month or two. Every Monday we transform into a cinema and show a movie for free, often with political themes, always worth seeing.
If you like the sound of all this, and you’d like to get involved, then drop us a line at info@pogocafe.co.uk, or just pop into the cafe and have a chat with whoever is working. There are numerous ways to help here, whether by doing shiftwork, out of hours cleaning, painting (we could do with a new coat soon!), distributing our news-sheets and flyers, general repairs….and on and on and on! We’d love to hear from you.
