Soufflé, s'il vous plaît

Being a vegetarian, as it turns out, is a lot easier than I thought it would be. I've yet to hold up a Burger King or punch someone with a ham sandwich in the face. I haven't even been tempted to cheat when I'm positive there are no witnesses about. All in all, it's going pretty well. There is one ingredient, however, that is featuring quite regularly in my meat-free meals. Cheese. Strictly speaking, a lot of cheeses contain rennet and so couldn't be considered vegetarian at all but I'm circumventing that conundrum by deliberately not reading the ingredients on cheese packaging. As far as I know, they've all been rennet-free.

To celebrate my ever growing appreciation of cheese in all its glorious forms I decided to make one of the most notoriously hard cheese dishes there is - the cheese soufflé. As somebody American once said, go big or go home.

40 Days of Lentils

I'm usually not a big adherer to the fasting ritual surrounding Lent. In fact, my go-to joke has always been that I gave up organised religion for Lent years ago and it just stuck. However, this year I will be showing my respect for Jesus by only eating vegetables. It's what he would have wanted, I'm sure. Now, I've had meat-free meals before, I've even had meat-free days, but to last 40 days and 40 nights without wrapping my lips around a succulent pork chop or chicken breast I'm going to need a plan of attack.