[Janet MacD]

Our daughter has become a vegetarian, so we have appetizers that she can eat, like Indian samosas, Chinese dumplings, Mexican corn fritters, or Jamaican veggie patties. Then I feel no maternal guilt putting out the Christmas turkey or Easter ham alongside four vegetables and a mini quiche. Except we just finished eating the Thanksgiving ham a few weeks ago when we were making space in the freezer, so it’s roast pork today, with a very small ham for the cats to share. Her cats are visiting and they eat massive quantities of meat! They were not consulted when she chose to forego meat.