What I am and am not eating

Somewhere along the way, I gradually stopped eating eggs along with meat.  Along with gluten (mostly).  Along with dairy (mostly).

This weekend while camping and struggling to find something I had on hand to eat and wanted to eat and could eat (an intersection I am increasingly struggling to find), I almost came to the decision I needed to relax my egg restriction and maybe gluten too if I was going to really commit to the meat restriction for the long haul.  Monday morning rolled around and I get in my email a post notification from one of my favorite bloggers, Marc Gunther, which just happened to be about eggs.  Yep, still not going to eat eggs.  Or meat.  I was familiar with most of the information in the post already but push it to the back of my mind because I get depressed if I think about it too much.  Instead I'll just try to not eat eggs. 

So if I'm going to maintain these dietary restrictions, I think I better start following blogs like Wolf and Willow and getting more cookbooks like Chloe's Kitchen, which I'm already quite impressed by.  This recipe for potato, rosemary, and blackberry pizza from Wolf and Willow looks really tasty and I'm going to try and make it tonight.  And then someday, I might accept that somehow, I became a vegan.

5/1/13 update - I actually made this pizza last night.  And I didn't sabotage it by messing with the recipe.  And Pretty Boy and my father ate it and we all liked it!  I used real Parmesan cheese instead of making the vegan stuff and spinach leaves instead of rocket and dried rosemary instead of fresh because we already had those.  And I didn't add any lemon. 

The dough ended up being really sticky and I stretched the first pizza too much so as a result, it would not slide off the board onto the pizza stone.  We ended up shoving it onto the stone, but the damage was done.  The whole pizza turned out lumpy and the crust was crispy and dry in places.  The second one turned out much better.  The flavor of the berries and crust are what really came through on this.  I was skeptical about the berries but really, they were the best part.  The cheese and potato flavors were really mild.  Pretty Boy would have liked a lot more cheese.  My father would have liked a lot more meat.  But all in all it was a success.  I had a few marinated potato sliced left over that I fried up in a pan that everyone like so much that I cut up another potato to fry in the infused oil that didn't go on the pizzas.  Carbs with a side of carbs, right?  Anyway, while it wasn't a vegan or gluten-free or dairy-free success, it was a vegetarian, low-gluten, low-impact, economic, popular success and that's what I'm aiming for the most.