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[akeyoftime]

After a month of a meat-and-potatoes meal twice a day, almost every day, I am getting so close to having a good scream and declaring myself vegetarian. Maybe then, with two vegetarians in the household (my mother cannot eat meat because of a surgery mishap), my carnivore baby brother and father would actually accept that meat-and-potatoes is not the be-all-end-all of cuisine. I doubt it, but I am so sick of variety consisting of rice/potatoes and pork/chicken/beef. And no more hamburger nights, please. I'm allergic to the buns, so I'm faced with these two thick chunks of meat poorly disguised with a slice of tomato and some mustard. Gag me with a bloody spoon. (Like the one you used to handle the raw meat, maybe? That'd be swell.)

I love food. So how about something interesting, OK? I can only imagine how my mother has felt all these years, literally unable to eat most of the meals she cooks.

Comments

[sevarem.livejournal.com]

I was a vegeterian for 5 years. Had to stop when I came to China, but good times those were.

[the-great-waka.livejournal.com]

Score one for the green team! Ah, the advantages of a veg life :)

Weeds don't smell to begin with

[theclevermonkey.livejournal.com]

Gotta side with your bro/pop on this one: Meat and potatoes is the be-all-end-all of cuisine. Don't listen to the other people on your comments page, particularly that sketchy looking "waka" fellow.

However, if you have the best there is, all the time, then no matter how good it is, you'll become sick of it. Take a break from it, and you'll enjoy it more when it comes around again. The best hamburger I ever had was from Harveys, after not eating meat for two months.

Generally, I try to eat meat no more than twice per week. This way, when you do have it, you appreciate it far more when you do. It's far more flavourful, and delicious.

[katherine8504.livejournal.com]

Ah, your poor mother! Poor you, too, lol, but I can't imagine fixing meals all those years and often not being able to eat a good portion of the dinner. I don't know if I could do that.

[partytodamascus.livejournal.com]

i do that allll the time, but my folks are the most veg-friendly non-vegetarians ever, so its okay.
its funny... when i cook, ill often make some schmancy chicken dish for them. when my mum cooks, its almost ALWAYS something veg for me (or something with an interchangeable meaty part)

try changing the potatoes for sweet potatoes?
and the meat for um, shrimp or jerk chicken?
.. jambalaya and paella are both rice+meat, but are delicious!