What can I make to feed my Orthodox Friends?

[gtsecc]

Any ideas?
I think bean and rice burritos might work.
How do you make them?

[Mary of Bethany]

If it's on a weekend, when oil is allowed, pasta with olive oil and garlic is good, and easy.

Sorry, I can't help you with the burritos. :sorry:

Mary

[gtsecc]

not on a weekend

[MariaRegina]

Potato Leek Vegetable Soup is alway popular.

Rice Pilaf with rice and beans is tasty with garlic and onions.

[kamikat]

I've gotten lots of recipes from http://vegweb.com/ and http://vegetarian.allrecipes.com/
How about sweet potato and black bean chilli burritos? These are yummy!
http://www.fatfree.com/recipes/mexican/sweet-potato-black-bean-burritos

kamikat

[choirfiend]

there's lots of things!!

Rice and bean burritos with some avocado and a mixed salad with oil-free dressing or vinegar would be great! Toss in some fruit salad or even a lenten dessert and you have a nutritious meal!

I LOVE this website, and while I haven't made anything she has had yet (I mostly cook for large numbers and don't have some of her vegan ingredients) her recipes are great!
http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/

[eoe]

Portobella Fajitas!

Vegg
1 large onion sliced
3 poblano peppers
1 jalapeno pepper
2-3 small tomatoes, seeded and sliced (if you do not seed them you will have WAY too much liquid)

1-2 big portobellas per person

Glaze
1/3 cup lime juice
1/3 cup worchstershire
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar

Tortillas to wrap with

Fire up the grill - brush the mushrooms with oil and grill gills down until halfway done. Flip only once and sprinkle gills side with glaze.

Carmelize the sliced onion, when the onion is getting to be quite brown (takes a while to properly carmelize onion Make sure they are good and brown before you throw the shrooms on the grill and don't use too high heat) add a few table spoons of the glaze liquid and let reduce - repeat as you wish throughout the cooking process. Add the peppers and saute til lthey turn a brighter green. By this time the shrooms should be done, slice into thick strips. Add shrooms to the veg mixture. Add tomatoes and toss. Serve immediately.

You could sprinkle some soy cheeze on them if you like.

How is that?

[choirfiend]

hehe, I dont know how much of a bachelor gtsecc is--but carmelizing onions is beyond the powers of most single gents that I know.

My (vague) recipe for black beans: serve this with plain white rice, corn tortillas and burrito fixings if you want, or serve it over some rice and with and vegan cornbread--I will get the recipe for a great cornbread tonight that you make with a can of crushed pineapple instead of milk--I swear, it's really good and not 'fruity'!!!

2 15oz. cans of black beans, rinsed
garlic (it comes pre-minced in jars! You dont have to get all smelly cutting it up!)
onion (also comes pre-chopped in frozen bags!! yay!)
chili powder (use liberally)
little cayenne pepper for a kick (maybe leave out if scared of it--just put it on the table in case anyone wants to pepper things up!)
1 15oz. can of diced tomatoes with liquid
couple of tablespoons of lime juice-bottled is fine
pepper
salt
pinch of sugar, or get creative with a little maple syrup or blackstrap molasses! mmm....


Mix the above all together in a saucepan and cook for as long as you want--you can just heat it all through, but I like to let things simmer for a long time and get all the flavors all mingled. Should be somewhat saucy. Sorry that I dont have measurements, but I generally cook-to-taste. Keep tasting it as you go and add things as you think it needs them!

[Knowledge3]

Any ideas?
I think bean and rice burritos might work.
How do you make them?


Stuffed jalapeno peppers

And fruit salad with whipped cream and crumbled cookies

[HandmaidenOfGod]

Orrrr.....

If you want to go even easier than choirfiends recipe, just heat up a couple cans of Amy's Black bean chili and put it on tortillas. Put out bowls of chopped lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avocado dip, and salsa, and let them assemble the tortillas themselves.

http://www.shopbydiet.com/product_images/042272005307.jpg

[HandmaidenOfGod]

Stuffed jalapeno peppers

And fruit salad with whipped cream and crumbled cookies



All of those items have dairy.

Not fast friendly I'm afraid. :(

[eoe]

Orrrr.....

If you want to go even easier than choirfiends recipe, just heat up a couple cans of Amy's Black bean chili and put it on tortillas. Put out bowls of chopped lettuce, tomatoes, onions, avocado dip, and salsa, and let them assemble the tortillas themselves.

Wow. Brilliant! That is pretty good.

(I am sure that whomever he is inviting is going to be angry at us that we didn't mention that "you are a guest at someone else's table loophole" eh?)

[HandmaidenOfGod]

Wow. Brilliant! That is pretty good.

(I am sure that whomever he is inviting is going to be angry at us that we didn't mention that "you are a guest at someone else's table loophole" eh?)

LOL yeah, I suppose they will! ^_^

[gtsecc]

I can see you all are more interested in food than Heresy by a ratio of 12 to 1.

[gtsecc]

I already tried the eat what is served loop hole, and since I knwo better, and knwo they are coming, if i do that, they will bring there own food, and then it realyl just comes down to me being poliet and cooking something I knwo they will eat.

[eoe]

It is great lent after all.. We can't have the food we want but we certainly can get our fill of the other. (http://www.christianforums.com/f80-general-theology.html)

[eoe]

I already tried the eat what is served loop hole, and since I knwo better, and knwo they are coming, if i do that, they will bring there own food, and then it realyl just comes down to me being poliet and cooking something I knwo they will eat.

I would certainly not limit the number of times you could fool me^_^

j/k...

Have any of the options above sounded ok?

[Matrona]

For lunch today I packed hummus and some pita wedges. That might make a good appetizer if you are looking in that direction.

[choirfiend]

I already tried the eat what is served loop hole, and since I knwo better, and knwo they are coming, if i do that, they will bring there own food, and then it realyl just comes down to me being poliet and cooking something I knwo they will eat.


Thanks, that's very thoughtful---it's what being a good host is all about! If you didn't know any better, about fasting, you would still try to have a really good dinner, and then your friends would just shut up and eat it in order to partake of your good hospitality. As it stands, you're very considerate.

[ShannonMcCatholic]

You could also just make spaghetti, with a tomato sauce (Prego organic, has no olive oil). And a nice yummy loaf of bread (check the ingredients) and some margarine. Throw together a nice salad... find a nice dressing... (I love the ginger ones that are refrigerated in the produce section).

Dinner..it's cheap, it's fast, it's easy!

[eoe]

For lunch today I packed hummus and some pita wedges. That might make a good appetizer if you are looking in that direction.
You can make a great meal like that too...

Hummus, babaganoush, tabbouleh.. stuffed grape leaves...falafel.....mmmmmm


now I'm hungry...

[RobNJ]

Well, a shrimp stir-fry is Lenten

[Michael the Iconographer]

Well, a shrimp stir-fry is Lenten

Yes, thank God for shrim stir-fry!

[Matrona]

You could also just make spaghetti, with a tomato sauce (Prego organic, has no olive oil).

There are tomato sauces that have cheese blended in them. Ragu Light sauce (comes in a jar) tastes great, along with having much less fat than regular sauce because they don't blend cheese into it.

[choirfiend]

Ok, here's the very complicated recipe for cornbread:

Buy one package of Jiffy cornmuffin mix and one can of crushed pineapple. Dump pineapple into mix and stir. Bake. Eat.

[Anhelyna]

How about a truly enormous veggie stirfry with rice noodles and some good sauce ?

My husband never spotted the absence of meat in it last night - much to my surprise I have to admit - I forgot his meat [ normally cooked first and then shoved on his heap as I'm serving ]