Can I complain about something trivial? (Family/holidays)

[tacosforlife]

My sister doesn't eat pork.

For Christmas, my parents are renting a vacation house, and every couple is supposed to cook one breakfast and one dinner.

EVERYTHING I want to cook involves pork. All good breakfast dishes involve pork. I really wanted to make biscuits and gravy because NOM, but nope, if I do that, then sister can only have biscuit and egg. We have other ideas, but dammit, I want to do biscuits and gravy.

For dinner, all my best ideas have pork. My favorite meatloaf recipe involves bacon. My favorite lasagna recipe includes beef, pork, and veal. I thought about smoking a pork butt at home and reheating at the rental. We might do enchiladas, but all the best bean recipes involve salt pork.

I know I'm being bratty. I cook plenty of things without pork, but all my favorite things to cook for a special occasion involve pork. Waah waah waah, I just want to whine about it.

OINK OINK!

[AJL]

Why doesn't she eat pork?

[Deleted]

My sister is a pescatarian and my husband doesn't eat seafood. It makes for interesting holiday meals.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 10:43:11 GMT -5 AJL said:

Why doesn't she eat pork?

Humane farming issues, I think.

[frog]

That would be annoying. I hate when others interfere with my eating. I am very serious about my foods.

Can you possibly make a beef sausage gravy? Not the same, but still...

[cville]

I don't eat meat, and I'd be thrilled with an egg and a biscuit for breakfast. Make sure there's some jam or honey for her biscuits and make what you want for breakfast.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 10:44:24 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

I don't like biscuits and gravy.

[meshaliuknits]

Nov 18, 2014 10:44:42 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

My sister is a pescatarian and my husband doesn't eat seafood. It makes for interesting holiday meals.

LOL

I mean, I'm sorry. But it is kinda funny!

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 10:44:42 GMT -5 @kcpokergal said:

My sister is a pescatarian and my husband doesn't eat seafood. It makes for interesting holiday meals.

I once had to make a New Orleans meal for someone allergic to shellfish AND someone who doesn't eat pork. GOOD GOD.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 10:48:59 GMT -5 mryrcn said:

I would make french toast and turkey bacon for her ass and then make whatever you want to eat.

No. I fucking hate turkey bacon. It's gross and full of weird shit and cooks weirdly.

I am sure we will come up with something. I don't really want to do two different things, though. It feels meant to single someone out.

Right now, I'm leaning toward a baked egg-and-cheese dish and banana bread French toast...or maybe a cranberry-orange bread French toast, but tacos don't do turkey bacon. No how no way.

No clue what we'll do on dinner. I just hate feeling constrained!

[meshaliuknits]

Nov 18, 2014 10:48:58 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nov 18, 2014 10:44:24 GMT -5 @soudesafinado said:

I don't like biscuits and gravy.

I mean, given her history I'm not surprised. But I will eat hers.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 10:52:34 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Nov 18, 2014 10:48:58 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

I mean, given her history I'm not surprised. But I will eat hers.

You'll have to fight me for it.

[frog]

Turkey bacon is vile.

[orangeblossom]

Turkey sausage is a pretty good substitute to the real thing, I think. Ducking, from the flames.'

Could you make a breakfast casserole and maybe add an extra egg or two and make her own dish, before putting the pork in. That way it really won't be that much extra work besides cracking an extra egg or two and a separate dish.

[nomad100]

She will be fine with her biscuit and egg.

I know this makes me a bitch but when you decide you don't want to eat something then sometimes you get the shaft food wise. It isn't like every single meal with be a bacon and ham filled pork-fest, right? And she can make her sad and bacon-less breakfast on her day.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 10:57:45 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Turkey sausage is a pretty good substitute to the real thing

FALSE.

There are some chicken sausages that I like, but they really aren't a substitute to me. Just completely different.

I'll probably go meat-free on breakfast because I feel fairly pork-or-bust about the whole thing.

WAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 11:00:15 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

She will be fine with her biscuit and egg.

I know this makes me a bitch but when you decide you don't want to eat something then sometimes you get the shaft food wise. It isn't like every single meal with be a bacon and ham filled pork-fest, right? And she can make her sad and bacon-less breakfast on her day.

Nope. Mom has requested we only cook pork-free dishes.

Serving a side of bacon with a main dish would presumably be fine, but biscuits and gravy is completely off the table. (Unless I want to figure out how to make some pork-free gravy abomination.)

[iammalcolmx]

It's easy to sub out Pork. Half of H's family is Muslim, we have fantastic meals in Turkey Sans-Pork. You will live.

[jillboston]

How about eggs sardou? Soooo yummy. You can cheat on the Hollandaise and use the packet

www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/eggs-sardou.html

[orangeblossom]

Nov 18, 2014 11:01:42 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nov 18, 2014 11:00:15 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

She will be fine with her biscuit and egg.

