What foods do you enjoy at Christmas as a vegetarian?

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Hosting my first vegetarian this Christmas. No problem at all. We often finding ourselves eating vegetarian meals. But I’m just drawing a blank with Christmas Day foods. All my fav appetisers, starters, breakfasts, hors d'oeuvres etc contain meat or fish.

besides a lovely cheese board what vegetarian foods do you enjoy that would be good for Christmas?

so far I have
cranberry and Brie bites
Cheese board

Oooh I like to have little canapes floating around at Christmas like brushetta, orange cranberry mini muffins with orange curd, garlic roasted sweet potato, caramelised onion chutney and crackers, baked camembert with tiger bread, puff pastry with red pesto 🤤

Mushroom wellington

Does it have to be traditional Christmas food?

Not super traditional but something that wouldn’t look insane next to your typical Christmas turkey ie not a curry

Go on the M&S/Sainsbury's etc food to order and look at their Vegetarian ranges. I prefered Indian and Chinese food rather than the no meat substitutes. I was vegan. I think if you eat eggs, you might as well be eating chicken. Likewise dairy milk/beef.

A baked camembert, or garlic mushrooms, for starters.
Vegetable dim sum as an hors d'oevres (Itsu do some lovely frozen ones that just need heating in the microwave ). Stuffed cherry tomatoes. Vegetarian cocktail sausages.
Waitrose did veggie pigs in blankets last year, but I don't know what they tasted like!

I love a good old nut roast,
Vegetable crumble
There are some good fake meats available for a Xmas dinner
Mushroom pate
For a buffet - halloumi fries, bruschetta, breaded brie,

We’re all vegetarians here, and after lots of Christmases where we did some kind of centrepiece dis like a mushroom Wellington or a fancy nut roast, we realised that what we all actually like is all the traditional Christmas side dishes, which don’t actually need anything else. So we have roast potatoes, Brussels sprouts fried with chilli and crushed peanuts, a slaw with lots of different cabbages and root vegetables etc (and a couple of non-traditional things that have become trad in our household, like borlotti beans cooked in cider, rosemary and cream). Sometimes a dauphinois.

So I would say just offer vegetarian-friendly side dishes (so no goose fat on the roast potatoes etc).

We make a roast squash and caremelised onion pie with a pesto gravy which is delicious

My daughter and her DH always stuffs a big squash (which she grows herself) with a homemade stuffing using plenty of nuts, herbs and spices, served with the usual sides of roast spuds, parsnips etc. I supply the sprouts from my garden. It's all very delish topped off with son in law's "signature" onion gravy. I guess we're a bit traditional but we like it.

Christmas roulade, veggie pie, stuffing, love a stuffed mushroom. Roast veg with veg gravey. Lots of cheese.

We are having this

I do a lovely butternut squash wellington, with a mushroom duxelle. Even meaties like that one!

Sprouts roasted with chestnuts and garlic

Stuffed big mushroom

This sounds amazing, and I’m not vegetarian!

This year I'm making Kate Bush's Nut Roast from 1982.

For breakfast we have Halloumi Butties and with the nut roast will have all the veg steamed or roasted, and roast potatoes, cooked in butter.