halava krishna

on friday when marie-claire picked polly up from school they got on the train & went to the hare krishna temple for their free vegetarian lunch. marie-claire said it was free because it's a gift to the community. there were a lot of homeless people there & that scared polly a little but marie-claire said it was ok.

and the food was really good! polly had a salad with tahini & brown rice with some kinda spicy tomato potato chick pea cauliflower stew. for desert she had something called halava which was toasted farina with pineapples & almonds.

marie-claire neglected to mention that halava is made with ghee which is clarified butter so technically it wasn't vegan because she wanted polly to try it. polly said it was the best taste she ever did taste.

there were lots of hare krishnas there who smiled & bowed to polly but nobody talked to her or tried to recruit them.

polly said mama would like this place & marie-claire smiled & said mama & auntie serena used to go here all the time when they were in college.