No meat.......lol wut?

As I briefly mentioned before. The Wife and I have started a no meat diet. Well she is eating fish, which I feel qualifies as meat however she disagrees. While I could argue that meat is classifed as the flesh of animals, and that vegetarians don't eat fish and pescetarians are the ones which eat only fish . I am going to decide to leave it be. None the less we have both dramatically altered our diets. Instead of feasting on delicious animal flesh we are now eating enough veggies to make a rabbit go "wtf".

This new diet, which has been going on now for around 2 weeks (minus one cheater day), was easy at first. Little did I know it was because I had eaten meat within days of starting. Fast forward to now and I want so bad to punch a baby cow in the face and take a bite. I CRAVE beef. I saw a co-worker eating a beef taco salad and I drooled a bit. While before I would sit and day dream about having 450HP in the S14 I now sit and daydream about the day I can sink my teeth into a steak. Even as I type this now my mouth is starting to salivate at the though of a NY Strip 2 inches thick and cooked medium with a bit of a char on top, juicy with butter mashed potatoes..... OMG *drool* I need a moment.....................

Ok I'm back.  

I'm not the only one being affected. The Wife says that she is constantly hungry now. We both consume tons of fruit and veggies and try to eat little carbs but we stay hungry. The Wife said when she is sleeping at now and pulls me closer she is actually dreaming about chicken. 

By now I am sure you are asking, "Why in the hell would one choose to inflict such a miserable existence upon themselves? " Well my curious friend the answer is simply. I just wanted to see if I can do it. That's right. This is all about me testing my will power and gaining self karma of being awesome enough to be a vegetarian for 6 weeks adding to my e-peen. 

Oh and health benefits and all that as well, but mostly the e-peen.

We still have another month to go. Le sigh..........If you hear on the news about a deranged man biting cows you know that I failed.

Egg Drop Soup

The other night I found myself in a rare situation. The Wife was working late, so I was home alone....

which also meant I had to cook. For some people out there, this would be a small problem, however for yours truly this was huge problem as The Wife had taken out super thin strips of ribeye[kind of like this] we picked up from the international place. I had NO IDEA, what I was going to make with them.

So I did what any normal man would do and promptly ignored the problem and went back to playing Skyrim. Skip ahead a few hours and the rumble in my stomach reminded me I would soon have to get off my lazy butt and make something.

Lately The Wife has been into Korean drama comedies [dramedy?] so I figured I would make something with an asian twist to it. Having absolutely no experience in that style of cooking I spent an eternity racking my brain. Finally after an excruciating 4 minutes [what? I said I'm lazy] I came up with something

Egg Drop Soup

3 eggs
2 cans chicken broth
1/4 can beef broth [optional]
Tablespoon of ginger
Crushed Black Peppr
Kosher Salt
Green Onions
Jalapenos [optional]
tablespoon of cornstarch [optional]
Super thin strips of ribeye meat [optional]



The last time I had egg drop soup it was made at some random Chinese place we stopped in to. It had good flavor but the water was not hot enough so the egg white was still kind of rawish. With that flavor in mind I set off to make the meal.

First I took the meat, and coated them with crushed black pepper, kosher salt and a smidge of garlic powder. I then put then in a contained with a lid, added more black pepper a bit more salt and shook them around then put them on a plate  [sidenote: Be careful with your spices on meat this thin. It does not take much for pungent spices to overwhelm]

Next pour the two cans of chicken broth into a pot and add the ginger to it.

 Chop up you green onions and jalapenos and toss  them in then turn it on high to bring to a fierce boil.

  While it is heating up, whisk your eggs together

If you are making it like I did, pour the beef broth into a cup and add in the cornstarch

Once it is boiling something fierce grab the egg bowl and drizzle the egg in. DO NOT POUR IT ALL IN AT ONCE. Some people like to drizzle it onto a fork then let it spread out into the boiling water. If you take your eggs fresh out the fridge like I did be prepared for this to take a few mins as it will drop the temp of your water each time. Once all the egg is in, add in your meat. Since the meat is so thin it will cook very quickly. Once done it should look similar to the below

It tasted AMAZING. I put a bit too much pepper in for The Wife but other than that she loved it. I will definitely make again.