Vegan dinner party

First things first, sharpen your knives, OP.

As for picky eaters, I'll go through some effort to cater to their pickiness, but I won't let it ruin mine or the other people's foods.

In your case I'd make sure that at least some of the dishes you serve are meat-free, but I wouldn't let the one vegan dictate the entire menu for everyone.

Also, is this a true vegan or will she eat fish, dairy, etc? I know that vegan should mean zero animal products but I've met several who call themselves vegan but will happily eat fish or cheese.

This is actually a really good idea, thanks man

She's 100% vegan

i would just do a mushroom risotto if you are a bad cook desu, very easy and a nice meal if you use a variety of good mushrooms,

Make some hamburgers. Beef patties for most of the guests. A portabello mushroom cap for the vegan. They are cooked the same way so there's no extra work for you as the cook.

Have a variety of toppings (lettuce, tomato, cheese, onion, pickles, etc.) pre-sliced so each person can assemble their own burger with their choice of toppings. Have a variety of sauces on the side too.

Triple-cooked fries are always a winner (and those are vegan friendly).

That's either non vegan, or it's going to suck if you leave out the meat-based stock.

Do some stuffed mushrooms.
Easy and lazy as hell, oven cooked.
You can stuff them with diced onions/ mushroom stems/peppers/corn and with either vegan cheese or a simple bechamel sauce made with non dairy milk.

These are all really good suggestions guys. What about desserts? Usually I'd just do something like make brownies or have icecream but that's sort of out of the question, unless anyone knows any actually good vegan recipes I guess? All the vegan brownies/cakes I've ever had have been really dry. And just doing something like serving fruit doesn't seem good enough

thats silly, you can pimp some veg broth with 2 teaspoons of gelatine and a teaspoon of miso for something just as savory.

Brilliant!

chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2014/07/17/chocolate-peanut-butter-buckeye-brownies/ there are a lot of really good vegan brownie recipes on this womans site. i've made like 4 different types of vegan brownies and they always come out delicious, i guess it's all that peanut butter and oil

If you do a vegan mushroom risotto use miso paste and a home made veg stock to balance the lack of butter/parmesan.

coconut pastry cream
bought crashed vegan choco cookies
vegan whipping cream
maybe even some chocolate syrup

a typical sorbet i do is lemon+zest+gin+cornsyrup+salt, you can do a sorbet out of any fruit. for desserts id probably look towards asia for the very easy vegan stuff, Chè Chuối or cornkernels with sugarcoating would be staples of mine, that combined with some asian fruit (persimmon,ananas,pomelo...) should be more than any vegan could expect

>If you do a vegan mushroom risotto use miso paste and a home made veg stock to balance the lack of butter/parmesan.

That might have a nice flavor, but it's still going to suck because it lacks the TEXTURE you get from the gelatin in a meat-based stock.

>2 teaspoons of gelatine

And where does that gelatine come from? Animals. Gelatin is not vegan.

I've baked several vegan brownies/cupcakes/cakes following traditional recipes and they always come out delicious. Just replace butter with margerine, milk with soy milk, egg with mashed banana

Make Italian greens and beans
Just use vegetable broth instead of animal broth

Simple as fuck
Plus it's so good that it probably be good enough as a meal for everyone including the omnis

Also check out the mjadra it's middle eastern dish of rice lentils and onions

It's a little harder but still damn good plus most people especially vegans love middle eastern food

risotto texture doesn't come from gelatin but from the starch that the rice releases.

there are many vegan substitutes for gelatine, also to be completely honest, i would probably still use gelatine even when cooking for a vegan.It might not be the most ethical thing to do but they will never find out so whatever

Vegan ice cream is a cinch, just freeze some very ripe banana then blend them with flavorings you like (or even crushed candy)
seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/06/vegan-banana-coconut-ice-cream.html

As said, almost all baked goods can be vegan-ized.
veganbaking.net/articles/tools/baking-substitutions
Eggs? Depending on how it's used: apple sauce or chia seed/flax seed + tbsp water
Milk? Non-dairy milk
Butter? Earth Balance Vegan Buttery Sticks (not the tub, must be stick form) or Coconut Oil

Make a fruit cobbler/tart or pecan pie.
Home-made Granola/Oatmeal, Peanut-butter, and Chocolate Bars:
minimalistbaker.com/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-granola/

This also is a good suggestion

In this instance store-bought fruit pectin powder would work in the same way (typically it's found in the baking aisle as it's a common ingredient in making homemade jelly or preserves).

