Veggie option for Sunday Roast

[Speed 3]

Got some friends with kids coming round and we all do love a good roast which I have pretty much perfected. However, Mum friend is a veggie and I need some inspiration as veggie cooking does nothing for me. Any good ideas for something that will go with all the usual trimmings ?

[Murph7355]

My OH's a veggie and just has more of the trimmings.

Make sure you do a slightly wider selection of veg, and some nice stuff (cauli cheese; red cabbage; roast carrots with herbs - thyme and/or rosemary work well) etc and I would have thought she'll be fine.

If you want to push the boat a bit, you could always do a pie...this one - http://www.higgidy.co.uk/recipe/Spicy-Tomato-and-L... - is the mutt's nuts and works well with roast dinner trimmings. Whenever I do this the meat eaters also tuck into it.

[The Mad Monk]

Speed 3 said:

Got some friends with kids coming round and we all do love a good roast which I have pretty much perfected. However, Mum friend is a veggie and I need some inspiration as veggie cooking does nothing for me. Any good ideas for something that will go with all the usual trimmings ?

Couldn't you slice the meat very, very thin for the veggie? That would do it, surely?

[brrapp]

If you need something fairly traditional, you can't go far wrong with a Wellington of some sort, will go with all the standard trimmings. This is one of my favourites:-
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chestnut-spinac...

[sgrimshaw]

Vegetarian option in my house is "leave the meat alone".

Never had a vegetarian cook meat specially for me when I eat at their house.

[sgrimshaw]

The Mad Monk said:

Couldn't you slice the meat very, very thin for the veggie? That would do it, surely?

"Can she have wafer thin ham, Barbara?"

[oldbanger]

Nut loaf works well with roast trimmings - e.g. http://www.thekitchn.com/winter-recipe-classic-veg... and http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/284406/Mary-Be...

or Quorn does a fairly good approximation of chicken
http://www.quorn.co.uk/food/cook-from-scratch/chef...

[brrapp]

sgrimshaw said:

Vegetarian option in my house is "leave the meat alone".

Never had a vegetarian cook meat specially for me when I eat at their house.

I'm surprised at how often this kind of crap answer to any vegetarian threads comes up.
I'd certainly cook you meat if you came to my house for dinner, and I don't know any veggies who wouldn't. We're not all hand wringing, evangelistic, militant lefties you know.
I don't know what sort of ahole would invite someone to dinner and not want to cook them something they'd like.

[The Mad Monk]

sgrimshaw said:

The Mad Monk said:

Couldn't you slice the meat very, very thin for the veggie? That would do it, surely?

"Can she have wafer thin ham, Barbara?"

Quite so.

Or, take the meat out and put in a couple of extra brussel sprouts.

If I came to your house and told you that my health dictates that I have to eat off gold plate with solid silver cutlery you might tell me to go away.

What's the difference?

[fullbeem]

Portbello mushrooms to replace the meat?

[brrapp]

The Mad Monk said:

If I came to your house and told you that my health dictates that I have to eat off gold plate with solid silver cutlery you might tell me to go away.

What's the difference?

Usually when I invite someone to dinner, I make an effort to give them something they'll enjoy. Am I missing something?

[ZedLeg]

brrapp said:

The Mad Monk said:

If I came to your house and told you that my health dictates that I have to eat off gold plate with solid silver cutlery you might tell me to go away.

What's the difference?

Usually when I invite someone to dinner, I make an effort to give them something they'll enjoy. Am I missing something?

Yes, to the PH collective vegetarianism is left loony nonsense and shouldn't be entertained. Go to your most conveniently placed farm shop, buy a grouse and slap the veggie around the face with it. Don't do it with supermarket meat though.

Or be a reasonable person, it's up to you.

[The Mad Monk]

Supposing I said that I can't possibly use ivory handled cutlery, if I am eating with you? That's the same thing isn't it? On a question of principle, you take, or refuse to take a certain course of action.

