Dan Stromberg wrote:
Hello / Ni Hao

My wife is pregnant, and due to deliver a boy in mid July. That's
terrific news.

What's less good news, is that although I'm a dedicated vegetarian, my
wife very much wants to eat meat regularly for a month after the delivery,
and she doesn't want to leave our home for a month afterward either (it's
apparently a sort of Chinese tradition?). Beyond that, 3 of her friends
have decided that they are going to "teach Dan to cook meat" this weekend.

I'm perhaps obviously not especially comfortable with the idea of buying
or cooking meat anymore, but I'd be pleased if I could learn to prepare
some vegetarian dishes that my wife would enjoy, and that would be very
good at restoring the nutrients her body has lost through the pregnancy.

How might I handle the diplomacy end of this, and does anyone know of
vegetarian dishes that a

1) Delicious - she likes to "taste the ingredients" without a lot of
spices, but we use ginger and garlic and green onions a lot, and sometimes
a small amount of hot peppers.

2) Very restorative for my wife (she'll be taking "nursing mother"
vitamins, and is now taking prenatal vitamins)

3) Simple enough for a decidedly unsophisticated chef to prepare?

I have repeated this post. it IS at Google so did go somewhere! The
follow up was also incorrect.
Congrats on your news.
Have you got a local chinese take away you could use and pretend you
cooked it? Mine do some awesome tofu dishes.