The starch is certainly important, but you get a much better texture using meat-based stocks than you do with ones that lack gelatin. I've used both before and I think the meat-based stock generates a much better finished dish.

>but they will never find out so whatever
What do you do when they ask what ingredients you used to get such a nice texture in your dish?

>"I don't like pasta!"
>"I can't eat beans!"

Serve those cocksuckers ice cubes on toothpicks

most vegans are not very freaky about cooking, maybe 1:1000 would even realize that something along the lines of gelatine was added, and if they asked id say i used a substitute like agaragar,vegan jello,pectin which you can also totally use for similar results if you can be bothered

uhh.. carrageenan

Lie to their face.

i just had the perfect idea, buy frozen wonton wrappers and make a vegan+nonvegan filling.
Its probably the most fun dinnerparty i had with a large group, prepwork is minimal and everyone can get involved in folding the dumplings.

Filling: 500g pork/chopped rehydrated shiitake,2 springonions,dash of soy,dash of shaoxing wine, salt,sugar,2cloves garlic minced,some grated/minced ginger

once this is thrown together everybody can fold them together, then its just cooking in boiling water. Sear a teaspoon of the fillings before folding to check for seasoning.

easymode would be to just serve them with chinkiang vinegar+minced ginger(+soysauce) and a sidedish of salted cucumbers in sesameoil,chinkiang+soy+garlic

Just make her a nice souffle. Everyone loves souffles.

Me mum makes this Cauliflower couscous. It's basically blendered cauliflower with vegetables added. After blending and adding just bake it.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, this is honestly way more help than I expected. Maybe next week I'll do an OC thread when I cook everything - depending on how awkward that is if everyone asks why I'm taking pictures of the food

>vegans can lie about fake meat
>normal people can't lie about fake vegetables

I'll stop lying about gelatin when agar stops costing twice as much for half as much.

Just make the vegan some avocado toast and some white bean crostini with side salad. Easy as fuck, fast, and she'll get a balanced meal.

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BEBBER BENIS XDDD

Good, thank you

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Mapo dofu is relatively straightforward, If you live near a Trader Joe's, their vegan chorizo is delicious and you can make kibbeh with that (fry onions until dark-gold, add chorizo, stir, serve on top of hummus)

Haha I might end up going that route

Don't have Trader Joe's in Aus but that sounds really good. I'll try to suss out if we have anything like that here

veganonline.com.au/refrigerated/mock-meats
This looks like a friendly brand.

just give her a fucking steak the cows already dead

>People saying sneak (X) in
Only thing we wouldn't notice is something with gelatin/marsh-mellows although we'd be curious.
Everything else, including honey, is EXTREMELY noticeable.
Put butter in something, even a cake, and I'll definitely taste it.

If you still haven't decided, give me a type of food or what they like and I can give you a recipe that's easy and hard to fuck up (most likely).
If they're some obscure shit like no-oil I can do that too.

Taco bar is the easiest though I'd say, just get some beyond meat or fake-ground beef stuff and put some cumin, chili powder, and coriander in, heat it, and it's done.
Or do black beans or something.

Pasta is easy too, but if they don't like pasta, falafel is easy, if that's too complicated for you channa masala or similar is relatively easy, etc.

