Lunch today: Asiany kale over rice. No recipe for you because this meal is a bowl of fail. Seriously. This is how lazy I was:
“Hmm, there’s some kale in the fridge I should use up. And some rice. I think I’ll put them in the microwave together and nuke the bowl until the kale is cooked. Also, add some butter because that’s what’s good with kale.” Then the whole thing was a little bland so I added some of this. (And you know what, McCormick? Kudos to you for not making a spice blend that is mostly salt. I guess that’s where the “gourmet” part comes in.)

Don’t feel too bad for me, though, I also wolfed down a nice slice of ham. Which, last I checked, grows wild in the fields of Nebraska.

Okay, okay. The ham was in the fridge. Like I said, killing an animal and then letting it rot is probably more cruel, and definitely more wasteful, than not eating it. So I’ll be having ham for a while. It’s good ham, from an actual ham, not deli ham (which probably came from an actual ham at some point in its life). Chris cooked it and rubbed it with brown sugar, molasses, and cloves. And probably some other stuff that I’m forgetting. It’s delicious, actually.

Again with the Jonathan Safran Foer stuff, but I feel like the tipping point for me was his admission that he still really likes meat. He’s all, “Yeah, I like steak. I just don’t like it that much.” And that’s pretty powerful. A lot of food advocates can come across as kind of obnoxious.

By the way, a note to everyone reading this blog (Hi mom!): just a reminder, this isn’t 100% a food blog. It’s just that the co-authors love food so much that it’s all we ever talk about.

And I now wonder if we should change the blog’s name to reflect our new non-carnivorism…but scrapple is hardly a meat, right?

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