Do Vegetarians and Vegans Think They Are Better Than Everyone Else?

We'd definitely have a problem if we ever get married. I love mushrooms more than anything. Oysters, criminis, shitakes, portabellas, even these weird Korean enoki mushrooms a little place nearby has.

I do a mean mushroom barley soup in the winter with about 10,000 different varieties of mushrooms (the secret ingredient is dill) and again not vegan, but I do a mushroom stroganoff thing that you'd probably hate.

 

Funny you priced it, because we try to do one big lunch thing each weekend that we can eat at least 4 days during the week. This week we did this salad that has so much stuff in it and I was saying yesterday that it must have ended up being kind of expensive. But then we roughly repriced everything (while we were walking), and divided it out by how many meals we get and how good it is, and it didn't seem as bad as I thought it might have been.

It has forbidden rice (a black rice), mangoes, oranges, scallions, red onions, jalapeno peppers, cilantro, roasted peanuts, olive oil and freshly squeezed limes. It's kind of a bitch to cut up all that stuff, but Ms. Ragu did all the work Sunday and I am enjoying the fruits of her labor. It is a really fantastic mix where everything plays off each other incredibly -- the sweetness of the oranges and mangoes, the starch from the rice, the crunchiness of the peanuts, the heat from the jalapenos and the kick from the onions and scallions.

 

Uncooked it looks more like wild rice than brown rice. It's kind of black / purple, a medium-sized , fattish grain. Cooked, it gets much softer than wild rice and it has kind of a nutty flavor.