Help! Vegetarian coming for Christmas dinner

[Allaboutthegirliguess]

So we planned to have a quiet Christmas this year, but my son is now coming with his vegetarian girlfriend.

Can anyone help with what we can make her please.
We will be having a roast, meat, and our potatoes are cooked in goose fat.
Ideally I need something that wont create an issue as we are cooking our meal!
So maybe can be done before or done in the airfyer.

Hoping someone can come up with an idea
Tia

I am veggie and would hate that! Not everyone likes fake meat and frozen roasties are dire

I would work on the assumption that if someone says they are vegetarian that they are actually vegetarian. Not eating meat but eating other animal products is not being vegetarian.

And my point is that if other people are looking forward to what they usually have they shouldn't all have to go vegetarian for one person.

I think this is the best suggestion. Not overly complicated and everyone will eat it.

As a vegetarian, I quite like it when I eat vegetables and copious amounts of cheese.

I refer you to my earlier post and rest my case

Ask before you serve up Quorn. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole and lots of other veggies wouldn't either.

Nonsense — we have an excellent sense of smell and will leap on your turkey-fed backs with our razor-sharp claws*, hissing ‘Where is my Parsnip Wellington?’

*I am envisaging vegetarians, of which I am one, as basically unusually vicious drop bears.

Veggie meat 'joints' are pretty grim, and quorn gives some people terrible cramps (sorry if that's TMI), so I wouldn't bother buying a fake turkey roast or similar. Veggie sausages can be quite good depending on brand - you could ask your son which ones she likes?
I think the mistake most meat-cooks make when cooking for veggies is forgetting the caloric content of the food and serving something that's tasty but still leaves you hungry. Cauliflower steak is a good example of that - cauliflower is 25cals per 100g. Beef steak is 170-270cals per 100g depending on how lean it is. If you give someone a large slice of grilled cauliflower and call it lunch, don't be surprised if they hog all the sides out of sheer hunger!
Mum used to just do all the roast veg and Yorkshires in Trex, they crisped up very well, and smoked less, and it meant everyone could eat the same stuff.

The shallot tarte tatin from M&S were very good last year.
Serve with some nice potatoes and either same veg as you are all having or a crisp green salad -ask her which she would prefer.

What the actual fuck am I reading here?
She's vegetarian... they are not.

ETA... read it wrong, soz... I thought you were suggesting THEY have the veggie pie for Christmas dinner and I came over all lightheaded 😂

Why are you so aggressive and angry about some roast potatoes!

Pls see my update lol...

Still initially so angry !

So not vegetarian so irrelevant to this thread.

Perhaps the OP should hold a Christmas dinner planning meeting with an agenda covering the menu, type of vegetarian main, which sides are acceptable to be vegetarian, type of fat to be used on the roast potatoes and what changes the chef is able to cope with?

Says who?

Yes or wait until the gf is staying over for the weekend and everyone take the laptop in to DS's room on the Sunday to discuss, sitting on the end of the bed in dressing gowns (you) and presumably in bed naked (DS & GF). That would be the best way to ensure a nice quiet xmas.

My SIL is veggie, as are a few other relatives, and they favour salmon with more of a hollandaise or tomato based sauce over things like nut roasts. Or mushroom wellington for something with a bit more effort

If they eat salmon, they’re not vegetarian.

How is this hard to understand?

I swear posts like this are deliberately provocative! Someone who eats SALMON is not a vegetarian. Please don't serve fish to a vegetarian.

We had DD's friend for Christmas Day one year as she was on call. I made Jamie's vegan gravy ahead (and added butter for extra flavour as she is vegetarian not vegan) and bought a lattice festive pie from one of the nicer supermarkets. I roasted our potatoes in butter as I find the flavour superior and all our veg and stuffing is vegetarian anyway as is the cranberry and apple sauce. I didn't do a pigs in blankets alternative.

I think if you make get her a vegetarian centre piece to replace the meat and make a quality vegetarian gravy then you don't need to worry about the rest.

And then, for a plot twist, after the OP and her DH have had nervous breakdowns over the mushroom wellington on Christmas Eve, the DS shows up with an entirely different girl for Christmas dinner! She enthusiastically attacks the turkey and pigs in blankets, the parents say ‘But…?’ and the son says ‘Oh, Debbie and I broke up — did I not tell you? This is Sophie! She loves her meat!’

You already sound like you’re going to make her feel awkward for being there on Christmas Day!!!

Ask your son what she usually has for Christmas dinner. Failing that, make the roast potatoes in oil for one year & get her a Quorn roast or most supermarkets will have a veggie turkey or veggie Christmas main.

Bisto gravy is veggie. All other sides can easily be made vegetarian.

I've lived with a veggie for nearly 40 years and have made 1000s of roast dinners. I cook the potatoes in corn oil and they have extra Yorkshire pudding.

Bisto is usually vegan, no need to kill yourself finding exotic stuff :D

Keep it simple. I was veggie for 25 years, and a guest for most of those. I was perfectly happy with quorn fillets, bisto onion gravy, and all the veg. It's easy to do a few potatoes seperately.
Most guests don't want to be difficult.
Ask her if she's OK with that, or has a suggestion.