Why

I want to try to be a vegetarian because I want to be a better person.  Sounds so grandiose, doesn't it.  Okay, maybe it's because I want to be healthier.  I watched Food Inc. and am a bit disgusted with some of the images. Although I'm very adventurous about food, as in, I eat anything, even beef tongue and what ever weird animal part you can think of (yeah, I've had chicken balls. and not the kind they have at the Chinese buffet), the though of eating animals that are pretty much fed crap but kept alive by shooting them with anti-biotic doesn't sound too appetizing to me. (You might think chicken balls are gross but they are tasty.  Okay, I know I can't convince you).

I also like the idea of not eating animal because I don't want to contribute to the death of anything really.. But it is quite hard to not eat meat when I really like the taste of it, the smell of it... I thought going cold turkey on it might be too much, so I am trying to eat more tofu and seitan.  I figured if I try to eat more of those, then I would eat less meat.  Make sense, unless I eat more of the tofu but still ate lots of meat then I'll just become a fatso.  I've already started to buy more tofu so forcibly I'm eating more of those.  And I'm also experimenting cooking with it too, and some are actually pretty good.  Some just "taste healthy".  That's my way of saying it kinda doesn't taste too good, but people with poor taste buds might not notice.  I'll put my 2 recipes on here so I don't forget about it and I can make it again at some point.  The recipes are as I have made them, with comments for  possible future improvement.