i was really hungry.

on saturday, chris and i went to earthen jar in ann arbor. it is a buffet-style vegetarian restaurant. i think it used to be a house. you can fill up a box or a plate with stuff and it is $4.99 per pound. also if you are the environmentally friendly type, you can bring your own plate, or use one of the reusable plates they have in the restaurant. when you are done, you have to wash it yourself at the sink in the back. i didn’t read the sign until after i had sat down with my big paper box or i would have been SO ready to wash dishes.

earthen jar’s menu is primarily composed of indian food, but there a few other things mixed in, like the most delicious vegetable lasagna to ever grace the earth. there was some woman standing RIGHT in front of it for like seriously five minutes straight though. she would not move. i just wanted lasagna. she just wanted to stand there and keep me from eating delicious lasagna.

every time i go to earthen jar i run into the problem that there are only 3 spaces in the box and approximately 300 things that i want to eat. i stack food on top of food and sneak little tiny spoonfuls of stuff into corners and crevices so that i can try everything. sometimes it makes the food taste funny because it all lays on top of eachother and runs together, but i just can’t stop and get a little out of control because everything looks so good. it’s hard to quit and i am sad that the box is only so big.

anyways, we ate 4 pounds of food combined, washed down with an almond cardamom somethingorother lassi. a lassi is a spiced indian yogurt drink. they also have a soy version for vegans or the lactose intolerant. the man warned us that it was spicy. i accidentally ate a bite of a green chile last week, so my spice tolerance officially knows no boundaries. it was not spicy.

there is more food hidden under the food you see here.

i’m not too sure of what i actually ate because i forgot to look at the signs, but going sort of cock-eyed clockwise starting with the creamed corn, is some type of lentil thing, a chickpea salad of sorts, a bean salad of sorts, basmati rice with some other lentil thing hidden underneath it, a yellow lentil thing, broccoli in amazing yellow..stuff, vegetable lasagna to give up your first born child for, and collard greens and spinach sneaked in underneath.

chris is not a ravenous freak like me when it comes to the buffet, so his box is more normal and he only put the appropriate amount of food in each cube.

you should eat here, ok? but not on a sunday because they are closed:(

earthen jar - 311 s. fifth ave, ann arbor, MI