At this point, you’ve been ready to prepare a standard meal, but now you’ve been positioned to prepare food in an unfamiliar cooking scenario and you’re probably a bit intimidated, at least slightly unsure of what to do. Endless culinary complications and dead ends are running through your noggin. You’re thinking “What can I make that will satisfy my vegetarian guests and not scare my meat-eating guests away…what can I do to solve this problem?” This ‘problem’ is really more so a challenge. Cooking a la vegetarian isn’t a nuisance either, nor is it difficult to resolve.

There are simple ways to assure your dinner party is a success and goes over well with all your guests. Consider some of the following basic suggestions:

Consult A Vegetarian Recipe:

There is an abundant amount of recipe resources available in printed book and Internet format you can consult before starting to cook for your party. Recipes will range from levels easy to involved. It would be best to try out a beginner’s or intermediate’s recipe, as it would assure you less hassle and basic vegetarian preparation.

Be sure to use a strictly vegetarian specific recipe instead of altering a normal recipe to make it vegetarian. Do this simply to avoid cooking with ingredients that are otherwise vegetarian unfriendly. Many ingredients included in non-vegetarian recipes can include animal additives and to vegetarians, these are what they try to avoid.

Even while reading a vegetarian recipe, be cognizant of all ingredients that will be used. Research each one, making certain none include animal byproducts or add-ons.

Don’t Stress About Shopping For Provisions:

Vegetarian friendly grocers are almost everywhere. As it stands, every grocer has a produce section, some more varied than others, but still, for more details visit to www.appetizer-collection.com  vegetables and fruits are plenty and not difficult to attain. And if the usual grocer does not have what you’re looking for specialty stores can be visited. Farmer’s markets and organic grocers can provide you with a great produce selection of the freshest quality.

If you’re interested in meat substitutions, a vegetarian section in any grocer is your best bet. Any type of meat has some sort of vegetarian alternative. Vegetarian forms of lunch meats, chicken, for more details visit to www.cat-head-biscuit.com pork and so on are all available in frozen packages which can be prepared to your liking or culinary specifications.

Separate Meat Dishes From Vegetarian Dishes:

When all your party food is cooked and ready for serving, make sure the meat dishes and vegetarian dishes are served on separate platters. Even consider visibly marking which dishes include meat and those that do not by tagging them with folded note cards.
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1.  Vegetarian Times

Vegetarian Times magazine is a fun read, and a terrific resource for everyone from starting vegetarians, to long time healthy-eaters.  The recipes section of their website is quite spectacular.

They have so many recipes they had to include a full featured, intuitive search which includes categories such as your diet type (vegetarian, vegan, etc.), the appliance you’re cooking with, the season, and even special categories to select a holiday.  If that’s not enough to get you drooling, users can rate recipes, so you’re sure to find good ones.

Check it out here:
http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/

2. VegCooking.com

What better place to find vegetarian recipes than a site entirely devoted to it?  While Vegetarian Times may be slightly quicker and more intuitive for quick recipes, VegCooking is more full featured, with shopping and dining guides, and more.

When it comes to recipes, the site has some delicious ones.  Check out their seasonal article on making a vegetarian Thanksgiving feast.  You won’t be disappointed!!

http://www.vegcooking.com/

3. VegWeb

VegWeb is much more organic in format to most other recipe locations.  Users submit recipes and photos and other users submit reviews.  The recipes here include delicious entries like “Double Chocolate Oatmeal Banana Cookies” and “Vegan Banana Pancakes”.  Strengths are its grassroots nature and the fact that it caters to a variety of diet types.

http://vegweb.com/

4. Savvy Vegetarian

This site has a lot of recipes.  If you can get past a garrish color scheme (at least on my browser) and are willing to dig into the less-intuitive (or at least less graphically pleasing) menus, you should find some good stuff here.

Categories of recipes include bread, beverages, vegan desserts, pastas, salads, soups, and tofu recipes.

http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-recipes/index.php

5. Simply Recipes

Simply recipes is a blog headed by Elise Bauer.  It has a massive list of neatly laid out recipes.  When looking for a random recipes the layout works very well.  Looking for a specific recipe might be slightly harder.  Still, there’s just so many good recipes here, with attractive pictures, that its hard not to love this site.

The site employs several culinary bloggers, so there’s lots of fresh creativity as well.

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/vegetarian/

6. BBC Good Kitchen’s Vegetarian Section

BBC?  Like the British news station?  Yep!  The British Broadcasting Company, interestingly has a massive culinary page filled with recipes of all kinds.  To go along with Europe’s Vegetarian-friendliness, BBC Good Food indeed has a full page of vegetarian recipes filled with beautiful pictures.

The recipes are split into Dessert, Dinner Party, Main Course, Starter, and Vegan dishes.  More recipes can also be found under Occasions and Cuisines, but these are not purely Vegetarian, so beware.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/vegetarian/

7. The Food Network

I admit, I’ve been a bit of an addict of The Food Network at times.  Even if you don’t find cooking TV shows fun, its hard to deny their eye-catching website’s appeal.  Why do I rank it this low?  Well there’s pictures of meat entrees everywhere, which may turn off some.  And while there’s many vegetarian recipes, including a large soy section, there’s less than some places and they’re less sensitive to special diets like veganism.

Still it’s worth checking out, in my opinion:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/healthy-eating/index.html#tab3

8. Veg Kitchen

Veg Kitchen has an attractive website, easy to follow recipes and a lot of them.  The only thing that I was not a big fan of, and this is pretty subjective, is the lack of images to accompany the dishes.  I liked how some of the sites included tempting pictures to motivate you to embark on your culinary adventure.

Still this site is a treasure trove of some great vegetarian (and vegan) recipes.

http://vegkitchen.com/

9. 101 Vegetarian Recipes

The site “101 Vegetarian Recipes” is slightly deceptively named as it actually has more than 101 vegetarian recipes.  The site has no pictures, but has many good recipes, most of which are Vegan.

One minor note is the site pops up recipes in a new tab, which I suppose can be good or bad depending on your browsing preferences.

http://www.101vegetarianrecipes.com/

10. VegNews

This site wins points for creative appetizing recipes with beautiful color images.  Navigation is easy as well. The only drawback that makes it less than tantalizing, is that there’s only a small rotating selection of recipes and it’s hard to navigate to past recipes.

http://vegnews.com/ (recipes)

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