A special vegetarian dish please…..

My veggie standbys are; Marry me chicken but with Qourn fillets, veg tagine with cous cous. Aubergine parmigiana.
Watermelon,feta, chilli and mint salad is delicious with grilled fish.
Grilled Halloumi and melon sticks, Parmesan shortbreads,olives and beetroot hummus with crudités are great canapés.
If you want any recipes I will send a link.

Mushroom risotto is a useful standby with a salad. Chick pea curry, lots of recipes on the web. Alternatively if you live near a Cook you can get excellent frozen meals and desserts.

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Egg-filled avocados baked on a bed of cabbage dal with Parmesan on top.

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Yes pleaseSago - the tangine sounds nice.

Mushroom stroganof.
Eggs in nests - put mashed potato into a shallow baking dish, make hollows and break eggs into them, bake until the eggs are cooked. We usually have baked beans with it but you could serve any vegetable.
Mushroom flan - lightly cook mushrooms and onion in a pan with some oil and ground ginger to taste. When cooked, add a small tub of natural yogurt and an egg. Put into a pastry-lined flan tin and cook until the filling is set and golden. The ginger makes the flavour more interesting.

I once made baked, rice and herb stuffed peppers, which were very tasty - but the vegan I’d especially made them for, didn’t come in the end!
Annoying bugger!

Slightly off topic but many years ago my friend’s sister plucked up the courage to tell her parents she was gay. She was dreading the moment but her parents were absolutely fine and not a hint of disapproval. They extended an invitation for the 2 girls to come to their house for dinner so they could meet their daughter’s partner.

When they were told their visitor was vegetarian there was a great deal of menu planning in advance and trying out different dishes as they’d had no experience of vegetarian cookery. The big day finally came and they were anxious for everything to be perfect. The visitor praised their delicious vegetarian meal. The poor lady got flustered and blurted out “oh I’m so glad you enjoyed it, it’s the first time I’ve cooked a homosexual meal !

that actual sounds like a harry enfield sketch.
it was so funny because we could all imagine it actually happening.
big ups to the parents for efforts extended. that's true hospitality.

and i guess there are more gay people who are vegetarian than the among the wider populus, and vegetarians who are gay/bi. if you see what i mean.

Stuffed peppers topped with goats cheese for the last 6 mins of baking is nice. Chop up mushroom and onion and some cherry tomatoes, mix with and pack of merchant gourmet grains you fancy, season and use to ztiff halved peppers with seeds removes. Put in baking tray with a bit of water in tray, bake 30 -35 mins at 180° C. Goats cheese optional. Could stir cubed feta into stuffing mixture. Could add olives or capers to stuffing mixture

Sago please send links to all your recipes to me also,
as I would like to cut more meat out of my diet and your meals sound delicious.

re the OP, how about something middle eastern, falafel, cous-cous, and salad, maybe some mixtures, russian salad, beetroot and carrot etc; i could buy all that locally without having to cook anything which would suit me.
or if not vegan, how about shakshuka.
the local kosher bagelry used to laugh at me when i asked for shawshank, but they knew what i meant.

welbeck

and i guess there are more gay people who are vegetarian than the among the wider populus, and vegetarians who are gay/bi. if you see what i mean.

I don’t follow that. Why would your sexuality influence the way you eat and vice versa?

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FABULOUS

Sago here! Spiced Veg Tagine, I add some extra ginger and a red chilli to warm it up.
It’s great if made a few hours before so the flavours develop.
Tagines cook well in an instant pot if you have one.
Serve with cous cous and a bowl of extra thick natural yoghurt with almonds and coriander sprinkled on.
Flatbreads also work with this instead of cous cous.

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Sago again.

The Aubergine dish works as well with fresh basil as oregano,
Lovely served with a fresh green salad, I always Blanche some fine green beans and add to the salad with a sprinkle of toasted pine nuts, serve with a French stick.

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Thank you for taking the trouble to do this Sago and I do have a slow cooker so one pot recipes are excellent ?

For canapés there are loads of recipes for Parmesan shortbreads, use a champagne flute to cut the rounds, bake and keep in an airtight tin, top with pesto, tapenade or on their own.
Melon and Halloumi ;Cube a good piel de sapo or Galia melon and put on cocktail sticks, cube the halloumi and fry until browned add to the melon and serve warm.
Pitta bread cut into strips and fried in olive oil with a good sprinkle of salt and pepper is the best for dipping into hummus.
For a good hummus just blitz cannellini beans with lemon and garlic add a good oil and keep tasting to get it right.
To this you can add beetroot, chilli, caremelised onion it’s fun experimenting.

Vegan Holiday Kitchen.

Vegan Holiday Kitchen: More than 200 Delicious, Festive Recipes for Special Occasions, by Nava Atlas (Amazon)

Fantastic cookbook. Of course butter can be substituted for vegan spread (for example) for vegetarian.

Finally “Marry me chicken” This works really well with quorn fillets, chicken breasts or thighs.
I use the oil from the sun dried tomatoes to fry everything in.
This is another recipe that is easy to make in advance.

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welbeck

and i guess there are more gay people who are vegetarian than the among the wider populus, and vegetarians who are gay/bi. if you see what i mean.

I don’t follow that. Why would your sexuality influence the way you eat and vice versa?

i'm not saying that it does, it's just an observation.
haven't you noticed among gay people you know, that many/several of them are vegetarian/vegan.
also the vegetarians, more of them are gay/bi.
perhaps it's something to do with being open to alternatives, although things are much more diverse now anyway.
compare with when we were children; being known to be gay was rare, so was being vegetarian.

apart from those who are vegetarian from ethnic/religious/cultural background reasons.
i mean among people who have changed, declared themselves now vegetarian.
so they have turned away from the patterns of their parents. maybe for lifestyle too.
these are just musings of course.

Sago thank you for sharing those recipes. The “marry me chicken” sounds tasty. I’ll try it out on my grandchildren next week.