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bestkptsecret303 -> fresh meat! (12/6/2013 10:35:30 PM)

I love food. I really do. Cooking it, plating it, eating it, talking about it, reading about it, sometimes just looking at it. Fruit is beautiful. Vegetables can be so pretty. Tomatoes are sexy. Meat...makes me feel kinda funny...like when I used to climb the rope in gym class.
Not funny like pubescent-butterflies-all-up-in-my-shorts, but funny like there's-a-piece-of-dead-flesh-on-my-plate-and-it's-looking-at-me.

I like meat if it's beautifully done. I like my steaks mid-rare, I love bacon, I make a lovely pork chop and whole roast chicken, and I have pasta dish in my repertoire with mussels and Italian sausage that's out of this world - but I don't like to eat meat every day. I was a vegetarian for years and flirted with veganism (more because I was curious about the cooking techniques and substitutions than as a result of any ethical dilemma). My primary eats meat every day as a matter of course; it's not a meal without an animal protein. I love cooking for him but more often than not I find myself eating veggies and picking at the meat until I offer and he finishes my plate. He loves my cooking and is always asking for seconds and thirds. The man is a gastronomic Sisyphus.


To you carnivores and mostly-veggie-omnivores out there, how do you happily coexist?



MistressDarkArt -> RE: fresh meat! (12/6/2013 10:53:29 PM)

I'm an omnivore. No beef, but dairy, pork, chicken, fish...all bueno. Compatible food partners are a necessity for me. I tend to hang with folks that eat like I do. That said, I spend a lot of time with my vegan band-mates who have specific and severe dietary restrictions. We have a circuit of just a few restaurants which cater to the vagaries of our motley crew. If we're in the mood to try something new, we peruse the menu, check yelp reviews, and sometimes call first to see if it will meet our needs. Admittedly, most times we don't want to get 'skunked' so we stick with our old favorites.

At our music soirees, everybody just brings what they know they can/want to eat, and that takes care of it.



bestkptsecret303 -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 3:08:24 AM)

I have a couple friends with severe allergies, and a few with dietary restrictions (veganism, or gluten-free). We've found that Asian and Indian restaurants can accommodate anyone. Have you had a similar experience?



MAINEiacMISTRESS -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 3:26:30 AM)

I always had fun eating out with My vegetarian Indian friend. At McDonald's she'd order "a cheeseburger with no meat". I'd order right behind her with, "a cheeseburger with no bun". The crew would always look at us like, "are we on hidden camera??"

LMAO

I LOVE meat...the texture, the smell, and the fact that My body digests/assimilates it so easily as opposed to grains and legumes (I am gluten and soy intolerant and am incredibly efficient at making fat out of anything with carbohydrates---not good). I actually prefer My beef, salmon, and scallops RAW. However, out of respect for the sensitivities of My vegetarian Hindi friends I hold back when we dine together.



MariaB -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 4:16:03 AM)

I'm celiac but I have found many alternatives. I have to be careful in western Chinese restaurants as a lot of them prefer our flour to their own much less tolerant 'rice flour' and their soya sauce does have glutens in it... I usually take my own.

I love meat but it has to be a good cut and not overly cooked. Steak for 'steak tartare' costs a kings ransom here. Here in France you have to be very selective about the meat you buy as a lot of it is old rope. I also love cheese....yep pure fat at its tastiest and we eat a lot of fish because one in our household is pescatarian and doesn't eat dairy produce. We all love sushi and I've become somewhat of an expert at making it!



MistressDarkArt -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 11:46:55 AM)


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ORIGINAL: bestkptsecret303

I have a couple friends with severe allergies, and a few with dietary restrictions (veganism, or gluten-free). We've found that Asian and Indian restaurants can accommodate anyone. Have you had a similar experience?


The band-mates are vegan AND gluten-free...that makes it tough. The restaurants that work best for us are sushi, mexican, and from time to time I bite the bullet and join them at a vegan place they like. We have an excellent Indian place I love near us; I will talk with them about that, great suggestion! I think they're OK with ghee which is in so many Indian dishes; it's the milk solids they want to avoid.



ResidentSadist -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 11:52:26 AM)

The slave cooks to please me or cooks what I tell her to. She makes sausage and/or bacon for breakfast but doesn't eat those things herself. And etc. So we get on just fine.



DesFIP -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 1:29:56 PM)

I give me more vegetables and him more meat.
I'll make pancakes for breakfast and on rare occasions I'll eat a sausage, usually I just cook them for him and add some sauteed apples to fill out the plates.

But I would eat eggs three times a day happily. He hates the look of an egg staring up at him.

However, I have a kid who suffered from sensory integration disorder for years, so I got used to cooking stuff separately and letting people pick what they want. Pasta in one bowl, sauce in another, meat and vegetables in their own dishes. And lots of fruit for the nonvegetable eaters.



