Besides fake turkey (and other faux meats), what are some vegan christmassy things that you can make to serve? Normally all the veggies are roasted with the turkey (ewww :eek: ) so I can't really eat that!!!! Any suggestions on what to bring???
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Besides fake turkey (and other faux meats), what are some vegan christmassy things that you can make to serve? Normally all the veggies are roasted with the turkey (ewww :eek: ) so I can't really eat that!!!! Any suggestions on what to bring???
I make a lovely chestnut roast. I always ask or cook myself the veg, separately to go with it. Dont forget a good vegan gravy as well!. I usually take vegan 'bush tucker' with me. Ie gravy powder, vegan soya cream my own christmas pud and anything else I think I need.
I have to work extra long hours this week to have Thanksgiving and Friday off meaning no time to cook. I'll take fresh veggies to hubby's grandma's house to steam and maybe find time to make stuffing. Maybe some fresh fruit for dessert. I'm dreading this family dinner. My job requires me to interact with people a lot which is exhausting for an introvert like me. (I'm looking for a different kind of job) Then I have to go to the inlaws and "make nice." I'm taking some medication to help me sail through the day!!
I think that for christmas (which I don't celebrate), as the community organisations close down, I'll simply take out a few extra books from the library, a couple of good videos, and look after my pot plants! I don't have any family in Queensland, and my friends have their own families plus they are not vegan. They know that I am, but that's just me being 'different'. I hope that everyone who does celebrate will spare a thought for the poor turkeys once again.
I am glad that this year, neither my family nor my "out-law" family (my boyfriends father likes to refer to me as his daughter-out-law, in a good way) will be killing a turkey this year. My mother is travelling to Indiana to be with her mother, and I don't think she'll be cooking. Both fathers are coming here for a trip to move us to Baton Rouge. Everything's packed up, so there will be no cooking. If we go out for a holiday dinner, I might get them to agree to go to a veggie restaurant, because other will probably not have suitable options for us. If not, maybe I can at least ask them to spare a turkey (or any other animal) dinner as a favor to us in the spirit of Thanksgiving.
I am relieved this year, only buying for my son, no cards whatsoever, and only one (Vegan) meal to cook for 3 of us!!
1 plastic tree to decorate, one costume for school play to make (my son says he hopes they do something different this year, everyone's getting bored with that story about Jesus!!!!!) - couple of cakes to bake, and that's me done with Christmas!!
whats up, it is 9 am here in chicago, it is about 20 deg outside, we have about 3 inches of snow!!!!
My 8 course all vegan homemade dinner is underway and it looks great!!!!
How is everyone else doing today.
Dave
I'd rather be there but here it's two turkey's, ham, butter, pies, etc. and even though I've been careful not to mention being a herbivore, everyone knows and the hostility is just below the surface. :rolleyes:
No one ate any of my bean dish. :mad:
Not even my niece's newly diabetic 12 year old boy. He did scoff up a huge plate of noodles though. They don't suspect that diet could even play a role here and I know better than to bring it up today. The complex carbs might have helped. They discussed an insulin pump instead.
I'm trying very hard to sit and keep my mouth shut since I am totally outnumbered. My dog is happy to get the scraps though.
Thanks V_M. At least it is nice to know that somewhere out there it's different. I'm suprised they still even invite me here. Well, I'm family. Black sheep.
I think people are more sympathetic at work and none of them are veg.
Keep the faith baby. :)
Sorry to hear that, but it is not easy, i rember a family party a few years ago when all i could eat were pickles, PICKLES!!!. That sucked, but just be strong, you are a better person for it.
Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but for sure I'd thought people would be discussing what they had for Thanksgiving this year (well, at least those of us who are American, anyway...)
This year, just to start the thread, we had a Field Roast brand "Celebration Loaf" (which I like better than the Tofurkey version), mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy, yam and apple casserole, gingered carrots, cranberry sauce made from fresh cranberries apples and tangerines, and a pumpkin pie. Oh, and topped it of with a good local cabernet.
OK, I think it's time for me to change my sig...
Oh, now I see... my post seemed to have moved itself to this section; I had it under the general section, and when I saw it went missing, I figured it might have moved over here. OK now, so this is where people are talking about holiday dinners. Um, carry on now...
