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| Warning: The vegetables are strictly decorative. Do Not Eat. |
It's National Vegetarian Day* and here at Chez Szondy we're celebrating by gorging ourselves to the back teeth on vast platters of rare beef washed down with massive tankards of Guinness that would make a Georgian country squire swoon. This is after the traditional National Vegetarian Day full English breakfast backed up with mixed grill, kidneys, kippers, and black pudding.
There will, of course, be plenty of hors d'oeuvres such as angels on horseback, pâté de foie gras, crab puffs, shrimp skewers, and caviare. Not to mention the sausage rolls, pork pies, ham and chicken pie, steak and kidney pie, and Cornish pasties. To help sustain our guests until tea, we will have a constant supply of oysters on the half shell and cold lobster.
For the evening crowd we are laying on a variety of roast fowl ranging from quail to turkeys (try the goose, it's excellent), roast suckling pig, baked salmon, veal cutlets, rabbit, and rack of lamb.
That sizzling you hear about midnight is a bedtime treat of freshly grilled sausages (we've got venison!).
If you desire a snack in the middle of the night, a sideboard has been prepared with a selection of cheeses and cold cuts. Get the Stilton and Parma ham first. They go quickly, so don't miss out. The Champagne is in the large ice bucket by the fireplace.
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| Mmm... Cold whale meat collation. |
Bon appetit and save the whales–for sandwiches.
*AKA World Vegetarian Day and not to be confused with World Vegetarian Week, World Vegan Day, National Vegan Week, or Vegetarian Awareness Month.
That's a lot of national/world/local vegetarian/Vegan/piscivore/oophage/regivore week/month/day. How about an International Eat a Vegetarian Day? The vegetarians would get to reduce their carbon emissions quite radically, and the cannibals would eat well (if stringily). Everybody wins!
ReplyDeleteEat a Vegetarian Day? Are you mad? They're gamey, reek of patchouli oil, and have the texture of corn-fed pork that's been injected with too much meat tenderiser.
ReplyDeleteNothing beats a meal that had parents.
ReplyDeleteDavid...
ReplyDelete...You sure mention a lot of pork in that list. I'm guessing that you're quite a fan of pork.
Would you go so far as to say that it's the meat of kings?
An anti-vegan is a person who eats only animals who eats other animals.
ReplyDeleteAs a pescivore I am an anti-vegan. I actually do like fish more than meat, but I really do not want to stuff my lifestyle down at anyone's throats against their will.
Veggies and meat are not mutually exclusive. Just leave the fattening carbohydrates, such as potato, rice, pasta and flour off and instead of cooking the greens, fry them. That's the Atkins way to go.
To be honest, I'll eat most things. And if I do eat less meat, it will be because I feel that eating 250g of mince and half a packet of bacon in a meal is probably wreaking havoc on my arteries.
ReplyDeleteWunderbear, no problems if you leave the carbs away and remember to eat your greens.
ReplyDeleteI usually say at restaurant: "No potatoes but double veggies, okay?"
It is not the hard fats, it is the artificially hardened fats, such as baking margarine which create havoc on the arteries.
Beware of the gout, though. That is always the risk on eating too much protein. In the Middle Ages it was the occupational illness of knights, whose diet consisted of mainly meat.