Guilty Pleasures

I have got to be the worst vegetarian/vegan that ever lived. Actually, I think I am finally just going to give up on the whole thing. I spent nearly two weeks eating absolutely no meat and only ate dairy probably no more than three times and now I am craving all things carnivorous.

I just pan seared a roast and plopped it into my recently acquired crock pot with potatoes and carrots and seasoning broth. I haven't cooked a pot roast in so long that it required two telephone conversations with various carnivorous mothers to make sure I didn't do it wrong. I think the last time I made a roast Logan was an infant. I would be totally pissed off to bite into a dry tough hunk of beef after all that sacrificing of my principles and all that veggie chopping.

It is only a small consolation to me that the meat is pesticide/antibiotic/hormone free, however it isn't organic grass fed beef. I have looked into that and I just can't afford such luxuries at the moment. Also, all the veggies except for two of the potatoes are organic. I guess that makes me feel a little better about it but only until I gain three pounds from merely looking at it. I am sure the lovely warm buttery yeast rolls that will accompany it won't help in that department either.

I don't know why I get like this. Maybe it is the Midwesterner internal clock that tells my brain that season change = more hearty food thing. Maybe my body is kicking into low iron gear and is trying to tell me something. That very well could be since the whole time I was in the hospital everyone kept insisting I had horribly low iron. Maybe I am turning into a vampire or a werewolf just in time for Halloween. All I know is this week I need lots and lots of meat. I just can't help it. Yeah. I know what you are thinking. That kind too.

Posted by gwendolyn on October 19, 2003 at 02:29 PM