Anyone else having a vegetarian Christmas dinner?

[MatildaMai]

We are having:
Nut roast
Roast potatoes
Carrots in maple syrup with pecans
Brussels sprouts & chestnuts
Gravy.

Followed by Christmas pudding and brandy butter. We are going to set it alight and everything! Also, I found a place that sells sixpences, so I am going to put one of those it, but warn everyone first.

Am so excited! Our first Vegetarian Christmas! Last year we had a poor battery-reared turkey which didn't taste nice and made us feel bad.

Is anyone else having a vegetarian Christmas dinner? If so, can we swap ideas?

What is a nut roast? I love vegetarian food although I'm not a vegetarian. Your menu sounds delicious!

Oh, I am so glad somebody likes the sound of this! Here is a good Nut Roast recipe.

Hors d'oeuvre:
A cheese fondue, with miniature choux pastry buns filled with a mushroom cream filling.

Main course:
Sweet potato rosti, underneath a perfect poached egg (with a soft middle), served along side Jerusalem artichoke and a slice of nut roast (made predominantly of cashew nuts and chestnuts).

Dessert:
We cheat and just buy a Gu melt in the middle individual puddings (Suitable for Vegetarians)

Milk, your recipe looks delicious! Loving the cheese fondue idea...

We just have Quorn roast, it's yummy and so easy to cook, perfect for a hassle free Christmas morning! We have it with my patented super crunchy roast potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts with toasted pine nuts, cauliflower cheese, potato dauphinoise and gravy. I'm excited just thinking about it :-)

Starters are artichoke and cannellini bean dips with crudites (you know crunchy slim cut carrots/cucumber\baby toms etc. Fish eaters will have the usual smoked salmon and fish eggs.

Main course; chestnut\mushroom tart or pie (I haven't decided yet) with baked pumpkin, parsnips and celeriac Meat eaters will have a small organic happy life turkey and spuds under it

Dessert; my own vegan christmas pudding and a choc roulade with tofu cream (i'm a demi vegan)

We have mushroom Wellington. Looks nice and very tasty. I keep trialling other recipes throughout the year but always come back to that one. I also cook a free range turkey for the meat eaters but last year everybody wanted the Wellington. Can't link but it is the cranks recipe by Nadine abensur and on the internet. It is quite fiddly but freezes well, so mine is already in the freezer - can't wait!

Thanks everyone - this thread's in my Watch list now

Is this the mushroom wellington recipe? I usually do a lentil loaf (which is also great cold for boxing day), and a chickpea wellington, but someone linked to the mushroom version on another thread and might give it a go this year instead. Mock Duck is another easy addition (you just open a tin!).

Accompanied by roasties, carrots and parsnips roasted in maple syrup and balsamic vinegar, sprouts and green beans, veggie pigs in blankets and yorky puds, gravy and horseradish sauce. Mil does us a lovely chestnut and red wine en croute if we're up there over christmas, but i'm afraid any meat eating visitors to us just have what we're having.

I don't bother with starters given the size of the main meal, and tend to have puds later in the evening, after something light - this year i'm doing stilton and port-poached pear tartlets with a salad.

Now i'm hungry.

Considerably I LOVE stuff that freezes well; If it just me not eating the turkey I often make a veggie stuffing (i serve it separately from the meat) with chestnut puree mixed with gently fried onions and garlic ,celery a drop of wine too, etc. and some chopped whole chestnuts (i love chestnuts ) that freezes well too.

Vegetarian for me and chicken for the meat eaters.

Nut roast - I use a mixture of nuts with half being walnuts.
Sage and onion stuffing
Chestnut stuffing
Roast pots
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots
Mashed swede
Cranberry sauce
Veggie gravy

For the meat eaters, as above and;
Chicken
Pigs in blankets
Sausage meat stuffing
Meat gravy.

We don't bother with a starter and tend not to have a pudding for a couple of hours afterward.

Me - but dp and the dds will all be eating meat this year (usually we all have veggie, or just one or two have meat).

We're having:

We don't have a starter but have olives etc to pick on as we're cooking

roast potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, parsnips, shallots, garlic
dauphinoisse potatoes or celeriac gratin
buttered carrots, sprouts and savoy cabbage
stuffing with chestnuts
I'll probably have a stuffed big mushroom, and they'll probably have a free range chicken
port gravy

Christmas pud (Duchy) and brandy sauce (Waitrose)

I do veggie and carnie xmas dinner. The quorn roast is good. They do pigs in blankets too. Everything else is 'safe'. Just do two gravies. (roasts in animal fat are gross and I eat meat!)

We've tried nut roast and mushroom wellington in the past but neither have been to our satisfaction. Holland&Barrett have started doing a vegan roast which I'm adamant to try out and if we like it I might just do that.

hyena it's dead easy and nicer to make your own (which you can make when you've got the time and then freeze). I can't believe the amount of weird ingredients H & B put in their stuff.