Vegetarians are retarded.

Dont get me wrong, I respect them. Alot of my friends are vegetarians, and I'm trying to find ideas for a vegetarian dish to cook for them.
Half the results are chili. 10% springrolls, 10% stiryfry, some lasagna, pasta with tomato sauce, etc. And then the rest seem to be ways to cook the alternative vegan and vegetarian meats to make them palatable.

Soups; there are alternatives to use for cream/milk. Squash and potatoes good to use as thickeners for what should be a "cream" based soup.

Lots of pastas, not just with red sauce but pesto and other vinaigrettes as well. (primavera being my favorite)

Quinoua (SP?) is a good protein and makes a slamming out of the ordinary salad.

Rice dishes are also great: jambalaya; Pilaf with asparagus or raisins and pine nuts.;

Also, how strict of a vegetarian?

Ovo-lacto?
Pesco?
Straight up vegan? (booooo)

Just Ovo-lacto. They used to be vegan, but I think they missed icecream too much. I think I might try just a mushroom stroganoff. Very comfort-foody.

Vegans suck. Half of people who claim to be vegan don't even realize that half of their food is still made with animal by-products.

You can do a lot for ovo-lactos. Pastries(savory and sweet), omletes, souffles, sandwiches.

I made a sandwhich special for lunch at work called the wheat stack; contains whole grain wheat bread, sprouts, tomatoes, cucumbers, remoulade dressing, and a grilled portabella and is made like a club.

I was trying to convince the owner of the restaurant I work at to include more vegetarian foods. There's just not much of a market for it here. That and I just want to have portobello mushrooms on the menu, I love them.

I do the ordering and inventory some days. If I feel like making a special, I normally do. We're trying to increase out salad sales, so I've been doing mostly salad specials lately.

Well, it's still a starting business, and it's not super-fancy. Dinner can run 20 dollars, if you're ordering seafood. Our specials are usually random stuff we can make with in-house ingredients.

Our's is a local business with multiple locations.

Dinner per person can range from 20$ to 40$ depending on what you order that day.

Unless you order my $100 breakfast sandwhich; which was made as a LOLSUPERSANDWHICH. Had a lot of chanterelle mushrooms (3lbs in stock) and prime cuts of veal that I cooked in truffle oil, scrambled quail eggs with cracked black pepper and a little Cajun seasoning then put it on a giant croissant. the sandwhich had like 8 oz of chanterelles. Lol.

Sold like a muthafucker.

That just sounds insane.
I'm working on a joke dish right now that I think is going to come out pretty well... The cajun hangover.
Two mini beer pancakes with bacon bits cooked in sandwiching a sausage patty, a fried egg, and possibly a cajun hollandaise sauce.

Smithno13 wrote:

That just sounds insane.
I'm working on a joke dish right now that I think is going to come out pretty well... The cajun hangover.
Two mini beer pancakes with bacon bits cooked in sandwiching a sausage patty, a fried egg, and possibly a cajun hollandaise sauce.

Make the sasage patty andouille.

Other than the hollandaise not much about it is Cajun. >.>;

Also, if you can get your hands on Abita beer to make it; you have yourself a winner.

Also, make that egg spicy. Cayenne pepper pl0x

I even asked the owner of the restaurant what a cajun breakfast was like... It's hard to make breakfast food taste cajun, they eat pretty much normal breakfast food. Not many options for the sausage either, it would just be our in-house sausage patties... It's a pretty limited kitchen.

Most people see Cajun as spicy. There are certain types of meats and what not we use, like the andouille which is in gumbo and jambalaya.

Creole has a slight spin on Cajun, being a more tomatoey dish with the spicy aspect. Typically seen in new Orleans.

If you ever head this way hit me up, I'll take you around local places with true Cajun cuisine.

Yeah. I'm kindof tired of this place... All our cajun dishes taste about the same. Tonys and sysco brand cajun seasoning.

I made a soup special the other day, smoked sausage, chard, and red bean soup. Because of the limited spices, it tasted just like the owner's red beans and rice.

Lol, Tony's is acceptable.

And I find all red bean soups to taste like beans and rice.

It was still pretty good. Didnt hold well though, our soup of the day is usually served for a few days...

> alot

"alot" could probably be considered relatively valid

"dont" however was not valid in any respect

Alot isn't a valid word in any context ever.

Except

GAMEchief wrote:

Alot isn't a valid word in any context ever.

Except

i see what u did thar

I hate people whrk with animals too.

My boyfriend's mother makes me Asian tofu stirfry which is amazing. I'm sure you can find recipes for it online.
Also, watch out for tofu, some like it soft and chewy, others like all the water squeezed out.

Didnt realize you listed that.
But it's awesome anyway. so nyah.

I'm a vegetarian, well I'm not hardcore because I eat meat, but only because I like the taste, and I hate vegetables on a personal level so I'm not too good.