Eating vegetarian

No, not me! But sometimes I do try to eat a little lighter and go with more vegetables in my diet.

So, I had a brainstorm a couple of weeks ago. I decided to make a vegetarian lasagne without noodles. Kind of a super atkin's dish, I guess. So, I went out and got some vegetables and proceeded to slice them into thin slices. The zucchini was shaved into these thin ribbons as psudo "noodles" for the dish.

I assembled the vegetables together. The "meat filling/sauce" was made out of sauteed mushrooms and tofu. Then a shaved a bunch of cheese over the whole thing and stuck it in the oven.

It smelled very good. But ... I forgot about how vegetables shed a lot of water when heated. So, the whole dish turned out really watered down. Otherwise, I think it has a lot of potentials to actually be quite good.

Need to remember to dry them out a bit before the entire baking process.

After all this, I'm a little tapped out on the whole vegetarian thing. Did I mention the veal I had last night was really good?

People just eat all kinds of strange stuff, don't they? Sweatbread -- let me tell you, it has nothing to do with bread OR sugar. Mountain oysters? -- do you really want to know? My cousin was in town last week from Australia. Before coming by, she asked if there's anything I want from there. I, along with another friend was joking around and started talking about kangaroo steaks and crocodiles. Well ... she brough us some of both (in jerky form). Haven't tried them yet though, but ... like what they say about most exotic meats ... probably tastes like chicken.

Speaking of exotic meats? I wonder if people eat dogs anymore. My friend D was joking with the chef guy a while back about wanting him to fix him something out of the neighborhood pet population. The guy told him to not joke about stuff like that as his (the chef)'s wife was from the orients. What is this perception that we eat everything anyway? I mean ... ok, so Asians probably eat more strange stuff than most other cultures, but I kind of doubt if it's still the case anymore, right?