Vegetarians: If someone was making you a Sunday roast....

[Lost675]

What would you want on it?

[FamilyOfAliens]

So what would you serve instead of those options you say you’re always given in restaurants, @MikeUniformMike?

[VioletCharlotte]

It maybe a cliche, but I love a nut roast. This would always be my first choice. I find vegetable Wellington or anything with pastry too heavy with roast potatoes.

[ElderAve]

DH made roast beef today. I had the roast with a homemade bean burger (that I'd made previously and frozen).

I'd love to find a decent vegan gravy though. I have the Kallo one which is expensive and doesn't thicken.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Veg plus veg, plus pudding = not healthy, but a very satisfying roast dinner, as far as I'm concerned!

[BikeRunSki]

Interesting roast veg -beetroot, fennel, squash

Substantial stuffing - chestnut

I love nut roast, but preferably home made, nothing from supermarkets which is largely carrots and peanuts.

[PorpentinaScamander]

Ds1s first choice is always Linda McCartney pulled pork burgers.

[Lost675]

The oumph! Pulled oumph went down a treat. Only one lonely veggie sausage left now we're all done

[hopefulhalf]

Last week nut roast
This week mushroom wellington (contains nuts and seeds)
Would also do stuffing or veggi suasages
Omlette or cheese things would be strange

[BikeRunSki]

I don’t like anything in pastry as part of the main course for Sunday lunch. Sunday lunch is not pie!

[Mummydoctor]

Nut roast
Vegetarian pie
Vegetarian bake (something you’d find in freezer section of supermarket) like a wellington/stuffed pastry thing
Lasagna

[MikeUniformMike]

I agree with you Bike. Cheese and egg would be weird too, as would spicy, rice or pasta.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

This thread has reminded me of how annoying I find it in pubs/restaurants that advertise Sunday roast and then the veggie option is bloody risotto or pasta. I like both, but not with roast potatoes etc. Makes me so cross that everybody else gets the roast, and I can't have it.

[DippingToes]

A Quorn joint would do me.

[enoughenough2]

Bisto gravy

And

Vegetarian pie such as Linda McCartney or something

[ApacheEchidna]

enormous flat mushrooms, score the gills shallowly and drizzle over a little olive oil and a slug of brandy, and dollop on a teaspoon of truffle paste, then roast.

or a couple of good quality veggie sausages (if I can see peas and sweetcorn embedded in them when sliced I am not happy)

its not that i will feel underfed if there is no meat substitute, but going to some modest effort to show the host cares about ensuring all guests are fed well is part of nourishing our relationship, not just my stomach.

[MikeUniformMike]

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie, I agree. My pp was about the eating out offerings, but it is rare to find a veggie roast dinner on a menu.
I love veg but the standard 'vegetarian' options are meh.

I was looking for somewhere fairly local to go for a meal recently - so many places only have one starter and one main on the menu. All of them were the usual boring offerings. It is great when there is a choice and one of them is a standard meal not an omnivore general assumption of what vegetarians like. Some of the places I looked at were Michelin starred and well-known (not me paying).

Restaurauteur/se - If your only menu main is beetroot and GC, caramelised onion and GC tart, or risotto, forget it. I can eat butternut squash or mushroom at home, and I don't like rice. Just because I'm a vege. does not mean I like beetroot - I don't and I would never choose to eat GC.

[ItWentInMyEye]

@mikeuniformmike do you not have cauliflower cheese?

[MikeUniformMike]

If I were cooking, I wouldn't cook a roast dinner. I'd cook something like a stew probably based on green lentils, maybe a veg curry, or a grain and veg dish with something like tofu or meat-substitute added to it.
Quick meal for a guest is usually something like an omelette or baked potato, or a pie or tart with a salad.

When I have cooked something roasted it's been root and other vegetables with stuffing and vege sausages.

I'm not a cook.

[GlamGiraffe]

Just the roast everyone else is having without the meat. Make sure there are loads of vegetables.
Vegetable gravy, no goose fat potatoes or anything like that, meat free fat only.
Personally I cant bear anything with the flavour of texture of meat so am happy to enjoy the vegetables and accompaniments.

[snappycamper]

But try not to use a gravy for meat even if it is vegetarian because most of the people I know don't like the taste of it.

And herein lies the issue that meat eaters have when catering for vegetarians.

[Kanga83]

I'm happy with everything minus meat- just chuck some extra mash or roasties my way and paxo stuffing with bisto gravy. I'm easily pleased with that. My favourite vegan meal, anything that isn't risotto or pasta!

[GymSloth]

You sound like a great host op. Glad everyone enjoyed your meal - sounds delicious!

[MikeUniformMike]

@ItWentInMyEye. It's ok on it's own. I'd eat it if it was a side dish.
OP's meal sounds great, and my ranting is only about eating out. If someone has prepared a meal for me I'm grateful.

[cdtaylornats]

Time to go foraging - giant puffball mushroom or chicken of the woods.

[jmh740]

I just like all the veggies ni need for anything else.