Vegetarian main dish recipes wanted!

[kelliem]

I have a vegetarian* friend coming out to visit in a couple of weeks, and I'm looking for some 'tried and true' vegetarian entree recipes since kidunit and I are in main carnivores and most of my entree recipes contain meat. I could go look up vegetarian entrees on foodnetwork.com or epicurious.com but what I want are your recipes, ones you've made a zillion times and love and would like to share. So please comment to this post with your favorite vegetarian recipe.

Thank you all!

*ETA: Specifically looking for ovo-lacto style recipes-- eggs and dairy are okay but not meat or seafood.

Comments

Re: faux shepherd's pie

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

About how long does it take to bake the lentils? I've never done that-- I always cook them on the stove top. And polenta's a good idea, I hadn't thought of that. Thanks!

Do you have a link to the cookbook? (I assume that's an online text)

Re: faux shepherd's pie

[sidravitale]

Yes, it's at the Gutenberg Project (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15464)

Baking brown lentils probably takes an 45 min to an hour.