christmas dinner

R.M.

Hi everyone
This is my first xmas as a proper vegetarian. Just wondering what everyones having? I like potato, veg and stuffing but its a bit boring really. Was thinking of having some sort of meat substitute maybe. Any suggestions?

DonnieScribbles

Last Christmas I made this but substituted the chestnuts with brussell sprouts and topped it with mashed potato as well as the crumb mix. I also made a sweet potato nut roast that I kind of threw together but turned out well. Both were well received! Plenty of potatoes in all forms are key, roast, mashed etc :pac:

Nature Boy

This is a really good meat substitute, although hard to find. Try health food shops. I'm having that, a nut roast with lentis and chestnut, brased butter and lemon baby carrots, maple syrup and tyme roasted parsnips, creamy turnip & brussels sprout mash, roast spuds and yorkshires oh and bread sauce, gravy, cranberry etc

sweet-rasmus

Sounds delicious Nature Boy!

I would recommend the Redwood Celebration Roast for some fake meat fun.

Succulent turkey style roast, ready sliced, with four vegi-deli sausages wrapped in vegetarian rashers and a mouth watering turkey flavour gravy.

I haven't decided what I'm having yet... But this thread has me drooling already

Tar.Aldarion

cornucopia let you pick from 4 dishes and will cook your dinner for you mmm

henryporter

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

cornucopia let you pick from 4 dishes and will cook your dinner for you mmm

Will they deliver to Monaghan:D

Only joking - normally I spend as much time in the kitchen at Christmas churning out dinners that take anywhere between 2 and 6 hours to prepare (that way I can avoid the in-laws!) - here's what we had last year: http://www.cafeparadiso.ie/recipes/?id=199 and possibly this year too.

Don;t forget to keep an eye on potential animal products in Christmas Puddings. Mince Pies etc.

Petite Treats

I got my Vegan dinner from Cafe Fresh a few years ago and it was really good.

Usually find I make something from vegsoc.org - I love their Squash and Pepper stacks, lemony leeks and sprouts, courgette christmas candles and Carrot and Cashew Fan with orange and cardamom sauce(on a bed of hot puy lentil and dill salad) mmm

All of these comes from vegsoc.org.

CathyMoran

They have some interesting vegetarian Christmas meals in Marks and Spencers at the moment - check but some of their party platters are vegetarian and they have vegetarian roasts of various kinds - will be trying one soon to see what it is like.

vaalea

Vegan xmas dinner... not making it this year though. apple-cranberry dumplings from tofurky box, beans with nutmeg, corn with soygarden, peas with basil, carrots with agave nectar and cinnamon, potatoes with garlic, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower with curried "cheese" sauce. tofurky with gravy, stuffing.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/08/health/20101108_thanksgiving.html

Please let me know about the veg options at M & S... vegan too??

Absurdum

vaalea wrote: »

that looks delicious

vaalea wrote: »

Please let me know about the veg options at M & S... vegan too??

Here's their vegan list (updated yesterday!), I'm not sure what you can get in Ireland though...

http://health.marksandspencer.com/uploads/pdfs/vegan.pdf

Tar.Aldarion

vaalea wrote: »

Vegan xmas dinner... not making it this year though. apple-cranberry dumplings from tofurky box, beans with nutmeg, corn with soygarden, peas with basil, carrots with agave nectar and cinnamon, potatoes with garlic, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower with curried "cheese" sauce. tofurky with gravy, stuffing.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/08/health/20101108_thanksgiving.html

Please let me know about the veg options at M & S... vegan too??

that sounds SO good!

Waterfordlass

For Christmas dinner, I never use fake 'meats'. I do roast and mashed spuds, homemade stuffing and bread sauce, sprouts, mashed swede, diced carrots, marrowfat peas, roast parsnips and Yorkshire puddin' with lots of yummy veggie gravy ....all washed down with a nice Aussie chardonnay and followed by christmas pud and lashings of whipped cream.

Oh I'm so hungry now.

chucken1

Waterfordlass wrote: »

For Christmas dinner, I never use fake 'meats'. I do roast and mashed spuds, homemade stuffing and bread sauce, sprouts, mashed swede, diced carrots, marrowfat peas, roast parsnips and Yorkshire puddin' with lots of yummy veggie gravy ....all washed down with a nice Aussie chardonnay and followed by christmas pud and lashings of whipped cream.

Oh I'm so hungry now.

Im pretty much the same. (veggie 30yrs )
I love cooking, so dinners just dinner really..I do it every day
Cooking meat for the hubby though as I always do.

chucken1

vaalea wrote: »

Vegan xmas dinner... not making it this year though. apple-cranberry dumplings from tofurky box, beans with nutmeg, corn with soygarden, peas with basil, carrots with agave nectar and cinnamon, potatoes with garlic, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower with curried "cheese" sauce. tofurky with gravy, stuffing.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/08/health/20101108_thanksgiving.html

Please let me know about the veg options at M & S... vegan too??

Thats gorgeous looking.. *drool*

Waterfordlass

chucken1 wrote: »

Im pretty much the same. (veggie 30yrs )
I love cooking, so dinners just dinner really..I do it every day
Cooking meat for the hubby though as I always do.

You beat me, veggie for 28 years. I am gradually weaning my meat loving hubby off the dreadful stuff.....and I can't wait for our veggie Christmas dinner!

henryporter

vaalea wrote: »

Vegan xmas dinner... not making it this year though. apple-cranberry dumplings from tofurky box, beans with nutmeg, corn with soygarden, peas with basil, carrots with agave nectar and cinnamon, potatoes with garlic, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower with curried "cheese" sauce. tofurky with gravy, stuffing.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/08/health/20101108_thanksgiving.html

Please let me know about the veg options at M & S... vegan too??

Looks like you'd need a wee nap after a plate of food like that! Thanks for the link to the NY Times - great ideas there.

MargeS22

I'm going to try this recipe this year. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8639/layered-squash-barley-and-spinach-pie
Looks yummy. I usually do a nut roast but going to try this. With it I have brussel sprouts, Roast Potatoes, Mash potatoes, Carrots, Roast Parsnips, and Mushrooms with onions and cream. Can't wait.

Ouchette

I'm going to make chestnut and red wine pate en croute (a Rose Elliot recipe from an old book) to have with the roast potatoes, sprouts and other veggie bits the meat-eaters are having. Yummm. I'm considering having a trial run tomorrow as an excuse to make it twice

I wouldn't really want a meat substitute for christmas dinner. Even the real thing was never the best bit.

bythewoods

MY mother found an awesome Christmas dinner recipe for me this year! Years of being the sad veggie in the corner will finally come to an end...

It's a bit of a twist on the usual nut roast idea. Was going to try and throw together a homemade "tofurkey", but meh.

A cashew nut and quinoa roast, with cranberries and everything thrown in, looks awesome. Will post up the recipe if anyone's interested, think she found it in some book or another. Oh NOM.

sweet-rasmus

Do post up the recipe!

Sajan

Thinking of trying something with a Butternut Squash. I have a butternut squash, stilton with Cranberry and Pine Nuts.. Any ideas?

fillefatale

Sajan wrote: »

Thinking of trying something with a Butternut Squash. I have a butternut squash, stilton with Cranberry and Pine Nuts.. Any ideas?

I'm doing lorraine fitzmaurice's baked stuffed butternut squash, I can't find the recipe online, I got it from the Afternoon show website last summer so maybe they've taken it down. But those ingredients sound ideal for something similar!