Please inspire me with easy veggie meals that dp could cook. I am so bored of everything!

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Any links to tried and tested, straightforward recipes that are not the obvious veggie things, please? I won't eat tinned tomatoes, and d2 won't eat mushrooms or cauliflower, but otherwise we'll try most things.

Things we eat regularly include -
pasta Arabiatta
veggie chilli
veggie spag bol
veggie lasgane
veggie fajitas/burritos etc
curries
sausage and mash
soup
quiche

Please inspire me, so I can inspire him! It needs to be a precise recipe link, rather than a 'Chuck in this and that' type of thing. Tia.

PS - dates etc are optional - you can just mix avo and chocolate powder (I've used hot chocolate powder before!)

And, if you are going to buy jarred artichokes, here's a few more things your DH can whizz up for you
www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/use-jarred-artichokes

There are a couple of nice recipes in Jamie's supposedly cheapo but not really cookbook.

For eg, roast a butternut squash, then fry garlic and chilli, add the squash and mash it down, add 40g blue cheese and two tablespoons of creme fraiche, let it all simmer while cooking pasta, mix together and serve with grated parmesan on the top. It really does taste quite luxurious.

Also, dahl made with yellow lentils - you boil them, then towards the end fry all your spices and chilli up in a separate pan and add them to the lentils. I use a Madhur Jaffrey recipe but there are loads online. Serve with rice. We eat that loads actually.

Oops just seen you're ok for curries. Sorry! The butternut squash thing is good though!

Gnocchi pesto soup - not much chopping, and mostly just chucking stuff into a pan in stages.

I made this last year and I was so disappointed. I thought it tasted of absolutely nothing and was a bit horrible. It had so much promise and I love all those flavours but this just didn't work for me.

Egg & chips

I'm not sure if be mega impressed with egg and chips being served to me for dinner.
But you have reminded me that this is good. Obviously don't add the chorizo but instead add a tablespoon of smoked paprika and more oil to compensate.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/725646/sweet-potato-chickpea-and-chorizo-hash
Nice served with a green salad with lots of balsamic on it.

Oh, that sweet potato and egg hash (basically egg and chips ha ha) does work really well if you just do it in the oven, and at the same time roast some baby toms on the vine to go with.

Aw, whois, I wonder what happened with it? (Not casting aspersions on your cooking skills! ) We eat it a lot and it's always really tasty. 3yo DD usually asks for more, which never happens!

BabC maybe I should give it another go then because I thought the idea was great. I think my expectations were of it to taste very much like strong pesto and it was a much more bland.

Spanakopita (Greek spinach and cheese pie) - lots of recipes available, I make a version based on the recipe in my old Moosewood Cookbook. My two fussy meat eating DDs love this, despite the spinach - we have it about once a week. I usually serve it with baked new potatoes and salad (they don't eat the salad) either basic salad or tabbouleh.

Risotto. Loads of variations here, the lettuce one in the MN cookbook is lovely.

Moroccan soup here - just use fresh tomatoes instead of tinned and add garlic, I use those little frozen cubes for speed. This soup takes minutes to make and is really zingy and tasty.

Stroganoff - I make it with courgettes usually (or cauliflower), as I hate mushrooms. The usual veggie version is mushroom stroganoff, e.g. BBC recipe here I would use soured cream though and a slosh of red wine if I've got it.

Roast veggies with couscous I use this Delia one

Thank you all so much. I am absolutely drooling at some of these. The potato tagine looks gorgeous, as does the butternut orecchiette. Love butternut and sage risotto, and we haven't had it for absolutely ages. Jamie's butternut pasta thing sounds good too, as does lettuce risotto.

We really like tofu but only when it's all spicy and crispy. I adore jarred artichokes, but dd2 won't eat them (more for me!).

Am v happy with egg and chips! We have it once a month or so. :) I can't eat baked eggs - can only eat fried if they are cremated! I don't like gnocchi. Love cous cous but that is one of the v few things that dp refuses to eat. Dd2 doesn't like feta, but dp and I and dd1 really like Spanakopita. Dp and I really like mushroom stroganoff and often take advantage of the girls being out in order to have it - neither of them will eat mushrooms. Am making us all sound really awkward, but we're not - honest guv!

Lurking here for inspiration. I'm going back to being veggie after having been on the dark side for a few years. Just me though...partner and daughter are staying meat munchers

I second HFW veg book - I find most of those are easy to follow, pretty pictures to entice you and most of my family (even the fussy toddler) like most of the recipes

This week we've eaten the following, which were all easy and everyone ate:
enchiladas
chickpea and veg bowl
bastardised this mucederre by cooking rice in the microwave cooker and stirring everything else in rather than the whole boring soaking stuff
cauliflower alfredo

and when i have ripe avocados in, this is a mainstay in our house - done in the time it takes the pasta to boil

realise about the cauliflower, but I'm a cauliflower hater and I love the alfredo!

whols I made the gnocci pesto soup with broccoli instead of cauliflower, stuck in some coconut milk and lemon grass and a big pinch of pink salt. It was really nice that way! Thank you to whoever posted it for inspiring me!

These are really good: vegandad.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/crispy-cajun-chickpea-cakes.html?m=1

whols I made the gnocci pesto soup with broccoli instead of cauliflower, stuck in some coconut milk and lemon grass and a big pinch of pink salt

Sounds like a delish variation!

spicy chickpea burgers with mango salsa

lemony quinoa salad

no cook summer not-a-salad salad

This is also really easy -- uses a bag of diced butternut and sweet potato:

Squash and Sweet Potato Pasta

This nut roast is delicious! I'm not a vegetarian but it's so nice I've made it a few times now. It freezes really well too.

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/incredible-nut-roast/#OgYMtLybCJwb7QZG.97

Oh that nut roast looks amazing!

Veggie Burgers!

My recipe is as follows:

tsp chilli powder
two onions (diced)
garlic (diced)
box of chestnuts (diced) (Sainsbury's does them. c.250g I think)
thyme
rosemary
sage
Sainsbury's meat-free mince (around 1/3 of the bag)

^ Lob all that in a pan with some olive oil and cook until onions are golden brown and the flavours are all mixed up

Add to a mixing bowl:

3 eggs
squirt of tomato purée
grated mozzarella
the food you just fried in the pan
flour to adhere the mixture (I use gluten free as my fiancé is intolerant)

Fry 1 tbsp of the mixture per burger patty or bake them. Delicious!