I am hoping to find a vegetarian menu for dinner guests which I can also serve to my carnivore husband. I've wanted to invite a couple for dinner forever, but there are some dietary considerations. The husband of the couple eats only vegetarian, fish or kosher meat and poultry. My own husband won't eat fish in ANY form. I don't want to buy kosher meat or chicken, as it's not usually of great quality where I can easily buy it, and I'm not interested in frozen stuff.
Anyway, I have been thinking of making some kind of timbale, similar to "The Imam Fainted" (eggplant stips overlapped in a baking dish, vegetable filling, fold the strips over and bake; unmold and serve). However, my husband isn't wild about eggplant! (Yeah, he's kind of picky.
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So what's a girl to do? I like the idea of individual timbales, and I do have dishes for them (they're deep-dish pie tins that each hold about 1-1/2 cups). I want to do some type of starch for a side: couscous, spaetzle, orzo, etc. But where do I go from there?
Yipes... I forgot a major consideration. The wife is allergic to mushrooms.
No, this is not some kind of joke!!!
