Help - need a veggie main from these ingredients!!?!

You could make a selection of tartlets using the pastry, filo, shortcrust and puff.

I would take some filo pastry and cut it into squares. You will need about 3 sheets layered together with a brushing of olive oil between each sheet. Fill the middle of the square with a mixture of sweated down onion, garlic, cashew nuts, goats cheese and some apricot jam. Check the seasoning and the sweetness of the mixture. You want the goat cheese to taste but with the sweetness of the apricot jam. Some soy sauce would work here as well. Fold all 4 corners together and tie with a strip of leak. Brush with olive oil and bake for 20 mins until golden.




Stuff some of the peppers with rice, sultanas, almonds and onion sweated until soft but not brown. Season well. Cook off in the oven for 25 minutes.

If you have potatoes, you could bake them, scoop out the middles and add a mixture of onion, cheese, sage and bake again for about 25 mins until golden and crispy. 180c.

You could also make a 3 cheese pasta bake with a crunchy topping of bread crumbs, brazil buts and what herbs you may have.

A quiche is always popular. Bake the base blind first, brush it with beaten egg and add a sprinkling of semolina over the cooked base before adding the filling. The semolina will absorb any liquid and prevent the pastry going soggy. It will ' disappear ' in the cooking and not be seen.

You can prepare all the above at home and cook off at your friend's house.

This is a challenge...if you had time I'd say make homemade ravioli with flour and create stuffing from ground cashews, sauteed onions and maybe the goat cheese.

But you probably don't have time for that. How about cooking any shape of pasta, then making white sauce (use 1 cup any kind of milk; soy, cow, rice + 1 tbsp flour + 1 tbsp spread/butter), sauteing peppers and onions, and mixing it with cheese and pasta, and baking into a casserole?

Scroll down for the basic white sauce, which you can modify: http://chefatwork.blogspot.com/2007/07/m…

I would make q cheese and veg filo pie. Use veg like spinach, mushrooms, peas cauli or broc.
Make a White sauce and add some Stilton out all together

I make pies with all my leftovers! If u get really stuck check out www.lovefoodhatewaste.com they have loads of "how to get rid of ... "recipes

a nut roast would be nice im sure if you do a web search you will find some recipies

If it were an appetizer, or even a side dish, you were supposed to bring, you could make a savory tart from the pastry, sauteed onions, cheese and slivered almonds. Or if it were dessert, a sweet one from the pastry, cheese, jam and nuts.

I suppose, depending on what kind of pasta you have, you could make some sort of macaroni and cheese, assuming you also have butter or margarine and milk. But you don't have gruyere, I don't know how well the cheddar and brie will work.

No, you're going to have to bite the bullet, go out and buy something appropriate to make a main course.

I would chop up the almonds and toast them, finely chop and fry the onions, chop the cashews, then mix the whole lot together with the goats cheese and a bit of garlic. You could also add a bit of spinach if you can find any tinned or frozen. Put the mixture into filo or shortcrust pastry parcels (pasty size - not little dinky ones), bake then serve up with the cranberry sauce.

You could easily knock up a decent nut roast too - all the nuts with some rice, goats cheese, peppers, garlic etc all chopped fine and mushed into a loaf tin, with a couple of beaten eggs to bind it all together. Its a lot less likely to appeal to the omnis though!