Family, Faith, Food... FUN!
All right, so the butcher's all done making certain cuts for his shop or for the grocery store's order, but he has all these scraps left over. Pieces that would be way too small to sell to anyone, basically just lying around collecting dust. Seems unfit for perfectly good meat to meet (ha!) that fate, right? No worries! If you need to stick a whole bunch of pieces together so you can slice 'em … [Read more...]
I don't know if I've ever talked about this before, but considering that I'm already drunk (and with this in mind, thank GOD for spellcheck... I hope this makes sense in the morning...) and thinking about alcohol, I thought I'd share! There are actually quite a few beers, wines, and liquors that are not vegetarian- or vegan-friendly. It seems weird, I'm sure -- after all, what goes into alcohol … [Read more...]
When I was 13, I called myself a vegetarian, but I wasn't very informed on where my food came from, what came in contact with it, and what hidden ingredients might be in the food I was eating. I would turn up my nose at the beef in my mom's beef stroganoff, but would take the sauce and liberally apply it to my egg noodles, even despite the meat having been in there or, I'm sure, beef stock having … [Read more...]
What do you think of when someone says "free range"? If you're like most people, you imagine cows and chickens frolicking among fields, chewing cud straight out of the earth or pecking the ground for a worm who was unfortunate enough to wake up early that morning. There are flowers blooming, green grass growing, and sunshine warming the earth.This is what many companies would want you to think, at … [Read more...]
