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May 18th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
I don’t know about you, but I can’t tell you how many times I have called a Mexican restaurant and asked them “do you put lard in your beans or use vegetable oil or water?” Just to find out that they put nasty pig fat in their beans. Or better yet, they act like they don’t know what I am talking about, so I just assume that they use lard. Eating Mexican food in a restaurant can be a difficult task, though there are some restaurants that do not use lard, such as Taco Bell (if you call that a restaurant) and Baja Fresh just to name two very popular food chains.
What do I like to eat at Taco Bell. Well today I tried for the first time the seven-layer burrito, no sour cream, no cheese, extra guacamole as suggested by sexy vegan chick at her blog My Life as a Vegan. It was delicious. Thank goodness, I can travel and know that wherever I go I can get something to eat. (For more fast food ideas check out her blog at http://aveganlife.blogspot.com/2006/03/vegan-fast-food-options.html
When I go to Baja Fresh I always get the vegetarian nachos, no cheese, no sour cream, no guacamole, add fresh avocado and lettuce. They order taker usually looks at me as if I am crazy, but I assure you I am not.
If you are not into going out to eat and would like to make Mexican food at home, here is a vegan recipe that is sure to be a hit with the family. Hope you enjoy it.
Bean Tacos (Vegan, Gluten Free)
8 gluten free tortillas
1 cup leftover tortilla soup
2 cans pinto beans
1 onion
2 cups pico de gallo
2 cups iceburg lettuce
1 avocado, cubed
Chop up onion and mix with leftover tortilla soup and pinto beans. Add salt and pepper and heat on the stove at medium heat. Mash beans while they cook. Heat tortillas in a stainless steel skillet with a very small amount of olive oil. Spoon beans onto tortillas and top with lettuce, pico de gallo and avocado. Fold tortillas in half and serve.
That’s a good-looking recipe.
This post brings to mind a former friend of mine who was “a vegetarian.” (I use quotes because she called herself one but didn’t always walk the walk, so to speak, as this story will relate.)
Years ago, she invited me to a party she was going to be at, at this Mexican restaurant in a section of San Diego called “Old Town.” It’s an authentic Mexican joint in the heart of this area where things are done as they are in most of Mexico. (Meaning, of course to the vegetarian or vegan: “eater beware!”)
I asked the hostess (not a cupcake) as soon as I arrived about the food choices I might have and she was blunt about it. EVERYTHING had beef, chicken or lard in it. Every single item on their menu EXCEPT the salsa and the tortilla chips, which were made off the premises.
My “veg” friend ate there. I drank water all night. Nice bathroom they had there…
Comment by K • @ May 26, 2006 @ 11:28 pm
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I have lived in rural Mexico and was easily able to maintain my 7+ year commitment to being vegan with a variety of tasty, novel foods. (Have you ever had a vegan “pork chop” or “shrimp cocktail”?)
In fact, most of the people I encountered prepared their food without costly meat products or even dairy products because they are too poor. Corn tortillas, beans and maybe a smattering of veggies is the main diet of most of Mexico. (Surprisingly it isn’t the authentic Mexican “Crunchwrap Supreme” or the “Grilled Stuft Burrito”!)
This of course, is to say nothing of the vegan movement in urban Mexico, of which I saw recipes and flyers, even being several hundred miles from the capital.
Before you assume that putting lard, animal fats and meat products into foods is the “way they do it” in Mexico, perhaps you should self-reflect on such sweeping generalizations and the invention of what “Mexican food” is here in the United States.
Comment by Bryanna • @ November 26, 2007 @ 10:48 am