Road to Vegetarianism

I am still experimenting with tofu.  I think the reason why I'm not loving it, it's because it doesn't soak up the flavour of what ever I'm marinating it with.   I figured maybe I need a sauce that would stick to it.  I then started experimenting with go-chu-jian, a Korean hot sauce paste.  It was delicious.  I made it with some pork and the tofu tasted better than the pork.  (About pork.. I've recently found my taste buds not liking the taste of pork as much as I use to.  I think it might be a good one to stop buying/cooking) Tonight, I was thinking of making a vegetarian version of ma-po tofu, but instead of cutting the tofu, I just smashed it with my fingers to crumble it.  And it resembles chucks of cooked ground meat! Except the colour wasn't right :P I added a zucchini for some veggies and found the zucchini didn't play well with the fermented black bean as both have slight bitter taste to it and I found the combination just wasn...

I haven't been a very good vegetarian lately, as it is lobster season here in Nova Scotia.. So I bought 2 lobsters and a crab the other night.  They were alive and I had to cook them.  I honestly felt terrible when I threw the crab in the boiling hot water.. I felt this sadness as the crab struggled to hold on to the side of the pot, not wanting to get into the pot.  I wonder if it knows.  I am pretty sure that I won't be cooking crab anytime soon, since I felt it was a pain too trying to get the meat out and the labour wasn't worth it, in my mind for the tiny bits of meat. As for the lobsters, they were really good, and some how I didn't feel as bad cooking them.  Maybe it's because they didn't fight/move as much when I put them in the pot.  But had a phone call with my mom yesterday and she tried to make me feel bad for "killing"/cooking the lobster.  (She's a vegetarian).  She told me to buy it already cooked if I really want to eat it that b...