annnnnnnd now i'm eating meat!

Well, here's how this goes: I was a faithful veggie for almost 7 years then I got preggers and "the baby" wanted a cheese burger. Actually baby wanted a few cheese burgers then she wanted some roasted chicken and then some steak.
So, baby is 3 months old now and I'm still eating animals. Now what, I just go ahead and scarf down a bologna sandwich! Eeeeeeeeeee! I'm a full blown hypocrite! How did I come off the rails like this? I eat meat about 3 times a week now. I just had some nasty, and I mean NARSTY orange chicken from the local Lucky Panda for dinner tonight. Who knows if it was actually chicken, cat, or coatimundi. I can guarantee there was some animal cruelty involved though and I just ate it like a JERK! It didn't even taste good. I think I tasted a fur. YUK! So, what now? I'll admit it I'm enjoying some carnivorous culinary adventuring. I got a slow cooker for Christmas and I've made Beef Stew and Moroccan Chicken that kicked tofu's extra firm ass. I don't know what to do now. I think I'm gonna try to ditch the meat habit all together again when I'm not so ravenous from breast feeding. Or I may go the good-meat-eater route and only buy organic free range meats which is what I try to do now anyway. I feel a little better chomping into grass fed free roaming buffalo burgers. I'll report back in time. I don't ever want to not be conscious of where the food I eat comes from especially if it was once a living creature. I wish I'd never craved that dang fast food last summer and then I wouldn't be writing this but here I am. It's not too late right? Aren't the other veggies who have fallen off the wagon and gotten back on again for good?

wishing broccoli tasted like a t-bone,

Mary

HOT MILK CAKE ... with Bourbon!

Hot Milk Cake REVISED with BOURBON!

I've been eating Hot Milk Cake all my life. All the women on my mom's side of the family make it and they make it well. The recipe they all use is the one I have based this version on. It comes from my great grandmother Mary Estelle Daisy Carpenter better known as Mah Maw. I assume she learned the recipe from her mother but it could have come from anyone on the Eastern Shore of Virginia where our family is from. Hot Milk Cake is very popular there, or was years a go, and is either made plain, with orange, or with lemon. I decided to swap the citrus for booze! Hot Milk Cake can be iced with a simple cake drizzle if you like. I do! Here's my Hot Milk and Bourbon Cake Recipe.

4 beaten eggs
2 sticks melted butter
1/4 cup hot milk (I use half and half)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup bourbon (original recipe calls for juice of 1 large orange)
2 cups flour
2 cups sugar
dash of salt
1 teaspoon baking powder

Simply dump all the ingredients in your mixing bowl and mix on low then pour the batter into a well greased tube pan.
Bake on 375 for 1 hour to an hour and 15 minutes

Optional: Drizzle cake with simple icing made from powdered sugar mixed with milk, bourbon, or orange juice

YUM!