Here’s the thing. Some of you have been hammering me for quite some time to blog some new Cook For Your Date material. Just not enough of you to get me to get off my butt and do anything about it. After all, everything you really need is in the book already.
Then, about two weeks ago, someone sent me a particularly compelling question. “What about my girlfriend? She’s a vegetarian. What can I do that’s creative for her? After all, the way I see it I didn’t claw my way up the food chain to eat asparagus…so I’m kind of at a loss.”
OK, well…he didn’t word it quite like that. But you get the idea. In any case, it got the file cards turning.
Then, as fortune would have it two things happened. First, I went on a diet. Second, that Bacon Explosion monster appeared on the Internets shortly before the Super Bowl.
So there I was on Twitter one day kvetching about my diet (but crowing about how well it was working) when people started jiving me about how I was missing out on the Bacon Explosion.
My comeback was, logically enough, that I needed to BBQ me up a whole mess of Broccoli Explosion instead.
It was a joke. I didn’t mean any harm.
But the die had been cast. The damage done. The fate, in effect, sealed.
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