I'm considering eating meat again

To be clear I'm not actually considering it but I did consider giving of my red meat free diet today. I sorta eat meat but I don't consider fish and foul to be meat like some people as far as I'm concerned meat comes from mammals we can debate that somewhere else if you want. So when I say meat I'm referring to a slab of steak and or some pork chops or bacon...ewww bacon... or something of that nature. Not gloriously seasoned, marinated and grilled chicken or lemon peppered grilled salmon so I'll eat birds and fish but absolutely NO RED MEAT for me. Sometimes I think about being a vegetarian and then I remember what it feels like when my body shuts down because it doesn't have enough protein or I'll think about all the foods I could eat. But on the rare occasion I encounter a meat filled dish that makes me want to throw caution to the wind and eat meat just so I can have it and enjoy it without consequences.

I've been thinking lately I really like food. Eating anything that wasn't mass produced, though I do love the Lost Canyon Kitchen, will do that to you I think. I know someone who shall remain nameless that thinks I'm a picky eater and that I don't really like food. First I'll admit that I am a picky eater but in my defense I think I'm inclined to think some things don't taste good because 1. my mom's pescaterian (she eats fish because it's easy protein) and she has been for nearly 24 years she loves to point out meat's gross qualities and I agree. 2. I grew up in the South. Have you seen what Southern people do to their food?





everything on that plate was brought to you by:




Unless that was plate from my Grandma's kitchen because when I was 7 my grandma stopped using lard in anything she made because it'll clog your arteries and kill you. Oh and a little fyi for anyone who doesn't know lard is just a grocery store word for saturated pig fat. It wouldn't sell as well if you put that on the package. When you grow up eating soul food you have a bias towards things that don't fit in your soul food box also I'm from a small town my options were limited. I'm a picky eater because I'm a victim of circumstances that's all.

Promise I had a point. Every time I eat the food just taste so different. I've noticed it a lot since I've been home. Things I normally eat just aren't as good anymore. I want something more from the food on my plate.

I was scouring the internet and I found what I want in my food.

I want to eat food like this all the time.


grilled PB&J

I'm positive that I'd actually eat peanut butter if it were in a grilled sandwich it'd be all melted and yummy. It's the consistency that doesn't appeal to me.


rice, sesame seeds, eel and a sunny side up egg.

rice for breakfast? Capital Y E S exclamation mark. I love eel it's one of my favorite things to have in my sushi. Eggs are a staple in my world. Granted I've never had the two together but delicious plus delicious is obviously just double delicious.


Pasta dish

Pasta, cheese sauce, broccoli. I think that may be some kind of sausage or ground beef or something in there which I can live without for sure. I'd just leave it out.

Granted I would eat all 3 of those things without having to make a lifestyle switch.

BUT
(and this is what this whole blog was about)

I would absolutely reconsider eating meat for this dish



I'm just so curious about it. It's tofu is marinated in red chili vinaigrette with short ribs are saturated in a red, sesame chili salsa in a corn tortilla served out of a Korean-Mexican Barbecue food truck. Ridiculous and yet I want to eat it. Los Angeles, I dislike you for many reasons Kobe being number 1, but if I ever decide to eat meat again I'm coming for a visit so I can eat this taco.


That is all :-)

How I Spent My Day and The Things I learned

So instead of going to Romanian class today I had to attend to my car. However my car was on the other side of the valley and Pepboys... who are lame all 3 of those character guys LAME... wouldn't release my car to be towed because I had to pay in person... which makes them double lame... who doesn't take payment over the phone?

So I embarked on adventure using the public transportation system provided by the city of Phoenix.

I left at 11:00 (it took me that long to figure out which buses to ride. I got up at 8)
I hopped on the bus then the light rail okae so the first 1.5 hours of my journey were sorta boring. I read some Henri Nouwen:



Great book pick it up.

Then I hopped off the light rail and onto another bus, again sorta boring until I realized I was on the wrong bus. Dear City of Phoenix consider naming you're buses better.

So I had to back track a little get on a different bus where I met a lovely lady who spoke to me in Spanish. I couldn't understand her though cuz it was loud. So I thought oh way out answer what I understood in English and then tell her I don't speak Spanish in Spanish. I was punished for lying because as soon as I told her in my awesome accent(even if I do say so myself), she questioned me "you don't speak any Spanish" to which I was forced to respond, "I do just not well I listen well I just get nervous an I just couldn't hear you before because of all the construction and I don't know that word" *side note* she had a different accent I've not heard before I have no idea where she was from. *end side note* She forgave me and asked with words and hands. Very nice lady.

So on the correct bus now. 1 more switch. So I get off too wait for my next bus and so does this Tata. He was real old and it was awesome. He was even rocking several different fashion statements in one outfit, typical old guy style. Oh I should add highlight of his stylish outfit a trucker hat that was very Ashton Kutcher circa 2003. He talked to me about his fresh white kicks and asked if my feet were hot in my TOMS. I talked to him for half an hour about old people stuff, so nothing really which was okae.


Finally I arrived at my destination picked up my car drove it to the Volkswagen Dealer and left it there. That took all of 20 minutes. Yes I rode the public transportation for 4 hours to do a 20 minute job because Pepboys sucks. So I just left my car because I had another bus to catch to start my trip home. However they were nice at VDub and drove me to the bus stop in Tolleson that I was going to. Which enabled me to catch an earlier bus which enable me to stay out of the dark but caused me to be subjected to white hairy man thighs... gross.

I pretty much read this the whole way home...



(Ah literature you are soooo good.

Thanks Eric Martinez for buying me this book!)


....except for when I almost threw up because a gentleman in the male equivalent of soffe shorts sat across from me and he was hairy and pale and if you didn't know body hair including legs and arms sicks me out in the first place but everyone's upper thighs should be kept a secret. So I got off the bus before I needed to because I was uncomfortable and went to the BK lounge and bought an ice cold Dr. Pepper.



So now for the things I've learned:
1. Bus are great... I don't know where the people who ride buses come from but I feel like I never encounter them in any other part of life.

2. Phoenix is huge when ride a bus if I had a car 1 hour tops but because I did it all walking and on a bus I have a new found appreciation for the city.

3. Men should shave their legs. No one should be subjected to white hairy man thighs.

4. Women should shave their arm pits... don't ask.

5. I really like the light rail

6. Bus drivers are solitary people.

7. Dr. Pepper tastes sooo good after a long day




And for my finale
Wanna you know what 9 hours of bus riding and walking around Phoenix got me?







Sorry Rikki Face if you are reading this

















Please let me answer your questions
Yes that is for real
Yes I am actually that color naturally. I just get dark because I live in Phoenix there is always sun.
I tan easily its a God given gift.
Yes this happened today for the most part I had a little tan from school this week but nothing to serious.
No I will not be wearing sandals any time soon.
Yes I'm submitting it to the TOMS website in hopes that they will put my feet on the internet... not that I didn't just do that.





I'm outie
(sorry I was feeling a little Clueless)

Seriously though gotta read some more Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende... and then watch True Blood before bed.