Help!!!!

Hi nanadogsbody I have some nice easy recipe's for veggie guests,a mushroom stroganoff,mexican tomato rice,aubergine and sweet potato stew if you fancy any of those PM me and I will send the recipes by return,they are all easy to do and don't take too much time.

Yes please glamma would love the mushroom stroganoff and aubergine & sweet potato stew. How do you get them to me though?

Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie from Delia Smith. Yum! I have a son who comes to lunch nearly every weekend and he's a veggie. I try to cook without dairy for him not because he is a vegan but because he and I think that he already consumes too much cheese. Chickpea and lentil burgers served with roast vegetables are his current favourite and mine too. If you Google lentil burgers I am sure you will find plenty of recipes.

Google veggie recipes. There are thousands on the net!

That's the trouble, too much choice. A bit like my toy boy plumber I like a personal recommendation anno

Will have a look at the Delia one too. Thank you.

Tne way to get recipes to a fellow gransnetter (all of them at once!) is to put the recipe on the recipe pages - "Life & style" (second choice on the grey-green tabs up there beside "Forums" ) then in that submenu "Food". Do mention it on the thread, though, or we do not know that it is there!

If you are near a waitrose they do a lovely lentil moussaka in the chilled meals section which might be nice for a lunch.

How about using frozen soya mince? You could make a lasagne or bolognese with it. Once you add all the other ingredients and flavourings it's lovely.

Lots to think about here. Will give several of these a go. Thanks for all the suggestions.

I am well used to this scenario having a cheese/yogurt/sour cream food intolerence myself + a veggie DD and DGD. I would make a big pot of soup, like the one I have on now, Leek and Potato with vegetable stock of course. Then I might do a matched pair of pies - one steak and sausage, one quorn and mushroom and serve with veg and potatoes or - a chinese buffet with dishes of plain and fried rice, noodles, veg spring rolls and vegetable, beef and chicken stir fries. Guests can then help themselves (no dairy or eggs in chinese food). Spoiled for choice for desserts but obviously no cheesecake. A fresh fruit salad is always a winner here.

Baked potatoes and a selection of easy dishes of what to eat with them: grated cheese, grated raw carrot mixed with mayonnaise and pumpkin seeds, slices of ham/pork pie (for the non-veggies), halved hard-boiled eggs, raisins/sultanas/dried cranberries, green salad, hummus, sliced mushrooms and onions (fried or raw, as preferred), etc.

Soup and some interesting bread.

I am a vegetarian but hardly eat dairy and I really like lasagne. You can make it by lightly frying zucchini or aubergines, onion, garlic, capsicum, mushrooms in olive oil, add a tin of crushed tomatoes, place between the lasagne sheets. I use fresh lasagne sheets and place them to the edge of the dish (so the bechamel sauce doesn't leak under the sheets). Make a bechamel sauce with vegetarian margarine and unsweetened rice milk or unsweetened almond milk and plain flour, pour over the lasagne and cook it in the oven.

Roast butternut is a really lovely addition to veg lasagne, and very filling too. Or my never fail veg dish is a proper home made vegetable curry.

Never mind the guests I might try some of these recipes myself when they leave. Thanx to all contributors. I'll sign off now as they are due to arrive any minute and I'll be busy all weekend cooking and doing the tourist bit with them. Have a relaxing weekend folks

glamma - please would you add your mushroom stroganoff recipe to the recipe page or PM me with it?

If you can be bothered with a more complicated recipe for a heavenly mushroom lasagne, Yotan Ottolenghi has one here www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/mushroom-lasagne-yotam-ottolenghi

Food of the gods.

Found out at the 11th hour they don't eat mushrooms either! Couldn't do curries either, for same reason. Instead did Glammas stuffed peppers and Fayes veggie lasagne (no cheese). On Saturday weather gloriious so did BBQ with Linda Mc stuff for her, with many of bags side dishes.

Happily a new Waitrose opened near us so could get some of the more interesting ingredients. Thanks everyone. I was veggie myself for nearly 20 years, but the no cheese, no eggs and no mushrooms, no spicy food, really threw me.

Sounds as though you coped admirably, Nanad!
Makes you wonder what they eat at home....

What a challenge, nanad! You seem to have risen to it very bravely! I'm a piscetarian so quite easy to satisfy, but DS2 is a more purist veggie though thankfully not vegan.

Do they eat quorn? That is made from mushrooms.

Quorn isn't made from mushrooms as we would recognise them. It is a mycoprotein made from a fungus called Fusarium venenatum. Wiki gives a bit of info about it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorn

Anyway they've gone home now, replete and content.

You can put your feet up know nanadog

If only...three grandchildren under 3 today!