Okay, don’t freak out. But I’m starting to fall in the Liza camp.
It’s so simple and healthy to whip up something containing only veggies and a grain (or an egg), especially in the summer/fall when I can hit up the farmers’ market every weekend. Meat is, well, kind of a pain in the ass and is one more thing to deal with (and one more thing to buy.) Plus, I feel like I am more creative when I find ways to insert a vegetable as the star of the show. Yea, 80P bitches about this latest endeavor, but he’s secretly getting into it as well.
I’m not as hard core as Liza, but unknowingly, I probably eat meat only 2 times a week and it’s mostly when I go out or eat with friends. Seeing a bloody cut of steak absolutely turns me on still. Don’t worry.
Oh, and I blame Michael Pollan. Omnivore’s Dilemma seriously fucked me up. I have a hard time eating meat that was processed in those hell hole slaughter factories. Shit, I’m so brainwashed I don’t even want to buy produce at the Giant up the street. Which brings me to something I’ve been fretting over recently…what will I do when the farmers’ market closes for the winter? I can’t even remember how I survived last frost.
But, I’ll end the meat bashing for this week; we don’t want to turn our bacon contingency away. But there will surely be more on the Pollan phenom, as I’m still figuring out how to process all of this information.
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