New Year's Resolution #4 – Eat Less Meat

Notice how it doesn’t say Eat NO meat?  That kind of resolution would be completely undoable in this house.  Trust me.  Even our veggie burgers have bacon on them — 1 (very moderate) piece each.  I’ll go one step better worse:  We fry the veggie patties in the bacon fat.  YUM.

A couple of lines into my post about eating less meat and I’m gleefully talking about frying veggie burgers in bacon.  Not much of a Gulf Islander, many would say.  However, in my defense, you should know that it’s not just any bacon…

It’s Red Barn bacon — we hoard its house-smoked (twice)-SWEET-salty-thick-cut goodness in our freezer.  I know of many fellow Penderites who bring kilos of the stuff back from trips to the Big Island. (Don’t deny it, you know who you are.)

I think it best to kill this here before it gets any worse (though at this point, I question how that could happen). I’ll just go get my copy of In Defense of Food — I think I need a little talking to from Michael Pollan.