Default Carnivore, huh. Yep. Most of the herd range under the DC brand. "What else would I eat?" they bleat. No, you can't become a vegetarian.
Just kidding. I rarely tease people who ask, and certainly not ones who realize they may be really only defaults ~ but you're special, Alex. :o) Most people don't ask, because a bunch of veggies out there are the world's most hated people, apparently for good reason. Although we don't seem to have that many around here ~ I suspect they're mainly in California. :o)
I'm not real big on veggies myself. Honest. But MJ and I have been "this way" for uhm, lets see, almost thirty (wow!) years, and you start with frozen peas, just like tropical fish, and work your way up the food chain. Just kidding, again. I can tell you for sure, most of our Pagan Carnivore (non-"defaulter") friends would rather slip in here around dinner time with MJ than be anywhere else.
I guess cookbooks,
trial and error,
lists of favs what are simple,
freezers,
friends don't hurt,
making quality time "the kitchen",
it eventually becomes your favorite place,
taking great lunch,
enjoying the produce and whole food aisles in the best stores,
(doesn't that sound unlikely?),
practice,
adaptation,
restaurants,
enjoying (learning to enjoy) cooking,
gas stove, with pretty blue flames,
nice place to eat,
nice dishes,
fresh herbs,
a cookbook stand or pull-out shelf,
Sundays at home,
wine and music or just music,
fun conversation,
a nice kitchen,
windows to the garden hopefully,
pets who like cheese to sit on the rugs,
breeze ventilation,
good knives,
pretty bowls to sit on the table with the apples, nanas, papayas, 'cados, lemons, and squash;
pretty vases with garden flowers,
e.g. cosmos and the last dahlias now,
nice jars with almonds, basmati, red lentils, millet, falafel flour;
and let's make it a Library-full of cookbooks,
so you don't have to buy em,
unless they're good enough to keep.
Eventually, you even get off on reading the recipes. You can smell all the ingredients as they go together in the book. You'll say "Needs some zest. Lemon. I'll grate some."
"I got some special Poupon for the white bean salad."
"This has apricots and almonds. Yum."
"Halved Kalamatas are not for you."
"Is it soup yet?"
"I want to do something with fennel. I like fennel."
"Let's make almond soup and potato-cheese rolls." "Yah! And avocado-orange-grapefruit salad, with that special dressing."
"I'm calling Gus to see if he wants to come over."
"Do we have his beer????"
Also helps if you married a Mormon-family girl whose favorite recreation is homemade breads and rolls. (My Dad hates me.)
(But he invented the special dressing.)
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