Vegetarians -what are you having for your Christmas lunch/dinner

[chelseamorning]

This year there is only myself, DP and DS (6yr old) for Christmas lunch. We're all vegetarian and I'm looking for some inspiration. DS doesn't like nut roasts and is funny about certain textures and DP isn't a big fan of pastry. Oh, and I don't like Quorn products. Not fussy at all eh?!

Come share!

We have similar issues (some veggie, some allergic, some fussy) so have ducked the issue and are having a party buffet :)

After canvassing the people coming, we are having roast veg, roast potatos, gravy and all the non-meat trimmings, plus nut roast (for some adults), vegetarian haggis (for others), and the dc want veggie sausages (soya based I think) or veggie kievs (quorn things from the supermarket). So, 4 different veggie options but we have 11 people coming.

M&s goats cheese & caramelized onion tart, not much use for those who don't like pastry but do you all need to have the same thing ?

Thursdaynight - snap Brie or goats cheese and caramelised red onion tart here too homemade (didn't know M&S do one), all roast veg, veggie gravy, veggie stuffing.

What about something involving filo pastry as it is not too pastry-like? Either Nigella or Delia, forget which, has a good recipe for a Moroccan-ish filo pie with green lentils and lots of spicy stuff.

ive done indian one year - whole feast, bhajias for starters, curries, rice, dhal, homemade chapatis.

Also done vegi tagine one year. Vegi lasagne.

We are all veggie - this year we are doing mediteranean vegetable stacks for starter then Fig & Blue Cheese tart from the BBC good food website, with roast winter veg medeley, peas, sprouts, quorn pigs-in-blankets for the main.

Previous years things:
Stuffed bread - either buy a round loaf and hollow it out leaving just the crust, fill with multiple layers of delicious favourite things e.g. griddled aubergine slices, peppers & halloumi or whatever your favourite foodstuffs are. (Or one year when we had more people and couldn't make a loaf large enough, did the same thing as a pie but using pizza dough instead of pastry for the crust)

A savoury spongecake made with stilton and topped with piles of cranberry-glazed vegetables

I'm not a huge fan of "normal" nut roasts but I'm getting good at tarting them up to seem special enough - usually by layering a cm or so of nutroast mixture with other interesting things to create a strata effect.

Some years we have gone for a "tapas"/"Meze" type thing with 7 or 8 different little things rather than a single centre-piece dish.

DS will probably just have baked beans on toast as he is very very fussy and will not eat anything out-of-the-ordinary :-)

Do you need a special Christmas roast- why not a pricey nice Linda McCartney thing from the supermarket which you wouldn't get normally? Or just M&S veggie meal. My mum's making a nut roast for me which is very nice of her, but I'd so much rather some cheesy veggie sausages I can't have at uni! Never liked Xmas dinner anyway (root veg and red cabbage in wine- yack) and never fussed about roasts so I don't care.

Or you could have a fondue kind of thing. Very filling and you don't need meat at all! Or you could just skip the savoury and have lots of desserts

We are having all the trimmings with chestnut and cranberry loaf. DS doesn't like the loaf so he's having extra pigs in blankets.

Last year we had a Tofurkey with all the veggie trimmings. This year it will be basic, due to expecting a child any day now, so probably just something cobbled together from bits and bobs in the freezer.

I haven't decided yet.

I usually go for one of the cauldron sausages, or sainsbury's love veg leek and sausages.
basically, something that works with the roasts, and I have my veggies piled high!

Delia's parsnip and sage roulade this year with all the trimmings.

In previous years we have had a leek, stilton and chestnut pie with a puff pastry crust but I now think that is a bit fatty and the roulade is lighter.

DS1 eats the roasties with baked beans and cheese

DS2 has pasta (!)

you could make "burgers" from sosmix.
which isn't called sosmix anymore,
it's now granose

(you could make them christmas tree shaped)

Search for Lily and Chew Sweet potato and leek roulade with chestnut and cranberry stuffing. Tis gorgeous. We have had it for the last few years.

(I cant get the link as I am at work and blogs come up as 'questionable use'!)

As per my Christmas name change DS might be very happy with some Yorkshire puddings and gravy, possibly with some veggie sausages ? And then you and DP could share a lovely traditional nut roast ? - and pinch a yorkie or two as well ?

serving the following here

Goats cheese and mushroom filo parcels (from cook)
Butternut squash and sage risotto bakes (sainsburys instead of stuffing)
The rest is the same as us bar the gravy which will be veg bisto
roast pots
soya beans
peas
red cabbage
courgetts with caramelised carrot sticks

Pudding (no-one likes traditional xmas pudd)
Eton mess
Apple and blackberry tart
Winter rhubarb charlotte
Home made honeycomb ice cream

I don't serve tea - they can get themselves toast and jam or cereal if they are still hungry

I'd rather have everything else and not bother with a meat replacement tbh, so I will have:

dauphinnoise potatoes
roast potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, carrots, shallots, garlic
savoy cabbage and sprouts
carot batons and green beans with parsley and lemon
stuffing
port and red onion gravy

If I do have something else, it's either a big stuffed mushroom or stuffed butternut squash but I rarely feel like I actually need it.

Arctic - where do you get your veggie haggis from?

Oh and yorkies - the only time I will ever contemplate Aunt Bessie! :)

ooooh, yes, veggie haggis!
Simon Howie's version - you can get it from Sainsbury's, but you have to fight them for it.

I was veggie for many years and my sister is still veggie - we both very definitely want(ed) to have all the trimmings and just miss out the meat. My mum does a stonking HM nut roast so I expect that will be on offer. In the past we have had Delia's sage & parsnip roulade which is absolutely lovely.

We don't tend to have a meat substitute. We just have loads of trimmings. We never miss it. We get our brilliant veggie haggis from my friends dad who is a butcher. He won the world haggis making championship one year for his meat haggis. Delicious!

Have never seen veggie haggis in our Sainsbo's! Which aisle would they likely have it in, should they have it?

i know you don't like a quorn roast, but alongside that i make this for me.

It's veggie version of chestnut stuffing and it lovely.

Mash up a pile of cauldron sausages.
add some oil.
add an egg.
fry off an onion and add that.

I get a pound of chestnuts, and bake on a try, peel and chop and add to the
above mix.

Add a big amount of cashews. mix the lot up, and slowly fry till it's all brown
then cool. pop in a oven proof bowl, ready to bake off the next day.