Vegetarian Christmas Dinner

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a decent roast dinner. I'm sure everyone would agree!! So, why at the college dinner were we offered mushroom risotto, why at the work do was I given stuffed peppers? Not a roast potato in sight! My home Christmas dinner will be different. 3 years ago a friend passed on the recipie for a nut roast to die for, I've used it every year since... Ingredients: 1 Large Onion 1oz wholemeal flour 1/4 pint veggie stock 1 teaspoon of yeast extract (eg marmite) Dash of soy sauce 2 chopped tomatoes 6oz Brazil nuts 2oz seasame seeds (or 8oz of chopped mixed nuts) 3oz ...  Read the complete review

I have been a vegetarian for five years and I managed to tame the meat-eaters in my family. At first they started moping when I said I would cook a vegetarian Christmas Dinner. But my mum couldn't be bothered to cook the traditional goose (Germany) and so she gave in. I made a nut roast in puff pastry with vegetarian gravy, sprouts, carrots, cranberry sauce etc. They were all quite happy with that and this year they even asked me to make a nut roast. It's funny that people always seem to think vegetarians do nothing but nibble on carrots and have quorn and tofu day in day out. Actually there are many interesting meat-free recipes (check out ...  Read the complete review

I have been a vegetarian for almost 14 years now, so the problem of what to cook on Christmas Day no longer really exists. Our Christmas dinner is now just as traditional a part of our festive season as a turkey dinner used to be in my childhood. We don't tend to have a starter, as we enjoy a nice big main meal. For this, we have some kind of a nut roast. I do cheat here and buy a powdered one - sometimes a mushroom bake or lentil bake, but usually just a nut roast will do. These are available in most food shops nowadays, but we usually buy ours from Asda or Holland and Barrett. Then we cook fresh vegetables, such as brussel sprouts, carrots and so ...  Read the complete review

Lots of vegetarians are good cooks and like to try new recipes. Well, this is a luscious mincemeat recipe using vegetable suet which is widely available. Once you've made it, you will realise that homemade mincemeat is so easy (albeit time consuming!). Your visitors will be wowed by this - I promise! Cherry and Apricot Mincemeat Ingredients: 1lb Bramley apples washed, cored and quartered but no need to peel 8oz vegetable suet 12oz sultanas 8oz glace cherries quartered 12oz apricots snipped into small pieces with scissors 4oz mixed peel Rind and juice of two oranges 12oz soft light brown sugar 2oz flaked ...  Read the complete review

Except for a slight accident at Iceland when I bought (and ate part of) a meat lasagne instead of the veggie one I was after, I've not eaten meat (or animal products) for three years, and it's not difficult finding and creating lots of veggie meals, but meat eaters seems to have a very big hang-up about what to cook people who are vegetarian, and my parents have got to be worse than most. They are always completely baffled about whay they can cook for me instead of the obligatory turkey. They usually end up doing a quorn casserole for me, bizarrely enough Coleman's Chicken Casserole mix is vegetarian so it's easy for them to cook. As it happens it tastes very nice and ...  Read the complete review