J&C Food (and other) Adventures: Confessions

Oops, this was supposed to have been posted yesterday.

A lot of people were telling us that doing this vegetarian thing for a few days wouldn't be hard at all. Well. After the first day, we already had some meat, and will do it again today. We're going to have to re-adjust our goals to just eating healthy, which I think is more doable than going completely vegetarian.

Yesterday, we did a salad lunch (but at a bar that Jenny's brother really wanted to go to, which included, uh, fried mushrooms and pepperoni bites. I can see your looks of disappointment already). But for dinner, we went to Green Temple which has delicious food that is all vegetarian.

Of course, yesterday was a very odd day. There was a death in the family. Jenny's family lost their parrot, Jimmy, who seemed to have gotten himself tangled in his bedding and asphyxiated himself. :( Jenny found him when we went over to her parents' house, and, well, I'll spare y'all the details...

So we went to the mall, to Buffalo Wild Wings, where we attempted to keep up the no-meat rule by looking at their salad section, where we were greeted with the utter lack of any entree that was meatless, forcing us to get their honey BBQ chicken salad, making us feel slightly less guilty about eating chicken. Later, I purchased 3 books for $2 at Bookoff. Amazing.

On our way home, we encountered a Shiba Inu named Sasha following our car in Jenny's parents' neighborhood and called his owner, whose response was, "oh, they hate him on that street." Hah! Sat outside with him for 20 minutes while his owner showed up. He was very standoffish. Clearly too good for the likes of us humans.

Today, again, we cheated. I guess at this point, we're giving up the meatless deal. We went to a Filipino restaurant called LA Rose Cafe with Kenneth and Grace, where we got things that were distinctly NOT vegetarian. Sausages and tocino and beef with eggs and rice. But tonight, we're trying to be a bit better. We're cooking up a feast. Yay.