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My secret goal is to trick vegetarians into eating meat without knowing it. So I guess vegetarians should probably never eat anything that I make, just in case I stuck some meat in.

I think in general freezing the cookie dough works the best. I've found that those glossy plastic bags that cereal comes in to be good for wrapping cookie dough to be frozen. It's tougher than wax paper and peels off the frozen hunk easily. I cut open the bags into a flat sheet. Wrap the dough. Then seal it in something airtight.

I have no idea about if the frosting will freeze. I usually don't frost my carrot cakes.

Sounds like you have it mostly figured out already. It'd be nice to have both hard and soft taco shells.

Otherwise, you could also do some other finger foods like sliders or mini egg rolls.

Cream puffs would also probably work well for dessert.

I see a lot of "votes" for A/The Butcher's Blog. But I kind of hate it. It's way too typical. IMHO, I think you should pick something that is a bit unusual/catchy, but not way out there.

I do it similar to what many have mentioned already. Saute meat of choice (usually ground beef), onions, garlic. Then a few cans of tomatoes and various beans. If I'm feeling ambitious, I'll actually cook beans the day before or whatever rather than use cans. I usually add corn because I like corn. Then add chili powder/paste/whatever to taste. Usually some black pepper too and maybe paprika.

What I do and haven't seen mentioned yet is I usually include tomato paste. To add extra tomato flavor...depending on how much beans or other stuff you've added. Helps to thicken it somewhat too and give it a nice red color.

As many know, it's not that meat doesn't taste good, it's that it's FLESH. Some people are not into eating FLESH, considering it a revolting practice. Human flesh is supposedly divine when it's roasted up, why aren't we eating that? It's just exactly the same thing. Tastebuds are very easily entertained by flavor - all junk food being a case in point. And how then, can vegetarians not judge meat-eaters? Respect and unconditional love over-rides judgement among the educated.

sloppy, unfortunately the *sshole comments are not abnormal. This is actually a very civilized discussion here with a lot of respect.

And Gordon Ramsey is well known for his disdain of vegetarians (as is Bourdain) and has taken great pleasure in tricking vegetarians into consuming animal products. What I don't get is he donates money for the domestic abuse as his mother was battered but doesn't understand how disrespectful, controlling, deceptive and abusive his own actions are.

But GR is hardly the only one. There's tales all over the net of meat eaters taking glee over having put one over on vegetarians. And then there are the ones who write into advice columns for help on how to turn their girlfriends to meat and ideas on how to sneak meat in so she'll find out how much she really does like it.

Other advice column questions regard how selfish brides are who would even consider not serving meat for their guests and the evil vegan bosses who will be throwing an office party that won't have meat in the spread which can possibly be anything but a nightmare and are they still obligated to go...?

Heck, there was even the Miss Manners question from the couple who were so upset to find out via the church gossip the couple whose company they so enjoyed a few weeks prior were ::whisper, whisper:: VEGANS! Which meant they'd been tricked into eating vegan cake and they don't like soy!

Excellent article and, as someone who has never eaten meat, I agree with pretty much everything in it except that I don't know bacon tastes good, only that it smells good. I love the closing paragraph too. Classic.

Hopefully the couple of *sshole comments that were made on this thread were in jest. If not, they go a long way in proving his point (if wunami is serious he/she must be absolutely insufferable as I can only imagine the other ways that selfishness and spite could manifest itself).

@ zekks: The reason Dale was doing everything was because there was no leadership, which Nikki should have assumed since she has the most experience with Italian cooking. She should have set a tone with a menu and split up the responsibilities accordingly. Fish rots at the head. And I loved how she had the audacity to say she wasn't leading the sinking ship. Nikki should have been kicked off weeks ago for the Italian sausage blunder during the tailgate.

@ shell0724: I have to disgree about Dale. I think that he didn't "only try to rescue a meal that was doomed." He just tried to put his hand in a little bit of everything and I think that instead it appeared that this was his reasoning behind getting into so many different things was that to use that excuse that he did so much so the judges would keep him around. Nothing he did was great. He did a lot of things mediocore. Like its been said before, I think its worse to do a bunch of things at a so-so level than a few at a great level. I think that's why Spike was saved (by the chilean sea bass). I can't disagree with the choice to eliminate Nikki at all but I think that Dale is real close to the chopping block and has become exactly what Spike called him....to put it politely.