322975 Sun Sep 03 16:38:19 -0700 2006 7 31 Home Cooking 0 1851736 What are your favourite vegetarian stuffings for tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini, grape leaves and cabbage? I usually fall back on a dill,tomato and rice combination. Looking for some inspiration.... Sun Sep 03 16:38:19 -0700 2006 10626 phoenikia 1 1851758 Fresh mozzarella doesn't contain rennet-- you could stuff a "sturdier" vegetable with some of that, herbs, and salt/pepper. I'd almost suggest adding garlic as well, but it'd probably overpower the other flavors :/ Sun Sep 03 16:54:06 -0700 2006 1851736 17463 PseudoNerd 1 1851799 If you make stuffed tomatoes, zuccchini and eggplant you can scoop the insides from all of them, puree in the blender, sautee onions and garlic in oil and add the puree with raw rice; cook until rice is soft; stuff the veggies and drizzle with oil or melted butter and dust with breadcrumbs. Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour. Sun Sep 03 17:14:11 -0700 2006 1851736 13202 emilief 1 1852312 My standby is lentil stuffing. For a sturdier filling, I leave the lentils whole (but cooked down, like daal) and add whole wheat breadcrumbs. For a more delicate filling, I purée the lentils with silken tofu and a little flour to bind. Mon Sep 04 00:16:09 -0700 2006 1851736 10681 piccola 1 1859506 Hi, How about corn? I like to cut the tops off the tomatoes, scoop the seeds out, rub some oil on the outside, and nuke them till the skin is just wrinkled. For the stuffing, I mix steamed corn with cilantro, celery, peppers, cumin powder, salt, pepper and parsley, and stuff the tomatoes with this. It is a sort of salad-like, but looks and tastes good, and is very fast and easy to make. Thu Sep 07 10:30:45 -0700 2006 1851736 38397 dosalover 1 1859731 Thanks for the great suggestions.... hadn't thought about using corn or lentils before... but since I didn't have any corn or lentils on hand, I'll save those ideas for my next 2 batches. Ended up using a stuffing usually used for grapeleaves... rice, pine nuts, raisins,dill, garlic, onions, but added the insides of the tomatoes....pretty good. Thu Sep 07 14:10:13 -0700 2006 1851736 10626 phoenikia 1 1862433 orzo and feta, whatever spices look good, stuffed in a tomato. Fri Sep 08 13:44:28 -0700 2006 1851736 11607 Smokey 1 1862868 We made a stunning stuffed Butternut Squash a couple of weekends ago. It's a Jaime Oliver Recipe from his Naked Chef Cookbook and made a great filling entree (Especially since I used LOTS Of mushrooms! :)) --Dommy! Fri Sep 08 16:40:48 -0700 2006 1851736 10659 Dommy