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Menu ideas for spring veg/non-veg dinner party?

Yeah, most of the time I am so grateful to have more than potato salad to eat that it doesn't matter if I have a dedicated "main dish". Cooking fish en papillote is lovely light and spring-y, and you could fill one packet with only vegetables or add mushrooms/marinated tofu. A nice salad or some other side, some good bread and salted butter and maybe a rhubarb cobbler for dessert?

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Cook to Bang. Recipes to get you laid?

In all seriousness, chocolate fondue. Kind of kitschy, a little sticky and oh-so-intimate. Also, chocolate and berries and cake? Also, back when I ate meat, I found that a seared tuna steak was sexier and sat better than a rich cream sauce or a big chunk of red meat.

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

Mmm, I'm a vegetarian now but I desperately miss the rich and smoky depth of flavor brought cheaply to baked beans by salt pork.

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Would You Seriously Date Someone Who Didn't Love Food?

I really like the way chisai put it (and a couple of other posters touched on it as well), that a conflict over food just keeps coming up. I think I could tolerate our totally divergent tastes in music, because that only comes up every other day or so when we are in a car together. But he will not eat any vegetables except spinach cooked until it is dark, he doesn't like any type of Asian or long noodle, he won't eat yogurt, he doesn't like baked or mashed potatoes, tomatoes, avocado, olives, beans or tofu (and I am a vegetarian), he doesn't eat fruit and doesn't like "fruit in desserts" (he turned his nose up at a lemon cake!). I'm getting really tired of making pigs in a blanket, macaroni and cheese and gnocchi.
The other night I made barbecue tofu, buttermilk biscuits, a simple green salad with a vinaigrette and roasted baby brussel sprouts. He ate four biscuits.
Any ideas of what I can feed him?

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Menu ideas for spring veg/non-veg dinner party?

Yeah, most of the time I am so grateful to have more than potato salad to eat that it doesn't matter if I have a dedicated "main dish". Cooking fish en papillote is lovely light and spring-y, and you could fill one packet with only vegetables or add mushrooms/marinated tofu. A nice salad or some other side, some good bread and salted butter and maybe a rhubarb cobbler for dessert?

From Talk

Cook to Bang. Recipes to get you laid?

In all seriousness, chocolate fondue. Kind of kitschy, a little sticky and oh-so-intimate. Also, chocolate and berries and cake? Also, back when I ate meat, I found that a seared tuna steak was sexier and sat better than a rich cream sauce or a big chunk of red meat.

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

Mmm, I'm a vegetarian now but I desperately miss the rich and smoky depth of flavor brought cheaply to baked beans by salt pork.

From Talk

Would You Seriously Date Someone Who Didn't Love Food?

I really like the way chisai put it (and a couple of other posters touched on it as well), that a conflict over food just keeps coming up. I think I could tolerate our totally divergent tastes in music, because that only comes up every other day or so when we are in a car together. But he will not eat any vegetables except spinach cooked until it is dark, he doesn't like any type of Asian or long noodle, he won't eat yogurt, he doesn't like baked or mashed potatoes, tomatoes, avocado, olives, beans or tofu (and I am a vegetarian), he doesn't eat fruit and doesn't like "fruit in desserts" (he turned his nose up at a lemon cake!). I'm getting really tired of making pigs in a blanket, macaroni and cheese and gnocchi.
The other night I made barbecue tofu, buttermilk biscuits, a simple green salad with a vinaigrette and roasted baby brussel sprouts. He ate four biscuits.
Any ideas of what I can feed him?

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The Worst Table in the House: Have You Ever Gotten It?

Yeah, I think admitting to having kicked a dog does not strengthen your argument towards the sanity of kicking children. Saying something to the host or the parents will usually embarrass the problem away.

From Talk

Would You Seriously Date Someone Who Didn't Love Food?

I'm struggling with this right now as well, I fantasize about food constantly, hate ordering the same thing at a restaurant, ever, and read cookbooks while I eat. He would be happy eating frozen pizzas or going to the same diner every night. I don't think he'd believe me if I told him that was the reason we had to break up.

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Serious Efforts: Oily Mac n' Cheese

I agree about skipping the bechamel, I usually use an evaporated milk base that I heat gently to condense it more before whisking in my cheeses. If I'm going to be reheating it more, I add a couple of eggs. The choice of cheddar and jack is seconded, gives a wonderful texture, though I generally throw in a nub of something stinkier to keep it cheeky.

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Cook to Bang. Recipes to get you laid?

I think the concept is extremely clever. I looked at quite a few of the recipes and they are actually sound delish. My only critique is the blog itself needs some "spice" to it. Kind of a plain jane setting.

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Menu ideas for spring veg/non-veg dinner party?

I suggest googling Peter Berley, who wrote the Flexitarian Table. He gives recipes that can move from veggie to meat eaters. So, you could possibly make the same basic recipe for everyone and just flip out the protein portion of the meal to accommodate the vegitarians.

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Menu ideas for spring veg/non-veg dinner party?

@zucchini--even though I don't like pasta, that doesn't mean no one should serve it--like I said, I know most people like it and your menu sounds awesome and seasonal--I like the antipasto spread too with the primavera, since that means the cook won't have to make different meals for every preference and will only have to make one 'showcase' dish.

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Menu ideas for spring veg/non-veg dinner party?

With apologies to HeartofGlass, I'm going to suggest pasta primavera with lots of spring vegetables like asparagus, baby peas, spring onions, chery tomatoes, and fiddle necks if you like them and can find them. Augment with albeit out-of-season sweet red peppers, zucchini chunks, carrot slivers, whatever looks fresh. Add some kind of killer garlic/cheese bread and maybe a butter lettuce salad with a light lemon vinaigrette and toasted pine nuts. If strawberries are available, a glace strawberry pie or maybe parfaits layered with sweetened, crushed berries, whipped cream, and a nutty/oat/crumble mix.

If the guest of honor would miss meat for one meal, you could have an extravagant antipasto platter with salumi, cheeses, olives, pickled vegetables, grissini, crackers.

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

I love making veggie chili. Just as comforting as the meaty one my mom used to make.

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

I started a diet at the beginning of the year, and in the recipe book, there was a fabulous veggie chili. I make that every week and, seriously, I eat it at least three times for lunch in a week. So good!

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

I like vegetable soup-no meat-just assorted vegetables.

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

An organic, cage-free egg cooked sunny-side-up has been my recent go-to dish for any meal. I like to top the egg with grated quality Parm, lots of cracked pepper and serve with crunchy toast and a little salad with a tangy vinaigrette.

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

Spinach and Eggplant Lasagna......healthy and yummy.

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Cook the Book: 'Almost Meatless'

BOCA ClassicChili made with ground BOCA burgers. garrettsambo@aol.com

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A veggie pizza that has canned pumpkin mixed in with the sauce and loaded with vegetables.

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