Something special for vegetarian Xmas Day lunch

Jolaaled

This website has some ideas.. i think all the recipes are vegan and also cheap!!

http://www.frugal.org.uk/christmas.html

Caterina

Hi La Fenice (are you italian? the name is!),

We eat panettone as it is, in great big slices, straight from the pack sometimes! In fact I no longer buy it much earlier than a couple of days in advance of Xmas because my family would finish it all at once as it comes through the door!

I don't know anything about pink goo, sorry!

One nice way to serve panettone is to cut the top and scoop the inside, which you can scoff as you scoop or use crumbs later for bread pudding, and fill the inside of the panettone with ice cream.

Make sure that you leave fairly thick walls and that the ice cream is packed tight, then put the lid on and slice vertically, and serve as a 'semifreddo', which is a warm (room temperature) pud or cake with some ice cream in it.

Hope you like it, I might just do that this Xmas!

Caterina

Caterina

(liked the music  :D)

If you got on the same website and click on 'My family' you get to hear the Zorba music - brill stuff!

http://lldzines.com/family/family.htm

Caterina

La_Fenice

This website has some ideas.. i think all the recipes are vegan and also cheap!!

http://www.frugal.org.uk/christmas.html

Thanks Jolaaled...this is a really nice site...got it bookmarked now

La_Fenice

One nice way to serve panettone is to cut the top and scoop the inside, which you can scoff as you scoop or use crumbs later for bread pudding, and fill the inside of the panettone with ice cream.

Make sure that you leave fairly thick walls and that the ice cream is packed tight, then put the lid on and slice vertically, and serve as a 'semifreddo', which is a warm (room temperature) pud or cake with some ice cream in it.

Hope you like it, I might just do that this Xmas!

Caterina

Ooooh yes!

Now that sounds really good...think will do that instead of Xmas Pud this year, would be much lighter...maybe with a slug dash of amaretto.... ;D

Greek main course...Italian pud....now I just need a starter for a really cosmopolitan Xmas Day lunch

percyflatcap

Thanks Caterina, some great ideas there  :D

By the way....how do you serve Panettone?  I've bought it a couple of times cos it looks sooo nice in the fancy box, but it usually hangs around for weeks and then gets used in a bread & butter pudding....seems a bit of a waste really.  Had it served for Xmas Day lunch in Italy a long time ago and vaguely remember some pink goo coming with it?  ???

it's usually served with a plain fruit sauce basically made from whisking fresh/frozen fruit with castor sugar, rasberries and cranberries are great and christmassy

La_Fenice

it's usually served with a plain fruit sauce basically made from whisking fresh/frozen fruit with castor sugar, rasberries and cranberries are great and christmassy

thanks percy.....so I wasn't imagining it then....'fruit sauce' sounds so much more appetising than 'pink goo' ::)

Caterina

...and if you really want it to sound posh, you can call it a 'coulis' ;D

Caterina

Jolaaled

Does anyone know where on earth I can get a vegan advent calendar from ( got to be vegan choccy one). It's VERY URGENT!

Trow

The vegetarian society has a page of links with over ten years worth of christmas recipes here: http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/christmas.html including caribbean, thai and traditional.

Hope this helps