Livin’ on the Vedge, Day 2

Posted by: Greta on: September 23rd, 2008  »  1 comment

Made it! Two days down and 5 to go! So far, I’m not finding my meatless diet to be a problem at all. Today I visited three Toronto restaurants to do “location scouts” for our TV show: Meet the chefs, check out their kitchens, try their specialties and so forth. Our first stop involved eating a slice of decadent, calorie-laden, triple-decker carrot cake with cream-cheese icing. Wow. Is it possible to gain five pounds just from eating half a slice of cake? I swear I’m heavier now than when I woke up this morning…and it’s from this amazing cake. Then I feasted on authentic Italian cannelloni with homemade pasta, ricotta, spinach, tomato sauce and tons of ooey, gooey cheeses. Heavenly. My next stop was trickier as I needed to taste some deep-fried panzerotti stuffed with bacon and pepperoni without eating meat and without insulting the chef! I ate lots of dough and sauce and cheese and just “appreciated” the meat, nodding approvingly, but did not taste it. I was so full of carrot cake and cannelloni by that point, that it was hard to eat more than one bite anyway. Tasting food for a living is hard work, but someone has to do it :)

I wouldn’t say I’m craving meat at all, but I feel like I’m craving protein, if that makes any sense. Tomorrow morning I’m making poached eggs for sure (my absolute favourite breakfast). It’s also my dog Lexi’s favourite breakfast…only I call hers “pooched” eggs! And I never did get around to making that pot of vegetarian chili. Too tired. Is it wrong for a cookbook author to want their own personal chef?

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    Ola S. | September 23, 2008 at 8:16 pm →

    So it WASN’T you that I saw downtown, in cognito, at the rib and wings place….. ;) Good for you for sticking it out! I’m assuming Janet isn’t joining you on this meatless endeavour….? You should make her cook for you in that case!!! :)

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