If a vegan friend visited you today, what could you make for them?

"I would love to serve him Gluten-free Vegan Lasagna.This vegan twist on lasagna replaces pasta and meat, with zucchini and eggplant ribbons, lentils, and pesto. I got this one from iahas.com and it was delicious.
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Build your own Buddha bowl. I've been eating these for over a week because my salad greens are so amazing right now.

So, for the base of the bowl, a salad made from any or all of the ingredients in the picture:
Pea greens
Viola leaves and flowers
Lamb's lettuce
Chives
Salad burnet
Kale
Various mustard greens (frilly purple leafed variety pictured)
Not pictured, but also available:
Turnip greens
Beet greens
Radish greens
Purple leaf lettuce
Various herbs

Cooked chickpeas

Choice of:
Brown rice
Millet

Cooked vegetables:
Beets
Squash
Parsnip

Raw vegetables:
All the cooked options
Carrots
Radish pods
Mushrooms

Dressing:
Tahini miso ginger
Peanut curry

Toppings:
Various allium greens
Toasted sunflower or sesame seeds
Raw pepitas
Raisins
Dried apricots

Today it would be leek and potato soup (potatoes in the cupboard, leeks in the ground), home made bread (in the freezer) to be followed by flapjacks (oats, oil and golden syrup - is the latter available anywhere outside Britain?). There's always something suitable in the cupboard, e.g. rice, dried pulses etc so having a vegan friend visit wouldn't be too much of a problem and perhaps they could help cook?

Ara Murray wrote: flapjacks (oats, oil and golden syrup - is the latter available anywhere outside Britain?).

You can get it in Canada - it's even made here. But the grocery store I shop at sells Lyle's for any expats feeling nostalgic 😁  

We always used golden syrup on our pancakes growing up and friends sleeping over always thought it was so weird😆

We had an off the cuff 'peasant stew' which I made up today. A big leek, lots of mushrooms, dried carlin peas (pre soaked overnight and cooked separately first) chopped carrots and a tin of tomatoes, with water, mixed herbs, a little (vegan) worcestershire sauce and yeast extract with a bit of salt (because the yeast extract was one with no salt). Topped with dumplings made with flour, oil and spare soya yoghurt (water would have done) and a bit of cooked kale on the side. It was really yummy and got the husband thumbs up too!

Tonight will probably be 'chikun' pot pie using one of the purchasable veggie chix substitutes.  The veggies are the same carrots, celery, onion, potato and peas as in a typical pot-pie, but the flavor comes from a bit of the "Not Chicken" boulion seasoning.s along with nutritional yeast, black salt, and onion powder.  A stew of this is made in a skillet which is finally thickened with a bit of all purpose flour.  Crust is made with vegan margarine but crust is not pre-baked.  After pouring filling mix into pie crust, it is topped with a crust and baked.

Speaking as such a friend, these all sound yummy! Thank you!