I am not a vegetarian, though I do eat a lot of vegetarian meals.  I even like them.  Low-fat, high fiber and you have to fill yourself up to get enough calories.  While I do have my share of foul and fish, I only eat things with four legs once a week tops, and an actual slab of late bovine once a month or less.

However, what I forgo in quantity, I make up in quality.  Restaurant quality steaks, taken to room temperature, rubbed with olive oil and dusted with garlic.  All burners blazing on the propane barbeque, temp up above 550 F.  Mesquite chips in the smoker box.  3 minutes on the first side with the lid down, open the lid, flip the steaks once, lid back down and 2 1/2 minutes on the other side.

Seared on the outside, mostly pink, with a nice hunk of red in the very center.  Sorry, didn't last long enough for photos.

Every now and then we gotta assert our location at the top of the food chain!  

Doc,I am much the same way eating wise,just yesterday I found 2 pounds of lean chick in the freezer I thought I would cook it up for my dog,and onother dog I am baby sitting while I was cooking it I had a craving for meat,I could not eat the meat I was cooking because I did not add onions or salt and pepper (bad for dogs) but after I had finnished I put it in the fridge to cool and when to our local award winning burger joint and had the works best burger I ever had, and I didn't care about the mess I made,some times you just gotta have one.

And the "name that joke" prize goes to --- MICK!

Yup, that's exactly where the title came from.

For your prize, you can "wash your hands and make me a hamburger."

Meh, I am a vegetarian...but hoo-boy, that sounds finger lick'in GOOD!...But remember, meat is murder...

I'm not a big fan of confined animal feeding operations (CAFO).  That's why there's antibiotics in animal feed -- too many animals living too close together breeds disease.  Trying to control the disease with antibiotics rather than eliminating the source is a great way to breed stronger, antibiotic resistant bacteria.

I think this massive egg recall has a lot to do with confined egg "factories".

I guess we'd have to pay more for food that was produced in a manner that was ethical to the livestock and provided a living wage for the workers -- of course, the trade-off would be that we'd eat less meat.

dang it, now I'm in the mood for veggies instead of my sandwich for my break, gonna have to make a trip to the store on my break

bill67 wrote on 08/31/10 at 15:01:41:

Bill I hope you are not still smoking 3 packs a day,thats about $450 a month,thats alot of scratch,I'm suprised you didn't add a 5th of JD a day,bad boy bill.

mick wrote on 09/01/10 at 00:18:57:

I smoke cheap cigarettes cost me 278 a month one bottle of whiskey last me a month,One drink a day with coke.