My question is that in Step 5 you say “Add red-wine vinegar, stock, and port.” My first thought was, “Wait, where’s the port??? She didn’t list port anywhere!” But then I thought maybe it was a typo, for add the “pork.” So now I need you to enlighten me, and I thank you in advance.

I actually haven’t had any problem with this recipe without the port, but my husband is a port aficionado and would probably love it if it were to be added.

Thank you!!
Ellen

Other inspirations:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/index.html
http://www.maangchi.com/ (Korean food is so easy to make vegetarian… Japchae, Bibimbap, Kimchi fried rice with canned tuna, Glutinous rice sticks…)

You can also go fancy with omelettes. Seafood (fish or shrimp) with cilantro omelettes, frittatas, tortilla patata (delicious!), and many more. I went nuts and steamed my own radish cake from scratch to cook in our Singaporean carrot cake omelette dish this weekend (http://www.mywoklife.com/2009/11/singapore-hawker-style-fried-carrot.html).

Mahmood and I recently started keeping compost in our freezer (like you guys) and I installed an Earth Machine in the church’s backyard, which is where the compost goes on Sundays.

I know you guys love meat. All the best!

Desiree

P.S. Mahmood routed me to your blog post

@Joel We’ve never been too into big-ass steak (official terminology) either, but I would still like to decrease my reliance on meat for flavor/texture further. I wish I had the presence of mind to do this without a rigid moral framework, but alas, I’m bad at arguing with my stomach when I’m hungry and need all the help I can get

None of these are hard-and-fast “rules” for me. If I’m craving Five Guys, I get Five Guys. Not feeling guilty, deprived, or stuck doing some abstract good at the expense of my taste buds means I probably eat 10% as much meat as I used to, but I’m eating all the meat I want to.

My friend went on a 1-month vegan trial and it worked out pretty well. And it was easy bc apple serves vegan. He liked it enough to eat vegan at work most of the time and learned a really cool vegan muffin recipe!

I’m at least half vegan! But that’s because I eat watermelon for dinner… So not sure if that’s cheating ^^;;

Upon reading this I realized that I’m mostly vegetarian on the weekdays… Considering I eat 1.5 meals a day and the .5 is watermelon ^^;;
On weekends I’m pretty carnivorous tho… I wish restaurants had better (or just better sounding) vegetarian dishes. I’m looking at you, Chinese restaurants!