Christmas dinner
Discussion
Only a week to go and no thread yet! Thought it would be nice to bounce some ideas around and see what everyone else is doing.
Most of my family and extended family seem to be veggie and vegan these days so I made vegan last year, will be veggie this year.
I'm not in my own house this year, at the sister in law's, so to make things a bit easier we're having an M and S veggie main. I'm making everything else.
So I'm doing, the night before: parboiling potatoes for roasties, and carrots and parsnips. Gets a job done but more importantly gives me some veg 'stock' (in the loosest sense of the word) with which to make gravy. Then I'll make the gravy, for which I'm using a Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall recipe. YouTube vegan gravy and it is the first hit. I've practised it s couple of times and I was amazed by how good it was - genuinely as tasty as any meaty gravy, and yes I really do mean that! The second time I burned the veg a bit and it made the gravy a touch too bitter - I actually quite liked that but my partner didn't.
Also on Christmas Eve I'll make the stuffing. Never made veggie stuffing that wasn't from a pack but I'm using a River Cottage recipe (Gill, not Hugh) - again first hit on YouTube.
On the day I'll do the roasties (Jamie method), roast the stuffing and the carrots and parsnips (ideas for those welcome). Then just the main and basic yorkshires. I'm not a huge fan so I may even cop out completely and use Aunt Bessie.
Final side, and for the greens, Jamie's creamed spinach - which is delicious if you haven't tried it.
I think I'm happy with it and shouldn't be too much work. Ideas for the roast carrots and parsnips welcome.
What are we all doing?
Most of my family and extended family seem to be veggie and vegan these days so I made vegan last year, will be veggie this year.
I'm not in my own house this year, at the sister in law's, so to make things a bit easier we're having an M and S veggie main. I'm making everything else.
So I'm doing, the night before: parboiling potatoes for roasties, and carrots and parsnips. Gets a job done but more importantly gives me some veg 'stock' (in the loosest sense of the word) with which to make gravy. Then I'll make the gravy, for which I'm using a Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall recipe. YouTube vegan gravy and it is the first hit. I've practised it s couple of times and I was amazed by how good it was - genuinely as tasty as any meaty gravy, and yes I really do mean that! The second time I burned the veg a bit and it made the gravy a touch too bitter - I actually quite liked that but my partner didn't.
Also on Christmas Eve I'll make the stuffing. Never made veggie stuffing that wasn't from a pack but I'm using a River Cottage recipe (Gill, not Hugh) - again first hit on YouTube.
On the day I'll do the roasties (Jamie method), roast the stuffing and the carrots and parsnips (ideas for those welcome). Then just the main and basic yorkshires. I'm not a huge fan so I may even cop out completely and use Aunt Bessie.
Final side, and for the greens, Jamie's creamed spinach - which is delicious if you haven't tried it.
I think I'm happy with it and shouldn't be too much work. Ideas for the roast carrots and parsnips welcome.
What are we all doing?
Edited by Claptonian on Saturday 19th December 10:45
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