[jyl]

Sometimes I’ll get a meat craving, and sometimes I’ll get a vegetable craving.

When craving meat, I’ll usually respond with red meat because it is so quick to cook, heck in my opinion beef can be eaten dang near raw. In fact one of my favorite dishes is boeuf hachee which is a mound of raw ground beef topped with a raw egg and cornichons. But only in France. The thing is that beef is so expensive now. I am lucky enough to not notice right away when many things go up and down in price, but beef prices have gotten to the point where I notice and have started actively choosing other meat or fish. I eat beef maybe once a week if you count a carne asada burrito etc - I buy beef to cook at home maybe once every couple weeks. I’m not boycotting beef, don’t have any health or environmental etc reasons to avoid it, just not into spending $40 on protein for one routine family dinner.

As for other meats, I like them all - pork, chicken, lamb especially lamb, duck oh my duck. That’s not completely true - I don’t like turkey, haven’t had much goose or venison, and I don’t know what bologna is but I don’t like it, although I’ll eat a slice just for nostalgia’s sake. We had bologna often when I was little, it was cheap. I think pork may be the most interesting meat to cook. If banished to a desert island with only kind of one meat animal, I might choose swine.