Cooking for a Residential Course
By GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11834)
May 11, 2011 8:43am CST
We're holding a Permaculture Design course at our farm next week, which I'm very excited about. The course will be residential, and I'll be preparing three vegetarian meals each day.
Breakfast is easy and lunch will be bread, cheese, soup etc. But I'm starting to plan my evening meals now and could to with some inspiration. Although I will have some help with veg prep, the evening meals must be fairly simple to prepare for around 20 people and of course reasonably cheap.
We'll have plenty of fresh veg growing in the garden by then and some eggs and cheese, otherwise our store cupboard is a fairly simple one.
Have you any main course suggestions that might fit the bill?
5 responses
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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11 May 11
I imagine that everyone will have had a day of hard labour! I was thinking of a variation on picnic food but that might be too light. How about a pie containing tomato, aubergine, onion and pepper? Add fried potato chunks or boiled and a vast tomato salad. Maybe cous cous or rice? A huge bowl of stewed rhubarb and raspberries (bit early maybe for them) with honey and yoghurt or creme fraiche. Can I come please.... Mind, I am not sure what permaculture design is but I am good at setting tables! Oh, here's a rustic pud. Puff pastry filled with ricotta cheese and lemon!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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11 May 11
We have had some good rhubarb stalks from our solitary plant (or is it a crown?). I transplanted it from my sister's garden about 14 years ago. It has never spread, just sits there and glowers. But my new found piscavegatarian (with a little poultry thrown in) means that i am trying new things and rhubarb features large. Watch out because one day you might find a non too young Englishman potteting down your track.....
@GreenMoo (11834)
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11 May 11
That's a sort of Ratatouille pie. Good choice, as pies aren't a particularly common dish here so it would be nice to ring the changes.
Rhubarb, I do adore. For the first time ever I actually have some plants looking healthy but I'll not be sharing what meagre harvest I have I'm afraid.
Yes do come along. My partner is sitting the course so I'm trying to work out how I'm going to cook and organise in between goat milkings and getting the kids sorted!
@drasnian (548)
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11 May 11
Vegetable curry is very easy to make. Throw whatever veg you fancy into a large pot, cover with curry powder, add chopped tomatoes and vegetable stock so that all of the veg is covered, and simmer. With potatoes, it needs at least an hour, so that they have time to soften. Without potatoes it's just a case of simmering until the sauce is thick enough for your taste :)
You basically chop, shove in a pan, and leave alone :) Serve with some rice (cheap and easy), and you're done.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
11 May 11
hi greenmoo lets see for the evening meals why not ratatouille with tomatoes, green bell peppers, celery, oninons and eggplant as
its healthy and filling along with some brown rice and fruit for
dessert . thats one evening. we have had stuffed peppers for dinner
with rice and hamburger stuffing and another evening eggplant
Parmesan, and one evening beef stew with onions carrots, green peppers
and celery and beef of course and some nice whole grain bread to go'
with it. now I making myself hungry. oh and how about veggie omelets one night, now I am hungry. chili con carne is always good for one night
with real corn bread from scratch.Hope this helps a little bit.
@GreenMoo (11834)
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11 May 11
Ratatouille is a good one, particularly as i should have all the veg growing in the garden by then.
And I adore stuffed peppers! i like mixing some finely chopped veg with raisins and peanuts and lots of spices.I was thinking they would be lots of work for larger numbers, but i guess it could be done ahead of time.
@epicure35 (2814)
• United States
13 May 11
Mac and cheese is always popular for dinner as is Fettucine Alfredo. Eggplant Parmagiana is also good and tasty. You can also use eggplant and zucchini in a Ratatouille. Pasta and risotto are popular, and you can use most any veggie to enhance them, e.g. artichokes, peas, asparagus. A veggie quiche is good. I like a great vegetable platter with about 4 or 5 different veggies with either a cheese or hollandaise sauce.
A giant artichoke with lemon-butter is good, but requires work to prep.
Stuffed tomatoes , zucchini, or eggplant is good.
Any kind of salad can be added or stand alone, such as a roasted veggie salad or a vegetarian antipasto.
Broccoli or squash casseroles are easy and tasty.