No matter what, personally whenever I cook for people or there's some party/gathering (not birthday) I'll usually bake a few potatoes and just bring them to it.
I'm a vegan personally, and while it's not fun, it's impossible to fuck a baked potato up and thus I always bring some just in case I want it, or someone wants a baked potato.
They're simple, boring, plain, and can be fixed up however if someone wants.

That's one thing you could do, although it's a bit obscure.
Bake potatoes (big ones) with stir-fried vegetables and stuff.

Ice cream is super-easy, you can even buy some if you're lazy.
You can make cookie-dough just using coconut oil, chcolate chips, and flower, which tastes great.

>Everything else, including honey, is EXTREMELY noticeable.

Funny you mention that. I shall relate a personal story.

>out with friends, including one vegan. she claims she's not vegan for moral reasons, but rather the "taste of meat makes her instantly sick".
>visit Chinese restaurant. I order for the table. I order some meat dishes but a few vegetable-only ones too so there's something that she can eat. One of those is the "vegetarian hot pot", which is vegetables, mushrooms, and tofu in a broth.
>she digs in. she can't get enough of it. says it was the most delicious thing ever. eats the whole thing before anyone else can even get a taste. orders a 2nd one.
>when the waiter brings the 2nd one she asks what's in it. waiter proceeds to list all the different veggies, the types of mushrooms, the tofu. she asks "what about the broth". Waiter answers: oh, made from chicken and pork.

>you should have seen the look on her face. she pushes the bowl away....er....I'm not really hungry anymore....

I'd like to point out that this was an honest mistake. I figured a dish marked "vegetarian" wouldn't contain a meat-based stock. But it made it perfectly clear that her claim of "the taste of meat making her instantly sick" was utter bullshit.

Maybe instead of the taste, she meant the texture of muscle tissue?

>the vegan is also a picky/disordered eater and doesn't like eating pasta
you don't invite these people to your house for dinner

you don't need to be a good host to people that are bad guests

Cook steak, get handful of front lawn for vegan fag

She was very clear that it was the taste. Perhaps you're right that she was unable to articulate the difference between taste and texture, but I doubt that. She was an honors student in college so it's not like she was some random vapid idiot. Not to mention that there is no single texture for muscle tissue--a slice of deli meat is very different from a piece of BBQ chicken or slowly stewed beef. And many mushroom and tofu dishes (which she did eat) have a very meat-like texture.

Meat doesn't really have a flavor though, that's usually entirely given by the seasoning or processing.
Broth wouldn't particularly be noticeable I suppose, although I've honestly never had it. If it was seasoned and had vegetables it shouldn't be at least, I'd figure.

Texture wise, I always hated meat-texture other than chicken, lunch meat was gross and slimy and too processed/flat, fish was too slippery,
Beef and pork was especially bad, part because it's color, part because of it's texture, part taste, and part I liked cows because they had whiskers.

When I was at a Chinese "vegetarian" buffet a few weeks ago they had a dish that had meat in it because it was donated/given to them they use it anyways, and I didn't know that was the case, when I tried a little of it I literally gagged and couldn't swallow it.
I suppose it had a specific taste, and definitely texture.

But broth?
Psh, I doubt it if it's covered properly.

>Meat doesn't really have a flavor though, that's usually entirely given by the seasoning or processing.

Lol, what? I'll give you that modern factory-farmed chicken and pork are largely flavorless, but that's because they're bred for maxium yeild and fast growth rather that focusing on flavor. But get yourself a chicken or pig raised the old-school way, or any sort of wild game, and the meat is extremely flavorful even without any seasoning or searing.

>>I've never had broth
Then why are you talking about it? Broth tastes strongly of the type of meat it's made from. That's the whole fucking point of it--to add flavor to the dish as opposed to using plain water.

>building the entire meal of the evening around one faggot's taste thereby making everyone else suffer

This is why veganfags need to be shot on sight.

Butcher the vegan and feed your other two guests with her meat.

There, I solved your problem.

