By Request
by Baby Huey

So, I got the following email over the weekend from a faithful reader:

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Dear Baby Huey,
You look hot. I like ducks. Ducks are beautiful. They're for loving, not eating.

How can I eat vegetarian food without seeming like an idiot to my meat eating friends? What I mean to say is, are there any vegetarian foods that are actually good? Like, food that is simply good food, and happens to not have any meat in it? How do I trick my carnivore friends into eating vegetarian?

Sincerely,
Hamela Pandersome

How can I refuse such a sultry request?

Vegetarian Enchiladas

1 lb sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
1 14oz can of black beans, drained and rinsed
1 Tbsp butter
1 large red onion, diced
1 poblano pepper, cut into strips
1 chipotle pepper, chopped fine
3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 Tbsp ground cumin
1 c corn, frozen or fresh
4 - 6 10" flour tortillas
1 c green enchilada sauce (I just used canned Old El Paso brand, it's really good)
shredded monterrey jack cheese
1/2 c fresh cilantro, chopped

Place the sweet potatoes in a pot of cold, salted water and bring to a boil, and cook till they're fork tender. Drain, mash, and set aside for a few minutes.

Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium high heat, and saute the onions, peppers, garlic, cumin, and corn until the onions and peppers are soft. Toss in the black beans and toss till they're hot. Fold in the sweet potatoes and cook for a few minutes, and add a bit of water or broth if they're getting a bit too dry. You want it to be the consistency of refried beans. Fold in half the cilantro.

Fill each tortilla with the filling and roll it up -- don't close it like a burrito, and place seam-side down in an 8 x 8 baking dish, snug with the others. Top with the enchilada sauce and the cheese, and place in a 375 degree oven for 20ish minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbly.

Sprinkle with the rest of the cilantro. Serve. Enjoy.

As for the metal this week, let's go classic.

dioyears.jpgBlack Sabbath
The Dio Years
Rhino Records

I don’t know about you, but I really don’t like Ozzy’s mindless mumbling vocals. Ronnie James Dio was Black Sabbath’s vocalist for four albums in the 80s and early 90s, and this album is a compilation of those hits, including Heaven and Hell, The Mob Rules, and Die Young. The album also contains 3 new recordings, which are very classically Black Sabbath. Dio’s vocals are soaring, but still manage to be dark and somewhat ominous. Tony Iommi’s guitars continue to be wonderfully gothic-sounding, even when throwing in the occasional solo in the new stuff, which is a bit out of character with Sabbath. Dio-era Black Sabbath (Dio, Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, et al) are out on tour right now as "Heaven and Hell" with Machine Head and Megadeth, so check them out! All in all, a great addition to any diehard fan's library.

Baby Huey isn't vegetarian because he loves animals, he's vegetarian because he hates vegetables.

Dishful of Metal Archives

Comments

Gonna have to try both of these for sure. Nice one!

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You know what I like best about vegetarian dishes? If you add a pound of meat to them, they're just amazing. Sorry to the vegan friends, I'm a carnivore, shrug.

Just downloaded the Dio a couple weeks ago myself. I've had more than a couple of good listens to it. Something about those siren sounding voices that gives me chills. No one's doing that these days.

Ozzie's another one I never quite got. I always thought the people he was with were better than he was.

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You know what I like best about vegetarian dishes? If you add a pound of meat to them, they're just amazing. Sorry to the vegan friends, I'm a carnivore, shrug.

I agree to a point. I love meat, but there are days where I just want to eat something light and fresh and that's where the veggies come into play. This would be awesome with some grilled shrimp though.

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I take the existence of vegetarians as a deep and personal offense.

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I take the existence of your face as a deep and personal offense.

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Please

I'd like to make

A modest proposal

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I take the Maddox point of view on vegans: For every animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three.

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That's not food.
That's what food eats.

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Carnivores are, by nature, an aggressive bunch. For proof, see just about every comment up there.

Vegetarians are the next fags. It will take ten years of protest marches before the normals stop bashing on them.

You need to love the vegetable. I love to cover myself in cheese sauce and lick myself, and I am a better man for it.

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Ohhhh Brock, my dear reader. Don't mistake me for a second. I'm NOT a vegetarian. You'll never see me at one of those protest marches. I love vegetables, don't get me wrong, but there's not a vegetable out there that wouldn't benefit from a bacon jacket.

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bite me

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bite me

I'll cut off of you what I eat and ride the rest home.

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Dude, Dio-era Sabbath was incredible and the "Born Again" album with Ian Gillian on vocals ruled.

All the Ozzy purists can hug a nut.

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