"It's not a doughnut!"

Last night was the first time we have had guests over since I went vegetarian. It was just a regular hang out, most everyone played games, and I made dinner for everyone. I made BBQ chicken (for everyone else), Felafel, Broccoli, and Mashed Potatoes. I'm actually really suprised that I didn't have an overwhelming urge to eat the BBQ chicken. I had always wanted to make it (it's Mom's recipe), but I never got around to it. It figures I would finally make it when I can't eat it! Part of the recipe calls for boiling the chicken, then shredding it by hand. The smell of chicken normally doesn't bother me, but while I was shredding the chicken, I didn't like the smell very much. I was able to complete it though, and without sampling it even the least little bit (yay!).

Next was the Falafel. I had never made it before, and had only even eaten it one time. I happen to find a recipe for it while browsing vegetarian recipes online. I decided to make this because in the many of articles I read before deciding to make the switch, all of them said to make your friends aware of your new eating habits, and to even cook dishes for them so they could try it, and so you would have a main dish to eat, as well. Jose had said one time that he wanted to try falafel, so I decided to make that instead of something else. It didn't take long to make at all, and we actually pretty simple. Zoe sat in the kitchen and talked to me the whole time while I was making dinner. At one point, Buri came in wanted to know what "those" were. At the time, I had them rolled into balls, floured, and resting on wax paper on the table. The highly resembled powdered doughnut holes, and that is precicely what we told him they were. Before he could pick them up to eat them, we told him what they really were, and they were not ready to be eaten. Then we decided to take the joke a little further. We told Buri to go back to the room, where Jose was still playing a game, and tell Jose to come try one of my doughnut holes, that they were so delicious. After Jose finished playing the game, he came into the kitchen and said Buri told him to come in there and have a doughnut hole, so we played along. He looked at them, picked one up, and Zoe started laughing. I said to him "Jose, don't do it! Don't eat it!" and he moved it closer to his mouth. I said "Don't eat it! It's not a doughnut!", and then he popped it into his mouth. He chewed one time, had a discussed look on his face, and spit it out in the trash. We were laughing so hard, and couldn't believe he had eaten it, despite me even telling him it wasn't a doughnut hole! That was our big laugh of the night. 

Overall though, dinner was wonderful and everyone loved it! I will definitely make it for them again. And I was so glad that I didn't have any troubles with being tempted by the meat.