But in all honesty, Make tofu tom kha for everyone. Simple, easy, everybody is happy. Plus it makes you look cultured and if you play your cards right, you'll be up to your eyeballs in unwashed vegan snatch.

athoughtforfood.net/blog/tom-kha-tofu-thai-coconut-soup

>But get yourself a chicken or pig raised the old-school way
I haven't really had any truly wild animals, only uhm, less mass-produced ones.
They're less rubbery and bland I suppose, but I can't say they were flavorful. Maybe wild ones I guess, but I doubt it.

But the meat you'd be eating at a restaurant or at home most likely isn't wild either.
So it is flavorless. Just boil it or steam it if you don't believe me. It's undesirable as fuck.

>Someone who isn't vegan can't enjoy a cake without eggs and butter or rice and beans without butter
?????

just do this. it's rude to be a picky eater when you go to someone else's place. just steam/roast some veges, make a salad or something and if she complains she can just fucking starve to be honest.

You're missing the point, faggot. It isn't that vegan "food" can't be enjoyed by non-vegans. It's that OP is making an entire dinner based soley on some vegan snob's opinion when in all reality he should ban the vegan and make an actual dinner.

>It's that OP is making an entire dinner based soley on some vegan
Or (s)he's makng sure all guests have something adequate to eat, and when like you said, vegan food is enjoyable by non-vegans, why not make it all vegan, which isn't even what they specifically said.

>why not make it all vegan

Why would I want to arbitrarily limit what I would serve to non-vegans?

>Why would I want to arbitrarily limit what I would serve to non-vegans?
Why do extra work when the meal is already enjoyable and perfectly good and healthy?
Why make it more expensive too?

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You're just not getting it. I suggest you look up how to be a good houseguest and have manners when you're the only person who is a vegan in an event. Realize you're outnumbered, and either suck it up and eat meat for one day or just don't go. Veganfags are so fucking obnoxious goddamn.

Because that extra work and expense makes the meal more enjoyable to myself and my guests.

If someone wants to restrict their own diet for some silly reason that's fine. And I'm willing to expend some extra work to accommodate them. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let their silly preferences harm mine and everyone else's dining experience.

make a ratatouille and a pasta dish

>Realize you're outnumbered, and either suck it up and eat meat for one day or just don't go.
If you know someone is vegan and you won't accommodate or even let them know that you won't is the only bad manners here.
If you won't, don't even mention it or invite them.

>Because that extra work and expense makes the meal more enjoyable to myself and my guests.
No it doesn't, there's plenty of vegan dishes people eat and love on a regular basis, being falaffel, channa masala, spaghetti, beans and rice, Saigon tofu, Samoa's, etc.
Those are just the naturally vegan foods that people eat quite often that I can think of off the top of my head.

There's plenty more that I could make for you that you'd have no idea is any different, especially desert-wise, but also main-dish wise like lasagna, hell I know how to make "meat" balls that people think is real meat, including my 80-something year old grandma that thinks vegan food "isn't real food" and "tastes like soy."
So that's horse-pucky.

holy shit do you have some kind of serious cognitive disorder? because that is the only explanation for this post.

>vegan dinner party

We have in laws who are basically unbearable in their self absorption.

Talk non stop about how much vegetarian food makes their lives 200% better than your life.

Whenever we go over for dinner, I always put ground eat in their "meatless" food substitute dishes, and they just eat it up while fellating themselves about how healthy they are.

Small victories make the world go round senpai...

>No it doesn't, there's plenty of vegan dishes people eat and love on a regular basis

Most of those dishes you mentioned are either a side-dish that need something more substantial to go with them, or they would be greatly improved with the addition of meat.

Falafel? Very tasty. Even better if you fry them in lard or duck fat. Not a meal on their own.

Channa masala. Delicious. But likewise, a side dish, not enough for a "meal".

Spaghetti? Greatly improved with a meat sauce rather than a veggie-only sauce. At the very least get some anchovy paste in there.

Beans and rice? Lol, that's one of my specialties. It's night-and-day better cooked on a ham bone, ham hock and/or with a meat-based stock.

