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What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
My parents are visiting and will be at my house for dinner tomorrow night. What with it being a Friday during lent I'm a bit limited to what I can cook. My DH doesn't like fish and my mother's not crazy about it. Usually we just have pizza and that solves the problem.
Does anyone have suggestions on something a little fancier for a no-meat or fish dinner?
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
eggplant parm and pasta
spinach and cheese lasagna rollups
any pasta really!
Message edited 3/24/2011 5:04:24 PM.
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
Besides pizza or fish, we usually wind up eating pasta on Fridays:
Penne alla vodka
Gnocchi with pesto & pine nuts
Fettucine al fredo
Ravioli
Eggplant parmagiana
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
you could do a light pasta primavera with shrimp as an optional add in.
just some nice fresh tomatoes, minced garlic, chopped onion, zucchini and or summer squash cooked down over linguine. separately you could cook up some shrimp in a bit of garlic, olive oil, and maybe a hit of white wine (you could add some to the sauce too)
with a nice salad, some warm bread and a hice bowl or freshly grated parmiggiano you'll be set!
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ODonnell
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
Thanks for all the great ideas. I will do some form of veggie pasta. My dad is deadly allergic to shellfish so shrimp is out :)
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pippi8977
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
I agree with the spinach lasagna roll-ups...they are yummy!
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
we ususally have:
pasta of some kind
sushi
lentil soup, salad and maybe a grilled cheese
eggplant parm
vegetarian paella
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nicknmb
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
totally not fancy, but seriously yummy!
We call is Pasta Fagioli, but it's definitely not soup, or even soupy at all!
Heat a little olive oil in a saucepot, add as much crushed garlic as you like (I usually do about 4-5 cloves). Cook for a few minutes, then add one can of canellini beans (do not drain) and one can of plain tomoato sauce. Heat through and serve over Ditalini & make sure to sprinkle with parmesan cheese!
It is so good, I cannot even begin to tell you! This is my mom's go to lent recipe!!!
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Re: What to serve for a nice dinner on a Friday in Lent?
Tilapia, brussel sprouts and cous cous.
MIL made Ravioli lasagna last week which was good.
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