Strawberries are local

It starts out as a great idea. With all of this fantastic calorie laced food, I have been ingesting in the last week, Embracing a Vegetarian Lifestyle seems to make sense. Vegetarians are nice people, they don’t discriminate against candy or strawberries. I can support that type of movement. So I head out to the  Marche Saint Antoine to collect my fruits and vegetables. Of course the road to good intentions is paved with cheese in France.

It’s everywhere!

I avert my eyes because somebody once told me that cheese makes vegans into vegetarians and once vegetarians get hopped up cheese, they start looking at other parts of the cows.

With sight of cheese making salivate, I look at these little veggie delights

Tuesday could be toasted tomato sandwich day

They even make radishes and artichokes look. BTW, I can make a flower out of a radish and know how to cook an artichoke.

Never thought I would get excited over radishes

These actually taste good

Almost a vegetarians until I come across a Meatatarian’s Dream. So much for  those chestnuts roasting on an open fire. How about chicken roasting on an open fire with pork fat on top to baste them and at the bottom of all of this potatoes roasting in a combination of pork and chicken fat.

This smell of the chicken , I wish there was an apps for that.

I think I can’t a whole chicken. That would be very anti vegetarian of me. My illogical minds says, How about the greased roasted potatoes. An edgy vegetarians would be slurping up a couple of these puppies. Sorry to mention the puppies, now I have even offended the meat folks.

There’s that word again- MEAT. So what’s a guy to do in a strange market. I start like most addicts a sample of dry sausage, which just makes me smear crazy and next I know I’m standing there after ingesting a tripe sausage (yeah tripe equals stomach). Then in an act of self loathing I start to eat a Boudin (yeah that’s blood sausage).

I am surrounded by meat.

It always starts small

It gets worse

Be very careful we’re hunting rabbit!

Feeling guilty, I decided to adopt a few plants for my room.

These herbs are legal in most vegetarian diets

These herbs will find a good home on top a piece of animal carcass of course served with a wonderful cream sauce with a side of fois gras. Washed down with a couple of these beauties.

Ymmmmmmmmmm