You Ate What...?

So May 5th has come and gone and we are no longer keeping the fast. We found out after a couple of weeks that not eating meat was pretty simple, not eating any animal products was a little more than we could do at this time. Pretty early on we brought back milk, cheese, and eggs after having stomach cramps for several days. We did falter a couple of times when we went to cookouts, but the experience has substantially changed the way we view our eating. We have decided to eat far less meat than we were before the fast. In addition to our realization I heard at work about Bountiful Baskets. It's a cooperative food buying thing where you pay $15 for a basket of mixed fruits and vegetables, usually every other week. It's really a crapshoot on what you get, but I've found some interesting things that caused me to flex my cooking muscles. The first time we did this we also ordered an Asian vegetable add-on. We got bok choy. I have never eaten bok choy, so we were in for a ch...

Been a long time, hasn't it? The other blog sort of fizzled and everyone has alerts for this one, so I'm back here again. Once, a long time ago, I asked my mother if I could try canned spinach after watching some Popeye cartoons. With a look of revulsion on her face, she agreed. She hated the smell of it and I'm kind of surprised she did it. I probably was pretty adamant and threw a tantrum or something. Regardless, I tried it and absolutely was horrified by the taste and texture. Later, my freshman year in college, my roommate made it in the microwave from a can. I couldn't stand the smell then and cancelled it out with my own microwaved can of black eyed peas to which she felt similarly. I do, however, really like baby spinach fresh in salads and have learned to be okay with it cooked on pizza and with alfredo sauce on other Italian foods. We aren't eating most animal products right now (see the note below), so when I got a 2 lb. bag of spinach from the co-op y...