ODG Eats

If you give an ODG some tomato sauce, he's gonna want some pasta. If you give an ODG some pasta, he's gonna want some cheese. If you give an ODG some cheese, he's gonna want some wine. If you give an ODG some wine, he's gonna want something crispy and fried. If you give an ODG something crispy and fried, he's gonna want some tomato sauce. This was not a vegan meal, but it is vegetarian, so at least there's that. I started off by slicing my garlic as thin as I could, dicing up some red and yellow onion and some bell pepper, slicing up some mushrooms, chopping up a green onion, and mincing some basil leaves.  I made the mistake of peeling my tomatoes raw. They're much easier to peel if you cook them first, but I was drinking wine and didn't feel like blanching tomatoes, so I butchered them instead. I still had about half an eggplant, and it was starting to oxidize, so I figured I'd go ahead and get that all cooked up. I cut it into "fries," t...

One recent night, I was starving when I left work, so I decided to grab some dinner on the way home at my favorite sushi place . However, I still needed to have lunch for work the next day, so I threw together a quick meal for that. I still had a couple salmon fillets left over after my birthday brunch, so I decided to cook one of those up. The plant portion of the meal consisted of kale (chopped), baby bella mushrooms (sliced), onion (diced), garlic (sliced), orange bell pepper (diced), parsley (minced), and basil (chopped). I seasoned the salmon skin with pepper, heated some extra virgin olive oil in my pan, and, when it was hot, put the salmon in skin side down. As it was cooking, I seasoned the meat with salt and pepper. Once the skin started getting crispy, I flipped the fillet and let it finish. Once the salmon was finished, I dropped in the onion and garlic and cooked until they were just starting to turn translucent, at which point I dropped in the mushroom, kale stem, and bell...