Cooking for vegetarians
 

I'm hosting a veggie this week. I have ideas for food, but I thought I'd canvass you pricks. I want to cook something interesting that doesn't involve quorn or any guff like that. I'm trying to avoid substituting meat for potatoes. And salad should be involved.

Go.

She's a veggie who doesn't eat fish but isn't a vegan, just to clear that up.

Vegetables.

why dontchu meyk some indian food? it's the most "interesting" of vegotarian cuisse-ines. plus you wont lack recipes+ingredients in inglaterra.

paramhansa yogananda, for example.

http://www.waitrose.com/recipe/Vegetarian_Cottage_Pie_with_Parsnip_and_Apple_Mash .aspx

If she's not into Quorn, replace it with a load of courgettes, peppers and mushrooms. And definitely parboil the carrots like pinkwelly76 says.

Hopefully the board isn't going to get loads of Waitrose trolls as a result of my having posted that link.

Just present a big bowl of lettuce, and salted nuts.

that sounds bhoringg but with the right lettuce, slightly toasted walnuts, blue cheese (say, stilton) and some other ingredients its fucking awesome.

oh, look:

http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=52 1744

plus, it's pear season (here in ameriKKKa anyguey)

It's a good call, but Indian-style is my speciality, so I'll likely avoid it.

Keep 'em coming, you people are nearly proving yourselves to be useful and worthwhile members of society.

Vegetarian Pad Thai is the bomb.

Another one that I commonly make is using chinese noodles marinated in homemade teriyaki sauce and vegetables. But the teriyaki has to be nice and thick. You can use this recipe for the sauce. I usually don't include the vinegar or worchestershire sauce, and just put more ketchup and soy to thicken it up. Just cook noodles, make sauce, and put vegetables / diced tofu in it. yummmmm.

Aside from that, check out VEGAN YUM YUM for more.

This one's from memory, I hope I get it right:

Olive oil
One onion
Two red or yellow peppers
Paprika
Two eggs

Slice the onions and the peppers thinnish. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan. When it's hot, add the onions and peppers, and fry them until they become pretty soft. Add 1 teaspoon of paprika, stir for a bit and then make sure that the mix is spread evenly over the frying pan. Break one egg into one side of the frying pan, on top of the onion / pepper mix, and the other egg on the other side. Leave for the eggs to cook - I think it took about ten minutes. Serve with salad, if that's what you really want to do.

Not only simple, but also requires very little post-meal washing-up.

i edited in a pear/walnut/stilton salad that looks fucking great

although I prefer the flesh of small animals, buttnut squash soup is good. it features many fantasic delights such as: buttnut squash and onions.

I think it takes cream to make it good though, and I hear veg-heads don't like that, so I'm going to change my answer to !@#!$!!$'s suggestion: go indian.

hopefully, if all goes well, the smell of yr sex-stained sheets will cover up the smell of dinner that will be exuding from yr pores. best o' luck.

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I type slow. I guess yr fucked.

Blunderbuss recipe seems delicious ( even though he is english , ha! ).

For posterity's sake - veggie's boyfriend is coming over, and Mrs Glice wouldn't be impressed with the idea that a load of internet nobodies thought I was advertising my getting my end away with a vegetarian.

I had no idea that there was a Mrs. Glice!

and for the record, I think it's fantastic that you are letting her out of the closet for yr little veg-o soiree. hopefully yr patching job will keep the air from leaking out while everybody's eating.

be my friend!

my success recipe is an oven dish with pasta, spinach and ricotta... its easy to make.

four people:
500 gr. of penne
750 gr. of fresh spinach
750 gr. of fresh ricotta
some sour cream
4 eggs
100 gr. of parmezan cheese
pepper and salt

turn the oven on 180 degrees. cook the pasta al dente and put it in a well-buttered oven tray. dip the spinach in boiling water for a few seconds and chop it in pieces. mix the ricotta, sour cream, eggs, parmezan, pepper, salt and spinach and put this in the oven trays too, on top of the pasta. leave it in the oven for about half an hour, wait for five minutes before serving.

to add a nice touch: roast some pine seeds for a few seconds in a bit of oil.

I have a brazillin recipes, if you make a suggestion of what kind of vegie you want to use.. or what kind of cereal like pasta or rice or what not?

just be careful with cheese, most cheeses have rennet. all cured cheeses do. Some vegetarians dont mind this but a lot do. rennet is intestines and stuff. You can buy vegetarian cheeses but they're harder to come by in the 'interesting cheese'. Just check the back for 'non animal rennet'

I dont know if you're this keen, but even if you arent vegetarian it is a cook book that everyone should have. It has lots of starter ideas and explains vego cooking for the uninitiated and 'But dont you just eat the same thing but without the meat??' types.

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Vege...3936833&sr=8-4

it only lists second hand ones there but my local Borders carries it and has for years..

potatoes, tomato, mustard seeds and corriander is very nice. you cook the seeds first so that they birst, then add parboiled potatoes, onions, tomatoes and finally lots of fresh corriander and serve with crusty bread. its simple, takes 20 minutes and tastes great. also add some turmeric to it if you like.

curry is also a good way to go.

I had a soy burger once.....it wasn't good.

Mmmmmmmm.

big mushrooms stuffed with fresh thyme, corriander, garlic, pepper, and butter, then covered with foil and baked in a dish for about 30 to 40 mins are wonderful as a starter..

Thanks for the ideas all, keep 'em coming.

Peanut Butter + Bread

I could post here over and over and over.. Witi small breaks to make some of the food i'm talking about.

If you're feeding "vegetarians" and normal people, cook a big beef and ale stew.

You just need to fish out the lumps of the meat before serving for the "vegetarians".

No need to cook two meals.

Let me know how it goes.

ew.

haha, Pookster