| Biographical Non-Fiction posted November 19, 2022 |
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a culinary misadventure
The Thanksgiving Meatless Loaf
by jessizero
For about a year during college, I was a vegetarian. I decided to bring a vegetarian meatloaf (meatless loaf) to my family’s Thanksgiving gathering. Since I had never made this before, I opted to have a trial run a few weeks before the holiday.
I bought soy crumbles to use in place of ground beef. For some reason, I settled on using egg beaters instead of regular eggs. After that, I bought a can of “meatloaf fixings” and mashed everything together in a bowl and baked it.
The thing that came out of the oven was not thoroughly cooked and smelled awful. I didn’t know what part of the improvised recipe had failed.
About that time, my Aunt Sara called my apartment and asked if I wanted to go out to eat. I told her that I had just finished cooking. She asked me what I had cooked, and I shamefully confessed about my culinary failure. She told me to throw it out and come eat with her.
I never tried to make meatless loaf again, and I just brought soda to my family gathering.
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For about a year during college, I was a vegetarian. I decided to bring a vegetarian meatloaf (meatless loaf) to my family’s Thanksgiving gathering. Since I had never made this before, I opted to have a trial run a few weeks before the holiday.
I bought soy crumbles to use in place of ground beef. For some reason, I settled on using egg beaters instead of regular eggs. After that, I bought a can of “meatloaf fixings” and mashed everything together in a bowl and baked it.
The thing that came out of the oven was not thoroughly cooked and smelled awful. I didn’t know what part of the improvised recipe had failed.
About that time, my Aunt Sara called my apartment and asked if I wanted to go out to eat. I told her that I had just finished cooking. She asked me what I had cooked, and I shamefully confessed about my culinary failure. She told me to throw it out and come eat with her.
I never tried to make meatless loaf again, and I just brought soda to my family gathering.
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