Today's selection is vegetable lasagne, which I made with a whole ton of roasted veggies and a lot of love. (Red peppers, zucchini, onions, olives, fresh basil, tomatoes, noodles, cottage cheese, mozz and parm for $12 made 3 servings. I found that if you cook lasagne in a loaf pan you don't have to deal with leftovers for 2 weeks.)
It's been merely coincidental that so far we've gone veg this week, but we did have the pleasure of attending a discussion on Monday night featuring Frank Bruni (my bf, former NY Times food critic, and author of "Born Round") and Jonathan Safran Foer, (author of, among other things, "Eating Animals" and certified cutie.) The topic was supposed to be something vague like "why is food so fraught" but turned out to be more of a sparring match over whether their grandmothers would agree that factory farming is evil. JSF offered the statistic that if every person in this country eliminated just one serving of meat from his/her diet per week, it has the environmentally equivalent impact as removing 5 million cars from the road. I can safely say that I will never (again) be a vegetarian, and I do hope to eventually be able to afford only humanely raised meat, but in the meantime the Ladies do seem to be doing our part this week by vegging it up!
Oh, and Frank Bruni gave us restaurant recommendations for Rome where we will be traveling for work in February. Shazaaam!
xoxo
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