What can I cook my (very lovely) vegan friend for dinner?

[ghosty]

I have been having a friend stay for the last week. She is lovely and great to have around and all that She is vegan and so far we haven't had a problem as she has just cooked her own dinners etc (one night she cooked for me too and it was lovely) ... but I would like to cook her something and I don't know what apart from a very boring vegetable pasta sauce (vegetables with tinned tomatoes basically) with spaghetti.

Any yummy vegan recipes out there please?

TIA

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Hello Sherlock!

vegetable paella
bean chilli - you can use soya mince/TVP mince in chilli too
stir fry (you can buy marinated tofu chunks
which go nicely in a stir fry)

I have LOADS of books - are you looking for anything specific?

stuffed pepper/mushroom/courgette? use cous cous/rice for stuffing mixed with veg.

Thanks for those ideas ....

Like the veggie paella idea.
I won't do anything with 'pretend' meat ... don't quite see the point in that if you are a veggie vegan

LittleRedHen .... I am after something easy and unfiddly (I come from the School of Lazy Cooks )

lots of ideas here too

What about a butternut squash curry? Would be very warming and satisfying.

Ooh, yes. With coconut.

chickpea spinage and potato curry

Artichoke and green olive pie - not the cheapest, but pretty special looking and tasting.

big tin of artichoke bottoms
1oz marg
10 shallots
2 clove garlic
chopped thyme
chopped sage
a good slug of vermouth
1/4 pt stock
gound almonds to thicken
6oz good quality large olives
black pepper
+
1 packet of puff pastry (almost all brands are vegan)

Cook it all in a pan and sitr in the last 5 ingredients at the end. It needs to be fairly thick and creamy (the almond do this). Line a 8" loose bottom cake tin with pastry, pile in the filling. Put a pastry lid on and decorate with scraps of pastry. Cook at 190 C for 15- 20 mins

Serve with potatoes + veg, or cold with salad in summer

or anything you can make with mince, but use Puy Lentils instead and red wine + stock for flavour - tastes a lot more sophisticated than soya mince.

Haha have just noticed why Ghosty said Littleredhen. I thought 'veggie vegan Littleredhen' was some slightly insulting term for a lentilweaver .
Am in same situation next week hence looking at this thread. I was thinking a big vat of minestrone type hotpot on the stove, then non-vegans can add cheese or soured cream.

my vegan sister loed chickpea curry which was recommended to me by Tommy on MN

oon the vegan siciety website there are loads of recipes too

Vegetable curry. Use a bit of creamecx coconut in the sauce to give it a nice creamy consistency.
Pizza without cheese.
Bean stew.
Homemade vegetable soup with nice bread.
Easy to make a vegan dessert - e.g fruit crumble, using vegan margarine to make the crumble. Can make custard using soya milk. Fruit salad with vegan ice-cream.

tofu and vegetable stirfry with a sauce made from tahini, honey, soya sauce and chilli. Serve with rice.
(think that's be vegan)
We had it for dinner last night and I took the leftovers to work today. Totally Yummy (and we like our meat round here!)