to eat, or not to eat (meat)
Yes Jaan, I am aware of the contradiction in my 43 things. I've actually been meaning to change the haggis one to vegetarian haggis.
Yes, believe it or not, I've decided to try to not eat meat. I never ever thought I would do this, I love meat almost as much as Jaan, my family knows me as quite a defiant carnivorous...but the thing is, the lambs that I saw on the Isle of Arran were just so cute...and then I saw them taken away for slaughter and I thought 'do I actually HAVE to eat meat?' This is something I thought of by myself, it was not an emotional reaction and I haven't been influenced by anyone...
So for two weeks now I've eaten almost no meat, which really isn't hard while living in the UK, I actually wasn't eating it much anyway (it's really expensive and really crap). I unfortunately wasn't strong enough and ate meat on Wednesday night...and guess what it was....lamb! I do however have a pretty darn good excuse...My Icelandic friends Solla and Gulli invited me over to their house under the castle for a night of opera, singalongs and dinner before they go back to Reykjavik for the summer. Gulli cooked us lamb that Solla's grandmother brought over to Edinburgh from Iceland...smuggled frozen in a suitcase! It was soooo delicious and a very fun night. But alas, now I'm back to not eating meat (hate the term 'being vegetarian' but think I'm going to have to start using it) which means my aim of eating proper Scottish haggis before I leave will not come true...but hey, I didn't really want to eat it anyway.
Yes, believe it or not, I've decided to try to not eat meat. I never ever thought I would do this, I love meat almost as much as Jaan, my family knows me as quite a defiant carnivorous...but the thing is, the lambs that I saw on the Isle of Arran were just so cute...and then I saw them taken away for slaughter and I thought 'do I actually HAVE to eat meat?' This is something I thought of by myself, it was not an emotional reaction and I haven't been influenced by anyone...
So for two weeks now I've eaten almost no meat, which really isn't hard while living in the UK, I actually wasn't eating it much anyway (it's really expensive and really crap). I unfortunately wasn't strong enough and ate meat on Wednesday night...and guess what it was....lamb! I do however have a pretty darn good excuse...My Icelandic friends Solla and Gulli invited me over to their house under the castle for a night of opera, singalongs and dinner before they go back to Reykjavik for the summer. Gulli cooked us lamb that Solla's grandmother brought over to Edinburgh from Iceland...smuggled frozen in a suitcase! It was soooo delicious and a very fun night. But alas, now I'm back to not eating meat (hate the term 'being vegetarian' but think I'm going to have to start using it) which means my aim of eating proper Scottish haggis before I leave will not come true...but hey, I didn't really want to eat it anyway.
3 Comments:
vegetarian haggis?? ah, that's pathetic. hehe. it still tastes good, but really, there's no haggis in vegetarian haggis. and what about just not eating lamb? lamb isnt that great anyway... cows are good. chicken is good. fish is good. just how vegetarian are you thinking of going?
cleary either you need to eat meat or you don't eat meat, and since you ate the other day i would say you eat meat, hence no excuse to not try real haggis before you leave scotland!!!!!!
remember becky, i know all about being a half-assed vegetarian!!!!
Well I'll let both you girls know that I haven't touched meat at all since that lamb... I have not been a half arsed vegetarian excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! The lamb was my last meal before completely going veg and I haven't eaten any meat since. It's been surprisingly easy...really really easy actually. I've come to the conclusion that my main inspiration for going veg has been to discipline myself for pretty much the first time in my life. Not sure where I'm going to take all this but I have a feeling the second I get back to Adelaide I'm going to be having a BBQ and there may not be any veggie burgers.
Kate haggis is a sheep's stomach filled with a sort of 'stuffing' with mincey stuff and herbs/spices etc. It's usually boiled, and quite often deep friend as well.
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