Dairy Free, Pescatarian

[Pollypeptide]

Help - a friend is coming to stay for two or three days next month. She doesn't eat meat but will eat fish and as she has had breast cancer she is now on a dairy free diet. Any recipe ideas anyone?

[seadogg]

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2903/ratatouille

Ratatouille is a vegetarian dish and also scrumptious.
I make it using a wok.

[Buenchico]

I detest ratatouille!

There are some dairy-free veggie recipes here:
http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/dairy-free/
with loads more here:
http://dairyfreecooking.about.com/od/vegetarianentreessides/Vegetarian_Entrees_Main_Courses.htm

[boxtops]

Lovely grilled fish then, every day - just plain with a twist of lemon. Another day, smoked fish platter. Lots of salad.

[coccinelle]

Don't you just love these kind of guests....!!!!! I have them all the time and i find i do my autmost to provide and then they eat something like gelatine sweets.... aaarrrggghhh!
Does dairy mean eggs? some do and some don't. Fish apparently isn't good on a daily basis either so...
You'll probably double yourself backwards to try to provide a 'real' vegetarian diet for them only for you to see that they supplement meat by quorn and burgers by quorn burgers etc
I had a vegetarian here for a week who did eat fish but also considered snails as not being meat either....

[Maydup]

Here's one day
Breakfast is either toast and olive spread with marmalade, or porridge topped with blueberries.

Humous, mixed salad leaves, radishes, beetroot, olives and some pitta bread is a good lunch.

Lentil bake, new potatoes, carrots and heaps of runner beans for supper.

Dice a red onion, two carrots, two courgettes and cook gently in a little olive oil.
Meanwhile boil about a mug and a half full of red lentils in a big pan of water. Simmer for 15 minutes. Add a tin of tomatoes to the cooked veg, some tomato puree and a knor herb pot. Season and taste. Drain the lentils and mix in the veg/tomato sauce. Ether serve or pop into a baking dish and top with breadcrumbs. Bake for 20 minutes or until browned.

Summer pudding for dessert (with a dash of soya cream if desired)

[Pollypeptide]

Thanks Buenchico - I have found some lovely recipes on the dairy free website and am now inspired.

I love fish as well, so that will certainly be on the menu, perhaps with some ratatouille!

Many thanks for you quick replies.

[Pollypeptide]

Golly, the replies are coming in so fast I can hardly keep up! I hope my experience won't be like Coccinelle's - fingers crossed. Thank you for the day 1 ideas Maydup, they look great.

[diddlydo]

I don't understand the link between breast cancer and dairy free - I've had 2 friends with breast cancer and neither of them ever went dairy-free.

[Maydup]

Day 2

Porridge with banana for breakfast

Lunch out, maybe fish or soup and a roll

Vegetable curry for dinner. (Plenty of recipes online)
Fresh mango with sorbet for dessert

[vodkancoke]

Bruschetta, home-made soup, kedgeree, prawn and chilli spaghetti/linguini, meringues.

[Anngel123]

Mackerel not fresh, and no need to heat this if you don't want to., beetroot (you can boil your own, they take about an hour depending on size, or buy ready cooked and roast in the oven for half an hour with a little olive oil,) and puy lentils (fry up some onions and add a good flavoured stock to the lentils or they are quite tasteless.