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Healthy Eating Ideas for the New Year

As a 30+ year vegetarian, I am always looking for new ways to satisfy my desire for delicious food that is also healthy and easy to make.  When we first moved to México I kept trying to use my favorite cookbooks, but got frustrated with the difficulty in finding exact ingredients.  Now I use cookbooks mostly for inspiration as I know what I am likely to find locally. At the top of this post are five photos you can page...

What DOES a vegetarian eat, anyway?

A couple of my friends have asked for me to share some of my vegetarian meals so that they could make a change to eating less meat. To that end, I have been snapping phone pictures of my most photogenic meals for the last month or so when it occurs to me. I’ve written posts on this topic before, here and here. The descriptions for the photo above: 1. Bulgur wheat and vegetables with parmesan cheese. 2. Veggie burrito at...

Good Food in Mazatlan

Restaurant options continue to improve for vegetarians in Mazatlan. Paul and I ate yesterday at the brand new vegan restaurant La Ruta, and I know we’ll go back often. It has a bit of a funky modern vibe and the food is very good. Located on Vicente Guerrero 216 a block and a half East of Aquiles Serdan it is on the edge of Centro Historico. We ordered jamaica agua frescas (hibiscus flower flavored water) from the owner, Andrea, that...

Black Bean & Chia Veggie Burgers

One of the hard things for a vegetarian living in Mexico can be lack of access to things like veggie burgers. There are two key challenges when making your own veggie burgers – how to make it stick together and how to create a texture that isn’t mushy. I’ve made (and eaten) a lot of veggie burgers over the years and I truly think this is the best one I’ve ever had. I started with this article from The Food...

My (mostly) healthy habits

I am very interested in healthy living, reading everything I can and I enjoy sharing ideas with like-minded people.  I know that my enthusiasm for green tea and other healthy choices I made helped me when my ovarian cancer developed.  It was unbelievable that my (probably due to genetics) tumor was very large, yet it hadn’t spread. One of the things green tea (and other foods, too) can do is stop angiogenesis, or the development of blood supply for growth...

How I eat out as a vegetarian in Mazatlán

I’ve been a vegetarian for ages and almost always manage to eat well when we go out.  Food options are getting better and better here in Mazatlan.  Here’s a bit of a random rundown of where I eat and what I order, starting out here in Centro. My favorite restaurants, hands down, are the Water’s Edge Bistro and Molika.  Both are in Centro and serve delicious food prepared by thoughtful chefs.  At Water’s Edge (they are now open in their...

What I Eat – Vegetarian meals at home

As promised, here are some of the meals I’ve fixed over the last week.  Above you’ll see what I made after visiting the Saturday organic market in the Plazuela Zaragoza.  It’s an open faced organic portabello mushroom sandwich with a baby organic lettuce salad.  Delicious.  The bread was a slice of multi-grain sourdough from Molika bakery.  It was delicious! The picture below is a quesadilla without the queso!  (That means with no cheese!)  I squished up some peruano beans from...

What I Eat – Smoothies for breakfast

  • November 20, 2013
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People are curious about eating a vegetarian diet. I get asked frequently “what do you eat?” So I have decided to start a new blog category called What I Eat. Even if you aren’t planning on becoming a vegetarian you might get some good ideas for reducing your use of meat. That would be great. The first entry in my new category is the breakfast smoothie. Paul and I share one nearly every day. I am lucky to have the...

Tips from My Mexican Kitchen

  • March 30, 2012
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I have learned a lot over the years in my Mazatlán kitchen. I shared a few tips with you once before – how to slice jalapeños and limes the Sinaloa way – but I recently realized I had a few more tips to share. At the top of the post is a pile of blue corn tortillas.  I love these tortillas, and will pick up a package even if it contains more tortillas than I really want.  Watch the video...

Drink your vegies!

I have been on a cooking jag lately…it is quite strange for me to cook so much when it is so warm, but I guess the way I cook is casual enough that it isn’t very stressful.  Plus with our “mystery project” I am staying home more to be available for questions and to manage the dogs. At the top of the post is my first pot of peruano beans.  I made them with onion, carrot, garlic, and yellow pepper....

Trying to learn some new tricks

  I read Theresa’s blog post about missing her reference books, and it made me think about how many adjustments I’ve needed to make in my cooking since moving to Mexico. I guess I should clarify. I am a vegetarian, and I brought my favorite five or six cookbooks with me when we moved. But it is challenging to make anything out of them without substitutions since so many things are hard to find or unavailable. I was looking through...

Vegetariana en México

A picture of some vegies from my garden in 2002!   I’m a vegetarian. México isn’t the easiest place for non-meat eaters. Meat makes everything more rich and tasty….but not to me. When we first arrived I ate more than my share of quesadillas and iceberg lettuce salads, but not any more! We usually eat vegetarian at home so when we go out it is also Paul’s chance to eat meat. Here’s a rundown of the meals I’ve eaten in...

Thoughts on Food

  • October 11, 2007
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I love food. And I am a vegetarian. I don’t eat meat or seafood because I have an active visual side to me that brings up images of the critter in its live state that spoils any chance that I might want to eat it in its (dead) state… I really sometimes wish I could eat meat, as life would be a lot easier, especially in Mexico. But I can’t change who I am, so there are always a lot...