Blowing the dust off

Still there?
Didn't think so.

I did rather forget about this poor little blog over the last few years, but I hope to freshen it up in the next few weeks and try to post a bit more regularly.

So, here, in the first week in 2011, I shall start you off slow... with an ever so exciting recap of the tonights meal.

WAIT... don't head off just yet! It's a bit more exciting than it sounds!

You see I'm an avid omnivore... I will eat pretty much anything, and don't trust people who don't think along the same lines as me in that department.

I have often been heard swearing into the air about vegetarians and, (worst of all,) vegans.
These are people that, usually by their own choice, GIVE UP on so many delicious food options!

Yet for all my venom for the leaf eaters, my secret shame and skeleton in my closet was that they were right... just once.

You see, if posed that tricky school yard question, "what is my favorite food," I, after a lot of demanding a more specific question, usually give up high praise for a well made lasagna, and I have had some amazing samples of such cross my palate in my time.
From my mothers hearty home made style to the varied and wild offerings of various establishments... but the dirty truth is one of the greatest lasagnas I ever tasted... was vegetarian!

Even now that sounds like confessing a crime!
It feels certain that manly men will soon knock on my door and demand my eye teeth as I am not carnivorous enough to know how to use them.

Worse yet was the fact that this fond memory of a meal is something I sampled once over a decade ago, and had never experienced since.

But tonight I looked deep into my soul and returned to that black spot on my past.

You see my goodly parents furnished me with a neat cookbook in my Christmas stocking, and there in the wonderfully photograph adorned pages I found the recipe for an Epic Vegetarian Lasagna!

For MANY hours did I toil over element and oven, with every chop an stir decrying the endeavor...

"2 hours! what takes 2 hours to cook!?"

"Nothing lacking meat can possibly be worth this wait"
"What the hell is an EGG-PLANT!"

but i did complete that unholy creation... and then She and Me... we ate.

You know that scene in Disney's Ratatouille movie where the critic tastes as dish and wonder and history floods into his mind warming his very soul...

...this was better.

So, while I may never shake the stigma of it, (in my own eyes at least,) I'm refining my past choices and I now have this to say:

If I had to choose, and speaking in a general, non event or location specific sense, I would have to say my favorite food, in the whole wide world, turns out to be... well made vegetarian lasagna.

-Scott