On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:52:01 GMT, "Peter Aitken"
> wrote:

>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>> Ginny Sher wrote:
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>>> A few friends are coming over for dinner for game night. There will
>>> be 6 of us including my best friend and her husband. He is vegetarian
>>> (eats seafood & dairy) but recently has had an angioplasty, so he is
>>> being more careful about diet. I understand he gave us cheese but not
>>> much else. His wife and my dearest friend is also vegetarian; she
>>> eats the Pritikin diet... She makes some very small compromises, but
>>> not many. Everyone else is easy.
>>
>> Sorry, but I make it a rule not to invite people with vegetarian diets for
>> dinner. I prefer to wait 6 months for them to get back into meat, Find
>> some other occasion to invite them for, but leave the enjoyment of good
>> food to people who don't choose to refrain from the basics of our human
>> diet.
>>
>>
>
>Anyone who eats fish is not a vegetarian. Case closed. Unless a higher power
>has elevated fish to vegetable status while I was not looking.


I wouldn't argue about such words. But, if you are allowed both fish
and dairy, that is a pretty wide-open field of endeavor.

Among pasta sauces: pesto genovese, tomato/basil, putanesca, slivers
of salmon tossed with the noodles, garlic and oil, wild mushrooms and
garlic just for starters. Somebody already mentioned sauted spinach.
Lots of greens would take to the same procedure, such as rape,
escarole, dandelion, arugula, collards, chard.

If you have no wild mushrooms use creminis and saute them for 30 - 40
minutes. They will develop quite a lot of flavor. And you could cheat
by using a little dried porcini.

Steamed mussels.

Risotto made with fish stock and shrimp.

If I were a fish/vegetarian I am sure the list could go on and on. All
the above are quick enough to cook at home on a weeknight, with the
possible exception of the long-cooked cremini.

Anything you can put on pasta you can also put on spaghetti squash.


Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a


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