Southern Nuggets

I understand that my excitement within having a complete vegetarian friendly day might get lost in translation. It's just vegetables, right? Right. As I am sure many of you can understand, I love meat. It sounds weird, I know, that I'm in such rigorous pursuit for a diet of mainly vegetables, fruit and starches. I love sandwiches, supreme and pepperoni pizza, pork chops, cheeseburgers, steak, fried chicken - I could go on and on. I really do love eating meat. When I report that I'm doing good on the vegetable streak, I really am excited because this is a journey! Now that we're all on the same page. Lately I have been doing rather excellent on the all veggie mission. I'll admit that every so often I might dig into the bag of deer jerky that's sitting on the counter. It's not the same as we make it back on the reservation, but it's jerky. Who doesn't love jerky? But just a nibble here and there. And last night I did pop three small pigs-in-a-blanke...

Not going to lie, I indulged last night and had fried cabbage with ham. Well, the Hawaiian version of ham. It's not a steak or gourmet salad so it was what you'd expect, but I was pleased with it. In my on going effort to eat the vegetables that are slowly but surely reaching their shelf life, I threw together a cucumber salad as a side item. Cucumber salad is a side dish that my grandmother has made as a holiday side dish for as long as I can remember. Occasionally she makes it outside the holidays, but I associate it with Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. It's supper simple to make. All you need are cucumbers, EVOO (thanks Rachel Ray), Vinegar, Pepper and Salt. I realized after my cucumber was sliced that I didn't peel it. Doesn't change the flavor, just the presentation. So...do as I say, not as I do. :-) Peel and slice your cucumber, as much or as little as you want. I tend to do one medium cucumber per person. But I enjoy cucumbers, so that mi...