Gourmet Vegetarian Food

HK5

My boyfriend and I have recently switched to a vegetarian diet. His birthday is January 6th and I want to cook him a nice meal. In the past I've just cooked him a nice steak with varied accompanying dishes but I'm having trouble finding a fancy non-meat equivalent meal. Any suggestions? Any difficulty level is welcome.

Manda

How do you all feel about ethnic food? Thai and Indian dishes are wonderful if you're looking for something flavorful with a lot of flair in the presentation. If you're looking for something more familiar, don't discount Italian food--my husband's go-to romantic dish is homemade fettucine alfredo.

This probably won't help for the 6th, but for future endeavors you might consider buying this book.

TychoCelchuuu

Not sure what your standard for "gourmet" is but this is a bunch of fancy-ish stuff:

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/tofu-burgers-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/001567.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/vegetarian-lentil-burgers-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/lively-up-yourself-lentil-soup-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/vegetarian-split-pea-soup-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/vegetarian-tortilla-soup-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/jamaican-veggie-patties-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/a-beautiful-bulgar-and-spinach-pilaf-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/001565.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/baked-farro-pasta-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/quinoa-and-grilled-zucchini-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/green-olive-gnocchi-recipe.html
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/spiced-tomato-gratin-recipe.html

taoist drunk

This isn't all vegetarian, but you can scroll down to "Vegetarian Main Dishes" and there are a bunch of links here. I've made a lot from this site and it is always awesome.

http://recipesorangette.blogspot.com/

This is a delicious wintry dish:
http://orangette.blogspot.com/2007/11/refilled-and-refueled.html

And this is impressive-looking and is GREAT with a nice green salad and bottle of red wine:
http://orangette.blogspot.com/2005/02/pte-brise-for-pillow.html

oldsak

Perfect Vegetables

More than just recipes, it is an approach to vegetable perfection.

HK5

Thanks for the input, I think I'll be making a trip to my local bookstore very soon.

Arch

Also I don't know how comfortable both of you are with vegan food, but check out Vegan YumYum

fantastic book, can't recommend it enough, none of the recipes have steered me wrong

If you have any specific recipes you want to vegetarianize, feel free to shoot me a personal message. One of my specialties is making vegetarian food that is near indistinguishable from carnivore food, or vegan/atarinizing traditional dishes

wonderpug

Check out the online menus for the Greens Restaurant in San Francisco to see if it sparks any ideas for you. It's a very nice fine dining vegetarian restaurant. They also sell cookbooks.