W/o onions and garlic

One of our Hindu mourning traditions is to shun all meat, fish and certain vegetables, grains and pulses for a period of 12 days after a death (everyday practice for Jains). Members of the onion and garlic family are forbidden, which brings up an interesting challenge for the earnest Epicurean. How to find tasty things that do not contain garlic and onion....

In major Indian cities, I can find restaurants that cater to this diet, but in America I thought it would be more difficult than it has been. In fact, I would argue that there are more varied options in the States than in India. Some examples:

Italian: Margherita Pizza, cream based pastas,
Japanese: Miso Soup, tofu appetizers (fried tofu), Seaweed salads (without scallions of course)
Indian: Jain spice packets like the ones Rasoi Magic have http://www.rasoimagic.com/jain.html, samosas, some south indian dishes


Usually the asian diaspora restaurants (Chinese, Thai etc.) will hook up a stir fry of your vegetable choosing.

Am going to be in England this week and will report back on those options.

Pics to follow....