Any ideas for an interesting veggie xmas dinner?!
Answers: Ive been a veggie for 13 years and just wondered what fellow veggies were having for xmas.
Christmas diner must be the easiest of the year for veggies.
Think about all those winter vegetables you can have, some steamed, raosted and boiled. No need for a centre peice. Just enjoy proper veggies that are not over-cooked.
Oh, and christmas pud.
Oh and chocolate
and mince pies
and ice cream
and more chocolate
As you can tell, I like my junk veggie food at christmas
Do you eat fish??
With a family dinner... we work with both meat eaters and vegetarians to accommodate all. It's pretty easy. Here's our meal. My daughter is vegetarian, but eat's fish.
The menu you is baked, stuffed collossal shrimp and filet mignon. There's enough shrimp for all. Of course there's garlic bread, salad, potato (baked/stuffed and rosemary roasted sweet potatoes).
For thanksgiving I make stuffing for the turkey, and a crabmeat stuffing for the stuffed fish fillets.
hmmm, well all my family eats meat so no one really puts it into consideration. I was thinking about making a mushroom dish, but what i usually eat are yams, corn casserole, broccoli casserole, some cranberry sauce on toast, and tofu.
(I don't really have a say in it since i am only 14)
Ok, I'm going to admit up front that I'm not a veggie. But I dated and cooked for one for over a year and tried it myself for a few months (so I have marginal experience trying to skip the meat). That said, me and my non-veggie friends love this recipe. Another asker tried it last night and loved it, too.
I always find the best recipes on allrecipes.com. A couple of years ago, I came across a stuffed pepper recipe with a lot of good reviews, so I tried it. My roommates asked me to make it a couple times a month after that. I didn't try it specifically because it's vegetarian and none of my roommates are vegetarians, but we all really liked it. It's warm and filling and it's not difficult to put together. I even made this for a party one time, but they didn't last long.
Good luck!
Tessa Somers
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Well if he did eat fish then he wouldn't be a vegetarian, he would just be someone who doesn't eat meat but eats fish.
Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products. I get really annoyed when people call themselves vegetarians but they eat fish or chicken!
Anyway back to the question......I used to date a vegetarian and he always had nut roast with trimmings for Christmas dinner.
I'm going to have a homemade nut roast, with roast garlic/rosemary potatoes, parsnip,kurly kale and carrots( I might make stuffling balls too)
I like cranberry sauce or even apricot jam with the nut roast...umm getting hungry thinking about it! x
Have you ever tried Tofurky? If cooked correctly it can be a really good turkey substitute. You can also go to a grocery store and get lard free Gravies too. good Luck! :)
Well, I'm not into x-mas anymore.
But what I used to make was:
scalloped potatoes
Using a deep dish lasagna pan
make layers of sliced (round slices) of potato with crumbled cashews and rosemary on top of each layer. When all done carefully slowly pour a cup of soymilk (water works too) over the top. Cover and bake. Cannot remember, but likely at 350 for an hour or something like that.
Also, in a baking dish, I'd make stuffing. You can just make stuffing as you would with bread, seasoning, nuts, etc. and put it in a baking dish instead of in a turkey.
Any kind of squash recipe is good. Acorn or delecada squash is really the best. Easy to just chop up (skin on), mix with extra virgin olive oil, thyme, rosemary, garlic -- then bake in an open baking dish.
apple or pumpkin pie for dessert with dairy free ice-cream -- rice dream my fav.
I know this is a lame answer, but I just eat everything else but the meat. Getting harder since I'm spending more holidays with my in-laws than my actual family, but here is how we accommodated when I lived with my parents. Me and my sister are veggies, and everyone else eats meat. There would be ONE meat dish (like ham or turkey), and a bazillion side dishes. With turkey, make the stuffing separate and with veggie broth instead of chicken broth. With mashed potatoes, use a meatless gravy (we used serv-a-gravy packets but I don't eat them anymore cuzza the MSG, now I use an organic brand). With sweet potatoes/yams/squash, NO marshmallows, or have them on the side. If you like it sweet you can use brown sugar, or even better, a combo of brown sugar/crushed pineapple. Those are my 3 fave holiday dishes anyway. Sometimes my mom just makes meatless lasagna anyway, so we don't have to worry about that. Although lately it's much harder since my in-laws are hosting and seem to add chicken broth to everything, so I pig out on salad and rolls. (sound good, huh? although she makes a great salad) This year I was going to try a Morningstar Farms stuffed "turkey" breasts I saw an ad for, if I can find them anywhere near me. I've had Tofurkey but didn't really like it. Hopefully you can talk to whoever is the main cook in your family and plan some stuff ahead of time, so that you will be able to eat all the stuff you want.
http://www.theveggietable.com/recipes/ch...
http://www.vegsource.com/christmas.htm
http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes...
enjoy
Im sorry but using the phrase 'interesting vegetarian xmas dinner' is a contradiction in terms