Cooking for three!

My little brother moved to Ottawa on Tuesday :)

In addition to being awesome in general, he likes food a lot! Yay!

It's kind of cool that he eats meat because Fred has been stuck living with a vegetarian (me) for most of the past seven (eight?) years. We had a barbeque last night and Will and Fred had bavette de boeuf. It's going to be nice for Fred to have a carnivore to cook with.

PLUS, I want to try to eat meat. Not chickens (I have friends who are birds) and not pork (pigs are so smart, plus I read somewhere that pork is the closest meat to human flesh and true or not I just can't get over it). I eat some seafood but not squid or octopus (cephalopods are too magical and smart to eat), and I eat some fish. I just stopped eating tuna because of this article.

That leaves me with meats like crab, oysters, lobster, and scallops, and... beef. For some reason, beef seems like the least offensive meat to eat, but I am having so much trouble bringing myself to eat it. I've tried a few bites of beef recently - bavette a couple of times and some filet mignon, but I can't get past the fact that it's meat. And I know that doesn't make sense - crab is just as meaty as beef.

My reasons for being vegetarian have changed a lot over the last 17 years, and it's something I'll blog about soon. But now I wish I could try life on the carnivore side - not necessarily forever, but just enough to know what it's like.