Christmas dinner veg: The Law

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It is The Law to have peas, carrots, parsnips and of course brussels

Cauliflower is acceptable. Cauli cheese isnt.

Broccoli is an offence.

Green beans are just weird.

Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Carrots
Peas
Broccoli
sprouts
Red cabbage (sometimes)

Oh and bread sauce

It's the rule in my parents house to forget something in the microwave (usually the peas or sweet corn ) and find it at about 10pm when scavenging for a snack or sometime on Boxing Day. Happens every single year.

Roast potatoes
Honey roasted parsnips
Roasted and steamed carrots
Peas with mint
Red cabbage with bacon and beetroot.
Broccoli (because it's the only green the dc like)
Streamed runner beans (the last lot from the garden)

Which are served with
Turkey
Sausages in bacon
Beef Wellington
Yorkshires
Veggie option

Carrots
Peas
Red Cabbage
Sprouts
Creamy roast parsnips

And of course

Roast Potatoes
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Yorkshire puddings
Bread sause
Cranberry Sauce
Chicken

Perfect

Veg here are:

Roast potatoes
Sprouts (possibly with other greens) with bacon
Roast parsnip OR creamy baked parsnip and celeriac
Carrot and turnip (swede) mash

Red cabbage is acceptable, but I don't like it cooked, so I save mine for a salad to go with the leftovers. I like the sound of roast beetroot, though, so I might give it a go, although I don't really have the oven space.

Also:
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing balls
Cranberry sauce (bleurgh)
Bread sauce (yum)
Gravy.

And a big roast chicken instead of a turkey.

Red cabbage with bacon and beetroot

How do you make that?

It must be sprouts, carrots, roast parsnips and red cabbage. Mashed carrots and swede are ok too - good for gravy.

Surely all the rules go out the window if you have an entirely veggie meal anyway? For a start there's no meat, so nothing the Yorkshire puds should accompany and if you're not doing a meat substitute, ie nuts or quorn for protein, you need plenty of veg to fill you up.

Personally I just want to have a lovely meal, that everyone will eat and enjoy. It would be a bit daft of me to say we were sticking strictly to 'traditional' Christmas veg etc, when we don't even have a turkey.

I don't like gravy

Inertia, have you seen a doctor about this? How can anybody not like gravy? There would be a riot here if we didn't have gravy!

I fry chopped up bacon (usually smoked), steam red cabbage for a few mins until just starting to soften, chop up beetroot from the garden that's been pickled in sweet vinegar, add both the cabbage and the beetroot to the bacon for a stir to mix it all in and place in a dish so those who want it can help themselves. It's seriously yummy.

Loving the fact that Mimsey is convinced not liking gravy is an illness

Roast potatoes
carrots
Brussel sprouts
Red cabbage- my DM always makes it and takes it to wherever she is spending Christmas. For which I am grateful.

As long as there's swede I know that everything will be fine.

There was the year DM forgot to serve the swede and left it all mashed and buttery in a saucepan with the lid on. We were nearly at the end of the eating phase by the time the alarm was raised, and so had to have a swede course that year.

But in general the more veg the better. Sprouts, roast parsnips and roast potatoes are indeed essential, but carrots, cauliflower (white sauce), peas, red cabbage etc are also great while non-essential. A few years DH complained that I was planning to many veg varieties and I looked down at the 'ordinary' dinner we were eating and I was only planning one more than that. He decided to admit defeat. Mind you his family think that steamed parsnip are acceptable on a Xmas dinner so I am dealing with an injured soul.

This year, for the first time, we are going to a restaurant for Xmas dinner. I am looking forwards to it but I am wondering about insulated tupperware to transport my own swede in case the menu planner is a heathen. And will my DS's PIL think I'm nuts (oh wait, they already do. Cancel panic).

Love the idea of a swede course! We often have the Yorkshire puddings as a literal pudding before the sweet course.

too many veg. My apologies. I've been typing half the afternoon (the MN creative writing competition entry) and my fingers are a bit manic.

I can't stand gravy and dh doesn't like it. Don't serve it on Xmas day.

Has to be red cabbage ( cooked it today with cranberries,apple and spices ready for freezing), sprouts - shredded and str fried with pancetta, mustard and cream, honey roasted parsnips and roast potatoes. And Yorkshires for the Dcs.

Purpleflamingos

If the beetroot is in vinegar, can I just use the pickled stuff from a jar?

Sprouts
Roast potatoes
Roasted honey parsnips
Roasted carrots
Peas
Mashed potatoes

With:
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Yorkshire puddings
Stuffing

I may have missed something...

swede!

We are having broccoli as dd2 loves it, sprouts ( because it's christmas ), carrots, parsnips and swede, roast potatoes and Yorkshires, no mash.

Peas (petits pois), carrots, roast parsnips, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings (mainly for ds). Red cabbage if I get round to making it beforehand.
DM and MIL used to ask for sprouts but after being allowed only as many as they would eat to enter the house, they've given up.
There was one year MIL got two sacks of sprouts cheap. A few of us ate a few fried up in bacon, but by Jan we had hardly made a dent in the first sack. Even the dog refused them so mostly they went on the compost heap.

The Law here:

brussels (oh yes) steamed
carrots (plain)
roast parsnips
swede either pureed or cubed
Yorkshire Puddings (DS insists)
Red cabbage (Waitrose or Sainsbury)
Brocilli- purple sprouting or tenderstem rather than a big lump of it
Cauliflower if there's a nice one
Peas for DD
Roast Maris Piper potatoes
Gravy made with the vegetable water

Peelings for the guinea-pigs

This year-
chestnuts (for DM)
bread sauce
cranberry sauce
Sage and Onion stuffing (Paxo for the vegetarians, with sausage for the non vegetarians)

Wtf bread sauce is vile.