Comments on: Transforming Vegetables into Fish http://www.saltshaker.net/20080910/transforming-vegetables-into-fish Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dan http://www.saltshaker.net/20080910/transforming-vegetables-into-fish/comment-page-1#comment-180554 dan Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:04:08 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=1032#comment-180554 I don't mind cooking vegetarian dinners at all. I just mind when the people who ask me to do them don't show up after I plan it for them. As to seafood eaters - they're not vegetarians. Period. The original menu was vegetarian, I switched it to include seafood because all of the vegetarians who'd reserved, cancelled - since no one coming minded eating meat, I just simply re-did the menu to include seafood. I don’t mind cooking vegetarian dinners at all. I just mind when the people who ask me to do them don’t show up after I plan it for them. As to seafood eaters – they’re not vegetarians. Period. The original menu was vegetarian, I switched it to include seafood because all of the vegetarians who’d reserved, cancelled – since no one coming minded eating meat, I just simply re-did the menu to include seafood.

]]> By: we are never full http://www.saltshaker.net/20080910/transforming-vegetables-into-fish/comment-page-1#comment-180548 we are never full Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:40:40 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=1032#comment-180548 this post alone is making us even more excited to meet you and dine - only another week and a half. even cooking for vegetarian friends is annoying to me. i'm sure it's even harder in argentina. if i was a veggie and was taking a trip to argentina, that would be my time to change my beliefs- just for that trip. as much as i try, i'll just never understand it. meat is too damn good. also, your vegetarians may have not eaten seafood - what the heck would you have done then? this menu is lovely, meat-free or not. can't wait to dine at casa saltshaker. amy and jonny this post alone is making us even more excited to meet you and dine – only another week and a half. even cooking for vegetarian friends is annoying to me. i’m sure it’s even harder in argentina. if i was a veggie and was taking a trip to argentina, that would be my time to change my beliefs- just for that trip. as much as i try, i’ll just never understand it. meat is too damn good.

also, your vegetarians may have not eaten seafood – what the heck would you have done then? this menu is lovely, meat-free or not.

can’t wait to dine at casa saltshaker.

amy and jonny

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Catch-Up http://www.saltshaker.net/20080910/transforming-vegetables-into-fish/comment-page-1#comment-180434 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Catch-Up Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:00:09 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=1032#comment-180434 [...] of you will remember my oath to not plan any more vegetarian dinners. However, I was teaching a class on vegetarian cooking, and a young couple asked if I might [...] [...] of you will remember my oath to not plan any more vegetarian dinners. However, I was teaching a class on vegetarian cooking, and a young couple asked if I might [...]

]]> By: SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Welcome Back Persephone! http://www.saltshaker.net/20080910/transforming-vegetables-into-fish/comment-page-1#comment-170017 SaltShaker » Blog Archive » Welcome Back Persephone! Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:07:11 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=1032#comment-170017 [...] a bit on a few things - the risotto cake and mussel dish I’ve made a few times before, various dishes of braised squid or octopus, a saute of spicy [...] [...] a bit on a few things – the risotto cake and mussel dish I’ve made a few times before, various dishes of braised squid or octopus, a saute of spicy [...]

]]> By: Wembley http://www.saltshaker.net/20080910/transforming-vegetables-into-fish/comment-page-1#comment-168995 Wembley Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:24:26 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=1032#comment-168995 That's an interesting answer - I know exactly what you mean about vegetarianism as a topic of conversation. I am considering wearing a placard round my neck saying that I am a complex and inconsistent individual whose moral code is pebbledashed with failings and errors..would this be acceptable? Or maybe we should publish a list of acceptable conversation topics ahead of time? I don't really like the dinner table to be a battle ground! Wembley That’s an interesting answer – I know exactly what you mean about vegetarianism as a topic of conversation. I am considering wearing a placard round my neck saying that I am a complex and inconsistent individual whose moral code is pebbledashed with failings and errors..would this be acceptable? Or maybe we should publish a list of acceptable conversation topics ahead of time? I don’t really like the dinner table to be a battle ground!

Wembley

]]> By: dan http://www.saltshaker.net/20080910/transforming-vegetables-into-fish/comment-page-1#comment-168828 dan Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:05:56 +0000 http://www.saltshaker.net/?p=1032#comment-168828 Vegetarianism itself is not at stake here, nor its reputation. It's merely a particular group of vegetarians who live here who, and I'll go out on a limb and just state it bluntly, like to complain, constantly, that there are no options for them in Buenos Aires. And when options do present themselves, they go out of their way to make sure they don't experience them - after all, that would take away complaining rights. (I actually got kicked off one of the local online expat forums for daring to list a dozen or so vegetarian restaurants in town when the moderator of the board had at stake her claim that there was no such thing in BA - she actually threatened me with a lawsuit for defamation of character!) That, and perhaps there's a certain element of liking to mix with non-vegetarians. Some of these same folk come to our regular dinners, requesting vegetarian substitutions - which I don't generally mind doing - but then it gets to be a topic of conversation over the dinner table... you know what I mean? Vegetarianism itself is not at stake here, nor its reputation. It’s merely a particular group of vegetarians who live here who, and I’ll go out on a limb and just state it bluntly, like to complain, constantly, that there are no options for them in Buenos Aires. And when options do present themselves, they go out of their way to make sure they don’t experience them – after all, that would take away complaining rights. (I actually got kicked off one of the local online expat forums for daring to list a dozen or so vegetarian restaurants in town when the moderator of the board had at stake her claim that there was no such thing in BA – she actually threatened me with a lawsuit for defamation of character!) That, and perhaps there’s a certain element of liking to mix with non-vegetarians. Some of these same folk come to our regular dinners, requesting vegetarian substitutions – which I don’t generally mind doing – but then it gets to be a topic of conversation over the dinner table… you know what I mean?

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