game day traffic

[pylduck]

It's amazing to me, not having grown up with a college football game going family, how big a production home games are at UNC. I assume it's a game today that backed up traffic on one of the roads that leads to campus a good five miles out at least. I saw a few cars with the Carolina blue flags flying from the windows.

The traffic delayed our return from the dog park by about ten minutes. Not too bad. There were surprisingly few dogs at the park this morning -- perhaps because everyone's going to the game?




Time to re-heat some of last night's spaghetti and fungus-meatballs for lunch. I like to emphasize the fungal nature of Quorn products. Unfortunately, it scares Rob so I'm left with lots of extra food when I cook the stuff.

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[saltbox.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it scares Rob so I'm left with lots of extra food when I cook the stuff.

Why is this unfortunately? More Quorn for you!

p.s. I love those Quorn meatballs. I made them once with a curry-peanut-tomato sauce and they were super tasty.

yes

[pylduck.livejournal.com]

This is true; it's not really unfortunately. I'm trying to get Rob to eat more kinds of food, though. He's the kind of vegetarian who became one as a teenager at home and learned to subsist on cheese pizzas and potatoes. And he actually doesn't eat green vegetables much at all. His usual daily diet consists of a Morningstar Farms veggie burger (Grillers) on an English muffin, french fries, and a pizza, in addition to lots of caffeinated soda and cigarettes.

Re: yes

[saltbox.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Hmm. You could maybe ease him into variety through various Chinese mock meats? Although I've never bought their stuff online (I've only been to the real life store), May Wah (as well as other places like it) sells an amazing variety of mock meats that could add variety to any vegetarian kitchen.

Re: yes

[pylduck.livejournal.com]

Chinese veggie protein things are tasty. I should try cooking more of it. Rob will eat tofu, but generally only the fried variety. We went to a veggie Chinese restaurant in SF before my sister's wedding and got some yummy veggie chicken in black bean sauce. I'll have to look for stuff here.

Re: yes

[saltbox.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Usually most Asian groceries have a decent veggie section, for all those Buddhists. ;)

I have the opposite problem: D is not only vegetarian (well, quasi, he sometimes eats fish), but he eats really healthily and limits his soy (on some odd belief that it contains too many natural estrogens) which ends up cutting out a lot of stuff *I* want to eat, like soy and terrible-for-you-but-yummy deep-fried Chinese stuff.