Help: making dinner for a veggie tomorrow! page 2

[Urban Forager]

Vegetarian lasagne with eggplant instead of noodles? I've never made it (don't like eggplant) but it's a "make a nice dinner" type! Have a salad with primal Italian dressing, olives, feta cheese crumbles, tomatoes, etc.

I've made lasagna with eggplant to replace the pasta. It's very good, just make sure you precook the eggplant. I've also made it with butternut squash and I like that even better.

[Goldie]

I've made lasagna with eggplant to replace the pasta. It's very good, just make sure you precook the eggplant. I've also made it with butternut squash and I like that even better.

Oooo with butternut squash sounds wonderful! How did you make it?

[Urban Forager]

Oooo with butternut squash sounds wonderful! How did you make it?

I sliced the squash on a mandoline put them on a sheet pan and covered the pan with foil and baked them until the slices were flexible. They finished cooking in the lasagna. It was probably the best lasagna I ever made; the sauce was from our own tomatoes and I used grass fed beef and local chevre.

[Goldie]

I sliced the squash on a mandoline put them on a sheet pan and covered the pan with foil and baked them until the slices were flexible. They finished cooking in the lasagna. It was probably the best lasagna I ever made; the sauce was from our own tomatoes and I used grass fed beef and local chevre.

Thanks, it sounds wonderful!

And to the OP: you could make this without the beef and it would be vegetarian!

[Dr. Bork Bork]

oh the butternut squash reminds me of a dish I like! Acorn squash stuffed with apples and walnuts and baked with tons of butter and a little cinnamon.

[Noctiluca]

This kind of question always has cracked me up a bit! I was veggie for years and it's amazing how many people don't realize that most meals can just have the meat left out! Like the lasagna for instance. (Not saying YOU don't get it, just that it was a constant 'but what do you EAT' topic back then!)

I was going to suggest the veggie lasagna with zucchini instead of noodles but I see that basic suggestion has been covered!

You could roast a variety of veggies on the grill, maybe use rice as a filler if you need a veggie friendly option that is also kinda primal.

Make a big fancy salad. You could even have some meat in yours. Maybe cook up some beans for your veggie friend to add in?

Build your own burritos? Again you could have meat and they could have beans.

[turquoisepassion]

Does the friend eat cheese? Maybe spiralized zucchini "pasta" (maybe you can cook rice pasta or something for her and zucchini for yourself) with a cottage cheese-parmesan-coconut cream-basil-garlic Alfredo sauce (sounds gross, it actually is amazing). Then add BACON and peas to your portion for carbonara "pasta."

[j3nn]

Build your own baked potatoes and salad bar! Put out lots of toppings for everything, cheeses, veggies, etc.

Can also add soup for good measure. Butternut squash would be delish with a baked potato.

[oliviascotland]

One of my favourite veggie meals is butternut squash stuffed with leeks, walnuts and stilton (or any other blue cheese), and roasted. Basically you halve the squash lengthways, de-seed the halves, then scoop out as much of the flesh as you can. In a large frying pan, melt some butter, fry an onion, some garlic, a shredded leek (2 if they're small), a couple of handfuls of walnuts and the flesh from the squash. Season liberally (chilli powder's nice), mix in with chunks of blue cheese, refill the squash shells and bake in a hot oven. To finish, you can make a dip in the top of the mix and break in an egg to bake. Serve with a big salad, and you're done.

[Noctiluca]

One of my favourite veggie meals is butternut squash stuffed with leeks, walnuts and stilton (or any other blue cheese), and roasted. Basically you halve the squash lengthways, de-seed the halves, then scoop out as much of the flesh as you can. In a large frying pan, melt some butter, fry an onion, some garlic, a shredded leek (2 if they're small), a couple of handfuls of walnuts and the flesh from the squash. Season liberally (chilli powder's nice), mix in with chunks of blue cheese, refill the squash shells and bake in a hot oven. To finish, you can make a dip in the top of the mix and break in an egg to bake. Serve with a big salad, and you're done.

Ooh. That sounds AMAZING!