PyrotheClown -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 1:52:59 PM)

Murder is fucking delicious 8D

my food tastes vary Greatly with season
spring through summer,I love fruits and fish
but come fall, I start to crave the savory,by this time of year I'm a red meat craving maniac lol
just got back from the store on an emergency "oh shit,we have no dead bovine carcass" run
Munch'n down on some beef/broccoli right now




MistressDarkArt -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 2:32:00 PM)


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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

He hates the look of an egg staring up at him.



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MasterCaneman -> RE: fresh meat! (12/7/2013 9:18:56 PM)

I'm a carnivore. The ol' lady is addicted to veggies, but does indulge in bacon (for it is the food of the gods, dontcha know) occasionally, and stuff like chilis and wings as well. Vegetables actually cause me some distress after eating them, which is a shame 'cause I like things like celery, raw spinach salads, brussels sprouts, & broccoli. All of them leave me with "I think I stopped a bullet" stomach pains the next day.



sirselegantslut -> RE: fresh meat! (12/8/2013 5:48:27 AM)

I love food. My husband is an award winning chef, retired. His perfectly seasoned, always medium rare Meat is heaven. Steak, burgers, pork tenderloin, moist and tasty meatloaf..... and vegetables of ever kind!
I raise nary a finger in the kitchen to cook. My plate is always served to me. What a delight.
The sights, the aromas, the taste and texture, and the combinations there of..... Oralgasm!



Kana -> RE: fresh meat! (12/8/2013 6:18:31 AM)

The Mouse eats little meat.
I'm as Irish as can be.
She likes seafood.
I only like fish when it's fresh fresh fresh, as in off the boat. Living in KW and NOLA ruined fish for me
We generally meet (Hehehehe) in the middle,eat lots of chicken.

But RS pretty much has it right. We eat what I like, don't eat what I don't and avoid certain things that stink up the house (Brussel Sprouts anyone?) like the plague.

Oh,and we always have dessert!



littlewonder -> RE: fresh meat! (12/8/2013 10:18:42 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Kana

The Mouse eats little meat.
I'm as Irish as can be.
She likes seafood.
I only like fish when it's fresh fresh fresh, as in off the boat. Living in KW and NOLA ruined fish for me
We generally meet (Hehehehe) in the middle,eat lots of chicken.

But RS pretty much has it right. We eat what I like, don't eat what I don't and avoid certain things that stink up the house (Brussel Sprouts anyone?) like the plague.

Oh,and we always have dessert!



unless he's not home. [8D]

Then I just make sure there are no remnants or smell of it before he gets here.




bestkptsecret303 -> RE: fresh meat! (12/8/2013 3:57:40 PM)

He likes shellfish on occasion, but I only cook fish when he's not home. He hates the smell - and I don't want to share anyway. [:)]
Blackened trout with lemon-dill hollandaise from scratch, a poached egg, and Cajun-spiced potatoes...yes please! I stole the idea from a local brunch place, but...dare I say it...mine's better.

I had a dinner party the other night with his musician friends and my artsy friends. I made meatloaf with homemade-ketchup-and-sriracha glaze, and beetloaf with the same glaze (it's mostly beets and chickpeas mashed with a mirepoix, looks like meatloaf but I make it in a muffin tin - individual servings are more fun and it stays more moist) for the gluten-free and vegan crowd. They all brought sides. It was a success.



playfulotter -> RE: fresh meat! (12/8/2013 7:45:05 PM)

I like all kinds of meat but lately a lot of seafood..there is a great seafood market a mere seven blocks from where I live so it is easy to find good seafood....sometimes the Santa Barbara shrimp are still squirming in the case...We otters love our seafood.



tiggerspoohbear -> RE: fresh meat! (12/8/2013 8:25:23 PM)

We both love steaks, done on an outdoor grill. Since we don't have an "outside", no steak for us. Unless we go out and can get rare prime rib, our favorite cut.
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We eat pork, chicken, sausage, rice and the list goes on. Neither of us is big on fish or seafood unless it's fresh. We both love veggies, for him, raw & cooked. Me, mostly cooked and a limited selection. I love fruit, him not so much.

He does most of the cooking, it's something he really loves doing. While I love to bake but then I'm the one with a wicked sweet tooth. He limits me on that or I'd eat just that for supper some nights.

It's tough for both of us right now, he's in the hospital for another 2-4 months, so I've gotten into the bad habit of eating one meal a day, usually between 7-9 pm. Not really anything healthy either. Although I know it's not good for me, I eat because I have to, not because I want to.



ShaharThorne -> RE: fresh meat! (12/9/2013 6:38:51 AM)

MEAT!!!

I get stew meat, hamburger (93/7), top sirloin and chuck steak if they are on clearance (just a day old). That is what freezers are for.

We also get pork steak or butterfly pork chops. finish cutting the butterfly pork and you get 2 steaks ready to fry up.

we also get chicken breast and once in a while shrimp. Mom loves shrimp alfredo.



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