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BajaDanD
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Vegan food in Baja
We are comming down next week for some whale watching and camping A friend of our is comming with us. He is a vegatarian.
We are concearned that he'll starve most of the trip.
Most of the places we stop to eat at are Taco stands and little resturants for carni-asada , fish tacos and carnitas al pastor
We havent seen a whole lot of Vegies in the stores we've been in.
Any suggestions
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Rice and beans! Oh wait, what are the beans cooked with?
Contact GeoRock... her whole family is that way, and they love Baja! (I think they bring all there fixins... )
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Really boring!
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last night I made vegan millet mashed potatoes with pesto....I was a vegan for several of my first years here and just ate alot of beans, rice, fruit,
oatmeal, veggies...they also now sell lots of soya products. Go with the tortillas with all the fixings less the meat...sometimes they dont even
charge you! restaruants can make bean enchiladas too, salads, fruit salad etc....do they eat cheese? lots of yummy ranch cheeses.
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Chef Johnny will fix him a great vegan dinner
at the Half Way House at Medio camino.Just past Primo Tapio between Rosarito and La Mision/Ensenada, They have great fruit salads with yogurt or
cottage cheese with granola all over baja. Salads are usually fairly easy to find also, Even a taco stand has tortillas beans and lettuce or cabbage.
Most restaurants have fresh vegetables on hand. If push comes to shove you can always buy canned veggies,Your friend just needs to be creative, Buen
provecho k
[Edited on 2-14-2009 by Keri]
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Is your friend's diet really vegan, or just vegetarian? Veganism means no animal products-- milk, cheese eggs, etc. But many vegetarians will eat
dairy products and eggs. So a vegetarian could eat quesadillas on corn tortillas (generally made with no lard or shortening), huevos rancheros,
cheese enchilladas, etc.
I guess a vegan could have corn tortillas, soya chorizo, and beans cooked without lard, but the selection could get monotonous after a few days.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Rice and beans! Oh wait, what are the beans cooked with?
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Pure lard but, the cow that gave it up was a Vegan. 
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Nice try but...
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
Pure lard but, the cow that gave it up was a Vegan. |
You just flunked barnyard biology.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
You just flunked barnyard biology. |
Heyyyyyy...Waddid I do? Isn't that where lard comes from? A cow? Or, is it an oil product?
Now remember, you as a restaurant owner don't want to become an expert on lard here in public.
[Edited on 2-14-2009 by DENNIS]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
You just flunked barnyard biology. |
Heyyyyyy...Waddid I do? Isn't that where lard comes from? A cow? Or, is it an oil product?
Now remember, you as a restaurant owner don't want to become an expert on lard here in public.
[Edited on 2-14-2009 by DENNIS] |
Dennis, think pink, curly tail, and rolling in mud when you think about lard.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jdtrotter
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
You just flunked barnyard biology. |
Heyyyyyy...Waddid I do? Isn't that where lard comes from? A cow? Or, is it an oil product?
Now remember, you as a restaurant owner don't want to become an expert on lard here in public.
[Edited on 2-14-2009 by DENNIS] |
Dennis, think pink, curly tail, and rolling in mud when you think about lard.
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A pig is still a veggie eater. Well most of the time anyway. I had a sow once eat the new born of another sow.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by TW
| Quote: | Originally posted by jdtrotter
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
You just flunked barnyard biology. |
Heyyyyyy...Waddid I do? Isn't that where lard comes from? A cow? Or, is it an oil product?
Now remember, you as a restaurant owner don't want to become an expert on lard here in public.
[Edited on 2-14-2009 by DENNIS] |
Dennis, think pink, curly tail, and rolling in mud when you think about lard.
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A pig is still a veggie eater. Well most of the time anyway. I had a sow once eat the new born of another sow. |
Humans, pigs, bears and some apes are omnivores by nature. That's why we have both canine teeth and molars. Most other animals are either carnivores
or herbivores.
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A true Vegan will know what to do. Afterall, they must be able to assemble a meal that provides a complete or whole protein, otherwise they will cease
to exist.
Not always an easy thang to do. Hey, I know a few "vegetarians" that eat poultry and seafood.:lol
Let them figure it out, it's not your problem(unless of course he/she ceases to exist)
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Think of stands/restaurants with a lot of condiments such as good salsa mexicana, avacado/aguacate, radishes, grilled vegetables, chilies, etc.
Also stock up on these items - along with fruit - in the store as much as you can. Nuts are a good, simple and filling nutrition source. I
personally bring trail mix. My favorite: raw trail mix from Trader Joe's. Michelle and the kids prefer the Kirkland-brand available through Costco
stores - one reason being because they have some MnM's in them.
Licuado stands can usually make an all-fruit smoothie for you (sans-dairy). My personal recipe suggestion: equal amounts of banana, strawberry,
mango, then use the orange juice necessary to bring it to the consistency you're looking for. I've had licuado stands along the entire peninsula make
this for me - and they've had all these ingredients available, be it Ensenada, La Paz, or even Guerrero Negro, etc.
"Other" stands to look for: Elote (corn on the cob), and in the south: Coconut stands. Some tamale stands sell them with only veggies or corn in
them.
I bought some corn tamales from the/a older lady at the Vizcaino Pemex in January... I'd remembered picking up some tasty ones there before... but
this time, I had to throw them away - just way too much sugar in the ones this time for me. Yuck.
Another standby (to have on-hand) for many in this situation is peanut butter (and/or other nut butter) and the bread to make sandwiches with.
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BajaDanD
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A true Vegan will know what to do
In the states I would think that, but in baja?
As it turns out he will eat cheese and eggs, so not a True Vegan anyway. I just dont want him starving while we are stuffing ourselves with Tacos Al
pastor.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by jdtrotter
Dennis, think pink, curly tail, and rolling in mud when you think about lard.
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I always thought it came from cows. What kind of greasy, cholesterol gorged cooking stuff comes from a cow?
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Dennis,
Dern and I are in a hot conversation over this fatty barn yard question. He claims Lard can be both pig and cow fat, but HE thinks that it mainly
comes from cows....
I claim it's from a pig.
Growing up attending an SDA school for 10 years where the teachings and the cafeteria was totally Vegetarian, I always thought Lard was from our
cloven hooved pig friends.
I've got to Google it now.
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the real skinny on pigfat
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-lard.htm
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According to Wikipedia:
Fat from pigs is Lard.
Fat from cows is Tallow.
Althought I did find a few articles where cow fat was called Lard as well. This topic made me think back to the coffee can of bacon drippings my
grandmother used to use for her cooking.
Yucky.
My vegetarian ex-sister in law traveled to Baja with us once. Besides being a pain in the butt, she was very difficult to feed. One night at a
restaurant she insisted that she could eat flour tortillas. I didn't say a thing about the lard content. When her pile of tortillas came out of the
kitchen, there was a huge black hairy fly patted and lightly toasted into one of the tortillas. She didn't notice it until the tortilla was already in
her mouth.
The restaurant owner felt horrible, but I quietly slipped him an extra tip for making my day.
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And here is a link that says lard is making a comeback
LARD
And, grandma's pie crusts were the best and always made with lard, just as the chicken was fried only in lard.
Helping my 90 year old mother-in-law move recently, we found that can---the one with the bacon greese. She claims she didn't use it anymore and just
didn't want to put it down the drain. We didn't believe her.
Diane
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