Foodie!

[jmfargo]

Now, I don't know if many of you know, but I've recently gone vegetarian, and along with weight goals, I've been recording the results.

It's been fantastic. I can honestly say that I barely miss meat, and usually I miss it most when I'm watching Food Network, especially Alton Brown. Et tu, Alton?

But then there's what happens when I cook at home. Inspiration strikes, and another meal hits the stove, quick, relatively easy, and very tasty. I haven't been disappointed with any of my vegetarian dishes yet, though I've desperately wanted to so that I could call it a failure and go back to eating things like king crab, or steak. I miss seafood the most, though I used to eat it less than any other meat. That's strange. Since this is a 30-day exercise I'm working on (the vegetarian thing), I'll probably add seafood back in afterwards, but not much other meat.

Tonight's meal came in a burst of inspiration. I made completely from scratch pasta sauce. Peeled some tomatoes, diced onion and garlic, threw them all together. Chiffonaded some basil (cut it into strips), added that, some salt and pepper, a little burgundy, and that's basically it.

I'm doing something you almost never see on Top Chef; actually tasting the food before it's done, and I've got to tell you, I am pleased.

If I keep cooking things like this, I might just stay vegetarian for a very long time.

Comments

[reverendfixxxer.livejournal.com]

--I might just stay vegetarian for a very long time.--

That's the sort of talk I'd expect to hear from a communist vegetarian. You're better than that. And pork misses you.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Well, by "stay vegetarian," what I really mean is that I'll probably eat vegetarian at home, but if I go out I'll have whatever I feel like.

Really, I miss seafood much more than any other meat. Crab sounds really good, so does some halibut or swordfish.

Swordfish is the stinkiest fish I've ever cooked, but tastes less fishy than almost anything else. It's amazing that something that smells so bad tastes so good.

[reverendfixxxer.livejournal.com]

Swordfish smells because it's so oily. Oil has a tendency to go rancid very quickly, which is really what you're smelling. If swordfish is treated correctly (which to is to "like shark" - after it's caught, cut off its tail, put it in a tank and let it bleed completely out, then keep the body otherwise uncut until the last possible second), it shouldn't have too fishy of a smell at all.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

Also? I laughed. :)

[desta.livejournal.com]

Seafood is my little secret sin. Right up there with Beef. ;)