Now if you are the one in a million that can't eat meat for health reasons then that is a different story. But you aren't, are you?

[ZedLeg]

Maybe it's because I don't see vegetarianism as some sort of outlandish thing but I'm not getting your point, I wouldn't have ivory cutlery anyway .

Is it really such a hardship to knock something up without the sacred flesh we must all eat at all times.

[brrapp]

The Mad Monk said:

Supposing I said that I can't possibly use ivory handled cutlery, if I am eating with you? That's the same thing isn't it? On a question of principle, you take, or refuse to take a certain course of action.

Now if you are the one in a million that can't eat meat for health reasons then that is a different story. But you aren't, are you?

As I said earlier, If I'm inviting you for dinner, I'm going to do everything I can to give you a meal that you'll enjoy (this is a forum about food and drink). If I need to serve you with plastic forks in order for you to enjoy the meal, of course I will, I take great pleasure in making my guests happy.
As to my reasons for vegetarianism, it's mostly due to practicality, my wife is vegetarian for health reasons, and I can't be bothered cooking two or more different meals every day. If you served me up a rare piece of fillet, I'd do my best to enjoy it in deference to the effort you'd put in to please me.

[The Mad Monk]

brrapp said:

As I said earlier, If I'm inviting you for dinner, I'm going to do everything I can to give you a meal that you'll enjoy (this is a forum about food and drink). If I need to serve you with plastic forks in order for you to enjoy the meal, of course I will, I take great pleasure in making my guests happy.
As to my reasons for vegetarianism, it's mostly due to practicality, my wife is vegetarian for health reasons, and I can't be bothered cooking two or more different meals every day. If you served me up a rare piece of fillet, I'd do my best to enjoy it in deference to the effort you'd put in to please me.

Well, first things first, this isn't someone you have invited. Or have I missed the point? The OP said "Mum friend", whatever that means. Is it someone who is one of a group?

If I served you up a rare piece of fillet, you would do your best to enjoy it. What does that mean? Are you a vegetarian, or not? Frankly, it sounds very patronising.

[Speed 3]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far and trying to keep the debate down. "Mum friend" is the mum of the other family and is a friend. She is the only veggie in the family so there's 7 meat eaters sitting down and one veggie. Whilst she generally cooks veggie for all when we go there, that isn't always the case so I'd like to reciprocate with both choices.

[brrapp]

The Mad Monk said:

Well, first things first, this isn't someone you have invited. Or have I missed the point? The OP said "Mum friend", whatever that means. Is it someone who is one of a group?

If I served you up a rare piece of fillet, you would do your best to enjoy it. What does that mean? Are you a vegetarian, or not? Frankly, it sounds very patronising.

Point one, if someone comes to my house for dinner, I treat them as a guest and do my best to please them. I thought this was the way most people behaved. As I understood the original post, the OP had invited a family of friends and one of that family (the Mum) is a vegetarian, but the relation ship is irrelevant as far as I'm concerned, she is a guest and should be treated as such.
Point two, I consider myself a vegetarian, my normal diet does not include any animal flesh (although does include animal products such as eggs and dairy) but my body is capable of eating meat and I would do so if circumstances dictated I really had to (if starving on a desert island or in a really awkward social occasion where my host was a bit confused).
Sorry if I seem patronising, just trying to explain myself simply.

[brrapp]

Speed 3 said:

Thanks for all the suggestions so far and trying to keep the debate down.

Sorry for straying off topic a bit, I'm not (usually) a militant veggie. I'm sure your efforts in trying to please your guests are very much apprciated, and I think my earlier suggestion of a veggie wellington would go down with both the veggie and the carnivores.

[sidekickdmr]

My mum is a veggie and for meals like Sunday roasts which already consist of a good variety of veg and trimmings, she would prefer no meat "substitute" and just have more veg and trimmings

Just make sure there is some veggie stuffing, veggie gravy and the potatoes are not done in goose fat etc and she will be happy!