Food help

Dear Dreamwidth: I have a craving for a specific Food Of My People, specifically, it's approximately potato gratin (except what actually you do is boil up new potatoes in milk with onions, and maybe a bit of nutmeg, and nom nom nom). When I eat these at home, it's normally with green beans + cheese, but I suspect housemate would legitimately like something a bit more substantial/interesting than "potatoes and cheese" for dinner, so, er... suggestions? Vegetarian ones? Because where I come from, this gets served with like ham boiled with cloves, and that's clearly utterly irrelevant to me. HALP.

Smells like home:

Potatoes boiling in milk with black pepper, nutmeg, and bay from my mother's tree; the burnt-dust smell you get off Kenwood mixer motors; yeast beginning to do its thing in the bread; and Dundee cake finishing up in the oven.