Planning a birthday dinner?!
Planning a birthday dinner?
I am planning a birthday dinner for my meat-eating brother. I would like it to be vegan, but I do not want him to miss meat ...(He will probably end up having three or four other 'birthdays' that will enclude meat) ... Anyone have a really good recipe or meal idea a meat-eater would love?
His favorite cake is chocolate, so I would really love to wow him with a vegan chocolate cake as well.
Answers:
The answers that you've gotten so far are awesome!
I just asked my boyfriend what he would want if he was in the same position (he is a meat-eater)... and his suggestion was veggie pizza minus the cheese. (or if you have a vegan cheese that you like, you could add that). Load up the pizza with a bunch of veggies, maybe even throw some grilled tofu on there.
Another thing I would suggest is home-made hummus with pita chips. And/or spinach dip.
Hummus is easy, If I can find my recipe I'll add it (I made it to bring to a non-vegan party... it was gone in like 10 minutes)
And spinach dip is easy too... just get some vegan cream cheese (tofutti is good) and add thawed(or cooked), squeezed frozen spinach, onions, garlic, and some seasonings.
You could also use a veganaise-- vegan sour cream combo in place of creamcheese.
Vegan cakes are fun... I'm not much of a baker, but you could see if you can find a packaged cake mix that happens to be vegan. Just replace the milk with soy, rice, or nut milk. And replace the eggs with 1/4 cup of silken tofu.
If you are making home-made cake you can try to find a good recipe... here is a recipe site:
http://www.vegcooking.com/
And maybe throw in some cool stuff... like white chocolate chips:
http://www.veganstore.com/index.html?sto...
Good luck :]