Please help me with a lovely vegetarian dish for Christmas dinner for much loved relative.

[HollyBerrie]

Thanks in anticipation...is to go with usual veg a poppable in the ovenable once turkey is done!

The Guardian is on your wavelength today - 3 Christmas veggie recipes!

The first one looks nice - the others are faux-roasts again...

Has anyone suggested Linda McCartney sausages?

Some people are vegetarians and don't like nutroasts and chestnuts and all that muck so BEWARE.

Calm down Krabbie (great name btw ) Some vegetarians (myself included) appreciate the effort their hosts go to rather than carping on about 'chestnuts and all that muck'

Ah, but Prof, this is a "much loved" relative. Maybe HollyB would rather he/she not choke down the chestnuts politely? Am always grateful personally when people bother to make something (contrast with inlaws who say "do have some carrots and potatoes") but why not make something he/she likes rather than assuming that because he/she is vegetarian he/she must like nutroast?

the bbc have brought out a veggie christmas magazine this year filled to the brim with yummy food..so much so that i intend working my way through the whole lot and then joining the limmers thread in the new year

1. You raised that possibility 3 times. I'm sure the op read the 1st and took your point on board.

2. It's rather rude to crash onto a helpful thread like this and dismiss other people's suggestions as 'muck' that would be 'choked down'

3. tbh you are coming across as looking for a fight on an innocuous thread, not sure why really or why I'm getting sucked in.

For that reason I'm off to have lunch - Quorn sausages since you ask.

Gosh, Prof, I didn't realise you owned this thread and you clearly are looking for a fight, golly. Tbh, there was more than one post due to stream-of-consciousness-type musing as pondered the matter but there you are. Hope you calm down and enjoy your Quorn (potters off to do some work refelcting on how easy it is to offend some folk)

Bye then.

Bye, prof

Lordy...I never expected a fight on this one

Thanks for all your suggestions by the way. Have e-mailed your ideas to my relative so that she can tell me what sort of thing she likes.

I think it would all be tasty and appreciated by any vegetarian. Krabbie is right in saying that not everyone likes nutroasts, but Prof, you are also right - if you go to someone elses house and they make a big effort with the food, to provide something yummy and nutritious, then surely you would appreciate it anywas regardless of your preferences?

Yes, sorry about the mini-fight, HB, just goes to show how things can go wrong - was actually being mildly jocular but the jocularity obviously got lost. Am wondering if have dubious distinction of being first person ever to have provoked a fight about nutroast. Quorn I could understand as being inherently controversial. Really am going to do some work now.

Last year I did spinach and ricotta (with sun-dried tomato, olives, pine nuts etc) in puff pastry for the veggies (4 adults & 2 children) whilst the remaining 2 omivores had to make do with monkfish and langoustine (also in puff pastry - made cooking times so much easier!).

I have to feed the same crowd again this year and am trying to avoid pastry (to ring the changes) but confess am struggling a little - I have to avoid nuts and mushrooms which are the staple of so many "special" veggie recipes.

The christmas edition of the BBC vegetarian good food magazine has some good suggestions so might explore those.

Mmmm good point Ds has a nut allergy so we don't usually have them in the house....

You are forgiven Krabbie

Just wondering, since Quorn has been mentioned in passing. Is anyone allergic to it on here?
I am hideously allegeric and it makes me really really ill. And I know 3 other people who are allergic to it too. Apparently the FSA were going to put a warning on it (like the nut allergy type one), but they couldn't prove how many people were allergic to it or something, or they had recieved only a certain amount of complaints about it and not enough to warrant the warning.
Has anyone else heard of this?
I am sure people hate it when I come for dinner as I am veggie but don't eat quorn. They have to use their imaginations! (or make macoroni and cheese - which I love!)

Just a dad - I am making a shallot tart this xmas also. I know its got a pastry element, but its a bit different. (though I am pretty sure it should be called an onion quiche!)

Hey Lizzombie, Quorn makes me ill too but thought that was just because it is unnatural filth! Am sure it will be banned eventually.

crikey! I hope it doesn't get banned. Sure, a few % of people are allergic - but we don't expect nuts to be banned from the shelves do we?

I don't think they were planning on banning it - only putting a warning on it, to warn that people may be allergic to it. I wish I could eat it, it would make life lots easier!

What is in Quorn?

I mean...I know of it....have eaten it but what is it made of?