What do you do for dinner parties?

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Jessum NSW • Posts: 18

1 29 Apr 2010

I'm having a dinner party tomorrow night with the bridal party of our up-comining wedding. A chance for them to all get to know each other.
It's turned out that we are having a vegeterian dinner.
I did comprimise and buy free-range chicken to put on a pizza but in the end I cooked it up and feed it to my cat.
I wasn't dilerbrately like 'since I'm vegetarian, they're going to be as well.' but I wouldn't buy anything that wasn't free range (I'm not saying it's great, but it's better than not doing anything).
So what do you do?
There will be about 11 people there and I'm the only veg. Do you cook meat or insist they are also veg.

RaV3N WA • Posts: 2152

2 29 Apr 2010

Go veg! It's your house, your rules. Prove to them that veg dinners are tasty! If you cook up the right things I'm sure they won't even notice there's no carcass on the table.

Good luck! Hope it goes well.

Clud VIC • Posts: 1559

3 29 Apr 2010

I agree with Raven, and if you make pizza or pasta they mightn't even realise it is vegetarian!

Jessum NSW • Posts: 18

4 29 Apr 2010

Haha I am making pizza and pasta and potato bake.
It's like a P / carb banquet.

xMISSMONSTERx WA • Posts: 2582

5 30 Apr 2010

samosas are great finger food. You can also make awesome veg dim sims.

Potato bake is AWESOME!
Pizza
asian crispy noodle salad is great too! the recipe is on the back of some crispy noodles in the international section at woolies.
Roast pumpkin salad with pinenuts is nice too
mmm

Just some ideas!!

Tanyaka VIC • Posts: 1219

6 30 Apr 2010

Yep. In my opinion always always stick to veg. I haven't been in that position yet, other than making a vegan birthday cake to share (which they LOVED) but stuff like that is a GREAT way to show people how easy and tasty veg is. They may even start eating one of the dishes a bit more. Win. happy

I want to host a vegan bbq when the weather is back to normal, and I can't wait til I have my own place and can host dinners. I love cooking, so I hope people will enjoy coming over for some healthy, humane and tasty food. ecstatic

I also only give people vegan chocolate now (Easter, bday presents) so yea. It's good.

-- Oh also, them eating no meat for the night wont kill them. Food is food, don't feel bad. It tastes fine without meat so they wont be missing out on anything tongue

ckimana NSW • Posts: 2545

7 30 Apr 2010

Yeah, I agree with everyone here. Don't compromise your beliefs. They can survive one meal w/o meat!

If your making pizza you can experiment with different ingredients... like baby spinach, mushroom, olives, sundried tomatoes, eggplant, capsicum, roast pumpkin, oregano etc. Also, sliced soy snags work well... making me drool now...