Cooking meat…yikes!?
I am watching ‘Julie & Julia’. I really like this movie, Amy Adams and Meryl Streep are adorable.
I love love love the idea of cooking your way through a cook book and blogging about your journey. I have been searching for a cook book to cook through. A cook book to teach me to cook. But I have been teaching myself to cook already.
My mother grew up on a farm. They named the cows, therefore they were unable to eat cows. They grew up on bologna and weiners. When I was a child we ate ground beef and chicken nuggets. My mother was deathly afraid of meat. Actually not meat, under cooked meat. On the weekends when my dad was home we had real meat. Every Sunday we had a roast. Our meals were based around the meat, real or not. In highschool I had enough of it and decided to quit eating meat. My dad was not pleased. We used to eat steak together while making jokes that only us two understood. I think he felt that was turning my back on him. Not him. Meat. Real or not. Cooked or uncooked.
When I moved out on my own I bought nothing but vegetables. I ate vegetables. Tofu. Noodles. Perogies, for the first time! I tried different vegetables and fruit. I would eat meat in restaurants. I eventually started to cook chicken. Usually dry and over cooked.
Now. I moved out of the city to the country. I moved in with a meat eater with an open mind. I decided to learn how to cook meat. I made meat loaf, meat balls, stuffed pork loin, pot roast. Some turned out beautiful, others not so well. But I tried. I succeeded.
I read a beautiful book ‘Crazy Sexy Diet’ by Kris Carr and decided to quit eating meat again. I haven’t been cooking meat but I have had it in restaurants. It would be easy to be vegan because I am Lactose-intolerant and already have to cut a lot of food and make substitutions. But I live with an open minded meat eater. If I don’t cook he eats hungry man dinners and mini pizzas. I need to cook for my man. I want him to be happy and healthy.
The cook book that I decided to cook through is ‘Veganomicon’ by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. When I googled ‘best vegan cook book’ this one popped up. So I bought it. The first recipe is for Sushi. No fish of course. So I will try. I will still cook meat for the boyf and will cook vegan dishes as well. I will let you know about my journey but this is still a blog about my obsession with relationships. I will still do my reviews of rom-coms, write about meditation and all of the other crazy things that pop into my head. I want to make this my primary blog. I like this format. I like typing here. Tumblr is good but I like this better.
Here is to good food, healthy food, my thoughts and writing every day!!
