OS Mothers Day 3 Course Meal?

CompBunny

Hi there,

I know its a long way in advance but I need to plan this

My partner and I are currently living with my mother due to our financial situation and I want to cook her a lovely 3 course meal on mothers day!

Now, there are a few constraints:
1) I am a vegetarian and haven't cooked meat for about 6 years and can't remember how(!), if I make her a meal (we usually cook seperately day to day) its whatever veggie dish we are having. I'm sure she would prefer meat, but I am on a very tight budget and would feel awful buying Tesco Value Neglected meat..
2) She cannot eat onions, cauliflower, peppers, leeks unless they are cooked to watery oblivion and pureed. She is also always on a diet so it would need to be something that is a treat but not TOO high in fat
3) I would also like to buy her a present so I can budget about £6 to feed three of us (one very hungry man included).
4) I am an awful cook outside my normal repertoire and need idiot instructions!!
5) As much as possible needs to be prepared in advance - I have CFS and find standing up in the kitchen for long periods of time exhausting so would need to stagger when it is made..

I've been lurking on OS for a long time, and you guys always come up with fantastic recipes!

Please help! Thankyou in advance!

jackieglasgow

Firstly do a soup for starters. Cream of cauliflower, broccoli and stilton, something like that? Personally I would do a lentil, but that's maybe not fancy enough for mother's day. Main course - what about some sort of Wellington? You could do mushroom for you and OH and maybe stretch to a wee piece of organic beef for mum from the butcher? For dessert, what about a pavlova, meringue is easy to make, and fresh cream and berries. The only fatty bit in the whole meal would really be the pastry and the cream, but you could just not do too much?

Lentil Soup

Wellington with vegetables

Pavlova

Think I'll put my order in now with my lot!

starjumper

As a veggie who cooks meat on an occasional basis I can recommend Delia's pot roast recipe, tiny piece of brisket costs about £6 from the butchers and feeds 2 or 3 very heaped plates belonging to meat deprived relatives, no chance of serving raw or undercooked meat (always a worry if you're veggie) and it's as tender any anything plus very MS. I just serve it as a roast dinner, left over pot roast veg gets turned into soup for the lads in the week. It always goes down a storm.

CRANKY40

Do you use quorn at all? I make lasagne by making a bolognese sauce using quorn mince and instead of using cheese sauce (here's the diet/low fat bit) I used low fat cream cheese mixed with frozen spinach. For the topping I used fat free yoghurt mixed with an egg and a little bit of cheese. It's lovely, and if you think the lasagne alone won't fill the hungry man, you could add some garlic bread.

meritaten

Adapt your veggie recipes hun!
if you do a nice pea soup then buy a bit of ham at the deli (one thick slice then cube it up) and mum can have pea and ham soup..............do you do a nice potato dish like potato gratin? serve hers with a nice slice of beef (also from the deli counter). a couple of seconds in the microwave warms up meat nicely!
dessert - well a fruit salad always goes down well with ice cream!

starjumper

I sometimes do this if entertaining meat eating types....
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10416/creamy-pesto-chicken-with-roasted-tomatoes
and just spoon the pesto marscapone stuff over a couple of quorn fillets for me and it's fab and really easy.

CompBunny

Some really good recipes so far, thankyou!!

All sounds great so far and is getting the old brain cogs whirring

Cranky40, Yes we do use Quorn, usually daily Wonderful stuff, it makes being veggie a million times easier and my meat-eating partner (who doesn't eat meat often because I won't cook it usually) likes it too! Hurrah for Quorn!