Interesting vegan buffet stuff for boxing day tea

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Was gpoing to cook a special cooked meal but decided on a buffet as 14 people will be coming......
2 vegans and 3 veggies.......
any ideas????
i can handle the carnivores among us myself!!!

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Dips, Houmuss with pine nuts, guacamole, roast veg, courgette pate,

courgette pate....how do you do that!?!?
oh hold on,.....i bought sis a book on vegan cookery for part of xmas pressie....might just unwrap it......
woul dlike something i can make early next week and freeze if possible other than boring stuff

Its more like courgette spread, i put it on little bits of toasted french bread it is GORGEOUS

how do you make it?

how about spicy cous=-cous?
A doddle to make
Just fry an onion and some garlic, add harrissa sauce a tin of chick peas cous cous and vegetable stock for the amount of water it says on the packet. turn off heat.Leave for 10 mins then heat through and serve - nice hot or cold
you can buy harrissa or make it. If you want the recipe let me know
Also great as a main meal served with roasted pettper and aubergine

pasta salad
nice bread
fruit salad
pies or crumble made with stork rather than butter

baked potato

is stork vegan??
that is useful to know....
what is harrissa?

Oooh, I like the sound of courgette pate (having just purchased duck pate for the canivores)

Extra virgin olive oil
2 cloves garlic
1-2 small dried red chillis
8 small courgettes, unevenly sliced
salt and pepper
juice of on lemon

Four tblespoons of oil in hot pan, fry garlic and chillies for a few mins, throw in courgettes, turn and coat them. Turn the heat down, lid on, stir every five minutes for 35 minutes. When courgettes are really soft with some chunky bits and some pulpy bits, remove from heat. Smash up , add more oil to flavour and loosen. Season, finally add lemon juice.

And also try here

pretty sure that Stork is only made with vegetable fats - has no whey in it or other milk products. You can also get other margerines but read the labels - remember this from whan DS was on a dairy free diet for Excema.

Harrissa is a moroccan spicy sauce. You can buy it ready made in the supermarket or make it -
2tblespeoons hot chilli sauce and 1 teaspoon each of crushed garlic ground corriander ground cumin and mint. salt to taste.
Stores in a glass jar in the fridge covered in oil for ages

some lovely ideas
like your link too FF - some good idea on there!!!
need a shoopping list now...
ff how long will the courgette thikng last?
is it freezable or do in need to make it on the day

Sainsbury's Organic Olive Spread is dairy free, but only the organic one, not their ordinary version. Just check the lables carefully.

rhnaks folks..that really does help
you can always rely on mumsnet

My brother is vegan and he can't eat Stork. Not in the UK so can't check that for you. Holland and Barrett do some porkless pies and fake sausage rolls. They are tasty. You have to ring and find out the delivery day though, because they sell out on that one day.

cheers bobthebaby!!

are you vegan festivefly? have always thought that it must be very difficult - but then I suppose a lot of that is sheer laziness (so much easy junk food about really).

I am definitely leaning towards being veggie though - going off meat more and more especially the more I hear about how badly animals are treated (even supposed well treated ones). And have been eating a lot more easy veggie things recently (Quorn Cottage Pie a favourite!).

My brother has found heaps of vegan junk food. At first he lost loads of weight and then he discovered which biscuits he could have and went back up again.

leek suasage rolls
wrap thin leeks in puff pastry (you should be able to buy this with only vegetable fat) and then cut into cocktail lengths - bake in moderately hot oven - you could do a mushroom sauce to dip into using either soya cream or regular and note for veggies only.

another one which is fun to make (the guests do the hard work) is fresh spring rolls

you need rice spring roll wraps (some supermarkets do them but oriental shops do larger ones) and a bowl of hot water for softening them.
at the side have loads of chopped veg (peppers, spring onions, carrots etc) and beansprouts. Also have some tasty stuff like peanut butter and hoi-sin sauce, perhaps some smoked tofu

the guests soften the rice wrapp, fill it up roll it and eat it - they taste very fresh and the act of participating in the prep is a great icebreaker.

just re-checking this thread before braving the shops tomorrow....
will let youknow how i get on!!

If you can't find soft rice wrappers, you can do the same thing with lettuce leaves. Very tasty.

could you do it with tortilla wrao thingys maybe???

Salads, bean salad, rice salad (very nice spiced brown rice with apricots and toasted almonds, spiced with cumin, coriander and turmeric). Garlic bread with olive oil (?) - ooh, vegan stuff is very difficult isn't it? Indian savouries, eg pakoras and onion bhajis maybe?