Back when I was a vegetarian, one of my staples was eggplant. You can put almost anything on eggplant and it takes on a different flavor, sort of like tofu except not as gunky and processed.

I guess chicken is the new eggplant for the non vegetarian, though I'll admit, I've been slipping back into my eggplant ways. I made a chicken parmesian the other day (I know, not healthy in the least!) and it just wasn't as good as the old eggplant parmesian I spent my youth cooking.

The tricky thing about about chicken, is the consistency. Eggplant is soft enough you can do several things with it. You can make pastes like baba ghanoush. Or you can even fry it until it is cripsy! Chicken, however, is always lumpy and chewy, no matter what you put it in. With the exception of chicken salad, the bird doesn't paste well. And fried chicken is just too much grease for me!

So, I may be a meat eater, but some things I think the vegetarians really do have the better idea for.

This month I couldn't find any good health blogs to link to, so I found a post from a blog I already linked to about orthorexia nervosa. I also started looking into people searches. Check out the links if you get the chance!