Diffacult Dinner Party coming up

[Anathea]

Hello,

My boyfriend came home last night and told me he's invited 6 people from high schoolfor dinner on Saturday night. Now I'm always up for a get together, but it's a rather unusual group of people. I have two men coming who love their meat (you know meat, potatoes and beer type), and two vegetarians. I know this may sound silly but I wanted to find a way to make the menu sort of look like they go together. For example, I think I am going to make a large Teryaki salmon for the men, but then I wanted a vegetarian option that if the men wanted to have some too, they could. With the salmon, I thought I'd do either risotto or potatoes and then a big green salad and some nice homemade buns. So does anyone have an idea for the veggie option?

[villanelle75]

Could you find a recipie where you can do the same treatment for a piece of meat and for a portabello mushroom? It might not work with you teriyaki plan, but there are many recipes that work for both.

[Anathea]

Hmm...that's an interesting idea. Even still doing the salmon, and portabello mushrooms grilled in some fashion would work. I was thinking how awkward it would be to have the salmon and like a curry couscous or something.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[laura]

I would say some type of pasta - eggplant parmesan, veggie lasagna, etc. Actually, I probably wouldn't do the salmon b/c it doesn't flow as well as other things would, such as: similar to what the PP suggested, grill some meat and also grill some portabella mushrooms or something, or you could do eggplant parmesan and chicken/veal parm, or something like that.