Mushroom. Fucking. Risotto.

[CompleteBarstool]

We're on a rare trip away, been looking forward to it for ages especially about having some lovely food.

Now I discover tonight's veggie option is mushroom risotto. Mushroom. Fucking. Risotto.

What's the meal that makes your heart sink?

@Greenlittle - Although that being said I have had a fairly stodgy Egyptian dish which had noodles and rice mixed with chickpeas I think and some other stuff. Heavy!!

I had an Egyptian meal like that but it was delicious. The noodles were deep fried and were just on top of the rice dish. I got it in Cairo though.

It might be the same dish then. Perhaps I had an uninspired version. Like Op’s mushroom risotto which can be divine when well made but stodgy otherwise

Koshari is Egypt’s national dish. That’s got pasta, rice, chick peas, lentils, onions and s tomato sauce. I love it. Hearty but delicious.

That’s it! I couldn’t remember the name. Gosh, I must have got the u inspired version. Needed lots of wine to cut through the blandness

You must have because mine was yummy. I had it in a few places.

To justify all that carb, it has got to be exceptional. And it simply wasn’t.

And I’ve heard it is yummy, so I was quite disappointed. I’ve only had it once though. I’ll try another place or perhaps make it at home

I'm one of those rare people who doesn't love spaghetti Bolognese,lasagne or sausages. So any of those dishes will make my heart sink.
Unfortunately, there seems to be this assumption that ALL vegetarians LOVE mushrooms,and goat's cheese,and pasta. I wouldn't class myself as a vegetarian,but I'm not much of a meat eater,and would say that about 80% of the time I eat vegetarian food. I don't mind mushrooms and I like pasta (as long as it's not in the form of spag bol or lasagne!). But goat's cheese makes me heave.

I stayed at a bb in whitby, the next day got up for breakfast expecting cereal but no! the landlady asked if I would like a full English. I explained I don't eat meat she said oh that's fine I have everything to make a full english for vegetarians 🥰

I’d take mushroom risotto over a jacket potato any day. Yuck.

@Greenlittle - I'd recommend trying it in Cairo😁

I am trying to cater for someone who is both vegetarian and teetotal. I'm finding so bloody much vegetarian food has wine put in it!

@safariboot

Just leave it out and add more liquid ie stock or a tin of chopped tomatoes depending on the other ingredients

Ready meals (because I'm lazy).

@CompleteBarstool

Also, in a very posh French restaurant (that had been warned beforehand that vegetarian me would be there) served me a delightful dish of a few pieces of cooked vegetables with coarse ground salt on them.hmm

Had the same in Brittany about 25 years ago, the waiter whipped out my meal last with a flourish and said in heavy French accent (obvs) "and for madame a plate of vegetables!". It was exactly what it said on the tin, a plate of boiled vegetables (yum) - you were lucky Barstool, to get coarse sea salt with yours! That became out catchphrase for a while spoken in an Inspector Clouseau accent.

The less posh restaurants there only served omelette with a salad as the veggie option. After a few days I had to make a special trip to the pharmacy to collect some laxatives!

I have been presented at a BBQ a plate with a cooked frozen lasagne still in it's plastic container

@EverybodyIsInteresting

I think I stayed in that hotel! Was the fake meat schnitzel-like? After our second dinner there we ate out

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I think I stayed in that hotel! Was the fake meat schnitzel-like? After our second dinner there we ate out[/quote]
Yes it was, very much so.

I was on an organised trip so unfortunately didn't have that option...

I was on a plane once. Very nice vegetarian food. Sadly the lady sitting next to me was a boil in the wash hardcore vegetarian whose English-speaking son had not arranged vegetarian food for her. Mum made me swap, as I’m just a part-timer.

@Ddot

I stayed at a bb in whitby, the next day got up for breakfast expecting cereal but no! the landlady asked if I would like a full English. I explained I don't eat meat she said oh that's fine I have everything to make a full english for vegetarians 🥰

Our local greasy spoon diner makes a vegan full english. Their sausages are homemade and really like vegetable croquettes. packed full of onions, peas, sweetcorn. They are SO good. I always order that with DH just because of the sausages.

Isn't it nice when your thought of

@Muddydoor

I was on a plane once. Very nice vegetarian food. Sadly the lady sitting next to me was a boil in the wash hardcore vegetarian whose English-speaking son had not arranged vegetarian food for her. Mum made me swap, as I’m just a part-timer.

A long time ago, I once had a preordered a veggie meal on a long haul flight. They gave it to a man further up the plane as he decide he wanted it instead of the offered meal (there’s always one). They gave me some small packets of crackers and mustard.

I was a teenager - so, as you can imagine, poor Mr steal-my-dinner got about 5 hours of my PA whining.

"A long time ago, I once had a preordered a veggie meal on a long haul flight. They gave it to a man further up the plane as he decide he wanted it instead of the offered meal (there’s always one)."

Yeah, had this too, they would just call out "Who ordered a vegetarian meal?" instead of bringing it to your seat. And on one flight they insisted they hadn't received a vegetarian order for us and it was our mistake. I produced a confirmation fax (yes, years ago!), to which the stewardess's response was a shrug and, "Well, we don't have it." I also used to hate, back in the day, having to phone the airline directly in some foreign country to get veggie meals for the return journey, as you couldn't do it more than a certain time in advance.

Oh, and another flight one. Returning from Australia, I checked in 3 hours in advance at the airport, and was told they'd cancelled my prebooked vegetarian meal as I hadn't confirmed the flight. WTF?

@Ddot

I stayed at a bb in whitby, the next day got up for breakfast expecting cereal but no! the landlady asked if I would like a full English. I explained I don't eat meat she said oh that's fine I have everything to make a full english for vegetarians 🥰

Morrisons full veggie breakfast. 😋 They should get a bloody award for it. Although I have noticed the price going up recently.