Samantha Palin

Doesn't Samantha look like Sarah Palin in this photo?

Forgettable vahgetables

As I mentioned in a previous post, Samantha and I went vegetarian recently. It only lasted two weeks (10 days for me, due to an unforgettable meatball sub—thanks Claro's), but it was a very interesting experience. For some reason, I have always had this mental misconception that if I don't eat meat, I'm not going to get full. Samantha set out to dispel that notion, with help from a Williams-Sonoma vegetarian cookbook. I must say that some of the meals were out of this world. Some ended up being forgettable vahtegables, but that's okay too...

So how did I feel after two weeks of being vegetarian? Quite a bit healthier—and I even lost a few pounds.

We broke our vegetarian fortnight with a jaunt across the border to TJ and a rendevous with some inexplicably good tacos. Johnnie (my brother) beat us into submission by eating 9 street tacos, while I maxed out at 7.

The vegetarian experiment certinally changed my mind about having to eat meat. Now we eat vegetarian 2-3 times a week, and I love it. We plan on continuing, so stay tuned for some good vegerecipes. At least until the Williams-Somona cookbook goes back to the library :/

Michael

Corn Cakes with Spicy Black Bean Salsa

This is one of the amazing dinners Samantha cooked when we were vegetarian for two weeks. It's incredible how something with no meat can be so good... And yes, that is a little bit of leftover King Taco sauce on top ;-P

Michael and Samantha start a blog—finally

Welcome to our blog. You would think that someone who writes for a hobby (Samantha) and someone who writes for a living (Michael) would have created a blog by now, but... better late than never. We're going to use this space to talk about lots of things—trips, vacations, music, work, life as a married couple, and of course, food. Hopefully we can keep it interesting enough... At the very least weve got some cool photos and recipes to share ;-)

Michael