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Jason: I saw your comment on my blog.  I am not sure if you knew but I took inspiration from you and have been living vegetarian for the last 2 1/2 weeks.  My vow is to not eat meat until Thanksgiving day when I run the 5K Thanksgiving day race and then chow down on turkey. 

Indian food is a great way to insure you get a lot of protein.  I would suggest suvir's first book "Indian Home Cooking" - it's a great collection of recipes from all over India.  He also has some recipes listed on his website: www.suvir.com.  The biggest key to getting the flavor right I found was to locate fresh curry leaves.  We Westerners always think of curry as powder - that too strong mix of spices that was the haphazard invention of the Brits during colonization.  If you have an Indian grocery store in your town (some general asian groceries may carry them too) go out and buy them - they have an amazing aroma and add so much to the cooking.