And so on.

>unbearable in their self absorption.
>Talk non stop about how much vegetarian food makes their lives 200% better than your life.

I wonder if vegetarians have any self awareness about how tedious they are?

>Most of those dishes you mentioned are either a side-dish that need something more substantial to go with them, or they would be greatly improved with the addition of meat.
No you're actually just a sub-human degenerate American.
Kill yourself; you have zero respect for cuisine nor any cooking experience and that's obvious by how you speak.

>Channa masala

that should be cooked with ghee, not some silly vegetable oil substitute

1) I'm German.

2) I'm not the one who is fucking up tradition by taking the ham bone out of beans and rice, or the ghee out of channa masala

>that should be cooked with ghee
Wrong.
That's one of the few Indian dishes that you are not supposed to use ghee in whatsoever, which is why at most Indian restaurants it's naturally vegan.

>1) I'm German.
American, Americanized Germany, same thing.
Culture destroyed zero respect for anything, obsession with animal products and demand for them even when it makes zero real difference.

>2) I'm not the one who is fucking up tradition by taking the ham bone out of beans and rice, or the ghee out of channa masala
I addressed the Channa bit, in regards to beans, no.
In regards to the beans, are you brain-damaged? Where the fuck do you even get that you use "a ham bone" in it?
I can't even find a recipe online that calls for it other than a who-gives-a-fuck American red-beans and rice recipe.
Can't find shit on black beans though, or it being a GENUINELY TRADITIONAL PREPARATION.

That proves your a degenerate American when it comes to culinary things. Shut up or kill yourself.

>American red-beans and rice recipe.

You might not give a fuck, but that recipe beats the fuck out of every other I've tried.

The south was onto something there. And yeah, the tradition came over with the African slaves the Americans had. Lots of great history there.

Check out the episode of "Mind of a Chef" when Sean Brock visits Senegal. Very eye-opening.

serve steak

>Sub-Saharan Africa
>rice cultivation
>agriculture at all

Uhhhhhh lol, no.

Rice only went as far as the silk road went. The Moors introduced rice to Europe in the 9th century in Muslim Spain. The only rice blacks eat or ate are redcross donations.

Indian curry! Do like an eggplant or chickpea curry. Make sure that if you use curry paste that it doesn't have shrimps or fish sauce in it. Another really fun one is Palak Paneer (aka spinach and paneer curry). Just sub the paneer with tofu as paneer is a cheese, but it's super tasty.

>not that hard
>not that time consuming
>no good tools needed
>impressive

Make a salad.

OK, OK.

How about...

Salad with mixed greens, whatever veggies, and Italian dressing.

Good crusty bread (a French Baguette usually works) sliced up with balsamic vinegar and olive oil for dipping.

Vegan risotto - use coconut oil for fat and vegetable or mushroom broth for the liquid. Arborio rice - it's not as difficult as it seems and it doesn't sound like you need it to be perfect. Add onion or shallot, garlic, corn, mushrooms - whatever you want. A little coconut cream if you want it rich and creamy.

Garlic, salt, pepper, and whatever herbs you might know how to use on some roasted squash (zucchini and yellow squash), carrots, maybe even some sliced eggplant.

Coconut milk ice cream for dessert - maybe with a little fruit or fruit syrup - you could even make it yourself by mashing up fruit and adding some sugar. Make a simple syrup out of water and sugar (don't let it cook too far or you will get candy) and mix that in.

Very good idea!

Fair enough but he's also working on a budget for a picky eater. if she can't take a simple risotto because the texture isn't perfect then she needs to rethink her life.

This is actually pretty brilliant too, although I could see it getting really messy. Wonton and lumpia wrappers are obnoxious and complicated if you aren't good with your hands.

West Africa has cultivated several different kinds of rice for 2-3 thousand years. Have you seriously never heard the term "rice coast"?

Maybe you should stop being friends with this person

Does the vegan eat tofu?

It's my sister

Yes