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This made me laugh because my mother is very southern and is a great cook--in part because she puts pork/pork fat/duck fat in everything. One of my brothers has a new girlfriend who is vegan. My mother is trying to be supportive but it's like she has a mental block. As we were planning Christmas dinner she keeps asking my sister and me: "But I can use cheese, and K will eat it, right?" "No, mama" "So I can make [recipe with a pound of butter] and she will eat that, right?" "No, mama".
It was all fine and it isn't as if we felt like every dish had to be vegan but we wanted the girl to have something to eat!
And my mother will have to adjust better because they got engaged on Christmas day. Now we are all planning a vegan wedding for July...
And, when our daughter was a vegan I also learned that there were foods that she couldn't eat that were rather surprising such as gelatin and many "natural" flavorings & food additives.
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My younger son, married a Vegetarian 35 years ago, and he converted to a Vegetarian. He has worked as a head chef for 5 star resorts, and restaurants. He cooks different when at work, and when at home.
At one of the most exclusive resorts in the country, he was head chef. He came out with Vegetarian main dishes for those that wanted them, and surprise, surprise they sold a lot more of these than they even estimated would happen.
One day one of the waiters came into the kitchen and said one of the customers was angry, and said my son was trying to poison him. He went out, and the complaint was it tasted so good, that one bite told him it could not be a a vegetarian food. My son explained he was a vegetarian and had developed that dish for his own family. He broke it down and told him what each part was. The customer just shook his head in amazement. He had a hard time believing anything that tasted that good was truly vegetarian food. The other thing my son remembered, was it was Dick Van Dyke. Yes that one, as I said it was a resort that catered to the upper crust.
When we have a big family dinner when we are having a number of family come home, he cooks the big dinners. He cooks to satisfy me, and other meat eaters, and vegetarian meals for he, his wife, and my wife who has also converted, so my wife and I just buy the food he needs for the meals, get out of the kitchen and let him do the cooking. Kind of nice to have a true 5 star chef, prepare the meals.
For some insights, see the movie "My Great Big Fat Greek Wedding".
Annoying Greek aunt offers to cook them dinner.
Daughter: "Ian is a vegetarian; he doesn't eat meat."
Aunt: "He don't eat no meat??"
Daughter: "No, he doesn't eat meat."
Aunt: "That's OK, that's OK. I make lamb."
Yes, maybe a bit different because I am vegan but I have to put with family members saying its too hard work to do vegan meals as well, despite the fact that they could just do vegan and everyone could eat that. Simple.
As a long time vegetarian, generally the only way family gatherings are affected is when Uncle Lenny notices someone is eating a veg plate and goes into an unsolicited 10 minute monologue about how much he just loooooves to eat meat.
Yes, maybe a bit different because I am vegan but I have to put with family members saying its too hard work to do vegan meals as well, despite the fact that they could just do vegan and everyone could eat that. Simple.
Sorry, but nobody likes that stuff. If we did, we’d be vegan too. Can’t you just eat the side dishes? They can easily accommodate you by not adding butter, or other dairy, to vegetables.
All 3 of my children ARE vegetarians. Of two that are married their spouses are not vegetarian. My husband only eats chicken, pork sausage, and fish. A normal night in my house is 3 different mains - only pasta or pizza nights are easy. Fortunately for me, my DIL helped out a lot this Christmas making a few veggie dishes. (Thanksgiving without turkey was not enjoyable for me!)
My youngest son is married to a vegetarian. She has shown me how to many of her delicious recipes and never expects special treatment when we dine together.
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