For Christmas Eve dinner, I am contributing:
Macadamia Nut Roast with vegan gravy
Spicy Mixed Daal with brown rice
Rich Fruit Cake (as a Christmas cake)
For Christmas day I am whipping up:
Three bean salad
Fruit and nut coleslaw
and adding some vegan patties for the bbq (to be cooked before the meat, of course . . . or on something completely different).
It's going to be VERY hot here at Christmas (we have heat waves every year - three years ago it was 46 degrees at my parents place and we spent the whole day in the pool under a shadecloth!), so salads are the go!
I like proving to the distant relatives that a vegan diet is interesting, delicious and filling! Yum! :)
Hopefully I get out of Christmas lunch this year...if not, I don't know what I will be doing
i think ill be making this for christmas:
http://www.boutell.com/vegetarian/nut-roast.html
i tried a tofu turkey a week or so ago, and oh god it wasnt edible, even after taking all the advice from people that commented. yuck. id rather have roast.
im excited to eat roast sandwiches for lunch on christmas day. my mom and us always had a tradition to eat turkey sandwiches for lunch after opening presents, but this year ill be eating the roast in place of turkey with vegan mayo and cranberry sauce. yum!
My office Christmas party was yesterday, I didn't attend. The planner offered to order me, the other vegan, and a few vegetarians some falafel. Instead of us having to pay $22.00, we'd only pay $10.00. Gee, I can go directly to the falafel place and buy one for $2.00. I passed. Plus, I don't want to participate in the "glory" of eating a line of assorted corpses.
I love my Christmas Dinner at home!
We have Nut Roast, Roast Potatoes, Sausages, Stuffing Balls, Sprouts, Cabbage and Gravey.
Mmmm, followed by Ice-Cream, and for tea homemade Bread and Carrott Cake.
MMM-MMMM!!
We had our annual Christmas do-dah at work today. Went off to the country club for a buffet. When the invitations came out I emailed my boss's boss (who is in charge) explaing I was a vegan and what that is. He emailed back that veggies and bread would be on the buffet!! I ate my beans and rice before going and just ate the veggies and fruit off the buffet. The only bread and rice available on the buffet were refined which is bad for my blood sugar. I asked for herbal tea and the waiter brought me English tea. I let it steep only a minute and drank it as he meant well. Afterwards the big boss tells me he was worried I wouldn't have enough to eat. Co-workers didn't give me a hard time though one friend good naturedly tried to tempt me with her ice cream :-) It did make me want to go out and buy some soy ice "cream."
Glad you survived without too much hassle!
How's the eating going, Andie?
This week I have started exercising and now I feel drawn towards good food, too!
Being around the desserts was hard!!!!!
But I haven't had any sugar or refined carbs. I just got through having a mini-meal of beans, rice and salad and the craving for sugar has gone away. I think the protein balances it? Co-workers are noticing I've lost weight and one off handed said something about going vegan. I hope she doesn't do it to loose weight though. It goes so much deeper.
I've got a cold or something right now. Headache and real tired so I haven't exercised as much the last few days :-( I staid home from work yesterday. There are lots of changes going on at work and I think that is effecting my anxiety level.
I go to my office's party tonight. Luckily, the place is making a great vegan meal of couscous and vegetables, and I have emailed with them and they appear to know what a vegan is! :) Now it's just the corpses that will bother me.
sausages pink? whats the recipe :D
I'm afraid I don't make them, I buy them from the Health Food shop - they are lovely but I cannot remember the name of them - when I do I will post! :)Quote:
foxytina_69
I'm really pissed off right now :mad: . My coworker was verifiying with the spanish restaurant that the carnivores are ordering from that the rice and the potatoes were made with no animal ingredients. One other coworker, let's call her Jerk, screams out, "Oh great, I have to eat this food that has no taste." The coworker who was ordering tried to tell her that the food wasn't being prepared any differently, she was just verifying the ingredients when the Jerk says, "Just have them make a special dish for HER" referring to me. I yell out, "Tell them to throw lard in it, I don't give a shit-I don't want this crap again." Then everyone shut up and it's really uncomfortable here now. I am really sick of this crap but my supervisor does it every year and I think it would piss her off if I didn't particpate. Though I do think this is my last year, I can't take this anymore :mad: .
ugh what a bitch. im sorry feline *hugs* do your best to ignore her stupidity and enjoy the rest of your day. think about your healthy beautiful babys and how wonderful of a mommy u are and how wonderful a person u are for making the world such a beautiful healthy place. there are so many animals thankful for u. u are the one with good karma, shes got shit karma and let me tell u, shes going to have a shity life. i see bad things coming to her and shes not happy. atleast u are because u know u make a difference! :D
Office dinners remind me of family dinners, you get on the sh-t list if you don't go.
