Meal ideas for one vegetarian one carnivore

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We are soon to become a one vegetarian (me!) one carnivore (him!) household. I'm looking for ideas for meals that we can both eat together, maybe with some meat just added at the end, rather than cooking two separate meals. Thanks!

Sounds like this book might be for you www.amazon.com/One-Dish-Two-Diets-Meat-Eating-ebook/dp/B0787D7HJQ?tag=mumsnetforum-21

It's easy to make two small toad in the holes from one batter mix and just use different sausages.
I sometimes find it helpful to do a roast/pulled chicken or roast/pulled pork once a week so that we have some cooked meat on hand for adding in at the end. You can add pulled chicken right at the end to: enchiladas, fajitas and stuffed peppers. Roast chicken can be added at the end to a chickpea and couscous salad or tagine.
I add the cooked pork at the end to dishes like curries and stir fries.
It's also useful to have bacon lardons for frying and adding right at the end to egg fried rice, carbonara, risotto and lentil casserole.

Those are fantastic ideas Ricekrispie, exactly the kind of thing i was thinking of! Anyone else got any suggestions? Blondie, the book looks great too. And the author has a food blog with some of the recipes on it so we can try before we buy!

Fajitas and stir fries are the easiest
Pasta pesto and if it really needs meat (it doesn’t) add some chicken or chorizo in at the end?

I make a big vegetable stir fry, then top OHs portion with chicken or beef strips, stir fried in a different pan. Or I cook a meal like burgers, one meat and one quorn. Same with sausages, just keep the veggie or quorn ones away from the meat ones. He loves fish, so I make homemade oven chips and he has baked fish or fishcakes, whilst I have halloumi or a poached egg.

To be honest, my OH tends to be happy eating my veggie meals most of the time, but I do cook a lot from scratch and can't recommend the HFW Veg book, or Ottolenghi's Plenty and Plenty More highly enough. Most of the time, OH doesn't even notice there's no meat. It's all down to personal taste though.

Do you eat eggs? If so, a vegetable fritatta is amazingly filling, especially if you add cooked potato, and he won't even notice there's no meat. If he misses it, you could always give him a couple of sausages or a scotch egg on the side?

One of the veggie blogs I follow just did a great post on this
www.amuse-your-bouche.com/vegetarians-and-meat-eaters/

We have veggies and omnivores here. In addition to the ideas already posted here we eat pizzas and savoury pancakes (toppings of your choice) . Also I make a chili con carne and a bean chili. Both freeze well so I just defrost as required according to who is eating. It's a fair amount of cooking when I do it but lasts a long time.

Fantastic suggestions, please keep them coming!

When dh and I had this situation, dh ate veggie at home and meat when we were out.

Stir fries with cashew nuts instead of meat works really well. I use Plenty and Plenty More by Ottolenghi for recipes that are veggie...OH doesn't even notice there's no meat. Go for some less traditional meals, without the meaty main focus, it just isn't missed. I do cook him fish and meat sometimes, but most meals are veggie, just tweaked if I feel like it. Risottos, lasagne, chilli, curry, pies, pancakes, fritters, burgers....all can be totally veggie.

Thanks everyone, great ideas

Bloomcounty you are cooking ottolenghi meals on a regular basis for you and your DH? Wow, I am impressed, the recipes are incredible but I find them very labour intensive so they are for special occasions only around here.

I eat meat and DH is a veggie and we mostly just cook our own meals...but will share bits for example I'll make some veg for both of us and have mine with meat, he'll have his with some quorn thing or other. Or he'll make Linda McCartney burgers which are quite nice and I'll have one. I usually make myself a roast chicken or pork joint and eat that several days running. Or I do something in my pressure cooker like pulled pork and freeze portions so I have something easy to heat up after work. We always eat together, just different meals. Not just because of the meat/veggie thing but in our case we have different tastes too (I like spicy food, he likes bland).

I am not a vegetarian but I cook a lot from Anna Jones and DH who is v much not a vegetarian really likes the recipes.

I've made practically everything from A Modern Way to Cook and only about one recipe was duff. And DH will usually rapidly point out if something could be improved by adding bacon to it