Lesson Introduction
Eat meat, they used to say, sticks to your ribs. Nowadays, though, not everybody chooses to eat meat. Today's lesson deals with a vegetarian, a vegetarian who's eaten but hungry again. For some, like the people in our dialog, that might be a problem, but for others, it's another excuse to eat again! Learn how to get your veggie grub on... in Spanish!
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Almost half of the restaurants here in India are pure vegetarian (no eggs either).
In the US and elsewhere in Western World, it healthy vegetarian foods are not tasty and that drives people crazy about being vegetarian.
It´s not that difficult to be vegetarian, when I was in India, I ate meat or fish during weekends only.
Could someone please tell me how to say "no onion, no garlic" as in "I don't want onion or garlic". I'm a vegetarian but I don't like my good prepared with onion or garlic.
lovelife
"Sin" means without.
I would say “sin cebollas y sin ajo”
Or is
“sin cebollas y ajo”
better, any thoughts?
Lovelife
I just checked with my expert advisor and it is:
“Sin cebolla y sin ajo”
I'm not a vegetarian, yet when I go abroad I usually have to be one, temporarily. As a Muslim, any meat I eat must be 'halal'. Pork is not, chicken is, but the chicken must have been slaughtered the Muslim way for it to be 'halal'. The slaughtering differs too, from the 'kosher' way, and so the best way to go when I'm abroad is, really, the vegetarian way. I'm just wondering, though, whether cheese is 'halal' as it contains rennet. The rennet could have come from cows, not pigs, but does the cow have to die first for the rennet to be obtained from it? If it does have to, then there would still be doubt as to whether it had died the 'halal' way for cheese to be 'halal', too.
anikin-
Check cheese labels for Vegetable Rennet or Vegetable Enzymes. If it just says "rennet" or "enzymes" don't eat it unless you are willing to take the risk. If it's animal rennet the animal is killed first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet).
Muchas gracias, kbot!
¡De nada!
Hola, soy un poco tarde para la discusión. Durante los cuatro años, he sido más o menos vegetariano. Lo que quiero decir es que he tratado a no comer carne, pero a veces es difícil porque me gusta comerla. Para mí, es un proceso. Algunas veces lo hago muy bien pero otras veces tengo ganas de comer carne.
Ahora, me siento más cómodo de comer carne. Si voy a un restaurante que no tiene buena seléccion de platos vegetarianos, no me siento mal si escoger un plato con carne. Pero, en casa, es muy raro preparar comida con carne. A veces, mi esposa y yo preparemos el pescado pero las comidas vegetarianas que son como carne es suficiente para nosotros cuando cocinamos en casa. Sin esos productos, sería más deficil.
Parressh
Sigues sin comer carne?
Saludos
Hola Liliana,
Ahora, me llamo un "flexetariano". A veces como carne, pero no mucho. Cuando mi esposa y yo fuimos a Europa el año pasado, era muy difícil encontrar comida sin carne. ¡Comíamos demasiados sandwiches con solo queso! Pero ahora, en vez de comer más platos como sandwiches del queso, preferiría comer comida propia, incluso si tiene carne.
No, no he ido a comer a un restaurante vegetariano, pero he comido comida vegetariana. Es bueno, pero prefiero algo con pollo o pavo.
“Los vegetarianos son una molestia persistente para cualquiera que se llame un chef”
je, je, je
Jajaja, tienes mucha razón cobre! Dios bendiga la carne!
Me gusta mucho vegetables pero tengo que comer carne!