Feline, can you eat before going so you won't be hungry and can just nimble on salad? It's not fair but it's survival. Good luck.
We're not going anywhere, this pathetic party is in our room, the small-dungeon like room that 5 of us sit in so not only will I be stuck here for it, but I have to smell and see the animal corpses. Our clerical worker, the party planner, put aside $10 so that I can have falafel and eggplant salad. I just can't stand all this crap anymore-I was in tears when they were planning my baby shower last spring because of all the anti-vegan sentiment being expressed in this office.
Thanks for your support though, I guess I can be on VF gaining strength while this horrid "party" is happening tomorrow.
Yes, Feline, just come and join the rest of us!!
Why, oh, WHY are people so obsessed with food that it has to be a symbolic part of every kind of celebration????????????
I just can't think of anything LESS festive than eating in a dingy office with your co-workers! :(
Ugghh, unsavoury!
well i tried the roast. it was delish! but next time i will grind up the nuts more, so that theyre more like powder then chunks. my boyfriend loved it. ummy.
Hmmm, had another Christmas dinner last night, the two houses in our co-op got together with some other people and we ate Christmas dinner, for the second time in a week i was ready to burst. There was creamed cashew and mushroom wellington, nut roast, potatoes, parsnips, swede, redwoods rashers wrapped around Veggies burger mix, all very good with bread sauce, cranberry sauce and gravy. (not too keen on the Redwoods rashers tho, but interesting to try)
There were also seven puddings including Christmas cake, very delicious, i think i managed to sample four last night and a further one today. The cake was the best, and all the food was vegan.
Just right to give me some energy to go down the gym this morning.
Baked the hell fire choccie cake that you ( I think ) linked before the crash, it is scrummy and that will be the dessert, and for main it will be a record attempt at how many variaties of veg you can get on a plate.
this is what i am having: we have it before and it is yummy for all :p
cashew nut roast with herb stuffing
oven: 200C/400F/gas6
roast:
2oz marg
1 lge red onion, peeled, sliced
8oz unroasted cashew nuts
4oz white bread, no crusts
2 lge cloves garlic
7floz water or veg stock
salt
pepper
grated nutmeg
1 tbs lemon juice
method:
melt marg and fry onion for about 10 mins till tender but not brown. remove from heat.
grind nuts in a processor with bread & garlic then add to onion with the liquid, salt & pepper, nutmeg & lemon juice to taste.
stuffing:
1 sm onion
1oz fresh parsley
4oz white breadcrumbs
2oz soft marg
1/2 tsp each of dried thyme, marjoram
salt
pepper
method:
peel & grate onion, chop parsley. put all ingredients in bowl and mix well.
put half of nut mixture in loaf tin, top with stuffing mix and top with remaining nut mixture. dot with marg.
bake for about 30/45mins till firm and lightly browned. cover with foil if it gets too brown too early.
we found it is better to let the loaf sit for about 15/20mins to firm up a bit.
line & grease a 1lb loaf pan
thats basically the same thing im making. from this link:
http://www.boutell.com/vegetarian/nut-roast.html
its sooooooo yummyyyy.
its GREAT as "turkey" sandwiches.
HeHe, I have been thinking of going 'raw' because I am all over the place with my eating at the moment, I need discipline!
I might start on Christmas Day, just to be annoying and untraditional!. :p
Btw, Foxytina, the sausages are Redwoods Deli, with Oregano and Majoram. Look foul, taste lovely!
I'm definitely not going to be eating Tofurkey, apparently it has skin as well, i don't particularly like to be reminded of Turkeys at Christmas dinner, i guess the same goes for other 'fake' meats too.
Does anyone know anywhere that does vegan birthday cakes? Preferably Spiderman ones!...
(I got a cake years ago from some place called The Vegan Cake Company (or something like that), but can't find their details anywhere now.)
Cheers,
James
make one! vegan chocolate cakes are dead easy to make, and so good that even omnis don't ask what's in them. ;)
I have a couple of good recipes I could share....
I don't think I've ever baked anything in my life... And now wouldn't be a good time to start!
And I'm not very artistic as far as the spiderman decoration goes.
Can you give me your recipes though - will hopefully get someone else to do it...
Cheers,
James