Ok. My husband is a vegetarian. I am not. I end up mostly eating vegetarian simply because it's easier to make one meal rather than two. I tend to eat more meat in the summer, because the BBQ makes things easier.
There is more to a vegetarian life than stir fry. Way, way,
way more.
First off, look at Indian cuisine. Hindus are vegetarian. They've mastered it. It is delicious. My favourite Indian cookbook is
India's Vegetarian Cooking: A Regional Guide by Monisha Bharadwaj. It's a beautiful book, but as the title suggests, it goes through each region and discusses what is grown in that area, why certain things are popular there, etc. I got it at Homesense (so if you're in the states, the equivalent is Homegoods. Same company, just one is on the Canadian side and one is state side.) for $7.99. AbeBooks.com has a bunch for under ten bucks with shipping included.
Monisha Bharadwaj, India's Vegetarian Cooking - AbeBooks
A nice food blog that has some good stuff in it is
Veggies and Gin. She has some nice stuff on there. And I love a good gin cocktail, too.
Another whole food/vegetarian cookbook I really like is
At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen: Celebrating the Art of Eating Well by Amy Chaplin. Now, this book is a bit more pricey and you can find it on AbeBooks in the thirty dollar range.
At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen by Amy Chaplin - AbeBooks
But, my
favourite is
The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes, Techniques, and Reflections from the Famed Zen Kitchen by Edward Epse Brown. He cooked at a Buddhist temple in California. This book is lovely. Now, there's no photographs. Everything is hand drawn. It is 526 pages long. It's massive and FULL of information. It is one of my prized cookbooks. It changed the way I approached food.
Now if a big tome like that is intimidating, there's the more accessible
Tassajara Cookbook: Lunches, Picnics and Appetizers by Karla Oliveira. Now, all of the recipes in this book are in the big book. But this one is half the size and full of glossy photos. It's a beautiful book. I own both.
Tassajara Cookbook - AbeBooks
There's also
Thug Kitchen if you have a sense of humour and don't mind curse words. He has a cookbook (and it's great), but he also has a blog.
Thug Kitchen
Ramsons & Bramble is a nice vegan blog, with more upscale recipes if you are out to impress.
Ramsons & Bramble - Made-from-scratch food that delights!