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Anonymous
| I desperately need suggestions for a vegetarian meal for my book club next Monday night. The crowd is slightly more upscale than I am--my usual fare (veggie chili, veggie lasagna) is not a great option. It needs to serve 10 or so. I need to be able to make it while watching my two kids. Please give me your terrific ideas and recipes! |
Anonymous
| For a book club -- I would have a vege salad bar set up -- mushrooms, carrots, corn, green and red peppers, a few different types of lettuce, a few different salad dressings...let people make their own and go back for more. We did this and people loved it...we included taco shells for people who wanted to assemble vege tacos or totilla chips to add a little "umph" to the salads. |
Anonymous
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Your book club sounds more stressful than it needs to be. Why would a veggie chili or lasagna not be good enough? Genuinely curious.
You could try polenta with sauteed mushrooms, spinach salad, and white wine. Fast, easy, and "fancy." |
Anonymous
| OP: I agree. Definitely more stressful than it needs to be. I would just prefer not to make veggie chili/lasagna, and looking for other idea. Thanks for the polenta suggestion. |
Anonymous
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Strata (savory bread pudding). Can be assembled the night or morning before. Cook's Illustrated has a vegetarian one with spinach and shallots, I sometimes also add mushrooms.
Veggie quiche and green salad. |
Anonymous
| Definitely echo the egg/quiche suggestions - you could make the night before and pop into oven before book club starts. |
Anonymous
| Some vegetarians don't eat eggs/dairy -- OP needs to check on that. |
Anonymous
| Strata is a great idea -- I also have a book club with vegetarians and there's some pressure to make a delicious meal. I have done strata and salad with a fab dessert and lots of wine and it went over well. |
Anonymous
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Does it have to be dinner?
some sort of pasta salad (my favorite is with bow tie pasta, feta, olives, spinach, pine nuts, olive oil and balsamic vinegar). A large cheese platter, crudites and different small plates - guacamole, hummos, eggplant dip, Order veggie sushi platter and edamame |
Anonymous
NP here--Love your pasta salad ingredients! What ratio of olive oil and vinegar do you use? TIA! |
Anonymous
Then they would be vegan, and not vegetarian. OP I would look into Alicia Silverstone's book The Kind Diet, she has some great ideas for finger sandwiches (all her recipes are vegan but you can use eggs/dairy to enhance the recipes). They would go with an afternoon tea, but you don't necessarily need the tea. Otherwise I would do some sort of buffet, crustini's, etc. |
Anonymous
| OP: You guys are awesome. Thanks for the great suggestions. |
Anonymous
Hi, you are asking the wrong person bc I dont measure anything ;( I just wing it. I put a bit more olive oil then the balsamic vinegar so that if it sits over nite - it does not get soggy. If I make it just for the family I dont put anything except on the servings that way it stays longer in the fridge. It is such a great salad for summer and if you eat fish as a side dish. Enjoy! 
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Anonymous
| There's a recipe from Giada on foodnetwork.com for vegetarian bolognesese...it uses mushrooms and marscapone cheese. it's delicious and everyone i have made it for always loves it! i've also made it without the marscapone and it was still delicious. just serve with parmesan on side, nice bread, nice salad and you are good to go. |