[daisy1990]

Thinking ahead does anyone have a really nice dish I can cook for a vegetarian  Christmas dinner?  We eat dairy and fish
Thanks!





(edit to remove the C word..not allowed until at least mid December  )
ps I didn't think vegetarians could eat flesh, fish or fowl? 

[Mulberry1990]

We don't all eat fish! I want feeding too please =( x

[wighty]

The proper word for a vegetarian who also eats fish (which is what I am ) is a Piscatarian. I'll have a look through my recipes and find the one I did last year for a Salmon Wellington for you.

[Ice]

A friend of mine cooks a whole large salmon and it looks spectacular.  You can hire or buy a fish kettle for the job.

By the way, the C word is banned until midnight December the 24th.

[arugula]

We don't all eat fish! I want feeding too please =( x

Mulberry says she doesn't want fish!

 

[daisy1990]

You are quite right vegetarians dont eat any fish.  I ate everything until we started keeping hens, we then went right off eating chicken as we kept thinking of our girls!  It wasn't much more of a leap to stop eating beef and lamb and pork as we never ate much of it anyway!  I also wear leather shoes, so I am not I guess vegetarian in the true sense of the word (and am certainly not radical- my husband, mum and son all eat meat and I cook for them)

My problem is that we are very good cooks but all our trusted recipes involve meat.  I have bought a few vegetarian cook books, but would be interested in having well loved recipes from others.

Wighty you mentioned a link to a recipe competition when you pm'd me- where will I find the link please?

Thanks all
ps in case you didn't gather Mulberry is my daughter!

[joyfull]

The competition can be found here:-
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=56393.0

Vegetarians can wear leather - it is vegans who can't  .

When me and my youngest son were vegetarian we had julienne vegetables and chestnuts in a white sauce wrapped in puff pastry parcels for Christmas dinner.

[compostqueen]

I love roast veg any time of year so any feast would have to contain a large tray of them 

[Springlands]

When OH and I decide we would like a veggie meal as a change (we are both meat eaters) I would use Sarah Brown's Complete Vegetarian Cookbook - still available on Amazon. In my very old copy there are some Christmas menus.

[tosca100]

There is always so much food around I don't miss not having a "roast" but make an extra special fruity nutty stuffing, and with all the bread sauce and roasties and everything it's plenty. I have been given quorn roast at other's houses.

Also do a salmon en croute to slice up when anyone comes. I just sandwich two pieces of salmon together with spinach, cooked and chopped, mixed with garlic and herb philly with lemon zest, and wrapped in all butter puff pastry. Extreemly simple no-fuss dinner which looks good and can be eaten with salad or taters and veg, or cold next day.

[compostqueen]

Oooh that sounds fab 

[Mulberry1990]

I found this website with loads of amazing sounding recipes!
I'm sure i'll be able to find one that we can all agree on =p
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/vegetarian/vegetarian-Christmas/

[GrannieAnnie]

Not exactly Christmas recipe, but I once did a pancake stack when a veggie friend came over for dinner, it was delicious!  I made 8 pancakes and sandwiched in between them were 3 fillings.  I think one was spinach in a white sauce,  then carrots and swede mashed with black butter, and something else in a white sauce.  When the stack was finished, a cheese sauce was poured over the top and it was warmed up in the oven til the sauce was brown on top!

It looked and tasted lovely!

[tosca100]

Sounds scrummy!

[daisy1990]

thanks for all your great ideas