I know this makes me a bitch but when you decide you don't want to eat something then sometimes you get the shaft food wise. It isn't like every single meal with be a bacon and ham filled pork-fest, right? And she can make her sad and bacon-less breakfast on her day.

Nope. Mom has requested we only cook pork-free dishes.

Serving a side of bacon with a main dish would presumably be fine, but biscuits and gravy is completely off the table. (Unless I want to figure out how to make some pork-free gravy abomination.)

Really, no pork meals? That seems extreme, but okay.

I'd just do a breakfast casserole filled with lots of yummy vegetables and call it a day.  For dinner, there are lots of options, but it depends on what you''re looking to do, since you can't use pork.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 11:01:55 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

It's easy to sub out Pork. Half of H's family is Muslim, we have fantastic meals in Turkey Sans-Pork. You will live.

I know. I just don't WANT to. Four days without bacon? Just take my coffee and my wine while you're at it!

#bratty

[nomad100]

Nov 18, 2014 11:01:42 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nov 18, 2014 11:00:15 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

She will be fine with her biscuit and egg.

I know this makes me a bitch but when you decide you don't want to eat something then sometimes you get the shaft food wise. It isn't like every single meal with be a bacon and ham filled pork-fest, right? And she can make her sad and bacon-less breakfast on her day.

Nope. Mom has requested we only cook pork-free dishes.

Serving a side of bacon with a main dish would presumably be fine, but biscuits and gravy is completely off the table. (Unless I want to figure out how to make some pork-free gravy abomination.)

Yeah, that is fucked up (you mom saying that there can be no pork dishes part.  Why must she hate bacon so much?).  

Want me to send you some humanely raised locally grown bacon and ground pork (since you said it is for treatment reasons that she doesn't eat port)?  Wilbur 3 is from a SW Michigan farmer and his bacon tastes delicious!

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 11:06:36 GMT -5 orangeblossom said:

Nov 18, 2014 11:01:42 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nope. Mom has requested we only cook pork-free dishes.

Serving a side of bacon with a main dish would presumably be fine, but biscuits and gravy is completely off the table. (Unless I want to figure out how to make some pork-free gravy abomination.)

Really, no pork meals? That seems extreme, but okay.

I'd just do a breakfast casserole filled with lots of yummy vegetables and call it a day.  For dinner, there are lots of options, but it depends on what you''re looking to do, since you can't use pork.

I am weird and don't like vegetables in eggs.

And yes, no pork meals.

It's OK, y'all. I don't really need suggestions. I will figure it out. I just want to whine about it.

[meshaliuknits]

Nov 18, 2014 10:53:40 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nov 18, 2014 10:52:34 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

I mean, given her history I'm not surprised. But I will eat hers.

You'll have to fight me for it.

I can't fight to the death before I've eaten. Split it?

[AJL]

Nov 18, 2014 10:44:58 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Nov 18, 2014 10:43:11 GMT -5 AJL said:

Why doesn't she eat pork?

Humane farming issues, I think.

But she eats other meat?

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 11:23:59 GMT -5 AJL said:

Nov 18, 2014 10:44:58 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

Humane farming issues, I think.

But she eats other meat?

Yup. I am sure you can guess my thoughts on that.

[tacosforlife]

Have I mentioned that in high school, we could only have Chinese takeout on Wednesdays because my brother had dinner at a school function on Wednesdays? But that my mom made some horrendous dish that she knew I hated and made me just make a sandwich?

Nope. No childhood resentment bubbling up here. None at all.

[Deleted]

I don't understand why you have to go without? Make the goddamned white gravy without the sausage IN IT, then make sausage and regular sausage on the fucking side and serve the whole thing on the table like a grown ass adult who has provided options for everyone there.

No one says you have to go without pork, just that you have to provide a reasonable and filling alternative for miss I don't do pork.

I mean shit.

[Deleted]

I don't understand why you have to go without? Make the goddamned white gravy without the sausage IN IT, then make sausage and regular sausage on the fucking side and serve the whole thing on the table like a grown ass adult who has provided options for everyone there.

No one says you have to go without pork, just that you have to provide a reasonable and filling alternative for miss I don't do pork.

I mean shit.

[tacosforlife]

Nov 18, 2014 11:29:22 GMT -5 @helenabonhamcarter said:

I don't understand why you have to go without? Make the goddamned white gravy without the sausage IN IT, then make sausage and regular sausage on the fucking side and serve the whole thing on the table like a grown ass adult who has provided options for everyone there.

No one says you have to go without pork, just that you have to provide a reasonable and filling alternative for miss I don't do pork.

I mean shit.

Well, my mom's email makes it sound pretty clear that she does not want us to serve pork entrees. At all. YAY FAMILY!

And white gravy made without pork at all? So just butter for the roux rather than pork fat? Meh. I'd rather make French toast.