As a marathon runner, one thing I've learned to REALLY look forward to is Friday-night pasta. It's something of a ritual for me since most of my long runs take place on Saturday morning. Once the training runs get to a certain length (generally 15 miles and up), I have pasta every single Friday night. I look forward to it. It's comforting and it's yummy. It's also easy enough to make meatless so it's at least one no-brainer meal per week for me this month.
However, I have recently discovered that pasta is also the default "what do we serve to a vegetarian?" meal. Last week, I went out to dinner with my husband and found NOTHING vegetarian on the menu. So the chef whipped up a pasta primavera for me. Upon arriving in North Carolina last weekend and informing my step-mother that I've gone vegetarian for the month, she announced we'd just go out for dinner on Saturday (to an Italian place). Sunday, I attended a memorial service where my step-cousin (a chef) was preparing dinner for everyone. Do you know what he prepared for the token vegetarian? Amazing and delicious Seitan and Sweet-Onion Skewers with Boubon-Maple Glaze! SCORE!
Just kidding, he made me bow-tie pasta with marinara sauce. But I have to tell you that recipe I just posted looks FANTASTIC so I'm definately going to have to try that. Watch for a blog update with a review coming soon. I've had wonderful experiences with seitan. Mmmm... Now I'm thinking about the Rosemary and Hazelnut-Encrusted Seitan I prepared for Chip and his girlfriend when they came for Christmas last year..... Mmmmm.... But back to my story.
All in all, I had something like four or five nights of pasta during the past week. And with the Humana Heart Half Marathon coming up on Sunday, there is at least one more pasta dish in my immediate future. I am going to have to do more research and plan further ahead to avoid this sort of pasta-bottleneck in the future. Either that or I'll need to to do a whole lot more running.
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