During one of our vacations, we landed up at a place which was nearly anti-vegetarian. It was actually even worse for me since I don't eat eggs. If you can cheat me by hiding its taste, appearance and smell into some other food, then I am ready to be cheated, otherwise you will be treated to free 'throwing up' sessions! Which is what I pretty much did during that trip since no one could even contemplate from which planet we landed from and did not know to customize recipes for us (especially me). I think few people probably wondered secretly how I looked "healthy" when I was practically eating 'nothing' ;) Vegetables are supposedly not food in their dictionary.

One conversation at a breakfast joint
• Me: Can I have a vegetarian Burrito pls?
• Waiter: Do you mean with lots of vegetables?
• Me: Yes - no meat..
• Waiter: Oh! No sausages then. Is Bacon ok ?
• Me: (#$!#) No no Bacon, its meat too....
• Waiter: Oh ok sorry about that - so trying to eat healthy ah? (winks!) Its always good! I know ppl trying to eat lots of fish nowdays. You know we have the best salmon here....
• Me: umm...well no fish too - we don't eat fish either..
• Waiter: (looks shocked) No bacon, No fish! That's really sad! What do you want us to put in there instead?????????
• Me: Potatoes would be great!
• Waiter: (scratching head) Oh ok! 2 'plain' burritos coming up
• Me: aah! One second - I have one more request..I cant eat eggs - can you skip that too for one of the burritos?
• Waiter: (scratching head some more) Without eggs?????? Sorry then there is nothing on the burritos.
• Me: but.. but there are vegetables in there. That's what I want..
• Waiter: Sorry we dont know how to make it without eggs... (few more suggestions, no's, arguments follows without any success for me :( ....)
• The Husband: Its alright - just get us 2 burritos. We are starving!
• Me: (grumble)(mumble) (and we traveled happily after, with me throwing up of course!)

But in one place, we got to stay in a cottage. We made our vegetarian requests and the cook was like 'Oh sure'. The next 2 days were Food heaven! Our cook made the amazing vegetarian food ever! Her soup recipes were simply mind blowing. One of them was this Baked Onion and garlic soup. I practically ended up asking her how she made each and ever dish. Of course she did not give me the measurements but her procedures and rough guidelines were more than enough. Here is one of the recipes we enjoyed