Need some ideas

[tom_e]

I'm cooking for me and 2 friends on Saturday and can't for the life of me think of anything a bit interesting to cook.
So I thought I'd see what ideas you lovely people have got.
The only conditions are it has to be non spicy and one of the people is a veggie, so either a fully veggie meal or a meal that can easily be split before the addition of meat.
I'm pretty good in the kitchen so as long as it's nothing crazy complicated I should be ok.

 

[a1ex2001]

Pinto bean chilli best veggy suitable thing under the sun, easy on the spice obviously!

 

[randomshenans]

Do they eat fish also?

 

[tom_e]

Nope no fish, she's a nothing with a face vegetarian.

 

[Maccapacca]

Steak and chips and a whole swede for the veggie

 

[tom_e]

Steak and chips and a whole swede for the veggie

If I could get away with it I would!

 

[4T5]

Cook man food & sling the vegi a jacobs cream cracker or 2. (Other brand crackers are available)

In reality it's a bit hard when you have a vegi around especially one of those weird ones as you can't really carve up the meat & all gorge on some little piglet whilst she looks on munching her crackers.

Think for me the first test would be have some smokey bacon cooking when she arrives, If she passes the test & doesn't have some bacon give her the crackers as above.

I don't know what I'm on about or what the missed lines is about.

Give her some Ben & Jerrys, she'll love that.

 

[tom_e]

The veggie is also my housemate and therefore if she had problems with me carving up babe and chowing down she would have left long ago so I'm safe on that front, she's not one of those crazy militant "NO ONE MUST EAT MEAT IN MY PRESENCE" looneys, thankfully.

 

[tom_e]

Any ideas from the evening folk?

 

[Krakkenbus]

http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/512995 - something like this? really simple, i use red onions and goat cheese.

Vegetarian lasagne, ratatouille... and I've ran out of ideas! Goodluck

 

[LocalNative]

TACOS! Maybe it's a California thing, but tacos are always a crowd pleaser. For the Veggie friend, this recipe is delish.

Add pork/chicken to that for you and your other buddy. Boom. Done.

Edit: Oops, a couple of weeks too late.

 

[pitchfork]

Get the freshest veg you can is my advice, that mealy old crap in tescos is a waste of time. No doubt the apathy toward veg in this country is fueled by the dreadful quality of what is sold in the supermarkets.
I find vegetarian cooking fairly easy because I don't think you need to have meat with every meal, vegan cooking I find absolutely impossible though.

And don't get me started on these "Oh I'm veggie, but I don't eat dairy and I eat fish" types of ******.

For your case? I'd do a warm goats cheese, asparagus, baby spinach, walnut and potato salad to start.
Followed by a summer squash risotto and lavender bread.
Parsnip and orange cake for afters followed by espresso, port and a cheese board.

 

[oulton]

tell the veggie not to come as she is ruining everyone elses meal