Comments on: Becoming vegetarian

By: Desiree

Desiree — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:21:31 +0000

I wish you and Yang all the best with this project! Check out Loving Hut in Manhattan for some tasty eat out options (don’t forget to check out their flyers as well ;)).

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

By: admin

admin — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:48:22 +0000

@Jing I’ve done a few vegan meals here and there but to give up cheese… *shudder*

@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

By: Joel P

Joel P — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:41:33 +0000

Good luck, Tina. I do a simplified (less rigorous, less logically consistent, don’t care what term you call me) version of this. We don’t cook much meat at home, and when we do it’s usually an ingredient, not the centerpiece – pasta with (sometimes) meat in the sauce vs. big-ass steaks. Since we really don’t use much meat, the higher price for non-factory meat is not a burden. When eating out, vegetarian is my default option. If nothing veggie looks good, I’ll get meat, especially if it’s well-sourced, but most of the time I’m fine with rice & beans, salad, pasta, etc. Same deal with meals from family/friends!

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.

By: Jing

Jing — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:05:28 +0000

Heh, it didn’t get deleted afterall!

By: Jing

Jing — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:04:57 +0000

I typed a long comment but accidentally pressed refresh

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 ^^;;

By: Jing

Jing — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:01:55 +0000

My friend did a one-month vegan trial (tho it was easy because apple served vegan dishes…). He’s still eating mvegan at work (but not at bbqs probably) and learned lots of good vegan recipes!

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!