Vegetarian dilemma - HELP!

[Tiggatoo]

Tonight my friend and her DH are coming for dinner. She is vegetarian.

My DH has been cooking all day and I have discovered he has used beef stock in the main course. He didn' do it on purpose - it is just that he's customised a usually carniverous dish to make it veggie and was cooking on automatic pilot once he'd got going.

So, do we fess up or do we just let her eat it and hope she won't notice? Haven't really got much else to offer her apart from cheese sandwiches.

Is this a joke? Are you really thinking about feeding your friend beef stock without her knowledge?

Get a takeaway, fgs.

If she's anything like me she'll be able to taste it a mile off. I mean, it's not as if it has a delicate flavour. Get a takeaway or go to a restaurant.

F&Z no it's not a joke. He didn't do it on purpose tho. Will get a takeaway for her.

Beef stock is pretty hard to miss when you're veggie and she'd be really upset if she sussed you (I know I would be). Come clean, even if it does mean bringing in a takeaway (or even a ready meal) for her main course. Your honesty would outweigh any amount of haute cuisine and it's more about the company anyway. Have a great evening .

Ok.

Sorry but I found it hard to contemplate that someone would deliberately feed a friend something they have chosen not to eat, presumably for moral or health reasons, without their knowledge or consent.

Tiggatoo - don't worry, it was an accident. I've done this to dh as well and in fact he recently ate something which contained meat and he didn't even realise until I discovered what he had done! And he hasn't eaten meat for 15 odd years!

But you should tell her - preferably before she arrives.

Hope you have a lovely evening!

Tiggatoo will it freeze well . I'd tell her, apologetically, the truth, and get a takeaway. or do you have a good deli/traiteur nearby eg Italian, which sells ready made dishes, eg veggie lasagne ?

Having had a veggie friend refuse to eat the vegetarian shepherd's pie I had lovingly made for her with Marmite gravy because she refused to believe it hadn't been made with beef stock, I'd be tempted to feed it to her. Or you could always get her a small veggie quiche and let her have it with the veggies/salad you would have served anyway.

Dish up.
If you think what is in a cube comprises a meat product,you are hopelessly gullible.

Bon Appetit!

y devoutly Muslim friend from Turkey ate asausage roll at a party before I could warn her that it was pork.

Seemed little point in tellingher then.

I think it has meat derivatives so I would not serve it. A vegetarian makes a life choice and relies on others to respect it - tell her what has happened.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxo_(food)#Ingredients

Beef fat and dried beef bonestock.

Don't think I could serve that up to a veggy.

Is she one of those vegetarians that eat fish?

We told her and she gladly accepted the offer of a veggie pizza delivery!

Glad it went well, is likely to be one of dh's dinner party legends...

Ah, nice one Pennies

phew - i would not want to be fobbed off - i would rather have a buttie tbh