Have 2 vegetarians and 1 vegetable hater coming for dinner...

[ScummyMummy]

What can I cook?
Vegetable hater particularly hates all pulses and has a pea phobia...

Pasta! With a plain cheese sauce, and lots of veggies on the side.

bangers and mash. veggie bangers for veggies of course. loads of onion gravy made with veggie granules

How about mushroom stroganoff -or are they anti-mushrooms as well?
Pasta dish of some description?

Good plans all round. I like the bangers and mash idea- have had rather a lot of pasta this week. Are vegetarian sausages tasty though? Or could I make some that would be? Or maybe veggies could have huge portabello mushrroms instead of sausages?

Cauldron Food do some nice veggie sausages - well the cheese and leek ones are nice (wouldn't go with the gravy though). I think they do a 'fake meat' one too.

I will look out for those, Soren. Do veggies tend to like fake meat, do you think?

I don't like fake meat - I'm a vegetarian, why would I want to eat something that tastes like meat? But some people do.

This veggie wouldn't touch fake meat if you paid her!

Do you want something posh or something basic?

Delia Smiths curried nut loaf is really nice

Janh posted the Cranks recipe for Homity Pie the other day - that's rather wonderful too.

Want basic really as have to tidy the flat in preparation too which could take hours on end. I'm going with bangers and mash but replacing the bangers with lovely big garlicky portobello mushrooms for the vegetarians as I don't think I'd like fake meat if I was a veggie. Whereas portabello mushrroms are yum. Thanks for all the help, everyone.

ooh yes Homity Pie is fantastic

I love homity pie - and it's ever so easy as well ... and your friend would be hard pushed to find too many veggies in it

Homity Pie

300g wholemeal shortcrust pastry
350g potatoes
450g onions
3 tbs oil
25g butter or marg
15g chopped parsley
100g grated cheese
2 crushed garlic cloves
1 tbs milk
salt & pepper to taste.

Roll out pastry and use to line 6 4" individual tins or foil dishes. Boil or steam potatoes until tender. Chop onions and saute in oil until really soft. Combine potatoes and onions, add butter, parsley, 50g cheese, garlic, milk, and season well to taste. Cool, then use to fill the pastry cases. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and bake in 220C oven for 20 mins, until golden.

Alternatively use to make one 8" flan. Bake for 25-30 mins

That sounds absolutely gorgeous - and oooh so slimming Might try that one...

That sounds gorgoeus wwb - even to a hardened carnivore like me.