roses are red, violets are blue, wasabi death is a spice to eschew
In my efforts to *attempt* to get one serving of meat per week (that’s 3 ounces, people), I mistakenly had two servings yesterday. Red meats, poultry, and many fish are entirely out of my diet now but during my remaining carnivorous lapses, I will occasionally fall back onto some of my favorite foods.
Erin picked me up from Lynchburg for the journey back to VT. We needed something to eat, and after several aborted missions to good food shoppes in the area (it seems 4pm is too late to pick up a veggie wrap at any deli around town) we were lucky to find that the Yellow Submarine was still open. I had an Egg Salad & Cheddar Melt. Wow. Such a simple sandwich and recipe received its justice at that restaurant. I’m not crazy about eggs, despite them still existing on my “very occasional list of acceptable meats I will sometimes consider the possibility of eating”, but this was a fantastic sandwich.
And then we stopped briefly ::cough:: at the Bookshop on the Avenue to peruse their collections. Erin effectively went Christmas shopping for her whole family, while I picked out the most worn down editions of the books I was interested in. Really used books are so much better - the smells!, people, the smells! Anyways, after our very brief 90-minute pitstop, we hit the road with Joe Bean’s coffee and seaweed.
The seaweed came in handy later that night, when, after arriving and unpacking, we made sushi with Alex. Not to imply we chopped Alex up into concentric circles of meat and then wrapped the raw flesh in rice and portobello mushrooms. Erin was the one who did that; I played no part. Mmm.. but we actually purchased some crab meat at Ghetto Kroger for the dish and we each put our cooking or watching-others-cooking skills to work.
Making sushi is surprisingly easy. You might be surprised… surprisingly.
So with two servings of meat (maybe three, since that egg salad sandwich had plenty o’ egg) under my belt, I can safely head into the new year without consuming any more animal friends.
