Justifiable (gastronomic) Homicide
This weekend, as usual, I'll be preparing a Chinese feast to celebrate the new year. We keep attendance small, but tend to invite different guests every year so that everyone eventually gets to try my chinese food (of which I'm rather proud - it's my cuisine of choice)
This year's menu has been... trickier to plan than usual.
Vegetarians I can deal with. There are alternatives to meat and fish, like quorn and tofu.
What's that you say? You're vegan? So the whole meal has to be vegan? So, that's wontons, springrolls, gyoza, egg drop soup and quorn off the menu, then.
It's fine - there's still tofu and fake egg and soya mince (as moose_buscuit put it, "It's pretty much the same as we just ate, but I tried to get the frosting real chocolatey" (ok, so Kaylee might have said it first)). Dinner will be soya, followed by soya, braised in soya sauce. And for dessert, soya ice cream.
I can just about make a vegan feast and still make it tasty and varied.
What's that? You're allergic to wheat?
*murders guests*
*chops guests into tiny bits*
*stirfries tiny bits of guests and serves them up to remaining guests*
Stirfried guest contains no eggs or wheat. And does it count as vegetarian if it's made of vegetarian?
Next year, we are so only inviting people who eat everything that I eat.
This year's menu has been... trickier to plan than usual.
Vegetarians I can deal with. There are alternatives to meat and fish, like quorn and tofu.
What's that you say? You're vegan? So the whole meal has to be vegan? So, that's wontons, springrolls, gyoza, egg drop soup and quorn off the menu, then.
It's fine - there's still tofu and fake egg and soya mince (as moose_buscuit put it, "It's pretty much the same as we just ate, but I tried to get the frosting real chocolatey" (ok, so Kaylee might have said it first)). Dinner will be soya, followed by soya, braised in soya sauce. And for dessert, soya ice cream.
I can just about make a vegan feast and still make it tasty and varied.
What's that? You're allergic to wheat?
*murders guests*
*chops guests into tiny bits*
*stirfries tiny bits of guests and serves them up to remaining guests*
Stirfried guest contains no eggs or wheat. And does it count as vegetarian if it's made of vegetarian?
Next year, we are so only inviting people who eat everything that I eat.