Vegans with us for Xmas

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Does anyone have any ideas what I can serve for Christmas dinner to a couple that are vegens (have no idea ) also dessert what do you make that has no cream, eggs or milch???? HELP

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is a good start!

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you have my utmost sympathy - i'd send them on the next plane back or tell them to bring their own food

Nut roast? Mmmm yum

have you asked them what they normally eat?

fruit salad for desert?

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You might get some ideas from here .

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berries!

try the reformhaus for some vegan cookies or cake...

you can also get egg-replacer which is vegan.

There are so many beautiful vegetables around for winter...

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In North America, we have tofurkey.

There are a million veggie dishes, espe caseroles, that you could serve. I think they even have fake turkey meat at Migros, Coop, but that is just silly. Why not make a nice veggie dish. One could use Indian, Lebanese, Greek, Italian recipes for inspiration.

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We made a nearly vegan dinner over the weekend, so can give you some ideas.

Starters

You can braise some sliced aubergine (use the smaller round ones rather than the normal elongated ones, they're tastier). Also oven roast some peppers with a bit of balsic vingera on, then peel off the burnt skin and marinade in balsamic vinegar and olive oil.

Also, lots of dips - houmus, guacamole (spelling?). The kosher fridge section in Sihl City has delicious varieties of houmus, tehina (which I wouldn't recommend but that's a personal preference) and a few types of aubergine dips - one in mayo which is sweet, the other is braised and pureed - you may like them or may not. Plus there are lots of other marinated bits on one of the other aisles - tomatoes, artichokes, olives, mushrooms.

Soup

Loads of interesting veggie soups out there - banana and chili (tricky) made with coconut milk, carrot and orange, or a more traditional vegetable or leek and potato

Main course

We made a vegetarian couscous - courgettes, carrots, onions, aubergines, pumpkin - you get the idea. Need to get the spices right. Or polenta with a mushroom sauce. Or a vegetarian risotto. Yum

Dessert

Fruit platters are a nice straightforward one. Plus a delicious mango or lemon sorbet. You could try normal recipes with milk and replace them with soya milk but need to practice first as sometimes the thickening doesn't work quite as planned, so you need something like cornstarch is there too.

Good job I just had lunch else I'd be ravenous now. PM me or post again if you want any more details or ideas. I can ask my better half as she's the brains behind all of this.

Cheers and good eating, Ali.

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A friend of mine has made recipes from the Vegan yum-yum blog, and the cake I tasted was really good!

You can use soy or rice-based milk and cream (or even coconut) - easily found in a Reformhaus, and there are ways to substitute for eggs.

You might also want to simply ask your guests for tips. I'm sure they will be more than happy to point you in the right direction!

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The problem is to do somthing which my family also likes, and they want their meat dinner, if I was in England would go to Marks and buy a nut roast but I cant find anything like that here

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If they are all vegans, then it will have to be a whole vegan affair. If it is just two of them (or one) and the rest is normal eaters, than make one vegan dish for them (a nicely spiced veggie stew with rice, for example) and the rest should be your normal dinner?

Try looking here . We are not vegans but I actually make vegan dishes quite a lot, not really realizing. Replace butter with olive oil, allow spices (a lot of them) and herbs to have the proper time to start working (saute in oil on a pan for 30sec). Mushrooms for texture insted of meat, etc.

Here is my quick stirfry:

Cut up leak, saute in olive oil, and 2-3 spoons of chinese 5spices mix (add spices for the last 30sec), until it starts smelling nice. Add mushrooms, saute. Add green string beens, saute. Better is higher temp shorter time but not overfry (=soggy, vegans like crisp). Add garlic (mushed). Now, prepare a sauce: in a glass, mix 2teasp of corn starch, some water, plenty of soy sauce (depends how salty it is) and maybe little bit of teryiaky (instead of the garlic) and a quite bit of lime juice. Poor over your veggies and stir. Cover with a lid and let it cook a bit. Then I add 2tbsp of peanut butter into the mix and sometimes I also roast almonds and sprinkle over top when served. It is the best with basmati rice.

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Probably the closest you'll get is minced quorn, which they sell in the 2 biggies (other supermarkets are available) to make a "veggie meat loaf" - would that work out for them?

I'll ask Mrs Nomad later for other ideas.

edit: as in Hetfield's post below, this is veggie but not vegan (contains eggs).

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hope you didn't sneak the mayo dip into their lunch?

Tesso why not make a nut roast then just serve it with your xmas day veggies and the rest of the family has Turkey? just don't put butter on their veggies etc...

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In that case, the trick is to make all the side dishes good and hearty veggie dishes. They can enjoy those while your family enjoys the same with the turkey. Has always worked for me.

I would suggest someting like a vegan moussaka as the main dish for them to enjoy. Aubergine is very hearty and filling and is prob the best bet for the main dish. Or of course the fake meat one can find in the grocery stores.

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Thanks everyone think it great that your all so helpful yous have already given me lots of ideas does anyone know how to do this meatloaf thing with quorn(is the quorn vegen?)

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or the nut roast?

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How about some nice Foie gras?

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Tesso just google vegan nut roast recipe, lots of recipes magically appear

good luck

I bet you can make a xmas pud vegan style

edit: and a quick google found me this

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Good point . I did say (nearly) vegan - it was more a lacto-ovo-veggie lunch than vegan. We had chocolate mousse for dessert and I remember some eggs going in somewhere.

I do know where you can get vegan chocolate, but the eggs - is there anything else that you could use to make it?

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here's a yummy recipe for choco pudding-

T= Tablespoon

t= teaspoon

c= cup

In a blender mix:

1 avocado (pitted and peeled of course) -should be a ripe one

3 heaping T of raw cocoa powder (you can use normal cocoa powder if you don't have raw)- *make sure it's fair trade though!

1/3 c raw agave nectar

1/2 t sea salt

2 t vanilla extract (or the scrapings from a vanilla bean pod)

1/2 c water (or more depending if your blender wants more water to work or not)-sometimes it needs quite a bit more.

Make sure it's really creamy, use a spatula to get the pieces of avocado that get missed. And that's it. I know it sounds weird to make chocolate pudding with avocado, but it turns out creamy and absolutely delicious! My son's friends (who are not vegan) love it and ask me to make it when they are over. It can be used for a breakfast, snack or formal desert. Just add berries (especially strawberries) or use it as a fondu with cut up bananas and other goodies. this recipe serves 2 big bowls.

vegan but really yummy. and why not make a veggie lasagna or casserole. i'm sure they'll just be happy you tried something for them. another easy vegan dessert- fruit salad.

enjoy!

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There are many many options for vegans well only the dessert part is difficult as sply without milk, we have very few options.

For Main course or starters you can consider :

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http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Carrot-Rice/Detail.aspx

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/vegetarian/

or there are many many curries that can be served with rotis and rice, you can search here

http://www.themahanandi.org/2009/12/...ith-chickpeas/

Dessert

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You can try some Indian sweets (well you can't consider them in the Dessert category) such as Besan ke Ladoo

http://www.indianpad.com/food/462848...ipe-and-video/

Happy Cooking and wish you a wonderful Christmas and New year !!