The Memorial Day weekend is over and I made it through one of the biggest cookout weekends of the summer. Being like many families across the country my family joined in the BBQ, grilling, picnic festivites.
Even the vegetarian (me) was able to join in and enjoy my fill of grilled yumminess (of course grilled in a manner as not to touch any of the meat or meat juices). At last Sunday's bog family gathering I grilled up some mushroom veggie burgers for me and my grandpa (his doctor has limited his meat-intake by a lot and he has been embracing a semi-vegetarian diet now in the seventy year range). Despite the surprise to some family members it wasn't a big deal. On Monday, we grilled out again, this time at my mom's aunt house, my grandparents also attending. We grilled up some potatoes and onion, then I grilled some marinated portabella mushrooms for my grandpa and myself. (He likes the veggie burgers and mushrooms.) I love to to cook on the open fire and eating meat-free does not have to be a limitation.
The warming weather seems to have brought my desire to cook back. Although it could also be that the show i was involved with is now over and my stock up of frozen meals dwindled during that time. In the last week I made my favorite corn chowder and a rich and spicy vegetable stew. Hard to say what I might make next, especially if it can meet the dietary guidelines my grandfather's doctor set for him.
"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other...." ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
