Chris has a mission to make one day out of the week meat free!!! For those that want to participate, we are going to try to have several veggie bbq/potlucks... think of it as a support group. My default/classic veggie pasta!! Collards, kales, bell peppers, tomatoes, ginger, turmeric, pesto Besides the joy of getting together with friends and experiencing the awesome spread of grilled veggies and new Japanese dish that happened, the most moving moment of the night (because bbqs and potlucks can get me a little emotional) was Solar Chris's exclamation that he didn't know he liked so many vegetables, and that all these adamant meat eaters opened their hearts to a meal without meat. The more I read about the practices that are going on within the meat industry (growth hormones, living conditions for animals that increase the likelihood for diseases, antibotics animals are fed, gmo feed, feeding animals other than what is best for their bodies, the amount of resources it takes to raise meat and it's environmental and social impact...) the more i want to talk meat eaters into exploring vegetarian dishes. I don't want to be that Nazi Vegetarian but I just want people to be exposed to food and eating habits that exist outside the dominant paradigm and could possibly give you a healthier diet. I know there's healthy and environmentally-conscious avenues for meat eaters but when people are shocked, SHOCKED, to find they can actually enjoy a meal or dish that doesn't have meat it thrills me and validates my life, but also leaves me feeling like the meat industry has a warped power over people... or that the 'American identity' has meat-eating embedded in it which only infuriates me because of how unhealthy and sick the industry's current practices sound, and also it implies anyone who DOESNT eat meat is unreasonable or outside the norm. Anyways... Adam was thawing out some organic, grass-fed, Big Island beef when he got the text to attend our vegetarian extravaganza. He put that hunk o meat back in the fridge and harvested this assortment of salad greens from his garden at Costco. Yumi and Aygee made gobo along with carrots and fried tofu! "So the gobo dish is called "kinpira gobo" in Japanese. It's a very common appetiser for us. It's very simple just carrots and gobo cooked with mentsuyu (soba soup) for flavour. I'm a lazy cook so use mentsuyu to cook faster and easier instead of mixing shoyu, sugar, mirin etc... Fried tofu is called "agedashi tofu". I put tofu into potato starch n deep fried in a pan. Then put it in a hot soup which can also be mentsuyu. If you order it at a JPN restaurant, it usually has some toPping of green onion, shredded daikon&ginger etc." - Yumi Carlos and I collaborated on garlic bread and brussle sprouts. The camera didn't make it out to the grill but we had a feast of portabella mushrooms, squash, zucchini, eggplant, and corn as well! |
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