After the last successful ‘Nancy Boy’ dinner on my birthday, me and Emma decided to make another one, but with total vegetarian food, and yes, we do like challenge sometimes.
Shamefully, I actually don’t have much experience on veggie cooking. My culinary skill on this particular category is limited to veggie stir-fry and using meat substitute to make most of meat dishes into vegetarian. It has been some difficulties for two devoted carnivores to set up a quality vegetarian menu, but we got our starter and desserts sorted quite easily. I guess most of starter and desserts are vegetarian, it was not too hard to pick a good one. The hard bit was the main course, it has to be something more substantial, more powerful on visual impact and it should fill you up, so you feel satisfied. However, for an exquisite dinner, veggie lasagne, veggie cannelloni, veggie chill con carne, curry or stir-fry is not going to be good enough. Finally, we decided to make a pudding like steak and kidney pudding, but instead of those ‘bloody’ fillings, heart warming Portobello mushroom and chestnut are the ones to give you a winter hug.
So, what exactly is the menu? Brace yourselves, here we come.
Cold Starter
Heart of Romaine with apple, walnut and celery with camembert dressing
Shamefully, I actually don’t have much experience on veggie cooking. My culinary skill on this particular category is limited to veggie stir-fry and using meat substitute to make most of meat dishes into vegetarian. It has been some difficulties for two devoted carnivores to set up a quality vegetarian menu, but we got our starter and desserts sorted quite easily. I guess most of starter and desserts are vegetarian, it was not too hard to pick a good one. The hard bit was the main course, it has to be something more substantial, more powerful on visual impact and it should fill you up, so you feel satisfied. However, for an exquisite dinner, veggie lasagne, veggie cannelloni, veggie chill con carne, curry or stir-fry is not going to be good enough. Finally, we decided to make a pudding like steak and kidney pudding, but instead of those ‘bloody’ fillings, heart warming Portobello mushroom and chestnut are the ones to give you a winter hug.
So, what exactly is the menu? Brace yourselves, here we come.
Cold Starter
Heart of Romaine with apple, walnut and celery with camembert dressing
Warm Starter
Broccoli Cheese Souffle
Broccoli Cheese Souffle
Sorbet
Pear Sorbet
Main
Chestnut and mushroom pudding with seasonal vegetable and red wine gravy
Desserts
Passion fruit tart with cardamom white chocolate mascarpone ice-cream
Some of the recipe will be posted on here soon. Keep checking!!
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