help cooking for a veggie

[insurance_jon]

tomorrow night I'm cooking for friends and his mrs is a veggie who doesn't like cheese. so fo mains I doing my vodka chilli pasta, but I'm stuck for a starter, and ideas?

[loltolhurst]

mezze with hummus or ba ba ganosh ( however you spell that ) etc

[dougc]

Make what you all want and serve her the same but without the meat.

[DavesFlaps]

Baked potato with beans, while you are tucking into your meat delight.

You didn't force her to become a vegetarian after all.

[pantscat]

How about bruschetta of some sort?

Olive, tomato and basil? or... marinated mushrooms...

[insurance_jon]

I'm liking the bruschetta angle

[Lefty 200 Drams]

Tonight we're having steak and lobster. The vegetarian option is "Go home".




Sorry.

How about something like a butternut squash risotto? This is just about my favourite vegetarin dish. Roast the squash and tomatoes with garlic. Make white wine stock. Fry onions and celery then add the roast veg. add the rice and keep adding stock as you would with any risotto. Serve with parmesan and finely chopped parsley.

ETA, Oops just noticed you asked for starter ideas.

Griddled asparagus with poached egg and hollandiase?

Edited by Lefty 200 Drams on Friday 2nd July 11:08

[Arese]

Lefty 200 Drams said:

Griddled asparagus with poached egg and hollandiase?

This

Or stuffed mushrooms.

[Shaw Tarse]

dougc said:

Make what you all want and serve her the same but without the meat.

Prawn cocktail sans prawns?
Is she really a veggie?
Years ago working as a waiter serving roast beef I had a woman claim "I'm vegetarian!" "But I eat chicken. "

[Lefty 200 Drams]

Shaw Tarse said:

dougc said:

Make what you all want and serve her the same but without the meat.

Prawn cocktail sans prawns?
Is she really a veggie?
Years ago working as a waiter serving roast beef I had a woman claim "I'm vegetarian!" "But I eat chicken. "

I once was offered a vegetarian chicken pie.

[grumbledoak]

dougc said:

Make what you all want and serve her the same but without the meat.

^^^ This.

There are some very nice vegetable dishes, but ruling out cheese as well just smacks of 'Royal Pain in the <finish it yourself>'. Don't, for God's sake, cook and eat something you don't even like just for her.

Bruschetta with tomatoes and garlic can be lovely, but the tomatoes need to be properly ripe, which is tough at short notice.

How about an asparagus tart? Almost seasonal, too.

[eddo]

Veggy Samosa plonked on a salad, dolop of chutney jobs a goodun!
Ed

[Mobile Chicane]

Gazpacho.

[otolith]

Arese said:

Lefty 200 Drams said:

Griddled asparagus with poached egg and hollandiase?

This

Out of season now, it would have to be the stuff imported from Peru, which isn't a patch on the fresh British stuff in my experience.

[Tumbler]

Falafel, you can add spinach and all sorts to create different ones. I try and put as much effort in to my veggie guests meals as I do eveyone else, it's not my choice to be a veggie but I respect others choices as long as they to try and stop me eating meat.

[otolith]

Mobile Chicane said:

Gazpacho.

Bless you.

[grumbledoak]

otolith said:

Out of season now, it would have to be the stuff imported from Peru, which isn't a patch on the fresh British stuff in my experience.

There is still British asparagus in the shops. I don't pretend to know what form of wizardry or paganism they are using, though.

Maybe the Hammer House of Horrors was on to something.

[otolith]

Hmm, haven't seen any in the shops for a couple of weeks now, and mine is all finished in the garden.

You must be right - witchcraft. Burn them!

[Simpo Two]

I had a veggie friend over once. I offered him a pair of secateurs and pointed towards the garden.

Surprsingly there was nothing in it he fancied so we went to a pub instead