good for Martha Stewart.....
Posted by lubimiller on Aug 31, 2009 · Member since Mar 2008 · 3602 posts
I was watching martha Stewart on my lunch break and there was a segment where the audience asked martha question. One guest said she was a vegetarian and was having a dinner party:
guest: what meat should I serve to the meat eaters?
Martha: why would you serve meat?
guest: well, they won't want just salad (what?????, are you kidding me????)
Martha: how long have you been vegetarian? my daughter makes fabulous meals that are all vegetarian, not just salads!
seriously, I can't believe a vegetarian would say something that stupid!
I don't think I have ever wanted to hug Martha, but I do at this moment.
ugh... why would a vegetarian only eat salads? that's so annoying and just furthers the belief that's all u can eat... awesome answer by marth though!
I too wonder how long this person has been a vegetarian...if they really are, at all! It's the sort of remark you'd expect from an omni-troll.
There are of course people who think being veg*n means living on Coke and salad and fries, but none of them know about VegWeb!
Martha asked her, and she said 10 years. I find that hard to believe though.
Martha asked her, and she said 10 years. I find that hard to believe though.
Hmmm...maybe she thought giving them tofu would've been weird or something?
you kinda wonder if they were asking questions that had been suggested to them? After 10 years, she should be very experienced at fixing great vegetarian meals.
Martha asked her, and she said 10 years. I find that hard to believe though.
Waaaaa??? That is crazy. Good for Martha though! She gets a gold star from me :)
Martha said that? I have greater admiration for her after that comeback. Thanks for sharing this, lubimiller.
I love Martha, not even gonna front. That's great!
Awesome!! Does Martha 'high-five'? Probably not, but if she did I'd totally 'high-five' her!! ;)b
I don't know anything about Martha Stewart, but I'm all for educating the masses that being veg*n means sooo much more than salads.
And if that 'vegetarian' woman hasn't, in ten years, figured out how to make anything with vegetables more interesting than a salad, I'm surprised she still has enough friends willing to come to her dinner party.
that's just nuts.
she could've given her guests some nuts.
Agreed.
I bet the audience member is a fan of iceberg lettuce.
In other news, I'm feeling so warm toward Martha now that I'm adapting one of her recipes for the gift exchange.
Martha Stewart, ladies and gentlemen!
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I didn't want to start a new thread.
On The Splendid Table (an NPR cooking show), a woman called in because she wanted to make a mousse for a dinner party, but a vegan was coming and she didn't know how to make the food gel without geletin or egg. The host, Lynne Rossetto Kasper, didn't freak out at all. She told the listener about vegan geletin sold at health food stores. She also suggested (I assume she took the idea from pressing tofu) pressing partially mashed beans with a brick to make a loaf. Both she and the caller sounded pro-vegan, or at least not anti-vegan (e.g., what do "they" eat, it's all so unflavorful, the meal will be boring, what a hassle).
Also, there was a segment on how to get a good chocolate chip cookie. The trick is to make the batter and then let it sit in your refrigerator for 12 to 36 hours (with 36 hours making the best cookie). The flour absorbs the moisture and you get a denser, far superior cookie. I was thinking that making brownie batter and then letting it sit for a couple of days. That might take some of the traditional oily-ness out of the traditional vegan brownie. The guy being interviewed also said to sprinkle a little sea salt on the top of each cookie before it is baked.
--> podcast
chocolate chip cookie tips starts at about 7:44 of 51:16
vegan mousse starts at about minute 36:12 of 51:16
I didn't want to start a new thread.
Also, there was a segment on how to get a good chocolate chip cookie. The trick is to make the batter and then let it sit in your refrigerator for 12 to 36 hours (with 36 hours making the best cookie). The flour absorbs the moisture and you get a denser, far superior cookie. I was thinking that making brownie batter and then letting it sit for a couple of days. That might take some of the traditional oily-ness out of the traditional vegan brownie. The guy being interviewed also said to sprinkle a little sea salt on the top of each cookie before it is baked.
--> podcast
chocolate chip cookie tips starts at about 7:44 of 51:16
vegan mousse starts at about minute 36:12 of 51:16
I dunno about the salt thing, but then I eat very little salt anyway. But we always refrigerated our cookie batter overnight. That's why frozen bought cookie dough tastes so good. Roll it into tubes with waxed paper and freeze, and then just cut off your cookies however thick you want. It saves the mess of doing it the "fingers and spoon" way and you can get your cookies to come out even in size.
Ha! I thought about me and cookie dough. I'm not sure it would last in my refrigerator for three days. I'd keep taking bites. A freezer might work, though. I'm thorougly untempted by brownie batter. I might try that. If it works, it'll be good for those times at work when I'm expected to bring some dessert item in on, say, Wednesday. I can make the batter/dough ahead of time and then bake it the night before.
haha.
I've never been a pre-baking cookie dough-eater, but when I was doing some baking on the weekend I had a serious temptation attack.
And yeah, I suspect it would be worse with dough sitting around in the fridge calling your name...
This is so cool!! I have all new respect for Miss Martha. :-*
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