Sugar Coated Beef Hearts

Doesn't that sound tasty? It is what we had for dinner last night.
Just kidding!
Just some random thoughts over the past few days.....
First the beef hearts. I was making beef stew and John had gotten sausage for me to use. I'm not really a fan of cooking meat, it just totally grosses me out. I like to eat meat, but hate dealing with it when it is raw. So, this sausage was red. Not like a meaty good looking red, but bright candy apple red--that did not look natural in any way, it looked like it was dyed red. So, that sort of raised my "ewww, gross" flags to begin with. Then, I decided to read the ingredients. NEVER a good idea. I've never read ingredients in any meat and been able to eat or cook that meat directly afterwards. Yesterday was no exception. This is what I read, "mechanically separated chicken, beef hearts" and "made with chicken, meat by-products and pork, cereal added, artificially colored". So, I omitted the sausage from the stew. Do I even want to know what a meat by-product is? Hair? Fingernails? Eyeballs? Testicles? I'm guessing that cereal added isn't something good like Captin Crunch or Honey Nut Cheerios...don't think that I want to know. And then, there is the recipe that calls for pork butt. Seriously? Is it really butt? I didn't make that recipe.

I'm converting to a vegetarian. Living off the land. Eating only things that grow from dirt. Chocolate is grown from dirt, right? The cocoa beans...yeah, I'm safe!