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It’s been some time since I’ve posted anything here relating to my cooking or vegan diet because I’ve been super busy looking for work.

Anyway, here is a vegan recipe my wife put together. All the credit and cooking goes to my wife — thanks hon.

Tofu Eggplant Green Curry

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb bunch spinach
• 2 teaspoons canola oil
• 1 small onion, roughly chopped
• 1 (13.5 oz) can light coconut milk
• 1/4 cup vegetable broth
• 1 tablespoon green curry paste
• 1 lb tofu, firm
• 1 eggplant cut into cubes
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice

Instructions:

1. Heat oil and cook onion until softened.
2. Stir in coconut milk, broth, curry paste and salt if you prefer; bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 8 minutes.
3. Add eggplant and tofu; bring to a low boil, reduce to a simmer and cook stirring occasionally until eggplant is tender about 8 minutes.
4. Add spinach, stir and cook 1 minute more.
5. Stir in lime juice and serve.

It all started a few weeks back when I saw a show on one of the educational channels; sorry I can’t remember which one it was. But they had a brief history on the cattle industry, specifically the processing of the animal for human consumption.

What concerned me the most was that Mad Cow Disease can’t be removed by any know methods including freezing or cooking and if infected can cause incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is ultimately fatal. Some of the symptoms include dementia, memory loss, and tiredness.

Though it is believed it can only be transmitted to human beings when they eat the brain or spinal cord of infected cows there isn’t enough conclusive evidence to state otherwise and that in itself has scared me. What made it even more scary is a video I saw yesterday on goveg.com where they tell us that cows with other diseases, infections, bruises and other unhealthy issues are deemed fine by the USDA for human consumption — if you saw these animals in person you’d think twice before eating it. Furthermore, the USDA even allows cows that can’t walk off the trucks to be be dragged off into the slaughter house — in other words your eating spoiled food.

Anyway, I’m doing my research and thinking a lot about all the flavors and textures my palette would miss if I did turn vegetarian, but on the other hand discovering how that going vegetarian is so much more healthier as well as very good for the environment.