I'd make a lousy vegetarian

Last night I grilled these two prime NY strips.

I come from a long line of carnivores.  When I was a kid my parents and neighbors got together almost every Saturday evening and grilled steaks.  Even us kids had our little tiny steaks.  Graduating to being able to use your very own steak knife was considered a right of passage.  I would say that was a right proper upbringing.

We always had a baked potato and salad with our steaks....no substitutions.  I hate it when I go to a nice steak house today and they serve my steak with asparagus or some other atrocity on the same plate.  IMO that's a crime against humanity, or at least against a true carnivore.  It would be like serving sauerkraut with ice cream.  Surely that's prohibited somewhere in the Geneva Convention, right?

We know now that too much red meat isn't good for you, and we certainly don't have it every day, but a couple of times a week keeps me happy.  A steak this nice is an every-few-weeks event.  

As a "live and let live" peace offering to all those vegetarians among us, I am donating my share of the world's asparagus crop to them with my best wishes.  Bon appetit.  

A reciprocal gesture of good will would be appreciated.  ;)

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Speaking of herbivores, did you hear what our government security people are doing with some of our embassies in Africa and the Mid-East?  They closed them through next weekend due to an imminent terrorist threat.

So who is dumber, our security folks for announcing when our embassies will re-open, or al Qaeda for not simply postponing their attacks until next week?

If they ask, just tell 'em it's a potato.

I'd call it a toss up.

S